The Benton weekly record., 1880-02-13
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e "A Gt'lloSS;li mower ms Dc2n latetT f0dn
: in Ltnnatra forests which hiss on ayerag
. diameter of thirty-three inches. Il i
: called the Fitanum.
t Physicians say that the almost u.liversa
) practice Of wearing yeilsover the face ans
eyes is Of great injury to the latter clelicatt
organ.
The New Zealand Government llas. SEM
to New York for three palace cars, TO be
, used ona through route and as models
Foreign merchants ship eggs to london
in cheap cof1ins, there. being more protis il
selling the cheap co1fins than in tIisposing
of other wooden packages.
| Biologists have reported that there is, in
China, enough workable coal to produce 4
yearly yield, equal to that in Great Britain,
for one thousand years.
Charleston, S. c., has abolished the taz
So a day to drnmmers, having found thai
the indirect loss to the community was
greater than the profit aceriing from the
impost to the city treasury.
The Little Rock Gazette says that one
roil1oad in Arkansas has spent over $l50-
900 within the past three years to promote.
immigration into that State, and that it is
just beginning to reap the fruits of its
labors
Berlin has 1905 frst-class and 1852
seeond-class cabs, 185 omnibuses, and 22l
street railroad cars, i'll all 5000 pdblic ear
RACES. a course" in 4 asecond-class droskq
costs about twelve cents for two miles.
In Siberia you can buy beef for two cents
q pound, a goose for tWelYe cents, a chicken
for four cents, horse for five dollars. 36l
pounds of corn for six cents, and you can
shoot bears out ofyoHr parlor window
Portsmouth, at a town meeting held Sep
tember 25, 1862, ordered sstIlat a cage be
made or some other means be invented by
the Selectmen to punish such as sleep or
take tobacco on the Lords Day out Of the |
meeting, in the time of the public exeI-
cise.' @..
a little girl of seven years was recently
forwarded from Rondout to an interior
town III Wisconsin, partly AS baggage 4 |
tag Oh which was written directions was |
put about her neck, and she was passed
along from one conductor to another till |
she arrived safe and well to her Journeys
end.
There is d remarkable Jewish synagogue
in tho ancient city OF Pragtls, with walls
so thick with dirt as to be absolutely black.
loan i,.1fii+;n,, COW. Fi,u+ ,.c ~,
walls the name Jehovah is inscribed, and
it is believed that if the walls are cleaned
the name will be etfaced.
Atawedding recently, when the otfici-
ating priest put to the lady the question:
''Wilt thou have this man to be thy welded
husband!'' she dropped the prcttest
courtesy; and with mo0esty which lent
her beauty an additional graee, replied, 'sf
you please
In lIcchlinburg- -ScEworin death penal
les was abandoned for twenty years, the
Grand Duke having committed all sell
ences, but owing to the increase Of seri-
1us crimes this practice has been given
Up and one execution has. already been
performed.
Londoners are discussing u project fo1
covering Regent street, their finest thor !
with a glars roof stretching
sboye the caves Of the houses on either
;itle, thus afforling complete protection
from rain, while at the same time insuring
good ventilation, After dark The huge
trcade would be Illuminated by electric
lights,
Within the present century q beggar in
London, used daily 10 have ::
penny given to him BY q merchant on his
lao london I.zze,easso. Tho 4oo:444s.
vas withheld and the appearance Of the
manifested his embarrassment ;
md distress. The beggor at length spoke :
0 him, offered him loan Of $500 and
mother loan of the same sum if it was
equired. tre-estabishe;l his a1;tilB
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