The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-05-29
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THERE W ere 3S4blr ths, 4, ,694 4marriages
and 8, 700 deaths in Boston last year.
SIX Of the eight principal colleges Of
Indiana admityoung ladies as students
Mr., BERaHha caused the Arrest Of a
man In Yorkville fol- skinnin g adog alive.
THREE cooperative stores have failed
in st. Louis during the past eighteen
months
THERE are about sixy.five thousand
studentsat the universities on the conti-
nent of Europe
Gov, GEARY of Pennsylvania, signed
1895 bills during therecent session Of the
Legislature.
THERE are nineteen bookstores in Con
stantinople, mostly keptb by Germansand
Frenchmen.
A MAN has been sentenced TO six months
imprisonment in ENGLAND for stealing
$4,000 feet of gas,
TIE Boston IFaVeLer says that "a
Marblehead scotsman recently paid forty
six dollars fora single potato"
Two hundred and fifty Thousand pounds
Of chickory have been imported into San
Francisco within six M onths.
PROFESSOR EAsnArV, Of Poughlxeepsie,
has expended tw enty thouSand dollars in
trying toinVent a writing machine.
VICToR HUGO gets $4,000 for his story,
"The Man who Laughs" This, some
mathematic chap has computed, is just
$1S0 aline.
A sEvENTYFTvEYEARo old goose is still
living in Kent county, Maryland. She
has raised goslin gs annually until within
three years.
AN English gentleman has bought be-
tween 5000 and 1000 acres of 1aud in
Nelson county, Va, on which he intends
to settle 500 ENGLISH families.
A NUMBER Of Buffalo busi ess establish
ments have signs inplain view; Nobeg-
gars or insurance agen tsare allowed with
in these premiSes."
A HUNDRED thousand herring were re-
Gently cast ashore by the tide in Katsya.
Bay, Marthas Vineyard, and they were
carriedo off and salted.
In Brieg, Siesia, recently, ayoung mar
ried couple committed suicide because the
doctor had decided that the young hus-
band'sleg must be anpuated,
A THOUSAND acres Of land in Wayne
county N Y, have cen planted pep
permint this year, The Weld is about
twenty-five pounds TO the acre and the
average price $45Oper pound, so that
farmers find tia payin g crop. ..
THE best time ever made on a. veoci
pede was accomplished at the Cleveland
rink few davs ago, Mr.. Erred. Hawley,
Of Rochester N. Y, making fifty miles In
three hours, fourteen minutes and thirty
nine seconds, actual runnin G time
AN echo in Woodstock park, Oxford
shire, England, repeats seventeen ylla-
bles by day, and twenty by might; but the
most rem arkable ech o known is one on
the north side of shipley Church, in Sus-
sex, which distinctly repeats tweng.one
syllables.
LAST WINTER, Boston was visited by
thirtytwO snow storms, and theaggregate
depth Of the fall Of SNOW was 9 feet 111z%
inches In the past twenty six years, the
only winters du ring which the total fall of
snow was greater were those of 1884
/ and 1854,
Nor longago, in tearing down an old
English house, the woTkmen came across
a secret cupboard,in in which we're found q
quantity of diamonds and jeWelry to the
J value of several hun dTed pounds. It is
} believed that the arti cles had not before
seen light for centuries.
, OLIVER DAI.RNPIIE, of MINI esota, is
said tObe the largest wheat grower in the
: United States. In addition to his other
: crops, he has soWa 1000 acres of wheat
) this season. Last season Mr, Da1rymple
employed 100 men and 100 horses in har-
l Vesting and threshlng bis crop.
A YOUNG lady Of eferson, O., mktook
bottle of violet ink for perfumery, IN
the darkness the other evening, and put
: some upon her handkerchief, W. hich she
used to wipe her face, and, fastening TO
! church immedi ately after she created an
j immense sensation.
j, The C7Sr0ai cge states that 1t is very
low estimateto calCul ate that the people oi
: San Francisco spent $500, O0Oin celebrat-
ing May-day UpWa rds Of $4,000 PERSONS
went into the country while the Cliff
House the sea beach and the country
around the city we're throp ged
THE famous maelstrom, on the coast ol
Norway Is 80 little feared that the fisher
men pass and repass 1t in their sail vessels
at all states Of the tide, except at certain
s times in the winter when the greatest
: rate Of the tide does not exceed six miles
an hour.
The Y ale Q University crew average in
!, weight LIZ pounds each, the only one
: heavier than thatbeiDgt the STOKE, George
3 W. Drew, Of New Haven, native ol
Maine who weighs 1 49, Their boat is oi
= Spanish cedar, 81 feet long, 2OincheaWide
= and weighs 17O pounds, They row A.
7 strokes to the minute.
i ToAsCEND staircaseeight feet higI
| = lie Il
q required to walk ei ghteen feet on leve
II ground; and would, therefore, be equal tx
r level walkof three hundredand twenty
1t four feet So then, q person shut up IL
Z the house and in need of exercise, cal
@ walk his mile by goingup these stairs say
sixteen times
e THE following is an exact copy Of {
% promissory note dated at Concord, Nov
,e 25, 1793= "For an o1dhorse which | havt
% bought of Mr. Isaac Dow,I promise t.
y pay him three dollars in " beat or -four 8
e cash price but If the horse does not liv
le to getto Lebanon, and three days after h
h gets there, lam to give but two dollar
he for the horse Witncs my hand"
ACCORDING TO Chinese writers, thegrea
re bell Of Canton was castfve centuries agC
I'd At first no person was bold enough t
le strike it. Afterward, however, neof tn
N officials ordered ii to be struck, where
y upon upward Of one thousand infants
to male and female, dedthroughout the city
so On this acCountyo chi ldren, both boy
+ and girls, were made to wear clothin
~ with frfnges, towhich small silver bell
Or were ATTACHED, as charm towardof th
evil influence.
Z. :. A AMAS in San Joaquin, Cal, haain hi
~ possession asnrvyorsinstrument on th
~ frontlens Of " hiCh there is painlyseen
q beautiful landscape, with all the Vsrie
e. hues Of nature. Some fifteen years ag,
according to theow ners account, the il
= strumenf had been IN use, and was le
- standing for ahme, on the plain, IN
\ scorChing mid days sun, frontin g awoo'
y y land When again brought into use,
"a correct picture Of the fronting woodlan'
- y, with all theyarious colors ofthe la5dscap
n n was photogra phed onthe 3ans, andass Z
II mained unChangesi71e 70 ehe present tlIn
,a InnenBirg ftle, an d other places III Ne