The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-15

uting the dividends on the national
debt, and the accumulations of the I'M
paid fractions amount to $143,000.
II is proposed to open the Tennessee
Southern railroad to New Orleans with
in year. Three intermediate and part
ly built roads are to be consolidated
with it.
The lumber trade of Apalachicola,
Fla, is becoming enormous. 1t is ex-
pected that five hundred vessels will
load there during the coming CONNER
cial year.
A fleet of forty vessels from Key West
are gathering spongcs off Arclote and
Clear Water Harbor. On one day re-
Gently $4,000 worth of sponges were
bought at Key West
John L. Raymond, when asked by q
New York reporter why he looked so
sad, replied that he was sorrowing be-
cause he must leave his wife and part
with his moustache to strut the stage.
The Victoria Cross is special deco
ration for personal valor under fire in
the British army, and though it has oc-
casionally been won by lord, has
never yet fallen to Prince of the
blood.
During dearth of news in Western
office, says an irreverent Eastern ex-
change, the office cat was damned into
the job press and the editor Immediate
ly set up the following head lines:
dreadful Accident-Nine Lives Lost"
Capital is sought to initiate cassava
culture on large scale in lower Flori-
da. The cassava is an edible root of the
tropics, and is very rich in glucose,
which is the object of its culture in this
instance.
1t has been found that sparrows will
eat caterpillars. They never object to
caterpillar meat, but they dislike their
hairy covering, and now careful expert
ments have proved that a sparrow will
gobble up caterpillars just as fast as o
man can skin them.
The Austrian military authorities have
decided to abandon the fortress of KO-
niggratz, in Northern Bohemia, close to
which the decisive battle of Sadowa was
fought. The site and the buildings
have been sold to the Commune for
| $450,000
A physician falls into fit while max
ing round of visits, and is carried in
| to drug store. "Send for DR.. T."
says somebody. mo, no, not for him."
says the dying man, feebly, at the men,
ton of his rivals name; ''if he brought
me round it would advertise him! l
prefer to die"
Lake George as a summer resort has
made marvellous leap into popularity.
| Twelve years ago there were only four
| hotels there Now sixty hotels line the
sides of the lake and dot the islands.
The four or five thousand tourists who
used to visit the lake have increased this
year to forty or fifty thousand.
North Carolina is getting famous for
its YARDS" One day recently fifteen
hundred pounds of roots and herbs were
shipped from Shelby to New York. A
shipment of similar Importance was
made the week before, and another of
cherry bark. butterfly root, tansy, and
catnip was to follow speedily.
A gentleman, while working on a
new building ut San Jose, Cal, the other
day, discovered tarantula hole in the
ground, in which were three large tar
antulas and kind of shell or cocoon,
which was supposed to contain tarantu-
la eggs. The shell was broken and he
counted three hundred young ones.
The project of cultvating oysters in
Salt lake, Utah, is regarded Whereabouts
as impracticable, as there is in the lake
no suitable food for oysters, and arti-
fetal feeding would be Improbable,
while there is danger that the mud and
salt that is carried into the lake each
spring would smother the oysters.
Henry Johnson was sold on the auc-
ton block, in King apd Queen county,
Virginia, when eighteen years of age.
He served General Dick Taylor until he
was transferred to General Andrew
Jackson's household. He was with
General jackson at the battle of New
Orleans. He is now living at Oberlin,
at the age of 100 years.
New Orleans claims to lead in rose
growing. There may be seen in that
city Lamarque rose vine with a stem
eight inches thick. In some private
gardens there are 100 varieties. The IA
vorite rose is the Gold of Ophir. 1t is
small, of very pale pink, shading toward
| IHc HcaI1 iuoo uocp, iiSh SOiU OVioi
while faint streaks of crimson touch the
outer petals.
The ex-King Cetywayo still sticks to
beef as the chief article of his Diet
English beef he considers good, but not
so good as that of his own country, for
there is too much fat about it. The
other day fourteen pounds had been
prepared for his breakfast and that OF
his three chiefs. The latter ate thirteen
pounds before Cetywayo made his APP.
pearance, so a fresh supply had to be
cooked.
The operator of the Mobile Office Of
the Mobile and Gulf Telegraph Company
was recently surprised by hearing over
his wire through messages from New
Orleans to New York. An investigation
showed that an unfortunate frog had
found its way into cable box, and its
body, burned almost to crisp, formed
sufficient connection between the
Western Union and the Mobile and
Gulf wires.