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GENERAL RREEITRS.

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THERE-are more than 1900. 900 Vii
iams in the United Stsiies.s
KRUPP's great glIa cast Cor die Cen
tennial viii weigh, altogether, 1921 |
tons. n N ErlSrt -r.s ~
BosToN has had eleSen Postmasters
since 1889, and all but Jonathan Hast
ings and Aaron Hin are still living.
THE famous Gold Tiifl mine in Rowan
County, n. c., was sold under a second
mortgage for S25, 600, and the work Of
development viii be Immediately be-
gun.
Mr.. PLIMsoLL Is 10 have a monu-
ment as . reward for hisservices in be-
half Of the abused sailors Of England
a movement has been started by the
representatives of large shippers, Ship
building and manufacturing establish
ments for the erection Of public statue
of him on some spot near the docks in
the East End of London, Mr.. X. Belt,
sculptor, has been commissioned to per-
form the work.
AN Ohio paper says % The man who
carries the mail AZ Union City from the
train to-the Office Is a clever fellow, bun
absent-minded. The other night the
train was late. sfid Ire lrecfined on the
floor, pillowing his head on dog, while
he held the mad bagiA his hand. When
the train came IN he awoke,, gave the'
mail BAG a kick, and seized the dog by
the cuff OF the neck and tai and started
for the niail car. The messenger told
him the dog was not properly stamped"
THE mode of Furnishing a criminal in
Thibet is rigorous. slightly. They bury
him 10 the neck in the earth so that all
movement is impossible, keep his mouth
forced open with spike, andthen drive
all kinds of horrible insects TO take re-
fuge in the mouth, ears and eyes. This
is the only torture in the world cor
responding TO that endured by the man
who has incurred the ill-will of con-
scieneeless newspapers, and who must
endure their Attacks without means of
defense. 49, = 80 @T
Mr.. GLENN, of Colusa County, Cal,
has farm which fronts upon the
Sacramento River for Is miles, and is
miles wide. The prosperity of Califor-
MIA has been soggreaf chat hundreds of
such farms are within her borders,
while thousands of men have no where
TO Law their heads. The rich have grown
so rich, and the poor have grown so
poor, that the most immense fortunes
lin few hands, and the most extreme
poverty ION all handsf are az strongly
contrasted there as in Italy, the sweet
est and worst country the sun shines
upon.
A MALADY known as the foot and
mouth disease is affecting cattle and
sheep in England, more especially the
stock imported for slaughtering. The
method of checking its ravages adopted
10y the Government officials is the entire
slaughter of every tainted herd or flock
upon their arrival in port. In one in
stance only three sheep in a cargo of
1900 had the disease, vet all were kill
ed. The efeetof this viii be either to
stop the supply altogether, or to vastly
increase the price of the animals that
pass the ordeal of inspection. The en-
hancement of the cost Of meat is pros
pect that agitates John Bull all the more
because the grain harvest is deficient in
Great Britain. Lrf III Is
AMONG the curiOsities of the Paris Ge
ographical Exhibition was A plaster cast
Of an aeroGte weighing 10000 ldlo-
grams, found on the coast of Greenland
in 1870; The Jewels and ornaments of
the Khan of Khiva, exhibited by the
Emperor of Russia; the autograph at
las Of Philip III. of Spain, dedicated to
his father; Tycho Brahe's treatise on
astronomy; and Scaliger and Cabot's
map of the world. Switzerland furnish
ed specimens of the rocks met with in
the st. Gothard Tunnel works, with the
instruments employed in boring; the
instruments used by the French Govern
ment in observing the transit of Venus
were exhibited, and a collection of ves-
tigeS of primitive man found in the Pyre-
nccS.
AT recent meeting of the old settlers
for Stephenson County, H., Mr.. Nara
more. the President of the society, pre-
scented for inspection a christening robe
brought from England on the Mayilow-
cr. and also a plain iHory-headed cane,
once the property of Governor Carver,
of Massachusetts Bay Colony. These
articles are family heirlooms in the FAM
ily of John Bradford, of Winslow, one
of the early settlers of that township, and
a descendant in direct line from John
Bradford, who emigrated from Old
England to New England on the
Mayhower. The christening robe is of
heavy, double silk, blue and gray,
striped on one side, and solid orange on
the other is about the size of a ba-
by-cart blanket, Il yards long by yard
wide. 1t descends, generation by gen
Grafton, TO the Oldest son, and is now
the property of John Bradford, Jr., Cat
present years. old), of Winslow Town
ship.