, 1881-10-15
Paragraphs Political ..d Pa,@..l

Paragraphs Political and PunSen
Charles Brush is said to have invente
new style of storing electricity. II
uses metal plates that can store larg
quantities of the fluid and retain it for
long time. With this invention peopl
can make their own electric lights an'
run street cars and machinery.
Iron ore deposits sufficient to suppl!
the world for many years are said to hav'
been found IN Swedish LapIand, near the
West Fiord. The ore holds 20 per cent
of iron. English and Dutch capitalists
are after it, and railroad is to be bull
from Fagernaes to the mines
In order TO secure her new possessions
on the Pacific Coast without an army
Russia has perfected a scheme locating
10000 families in the Amoor country
IAs climate is very pleasant, and the soil
rich and productive. The inducements
are such as will take swarms of colonists
to that locality.
The number Of soldiers still living who
we're shot through the liver during the
war already run up into the thousands,
and the veterans are not all In yet,
either. Soldiers were made reckless by a
familiarity with the horrors Of war, and
they fell into The careless habit of wear
ing their liyers in the most conspicuous
places.
The French government having offered
large subsidies to shipbuildera upon
French soil, one Of the great Clyde ship
makers has bought large tract Of land
near Havre, ed will take 5000 Scotch
mechanics thither. He viii probably be
followed by others, SO that the canny
Scots will absorb a large amount Of
French taxes
The cause of dangerous disease called
myasis, found in the Argentine Republic,
proves tC be Hy, which deposits its
eggs in human nostrils, and whose larv;e,
Matching in great numbers, penetrate
even to the brain and lungs, always caus-
ing death.
At the Baltimore Oriole festival the
Battle Monument is to be changed into a
vast fountain Water is to be brought
from the Gunpowder and pipes run up
| over the monument, from which |, 900
Jets viii issue in all directions.
1t has been supposed that ancient soul
p;ures could not be produced without iron
tools; but recently very fine work has
been done on granite with stone tools,
diorite cutting better than flint. Stone
cutters now use softer tools for granite
than for sandstone. The seulptured stone
Of Montezuma was cut with stone axes.
A saloon-keeper of New Haven wish
ing to make good sale of his place TO
stranger got him to test its value by OBJ
serving the days sales: Then he sta
toned man outside who gave a half dol
lar 10 every man who would 90 in and
take drink. But friend of the buyer
explained the situation and there was 10
trade.
An Indiana lady, after long delay, re-
ceived word on a recent Saturday that
the court on that morning divorced her
from her dlssipated husband. On Mon
day she learned that Just after the grant
ing of the divorce her husband died sud
denly and Unexpectedly, and that conse-
quently his 81 900 life insurance would
90 to his mother.
A lady lives beside the lake at Sandwich,
Mass, who has long been known to feed
the fish. She splashes the water with
her hand, when all sorts-shiners, eels
and turtles-are seen making their way
towards her. Turtles bob up thirty feet
away to see whether an enemy or an an
gel is stirring the water. Turtles Will let
her hold them with one hand and feed
them with the other. Large eels come
and Glide back and forth through her
hands, always keeping their heads under
water.
Lille Aisley, born in California, came
East to try her fortune in Detroit She
was seduced under promise Of marriage
by hotel acquaintance, who proved to
be a married man. The heartbroken girl
proposed suicide, and he thought it would
he good thing-for her He consider
ately procured poison for her, accompa-
MED her to the park, encouraged her to
take it, saw her swallow the desc, and
then, waiting until she was nearly help
less, left her to die like dog. Some one
found her in time to save her life So,
after all his trouble and pains, he was
disappointed and his noble heart lacer-
ated by exposure.
To neglect husband In the matter OF
food is about the worst thing woman