The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

$50, ZOO.
Fat venison is only cents a pound
in some Florida counties.
The average clergyman in this coun-
try receives $500 year.
A fine COW at Ellijay, Ga, has died
of a snake bite on the lip.
Clerks in some New York dry goods
houses are working till a. N.
The manufacture OF watermelon syr-
up is a new industry in Georgia.
England is full ot foreign princes
visiting about at country houses.
A Baltimore man was sent TO Jail the
other day for snoring in the street.
In the 30 years since petroleum was
first discovered in this country we have
exported $500, 900. 600 worth Of it.
Tax arrears are so large in Pittsburg
that TO push property TO a sale would
sacrifice hundreds of thousands OF
dollars.
Only l10,776 Freuchmen have set
tied In American for the past 30 years,
and Of that number 100. .002 were Cath
olics.
The fact that drunken aud crazy
men are always we'll supplied with
knives and pistols is a sad feature in
the records of crime.
The valuation of real and personal
property in Providence, r. l., this year
is sl15, ISL, 700, as compared with sl17,-
0i0, 500 last year.
II is computed that the people of
London would save 81, $50, 600 annual
ly in soap alone by having soft water
to wash their clothes in.
Two great nationalities, as unlike as
possible, furnish about four-fifths of
the foreign-born population of the
country-Germany and Ireland.
Austie Birchard, uLcle of the Presi-
dent. and an old and honored citizen
Of Windham county, VT, died at Fay
etteville, VT, Monday afternoon.
The Mexican war veterans OF Ken
tucky, held their annual meeting in
Louisville last week, about 80 being
present. Major S. W. Theobold was
elected president.
An Illinois farmer astonished Deca-
tur by going into that place with a
train OF six wagons laden with 375
bushels Of barley, and drawn by a
steam road locomotive of his own in
vention.
Sugars imported from the Sandwich
Islands come free of duty, and they do
say We are importing good deal more
sugar from there than they raise. Ii
is sharp way 10 cheat the revenue.
The Patterson locomotive shops are
much delayed in filling orders from
the difficulty in getting supplies, such
makers of these articles having orders
on hand for months ahead. Last year
at this time such orders we're filed at
"a hours notice.
A Brooklyn firm has been sued for
S25, 600 damages by a lady whose hus-
band died Of tuchina produced by eat
ing pork sold by the defendants. A
few such suits as that would, il sue
cessful, do more to put stop to the
selling Of unsound meat than all the
inspectors ever appointed.
At Westover, Somerset Co., Del. the
other day, a pair OF oxen having rush.
ed painting into a ditch to get drink,
a heavy hogshead rolled to the front Of
the cart with such force as to drive the
cart tongue into the ditch bank and TO
hold the heads OF the oxen under until
they we're both drowned.
In Virginia City, Nevada, the water
drawn from the faucets has begun TO
look like milk. IL is found that the
trouble is only IN having thousands OF
air bubbles in IL. Let IL stand half n
minute aud IL becomes clear. The air
collects in angles of the main pipes in
some way and is forced into the water.
Boston shipped out 1,795, ,793 cases
Of boots aud shoes for the year ended
July 10, 1879. OF these Chicago took
173, 226 cases; 81. Louis, III. .66S; New
York. ll3 s7l; Philadelphia, "a, 492;
aud Cincinnati, 90, 459 cases-making a
total Of 695. .S3l cases.
An Irishman requested Postmaster
Mayo 20 superscribe a letter 10 his
brother yesterday. "And where shall
! direct il TOP said the official. BE
jabbers, / don't know at sll-but they
told me you had book with every
postoffice in America in il, 80 they did.
= Turner'S Falls Reporter.
A merchant sittirg in his Office in
New York recently received an answer
an answer TO a dispetch sent 10 Shang-
hai, China, six hours previously. =
Shanghai is 36. 600 miles distant from
New York by telegraph. and the n es-
sage mot making allowance for deliv-
cry at the two cities), travelled at the
rate Of 100 miles a minute.
Julia Shepard, n mulatto, had the
reputation among the negroes OF
Springfield, Mast. Of being a voudoo
charmer. boy whom she was en-
ployed 10 nurse became III and finally
died. An analysis proved that he had
been killed with arsenic. Julia is un-
der arrest. the conjecture being that 10
keep her standing with her own people
% witch she committed murder.