The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-07-03
Sailed dough cost lady in qeorgia
one hundred and seventy-five chickens

BaIted dough cost ihuy IN ocofBih
one hundred and seventy-fve chickens |
the other day. ? ~ = f" i"
TITS estimated that one person OF
eyery 73D i'm Connecticut obtained u |
patent last year. s''''ii
OF the 3s, 900 persons employed in |
matchmaking in Switzerland, one-third
are women. mal rs sns Il
s.Sammy Tilden 10 Miss Columbia:
.Boohool Ruthy Hayes's got my pres
idency and won't give IL TO ne. -
I Rochester Democrat. fei
A girl in Dubuque granted her re-
jected lover parting kiss, and he,
availing himself of the opportunity,
bit her cheek in way that will dishg-
ure her for life.
A Worcester manufacturer recently
produced 1880, 400 envelopes in ten
hours-the largest number ever made
in this country in single day by any
manufacturers.
IL has been discovered in Washing
ton that member of Congress has
sold 200 volumes Of agricultural re-
ports instead Of infiicting them upon
his constituents.
Iimburger cheese gets its name from
Eimburg, IN the Netherlands, and IT Is
said its fragrance from the decayipg
intestines of sheep, which are chopped
fine and mixed with milk.
Minister James Russell Lowell will
not lose his Harvard professorship
while he is in Spain. 1t is TO be tenn
porarily filed, and his resignation is
not accepted.
Augustus Hemmenway, the Boston
merchant who died in South America a
year ago, left property appraised at
IS. .S9l ,17S, only $3.50. 900 of which was
invested in real estate.
The Mobile (Ala) Register is compli-
menting Mr.. Key by abusing him. 1t
calls him a poor superfluity, who has
consented to sit in the market-place,
with hands tied behind his back with
chains Of gold.
"Mr. Tilden says that year or two
ago all the members of the Tammany
| Ring were in exile or in the peniten-
tiGry. lie wisely neglected to say
where they are now. Baltimore
American. ff.
Send us, from every town and county
in America. poems-sad, sweet, dreamy
poems on "summer." Write only on
one side of the paper, please: We
want the other side to write editorials
] on.
\ An embarrassed official of Boston, in
an extemporary speech at the Old
South, raised his hand to its highest
altitude and shouted: 1.-THE American
flag is composed of fifteen stripes, al
ternate white aud blue.
| An English woman who was born
without arms, has just had twins. She
wears her wedding ring on her toe, and
her housework with her feet with a
dexterity that is surprising. How she
| viii manage to nurse her twin babes is
a problem yet TO be solved.
A girl named Sutton has Just died in
Ulster county, n. Y, aged nine years,
whose head measured nine feet In cir
cumference. The abnormal develop
ment began at the age of two weeks.
Physicians says it is the most remarka-
bic case Of hydrocephalus on record.
DIR. Lawson, late surgeon-generalo OF
the United States Army, says he often
observed that when the wolves and
buzzards came upon the battle-fields to
deyour the slain, they would not dis
turb the bodies of those who had chew.
ed or smoked tobacco until they had
consumed all the others among them
The smoke of the leaves Of belladon
na is better than that OF stramoniun
for relieving persons suffering from as
thma. The belladonna leaves should
be smoked in long pipe and drawn
deep into the chest. When the suffered
is so much oppressed that he canno
use the pipe the breathing OF an atmos
phere in which the leaves are burned
will be found beneficial.
Not long since negro was caugh
stealing a COW in Pike county, MISS
The parties who caught him cut th'
COW open and placed him inside OF her
took a grass rope and sewed him in Sc
curely. leaving only his head out. Ii
! this manner he remained for four days
|, when he was discovered neatly dead
He said it wss all he could do to keel
the buzzards from picking his eyes out
. The death, at "a, lately occurred Q
: an Englishm an, known as the Norfoi
A giant. He was farmer, and ofte
loaded his own wagon by carrying fou
bushels OF wheat under each arm at
time. When in great haste to get farr
1 work done he has been known to hai
1 ness himself TO one Of his own harrowi
: His weight was $50 pounds, height.
4 feet q inches, width from shoulder 2
4 inches. He was a most amiable mai
, The Boston Pilot classiiies the gift
. presented TO the Pope during the n
2 cent Jubilee as follows: From Francs
!. s22O. 600: the United States, $3.50, ,OOI
r Ireland. sl30, 900; Italy sl20, 900; Spai
4 eiOO. 900; England, sl0o. 600; Austrii
r s75. 900; South America, s15, 900: Ge
; many, $40. 900; Belgim, S53, 900; PortI
r gal. SO, 900; Australia, 10000; Cal
e ada. 400. 900; Holland, S32, 900; SEQ
land, s30, 900; Switzerland, $4,000.
/ A Modification of the old and favo
r. tie mode of administering castor OIL
: orange Juice is offered by Potain. L
e directs that the juice OF half an O
Il ange be squeezed into glass. and
: ter carefully pouring the oil upon TIN
4 to add the Juice Of the other half I
n the orange. so as TO enclose the oil.
"a mains be taken to avoid mixing q
a LAYERS, the combination can he sw'
~ lowed. IL is said, without the least pc
N ception of the flavor Of the oil.
ly DIR. Prime, ssnior editor OF the NJ
Z. York Observer, writes from England
tol that paper that the largest foreign d.
or egation to the Presbyterian Allan
h. will be that from the United Stat
N Prom France there will be dozen rs
ut resentatives. among them Drs. Pr'
ir sense aud Monod. Switzerland "
= send Prof. Godet. The Rev. Andr
ed Murray will represent the Presbytcri
Mt Church Of the Cape Of Good Hol
M There will also be delegate from
MS Church on the Island Of Ceylon.
a The effect Of the policy OF placi
M the American Indians upon reser
IRE trons and putting them under the q
nd III Christian teachers is thus SUNNI
ized I'm the recent report of the Go
missioners: In 1868, 7,476 houses w
occupied by the Indians; In 1876. .
-t1 Tn the same period the scho