, 1870-01-19

women tu6r1ge bonhreE," .
The Ru1stana are actively pnahiDg the culture
CT the tea plant In Turkestko. and the results hare
proved very Satisfactory.
An anti. EcunenIcal has been held st Catapza-
70, IN Italy, presided over BY Menottl GaS1naldl.
ssztsted BY h!a brother Rlcclotu
TIE Rasaian infantry Is now armed With needle
rines, .aad factory has been established IN ST.
Petepborg to manufacture ton, 600 stand.
Maine has a mail carrier, nov 70 Jeats Of sge,
1ho has carried the maN daily from No1th Mon-
mouth to Monmouth Centre for tWenty.one
ycats, and has missed but one TIP during that
Aine-
s.uce 1907 g family Of owls hase occupied an old
sycamore tree, rea1 Burlington, N. J. They hn1o
been projected By the owner Of the land on which
It stnudf, and each night at dark the pasernal owl
pays visit to bis beuelactot, perchug himself on
4 tee near the house and g,7ing forth melodloos
noIes Of RE2lltnde. -.
Virginia papers report that within less thAn
eighteen months there bare been Beven Deaths tn
one family In that State Manchester, where
they res!ded, u healthy, aud Ill the members Of
the FAMILY died fnow different ca1seA There are
now but Two left, and both are SICK
After trial, lasting eight days, a party Of
women who, In 1868 made raid upop drinking
saloon In Alton, N. E, In which they Knocked tn
The heads Of barrels, broke Jugs, and smashed
tning1 generally, hare been sentenced to pay
about 81, 900 in dnes and Costs.
A cstanount was shot In East Killlugly, VI, On
tie ssh, which mea4ured five feet In lanRth and
WEIGHED forty-nya pounds. During the 6sht It
Ruled three hounds. He Was h1allJ shot With
buclshot through the heart, his last leap being
nfteeu feet IN the at1 and fortJnVe feet forward,
to an inch.
Complaints come from Maine, Boston, and Phil
ade,phtn Of tho recent dscoyeI7 IN coa1 Of TN
boxes, sint1sr to common h'scking.box Oiled
| with powder and percussion chps, and fastened
together with lead band and IN each locality the
| inquiry Is made, "Whst does It mesni"
ouu Of the greatest sto1ua that hare Ttllted
Iauersck for many yeats blew over that city on
December 30 and 81. In the old town, and ada.
I! cent to =" Limerick Val, there are numbers Of
old houses, occupied by the poorest clatses, and
] many Of these buildings were wrecked By the
| cale, bufJtug wloie families In the rul1s. Ten
dead boties had been recovered at last accounts,
and 1t waa believed more we're not ret found
The New Years. toy IN Par1a vas green MOL
Key, bearing IN lra ngure 4 striking sesemblsncs
to Jocsn, the fkyortte monkey Of the Empress
Eugenle, and IN tta fAce to EmIle Olivier, the
present Prime Minister Of FEance. No sooner had
| this toy uade IL appearance on the bou1eyA1ds
than the POLICE conlscated it In Ill the boothA
Rpchefort M4nts to know, in La Adratilaisf,
whether Olivier OF poot Jocko demanded III sup
I preston. W. .
I A. fearful dl$A4t1f RMH 4Appouc0 La hQe AHH1Q ct
Cape Cleas, Great Britain Some OF the lsander&.
having picked up eask Of Oh At sea. met {: a
honse Cape CleaF, a few nights ago. 10 div.de
| the Epoit. By soue unexplained means the oil
| tgulted and set the house ou 1ra. Threa peraans
including child lying IN cradle, were burned to
| death, and the house wag completely destroyed.
| OF the eighteen persons In tha building 1T The
time Of The accident, only rhseo escaped rutn.
tured.
Tne New York snn, in report Of night alarm
Of IRE, tells the following story: "Tne staircase
wan blocked up with boarders endeayortnx To gel
away with their baggage. One young woman ex.
hlbtted herosf.n worthy OF record. She vas
petite, with dark cuI1y halr, and had tuSt arrived
on the landing NTH her arms fou Of knick kascf1.
when she suddenly dropped her load, and putting
her hand TO her head exclaimed in heartrendinE
eceentg, tOh, my hlouda ha.tI' ruahed teAntlcal.
Iy back, and disappeared In 8 volume OF smoke.
| There was minute OF awful suspeufe to tho BY
standess; but preatnt,y tho courageous girl ap-
peased at the top OF the stairs, carrying about ten
pounds Of blonde capillary otuausnsstinu. One
Of tho boarde7 raid that this hair was late,y In.
ported from PaEss 1t cost Of 3175."
lIhe lavender farns In England azs situated al
Mltchsn, N Surrey, and at 11lchln, IN Hereford.
ahire, apd contain about 270 bcres EEery acre
Yields about q, 200 pounds of noxers. Every hun
dred pounds OF these zive ont BY diastllat1ou,
About ore pound OF the otto OF lavender, 20 tbs,
there u an anuus1 prediction OF nearly 7,oot
pounds Of lavender otto OF vulsule oil It tsEes
z1x ounces OF this otto 10 make one gallon Of LAT
eudet water. The perfume sold under this ns1nt
Is An alcoholic solution of the oil, With the add
tion Of other odorpu1 substances
Tho London Chemical Etus gives an account d
se11es Of interesting experiments On the cheu1
| cal phenomena exhibited by rhnbafb, peomes
OAK leates, dock, c1exs, gEasses, potatoes, hc
The singular fact IA noticed thst In the INV po
sato current u shown 10 DC passing tsdm the cen
tre to1nrd the outside, willis In lemon, tnrutp
goosebe113, and pear the current was frog
! the putaida toEa1d thb centra The inTestt1Ato
remssfs th8t his experiments "Aru enough 10 se
one thinking. hnt that II would be prenAsu1o t
Feaaun upon them at present." Tns fekolt O
sortys application Of the spectrum m1croIcope t
ascertain tha agr o1 wines, haa been Tint ne co1
dess quite possible, up to kix years, to determln
the aze 20 within single Year. Altar about q
yea1s The difference u 10 susll that 1t would b
| nlmoSt iulpQes1ble 70 detefmtnc.