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as being particularly handsome.
DIR WILHELM SCHMoELE, professo
at Bonn University, says he has discov
cred that human life can be vastly pro
longed by eating lemons.
In Russia, over q, 900, 600 ro1bles ar
appropriated every year for pension
and subsidies to retired officers, and t.
the families of deceased officers.
TEN thousand salmon fry from San
Francisco have been put into the Mouse
at Blorick, Holland, and 10000 NOR
are expected.
PROF. DEXTER of Yale College re
members the name and face of ever,
student of the institution whose ac
quaintance he has made in the last q
years.
AN embarrassed actor bounded on tn,
stage of San Francisco theater, in
scene depicting robbery in hotel of
fee, and shouted, 4" Gag the safe, while
blow open the night clerk"
CETEwAYo says there were only 10 Of
his men present when the Prince Impe
rial was killed. A bold stand would
have saved his life, if the Zulu King j;
to be believed, and the fate of an EN-
pire might have been changed.
A WOMAN inmate of an asylum for the
insane, at Maysville, Cal, imagining
that she was imprisoned by enemies, land
that pen and ink were denied her, made
a statement of her case in needlewOrk
on piece of cloth and threw it out OF
the window.
MoNTAUK POINT, the eastern extrem-
ity of Long Islund, will probably be
made landing place for European
steamers, holding the same relation to
New York that Queenstown does to Liv.
erpool. Six hours will thus be saved in
the transmission of mails, which is a
good deal in these days of hurry.
IT might be supposed that deaf and
dumb man and wife would not quarrel
but Mr.. and Mrs. Goodwin of Green
burg. Ind, deaf mutes, lived four years
in noiseless disagreement, and finally
had a desperate parting fight, in which
he was scalded and her skull was frac-
tured.
EIGHTEEN of the States have civil
damage liquor laws. Their provisions
are substantially the same, making deal
ers responsible pecuniarily for all harm
resulting from the sale of alcoholic
beverages. New York, Maine, Massa
chusetts. and Illinois have statutes pre-
cisely alike.
THERE is a young man in Cadiz, Ky,
of such a susceptible and sympathetic
physical composition that he was forced
at one time to abandon a position in a
drugstore for the novel reason that he
could not handle any kind of medicine
without being affected with all the con-
sequences it was calculated to produce
on the party for whom it was intended.
Mrs. Mix, who has a Connecticut rep
utation for working miracles, travels
through that State protesting to cure
diseases by the laying on of hands, and
crowds seek her wherever she goes. The
most wonderful stories are told of her
powers. She charges nothing for her
services, and accepts only food, lodging,
and conveyance from place to place.
She is of pure negro blood, and de-
vout Methodist.
Coal IN AMERICA.-The Territory of
Montana is estimated to contain $4,000
square miles of coal of excellent quality,
and extensive beds of bituminOus coal
have recently been prospected in Texas.
The yield of coal in Oregon, Utah and
Wyoming is increasing, and reaches to
nearly half a million tons, which are
shipped to San Francisco. The coal in
California and Oregon is of the tertiary
age, and occupies $4,000 square miles.
THE powers of a horses memory were
illustrated at Rochester, \. Y, recently
The city sold a team of horses that had
been used for drawing hOok-and-lad-
der truck, three and half years ago,
but the other day when the driver took
the horses into the truck house and
turned them loose, each went to his own
stall, and when gong was sounded
they ran out and took their accustomed
positions at the tongue of the machine.
THERE was a discussion among a
party of miners at Leadville as to the
physical effects of hanging. Mr.. Ed
wards declared that, on a wager of s.,
he would permit his companions to draw
him up from the bottom of a shaft by
rope tied around his neck. His belief
was that, by throwing his head far back,
the pressure of the rope would be wholly
on the back of his neck, and consequent
" he would not be choked at all. His
calculation proved erroneous, for he
was nearly dead when he reached the
surface, and it was with great difficulty
that his life was saved.
Mrs. HOWE asked John Clancy what
she had better do with 81 900 in gold
coin. He strongly advised her to bury
it in her cellar She did so. Soon af-
terward, on looking TO see if the treas
ure was safe. she found that it had been
stolen. Having intrusted the secret TO
nobody except Clancy, she naturally
charged him with being the thief, but
there was no convicting proof against
him. This happened at Lewiston. Me-,
10 wears AGO. Last week Clancy lay on
his death-bed With his last breath he
gasped: dig in my cellar; you'll
find a pot of gold" His directions
were followed, and Mrs. Howe's gold
came to light.
SOME of the shrewdest business men
in Montreal have been swindled 10y
bold and original scheme. Two
strangers with glib tongues and digni-
fed demeanor introduced themselves as
capitalists seeking TO invest 100000.
They lived extensively at a leading ho-
tel, were accompanied by ladylike al
legged wives, and soon got a footing in
fashionable society. Their next move
was to open an Office and advertise mon
ey TO loan. Those who applied for It
were required to submit the collaterals
for examination. The sharpers got
about $4,000 into their hands, and sold