Sharp County record., 1880-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Next year will be the fourth CEN
tenary of the printing of the first book
in Vienna, and the event is to be duly
commemorated.
"A recent thunderstorm in the Shelf
field district of England did great dam
age al Wentworth Park, belonging to
Earl Fitzwilliam, where six stays and
three bufaloes were killed by lightning
"A circus was at Lancaster, KY, and
during an Indian scene, when many
pistols we're discharged, young man
arose in his seat and shot a policeman
dead There appears to have been no
cause for the deed except excitement
-Anotherrelic of the Spanish Armada
has been secured at Slams, in Scotland.
It is large gun raised up out OF the
place where one of the ships belonging
to the Armada vas wrecked, and,
though it has been in that place 29O
years, it is as good as ever.
The oldest living brewer in this
country, in point of active business LIE,
is Frederick Lauer, of Reading, Pa. He
has been engaged in brewing for titty-
! four years and was one of the first to in
troduce lager beer into the country, be-
ginning to make it in 1874.
Trade unions appear now to have
taken root in Japan. 1t is reported that
bwing to the recent rise in the price OF
rice all the laborerS in Gifu, Mino Prov
Hnce, made an arrangement among
themselves and forced their employers
to raise the wages.
\ Wyoming Territory has been gain
ing in population at great rate since
II1S70 When the last census was taken
bit had only little more than 5000 in
Inhabitants, while now it has $4,000. The
gain has been at the rate of 1873 per
Ilcent How new it was in 1870 is shown
by the fact that out of the 5000 inhabit-
Bants only 300 were natives of the Ter
iritory.
! "A young lady of Worcester, Mass,
packed her trunk and went to Mount
Dessert. On opening her trunk she dis
covered the pet cat from home nicely
.stowed away among her clothing The
lanimal was alive and well, and although
packed in the trunk from the forenoon
of one day to the afternoon of the next
appeared none the worse for the journey.
-Itis believed that the veil presented
by Brussels to the Princess Stephanie
is the largest ever made. 1t is 12S by
118 inches; 125 workmen made it in
three months, and it cost $1,000. In
the middle are the arms of Austro-
Hungary, fanked by the arms of the
CITY of Brussels. The border will rep
resent the arms of the nine provinces of
/ Belgium, those of Austria and of Bel
gium, all connected by a wreath of flow
ers.
"A plucky woman in Pittsfield, Mass,
scared robber recently. He had prom
ised to cure her of neuralgia if she
would lay roll of greenbacks on the
kitchen table. She put the money on
the table as he requested. He then
asked for pen, ink and paper, and when
she went up stairs to fetch them he de-
parted with the money. In a moment
/ she was behind him with revolver at
| his ear and she kept it there until he
had gone back into the kitchen, put
1Adewn the money and begged for mercy.
-Workingmen's societies in England
grow to enormous proportions, possibly
because, in addition to their trades
union features, they take the place OF
the mutual aid and benevolent associa-
tions so common in this country. -Four
of the great English societies-the Engi-
neers, Iron Founders, Boiler Makers,
and Steam Engine Makers-have nearly
eighty thousand members, with incomes
amounting to over one million dollars e
year. They paid out in 1879 more than
twice as much, chiefly for the benefit of
members who were sick or out OF work.
A million dollars was spent on the un-
employed, mostly in form Of donations,
but large amount for travelling ex-
penses. A quarter of million was
awarded to men on strike, but this was
only one-eighth of the whole amount
distributed, the societies not encourag-
ing struggles with employers, except in
rare cases. The administration Of the
affairs of these and of cooperative So
cieties in England is remarkable for
economy and honesty, vast corporations
being managed for workingmen for
years with quite as much success as at
tends the business ventures of mer-
chants and bankers supposed to be
specially qualified for such undertake
ings.