The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-01
and his mind is still pr1gnt.

foot in length and twenty three inches
in circumference. 1t weighed eight
pounds.
The grave of Emerson, at Concord. is
always covered with fresh flowers. This
is done by the young people of the
town, who have a regular system about
it, so that the flowers are never wither-
ed. but always bright and beautiful.
An eminent local naturalist has made
the discovery that the swallows of San
Jose, Cal, are faithful observers of the
Sunday law, remaining mostly within
doors on Sunday and abstaining from
the work of nest-building.
Banjo playing is becoming fashion
able accomplishment in Connecticut,
and some of the prettiest young ladies
and matrons of Hartford display much
proficiency. They do not display No.
IL shoes, however, as most banjoists do.
Professor Henry Morley, level head
ed man, who never mistakes mere fam
cies for opinions, prophesies that the
age will soon produce great intellec-
tual figure. Men of brains will at once
begin to look in their mirrors for the
predicted prodigy.
The Boston Post says there have been
more lynching bees in the United States
this year than in any for the past four
teen years. Folks have come to the con-
clusion that it's cheaper to lynch OBJ
noXious persons than to send them to
the Legislature.
Two young rascals, true types of
American boys, were arrested in Phil
adelphia park for boisterous and troub-
lesome conduct. Being locked up in an
underground cell, they amused them
selves by catching rats and tying them
to empty cigar boxes that happened to
be within reach. When their respec-
tive paternals arrived they found their
wild sons engaged in the exciting and
novel experience of betting their loose
change upon a rat race. They were en-
joying the situation amazingly.
The Green River (Ky.) Courier takes
the calico off the shrub in the matter of
snake stories. 1t tells of reptile that
swallowed q rabbit and then tried to
crawl through rail fence, but stuck.
While in this position it swallowed
bunny numbers two and three, and I'M
dbiO w XIV CltnCl OaChWdLu VI LUZ WdIQ,
hung on the rail until it died.
At Little Rock, Ark, Paul Earl and
Jim Young were testing the strength of
their arms by locking fingers, placing
elbows on the table, and waiting to see
whose arm would bend and give way
first. In one of the efforts Earl had his
arm broken about two inches above the
elbow.
There has been presented to the Ten
nessee Historical society piece of an
oak tree, dug up from the bottom of the
Upper island, Cumberland river, near
Nashville, twenty-five feet below the
surface, or an extreme low-water mark.
1t is supposed that the tree has been
there from period reaching back be-.
fore the island was formed-say thou
sand years ago. or such matter.
At Whitestone, L. l.. father has
just been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for six months for theft; his stepson dit
to; his wife to Jail for fifty mine days for
receiving stolen goods; and her daugh-
ter-in-law for the same length of time
for breaking the peace. Depravity in
this case does not seem to run in the
blood, but apparently was infectious.
The 'year without Summer was
1916. Cattle were killed by freezing
weather in June that year in the New
England and Middle States. In Maine
and Vermont the snow was ten inches
deep. July was Wintry and icy. Au-
gust was the same, but in September it
was little warmer, and then came Bit
ter cold weather until the end of the
year. The next year was fine pro-
ductive season.
The longest term of service of any
bank President in Boston is that of Mr..
James w. Converse, who has served Us
President of the Mechanics Bank since
August 10, 1886, when the bank was or
ganized. Alvan Simonds, the Cashier,
has also served like term. This bank
for the forty-six years of its existence,
has never made a change in the office
of President or Cashier.
When President Arthur was a school
teacher he did not punish the big bad
boys by seating them with the girls; he
placed them on the lowest bench in the
primary department and made them re-
cite the alphabet with the little children.
BY this simple method he permanently
reformed one very bad school in exact
ly two hours by the watch.
George Dawson, who is always going
a fishing, complains in the Albany Jour
nal of the increasing scarcity of his grace
the salmon, in the Dominion rivers during
the past two or three years. The scar
city is attributed to the unusual run of
sharks and porpoises near the mouth of
the rivers, and the opinion is based on
the fact that large numbers of the
netted fish have been found Scared, as
if recently bitten. 80
There is still one adventurous Arctic
explorer unaccounted for. His name is
Leigh Smith, and he is an Englishman.
He left England Just one year ago in
his fragile yacht, Ezra, to run up and
take a peep at the North pole, and has
not been automatically heard from since.
He expected to return last November.
He had provisions for fourteen months,
but was not prepared to spend six