Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Byron Club, patterned after the IA
nous Golden Club. and designed to pro-
mote amity between Greeks and English
men, is to be inaugurated in London this
winter.
During one week recently the London
health authorities seized and destroyed two
tons and twelve hundred weight of meat as
unfit for human food that had been expos
ed for sale in the markets.
The great water wheel at Sa1ey, Isle of
Man. said to be the largest in the world. is
s~eyenty-two feet six inches in diameter, six
feet in breadth, and weights ten tons.
All the sovsreigns Of Germany nave their
private beer saloons; but his Majesty Of
wurtemberg keeps one for the public, and
turns q considerable penny from it, and
also from = couple of restaurants.
There is not a drunkard among the
| $500 people who live or Block Island, and
the nearest approach to a bar room is a
place where pop beer is sold by a Freewill
Baptist who makes up for it by preaching
on Sunday. axe
When William Femming, q Monroe
| (Conn) Enoch Arden, reached home the
other day after = four years unexplained
absence instead of dissolving in tears,
he swore like . pirate because his wife had
not married again. Sac
Mr.. Plimsoll's wal upon the owners
and agents of rotten sailing vessels has
producsd one good effect At least. The
| German Consuls at al the British ports
have received orders to prevent unsea-
worthy vessels flying the German flag from
putting out.
A Frenchman has discovered q way Of
making black paint from smoke. He pro-
iscts . shower Of water into the chimney,
by which tho soluble gases are taken up,
and the impurities precipitated into q res
ervoir, which empties into a cistern where
the mass is collected.
II has been proposed to establish a pig.
con post between Europe and the United
States, and an ocean homing bird of great
docility has been discovered in Iceland
which is said to be admirably calculated
for the purpose, being able to fly at
the marvellous rate of $50 miles per
hour.
A Professor of Cornell University has
made application for the body Of the noted
~trotter, American Girl, in order that
the skeleton may be placedin the museum
of that institution. and preserved as q
specimen Of the bony structure of q typi'
cal American trotting horse.
The cranberry crop this year is est.
mated At 100000 bushels, against q aver
age Of about 275 900. Cape Cod and New
England produce $4,000 bushels, New
Jersey 10000 New York 5000 and the
| Northwestern States 10000. The fruit il
said to be Of nice quality.
A candidate for a vacant vicarge in
| England announces an invention of his
own which may prove to be useful. 1t is q
peculiar arrangement of the pulpit, with a
| clock to give warning. When at the end
of the half hour the clock sounds an alarm
if the preacher does not conclude within
three minutes, down comes the pnlpit,
with the parson and the rest of the ap
pendages.
A splendid monument to the celebrated
Cakes Ames is to be erected in the rear of
the Unity Church IN North Easton, Mass.
It will stand in y cemetery Of about fou,
acres which Oliver Ames, his brother, has
presented to the town and which is now
being laid out by some Boston artists
All the deceased members of the Amei
family are to be inferred in this Gem
etery.
Corn COBB are extensively used IL
Europe for fire lighters. They are frs
st.eped in hot water containing 2 per cent
of saltpetre, and after bsBs dried at
high temperature, are saturated with 81
per. cent. of resinous matter. Thes.
lighters, which are sold At from SO to 81
the thousand, are employed with advan.
tage and economy in private houses anc
for Lighting furnaces.
An enlightened citizen of New Hamp
shire gives one of the Coroner's jury in tn.
Josie Langmaid murder case the benefit OF
his experience Is follows: "Take up tn,
Corps and make the man in charge tucl
her if she Bleedes that is the man I hac
the same Evidence with one some ffteer
years ago this will show you the Correcl
way Of holdin q ~coroner's jury this is a,
true as gods in heaven try this And 20,
will satisfy the whole of the New England
stats just a. i tell 10 20 helpe mi god"
A letter by Baron de Kalb, writer
just before his defeat by Corvallis, re
cords the fact that he had just paid a.
hostelry for supper and a nights lodging
for himself and three friends the sum OF
$3.50. The landlady told him she hai
made no charge for the room, but though
$500 would be an appropriate figure TO,
it. This was in the good old Continental
days, when the people reveled in paper
money and "grasping b%ullionists" were I'M
known.
The man who lost the battle of Water
loo has just died, and his name was neithe,
Napoleon nor Grouchy, but Pierre Cockz
a Belgian. The story is that Butcher tee
him to a horses tail and made him serv.
as q guide OIL the 18th aud 18th of June
1915. By the reluctant aid of Cockz tn,
Prussians escaped Grouchy aud reached
Waterloo in time. The Belgian died a
Nogent the other day. aged seventy-fve
1t is said that he had . horror of horse:
and Prussians from 1915 to the day of hi,
death.
TO c0HsuMPTlvEs.
The advertiser, an old physician, retire
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