The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-15
BREvITuEs.

Winterheim, large Icelsndic colony
in western Minnesota, expects an sddi
tion Of three hundred from Iceland in
August.
A wealthy silk manufacture in Stat
foYdshire,, England, has been sent t.
prison fer refusing to main' lin bis wife
and children.
Senator Gordon's sheep ranch in
Georgia comprises 40, 900 acres Negro
convicts will enclose it with . stone
wall, seven miles Of which has been
completed.
In sspiritualist meetings at Willsman-
tic, Conn, man sat between two of his
wives and . third was just behind tn EN-.
There seemed to be no enmity in the
party.
Several Vassar school girls were
found fencing in the gymnasium with
broomsticks. A professor told them
that such an accomplishment would not
help them to secure husbands
Just as the neighbors had gathered
around the body of Mrs. Weir. in Mem
phis, and begun to talk abont the good
qualities of the dead old lady, she sat up
and joined in the conversation.
The cost of the late Durham strike
In England is estimated at $4,000. 900 /;
nearly half is borne by the men. With
outsreckoning interest, it is computed
that it will take 81 years to make up
the sum lost.
The first pins manufactured in Eng
land were made at Gloucester in 1862;
but subsequently this industry was e,-
tablished in Birmingham, and that
city is now the headquarters of the pin
trade Of Great Britain.
Packages warranted to contain the
means OF sure death for potato bugs,
without poison, were sold at a fair In
Illinois. Each contained two blocks OF
wood. on one of which was written,
place the bug On this block and mash
him with the other"
Peter Igo, of Lawrence, Mass. was
very poor and very proud. Being out
of work and money, he did not make
his plight known but fed his wife and
child on bread and water, and went
without any food himself. A messen-
ger, &ho went to lell him OF q chance
for work, found him dead from starva-
ton.
Au encouraging sign is found in
the recent report Of the Baldwin Lo-
connective Works. Two thousand men at
work on full time. and many of them
employed for several months On over
time, means the support Of nearly that
number of families, or the population
of a large town.
According to the reports of the Blu.
Teau Of Statistics. the value Of the ex.
Dorts Of cheese from this country for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1878.
WAS $l4 1903 500. the exports Of butter,
$3,931 ,S22. and the exports OF condens-
ed milk. $l2S.2S4, the whole amount
ing to *ls,
One of the Oldest breweries in the
world is that Of Dobrsu. near Pilsen in
Austria. 1t was founded in 1878. when
1t had granted to it the prescriptive
right to brew "old" and white" beers
The five hundfedtli anniversary of this
establishment was recently celebrated.
A bridegroom at Grinnell, Iowa, re-
ceived cigar by mail. accompanied by
the written assurance that it would be
found to be of an uncommonly good
flavor. The bride recognized the hand
writing as that of rejected sutton. and
unroiled the:cigar, to find several grains
OF strychnine in the end that smoker
would bite of.
A deputation Of Common Councillors
lately waited on the father of penny
postage. Sir Rowland Hill, ut Hamp-
stead. four miles from London, to pre-
sent him with the freedom of London.
Sir Rowland said that letter was now
carried at lower rate from Egypt to
San Francisco than in 1889 was charg-
ed for carrying it from London to
Hampstead.
The Dunkard Church forbids Q man
to marry divorced woman. George
Hoover, Of Hagerstown, Ind, was q
Dunkard. yet he married woman who
had been divorced. The Church warned
him beforehand and expelled him af-
forward. The expulsion grieved HIM 90
much that he refused to eat. and starved
himself to death, in spite of his wife's
entreaties.
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