Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-03-19
The CHRONICLE

Esilk culture is being tried st Besu-
fort. 5. G.
Cork Ireland. is to have a hotel on
the American plan.
Tue first sewing machine turned
out lay Howe j. now worth : 1000 rs
q relic.
The Pittsburgh man who invented
lamp chimneys has nIade over half a
million dollars out Of il.
The following toast was pronounced
at a hremen's dinner, and MAS re
ceived with applause The ladies'
their eyes kindle tie only flame
against which there i no Insurance
Whittier being asked for an auto
graph, at nee complied by penning
find
t. vnen larger han the man behind.
An Illinois physician says he has
learned by actual and repeated ex-
Periments that electricity, properly
applied, will effect q cure in all cases
OF eerebrO spinal meningitis, Or spot
ted fever.
y ceusus is being taken of the pOO-
ulatiOn OF San Juan and the other
islands lately in dispute. 4 few
months ago they contained only 800
or 400 Inhabitants now the residents
are said TO number 1000.
The Bangor Me- Wing gives an
to. - nrfRNnr Fhnra n F-NNAna. q .
KIP essiye token of springs approach
Was seen yesterday on one of the up
per streets-a boy sitting on a snow
drift, twenty-five feet high, or therea-
bouts, flying a kite.
The total assessed value Of property
in California is $685., 096, OBJ. San
Francisco is down for 45 per cent. OF
it, and don't quite know whether to
rejoice in its prosperity as thus re-
veaied, or to lament the expense con-
sequent upon It.
Il has been discovered that the city
of NV York has been robbed of TO-
600 or 1900 copies OF extensively
bound books of the municipal laws
and other documents deemed neces-
sIry for the use Of city officials, cost
ing thousands of dollars, by a gang OF
thievs, who have sold them fIr waste
paper.
1t has been discovered in a Boston
bank that about $50, coo, in various
/ securities, are missing. The cashier
thinks they must have been dropped
into the waste paper basket, and sold
for old paper. 1t must be a great con
ISOLATION to the owners TO know tina
they have been lost in this way in
steal Of being stolen.
The great turtle in the Brighton
England Aquarium died recently
for want of proper nOurishment. /
measures three feet four inches il
breadth over the back of its shell, ant
when it arrived, abOut Jour month
ago, weighed 500 pounds, but sine
then it had lost "a pounds, only weigh
ing after death l65 pounds.
A lady writer in one ofthe religion
papers thinks women should be ap
pointed teachers of classes of the lar
ger boys land young men, becaus
''the love and reverence that big lad
feel for a lady teacher fill up a gap il
their lives at a very dangerous time
and prevent them falling q prey I
the entieements of bold and forwar
girls, who would make them most uu
worthy wives
The Rev. DR.. YintOn. Of New York
sends q private letter to the Eveuin
Post, in which = scientific friend de
scribes his recent discoveries of ne'
chambers IN the Egyptian pyramid
strange masonic symbolism on th
walls, and a petrifed forest near tn
. pyramids. The writer also says
! Hebrew manuscript of the Pentateue
I said to be written by the Prophet Ezl
] also come into his possession.
The annual report of the Philade
!, pAis health officer has just been mad,
There were 2O,g72 births and POS
deaths in the city last year. Th
number of marriages was 6,496, an
from 1860 to 1872 Inclusive, there wei
2Il ,O33 births, 16,l26 marriages, an
500, 94S deaths. Last yeYr's figure
will not be as satisfactory to the loci
social economist as they might, bl
1872 was an exceptionally unhealth
one.