The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-03-16
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A California man took screw
driver from his pocket at the burial
Of his son, and removed the silver
handles from the coffin
The commission appointed in
Germany to revise Luthers trans
lation of the Bible has held its last
sitting and brought its work to a
close.
The total annual consumption OF
quinine throughout the world Is
| eiven at 100000 pounds, of which
one-quarter is used in the United
States alone.
There is a young woman shoe
| maker in Atlanta. She has a small
| shop of her own, in which she ham
| ners and stitches as deftly as any
| man in the trade.
A widow at Lafayette, Ind, re-
ceives S1,7O0 as her husbands back
| pension, though she was q wife for
a day only, having married him
| while he was dying.
Electric lighting has made a be-
ginning in India the gardens IN
| Calcutta and the Elgin mills at
Cawnpore having adopted it, and
other places will follow suit.
Gen. Tom Thumb, the great
small man, gave dinner to four
teen full grown friends at st. Louis
I the other day in celebration OF the
| nineteenth anniversary of his wed.
| ding.
The officers of the Lutheran
church at Columbia, Ind, locked
out the pastor. He took an axe
from a neighboring wood pile,
chopped down the door and held
services as usual.
A new row of business houses at
Charlotte, Mich, has been named
| Did Maids Block by tue owner,
who is a maiden of 10, and rather
proud Of having made fortune for
! herself as a milliner.
The Municipality of Paris has
asked the Government to permit
! the cremation of remains which
have illustrated anatomical lectures.
In two hospitale these aggregate in
a year some $500 eorpses.
The delusion of an otherwise
sane Chicago man was to beheVe
that his cane was possessed OF a
spirit. He talked to it, never let it
be out of his sight in waking, and
kept it by him when asleep.
Mrs. Hayes is gratifed to learn
that her $4,000 dinner set was used
at a recent State dinner in the
White House, but she may be
shocked when she finds that seven
wine.glasses served as tenders to
each plate.
4 man broke through the ice at
Bay City, Mich, while his hands
were in his trousers pockets, and
was unable to extricate them. But
be hooked his chin over the edge OF
1.-THE ice, and so held his head above
water until rescued.
-Four boys got into a Denver
theatre free by using skeleton key
on a side door. They enjoyed their
deadheadism every evening for a
week, and were only detected when
they began to let in other boys at
half the regular price Of admission.
A girl at Carrolton, Ark, was be-
| trothed to one man while she de-
sired to marry another. She mar
ried the first, but promised the
second that at tho end of six
months she would elope with him.
This arrangement has been carried
out.
A novel kind of fishing is prac.
ticed by a diver at Burlington,
Iowa. Clad in his suit, he de-
scends into the river at point
/ where large quantities Of catfish
are gathered by an eddy, and
catches them easily with an iron
prong.
Tiffany, of New York, only the
other day, made to order pair OF
garter buckles, the substance OF
which was pure gold, and the at
tachments of four caret diamonds.
Who he made them for he declined
to tell, but the order was from
Murray Hill.
Bartholdi's colossal statue of Lib