The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-11-21
mIsCELLANEOUs.

TO sweep the streets.
Minneapolis ships 80 tons week Of
liaseed oil direct TO England.
: San Francisco papers advertise ripe
strawberries 'ten cents pound.
J A young eagle was captured in Wa
bash avenue, Chicago, on Friday.
Fear to do wrong and doing wrong
will mover cause you to fear.
Genius feeds on adversely, sickens
on praise, starves on success.
Ladies in Australia play cricket
matches for the benefit OF local chari-
ties.
Prussian scientists are trying the ex-
pertinent Of drying eggs for army ra-
tions.
The biographies of great men form
a branch Of study in the San Francisco
schools.
All the merchants at Shreveport, La, !,
closed their places of business from
Nov. 4th to the 9Th.
The army records show that Ken
tucky raises the tallest and Connecti-
cut the shortest men in the country.
A workman in South Bend, Ind, j.,
has made beautiful stand top Of H.
$40 pieces of sab, walnut and cherry.
A volume of poems by DR.. Powers,
now of Bridgeport, Conn, will be is
sued from the Riverside press early
next month.
When one has done the utmost, it is
not necessary to "wash ones hands in
innocence. They are clean-nor can
the result soil them.
To have good garden next year.
cover it now with heavy coat of rich,
well-rotted manure, and spade it deep
ly and thoroughly.
An Iowa woman can forgive another
for having better clothes, but she can't
forgive her putting ont better display
on the Monday wash-line.
A patent has been taken out in Eng
land for brown paper blankets as bed
coverings. They are warm and light,
and also cheap.
There is a popular delusion that
Bass's English pale ale owes its excel
lence to the waters of the Trent, but il
is in fact brewed from well water.
Josn DiInngs clears IRON S2o, ,OUU to
! $50, 900 annually. Herbert Spencer
makes a bare living. Moral-always
spell philosophy with two rs.
Virginia tobacco has been greatly
damaged by black worm, and re-
ward is offered for the discovery of
something that will prevent its ravages.
When you find man whose voice is
clear and whose eyes are wide open you
may know that he was in Jail and
couldn't shout over the election re-
turns.
The first thing Mr.. Stokes did after
leaving the prison was to take drink,
and John b. Cough wants to know il
liberty is to be cncouraged.-[ Roches-
ter Democrat.
The Rochester Union thinks that Sit
| ting Bull must be good deal happier
than Judge McAllister, in Chicago,
with an indignant populace calling on
him to resign.
English sparrows have made their
appe arance at Albion. About aweek ago
some half dozen made their appearance.
The people hail the new corners with
great delight.
A New York paper says that it is not
often that literary man is parsimo-
nious. But it is said that Victor Hu-
go, although very rich, is the stingiest
mortal in all France.
By the death OF the late Queen Dow
ager Josephine of Sweden, who left a
fortune OF 50, 900, 900, the Princess of
Wales comes into O handsome fortune
in her own right.
Society is nicely graded in China
Water carriers must bow to fruit sell
lers, the latter to tin peddlers, the lat
ter to merchants, and the merchants
bow very low to constables.
The presentation Of st. Georges
house on the Centennial grounds to
the city of Philadelphia has been men,
toned to Queen Victoria, and that la
dy has expressed exceeding great ap-
proval of the same.
A party OF negroes broke into resi-
dence near Aiken, South Carolina,
Thursday night, and murdered nj.
Hanslan and his nephew, named Post
man. After rUbbips tho prenisas the
murderers fred the dwelling.
There is a prospect that the Exbib'-
! ton at Philadelphia will be continued
in the Main Boilding. III so, the price
| of admission will be reduced to twenty
five cents, and il that should be too
high to insure success, to ten cents.
A five-year-old 10y who could not
keep awake through a long sermon
suddenly became wide-awake, and no.
ticing that the preacher was still hold
ing forth, inquired; "Mother, is it this
Sunday night, or next Sunday night?"
A western boy said the other boys
gun would not carry one hundred aud
fifty yards, and offered to be target
at that distance. He acknowledged his
mistake, however, before the doctor
had picked all the shot out OF bim.
Frances Thompson, the notorious
negro who for years figured as a wo-
man, and imposed on the Congresssion-
al Committee in connection with the
riots in 1866, died in hospital at
Memphis, yesterday, after long i'll
ness.
Two brothers of Gillespie, IL, nan
ed James aud William Isen, quarreled
about the sale of some hcgs Nov. L,
when James struck his brother over
the head with fence rail. breaking
his skull He lived but a short time.
James was arrested.
The New York Sun printed 220, 900
copies of it's daily the day after cleo
tion-the largest issue ever attained by
any daily paper in this country. But
the Boston Herald beat that on the
same day, printing 223, 25s, the white
paper for which weighed IA tons.
DIR. AIlchin, an eminent London
physician, has frankly avowed, In an
address TO students. that "of all scien-
tific pursuits which practically concern
the community, there is none perhaps
which rests upon 80 uncertain and IN
secure basis as medicine.
Frank johnson, who has undertaken
10 walk 1900 miles in 800 consecu-
tive hours, at Phnnix Hill Park, Louis
villa completed 4 .057 miles at o clock,