The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-03-31
GLEANINGS,

Japan produces over ninety million
pounds of tea annually, and the yield is
steadily increasing.
Out of the 34,275 newspapers and
periodicals published throughout the
world nearly one-half are pr iedin Eng
glish.
Rochester, N. Y, has subscribed $780,
600 toward the erection of a $780,
hotel, to be situated on the east side OF
the river.
Mr.. William ID. Howells, the novelist,
married sister of Mr. Larkin G. Mead,
the sculptor, and she has been of great
aid to him as an author.
Some one in Stockton, Cal, has made
it business to scratch many of the
largest and finest plate-glass windows
with a diamond.
1t has cost twice as much to take care
of the criminals as to educate the chill
dren of Nevada, the figures since 1865
being for state prison, $685., 900; for
schools, $468, 329.
A servant maid named Angelo Sibie,
living with q lady in the Avenue de
Friendland, Paris, has just inherited
5000, 900 from q rowing and long-forgot-
ten brother in America.
The lake of Constance has recently
been lower than at any previous time
since 1906. At Hoernlin, on the Swiss
side, interesting lacustrine formation
have been exposed and a number of val
liable discoveries have been made.
1t has been discovered that the poplar
tree is natural lightning-rod. and the
next thing is to discover how to get one
on the roof of house and make it stay
there.
A Milwaukee man has bought 1000
acres of land in Guatemala. He says
he is bound to have room for himself
and family TO move their feet when they
feel like it.
Pensacola, Fla, boasts of q model
alderman. He is of the "colored per-
suasion," is always punctual, and is not
above spending his leisure between ses-
sions in mending chairs and lamps and
making repairs upon the council cham
Der without charge.
Mary A. Townsend says: 81 feel a
poem in my heart tonight, still thing
growing" Gracious goodness, Mary,
is that so! Well, that is bad. If you let
it slip out, however, it will be worse, ev-
er SO much worse. Bottle it up, Mary,
bottle it up.-Rochester Express.
The cautious Mr.. Newdegate recently
said in parliament that England and
Russia were strong because they had
each an established church, while
France and the United States were weak
because they had none. Mr.. Newde-
gates mind is truly powerful engine
of thought.
State balls ut Toronto are no longer
the source of heart-burning in fashions
bic circles that they used to be when
people imagined themselves neglected
by being omitted from the invitations on
account of limited room. Guests are
now invited by installments and in al
phabetical order.
Joseph Arch, the English agitator. de-
clarcs that ''rack-renting" has not been
confined to Ireland. He asserts that be-
tween the years 1857 and 1875 the rem
tails of the farmers of England were in
creased to the enormous extent of 3d.
000, 900. English papers admit that this
statement Is substantially true.
Capt. Percival, Cape Cod mariner
of the old school, was once awakened in
his bunk by a shipmate with the an
nouncement that the vessel was going
to eternity. "Well," replied the cap
tain, "Pve got ten friends over there to
one in this world; let her CO." And he
turned over and went to sleep again.
A large number of men will be want
ed to work in the logging camps of
Puget sound the coming summer. Hard
ly a camp on Puget sound has a full
complement of men, and with the new
camps starting and the enlargement Of
old ones, loggers are getting scarce. 1t
is feared more will be required than can
be obtained. The wages given by the
lumbermen on Puget sound are greater
than in any other employment, and
they are higher than ever before known.