, 1880-04-19
Intelligence Items.

Intelligence Items.
The first copper cent was coined in
! New Haven in 1857.
Air is about eight hundred and fifteen
times lighter than water.
Peoria, ILL.,, has one hundred and
nine secret and other societies.
An Arkansas woman is now living
with her fourteenth husband.
A woman in Johnstown, Pa, wanted
to send tin washboiler by mail.
There are 500 vacant houses in Mem
phis, the result of the late epidemic.
Medicated beer" is the latest ad
dition to the literature of swallowing.
Ohio spent $7,711 1876 last year for
the maintenance of her public schools.
The climate of Deadwood, at times,
varies forty-eight degrees in half an
hour.
The greatest height at which visible
clouds ever exist does not exceed ten
miles. ''
The imports at New York for January
were larger than they have been since
the panic.
The Leadville mines prodnced nearly
past year.
The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country was made soon after the
war of 1912.
The Atlanta Constitution is in favor
of allowing the women to vote on the
liquor question.
| Gas was first used as an illuminating
agent in 1902 It's first use in New
York was in 1927.
There is a colored woman in Union,
New York, who claims to have kissed
George Washington.
Texas promises to close all drinking
places from Saturday night to Monday
morning by state law.
| The Rochester police are still arrest
| ing beggars who lost property, limbs,
friends and all =" by the Chicago fire.
The office of army chaplain has been
abolished by the French Chamber of
! Deputies, the vote being 342 to Ill.
The London Spectator believes that
it will require an army Of 45, 900 men to
maintain British supremacy in Afghan
istan.
President Lincoln's walking stick,
taken from his box at the theater on the
night of his assassination, has been re-
covered at Troy, N. Y.
Chicago is getting up monument to
Tom Paine. The New York CONNER
cial thinks that champagne would be
more in Chicago's line.
The public debt statement for last
month is probably the most satisfactory
of any month since the war, the reduc-
tion amounting to S11 100000.
There are 100000 working women
in our country dependent on their own
resources for a livelihood and such
| home comforts and surroundings as
they can create.
Mrs. J. j. Astor recently sent ont
from the Office of the Children's Aid
Society one hundred homeless children
to homes in the West and South, at an
expense of 81 500.
There are five Sabbaths in February
this year. This occurs once in twenty
eight years, three times in one century,
and four times in the next. It will not
occur again until 1908.
| The Hood fund-which, it will be re-
membered, is expected to provide for
the nurture and education of ten chill
dren-is officially stated to be $40, 1868,
of which sum $40, 500 has been invested
in United States bonds.
Tho Norristown Herald says: "The
heirs of the late Peter Geolet, New
York millionaire, have presented the
physician of the deceased $25, 900 in
recognition of his professional services.
This is not an isolated case. A rich
mans heirs always feel happy when he
dies, and are willing to pay something
handsome to the physician"
Formerly women were never invited
to any notable banquet or breakfast.
at the authors breakfast, given to Oil
yer Wendell Holmes on his seventieth
birthday, woman in literature was rec
ognized for the first time on such a
grand occasion. Some twenty lady con-
tributors to the Atlantic Monthly were
present among the great Yankee literary
lights.