The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-27


injured.
Most of the mechanics of the rural
towns of California are struggling with
patents of devices to apply to two
wheeled carts so as to overcome the OBJ
jectionable bobbing motion of the ordi-
nary dog carts.
The model for the statue of General
Robert L. Lee, which is TO crown the
monumental shaft in Lee place, New
Orleans, has been completed. Ii is said
to be an excellent likeness, and is the
work of Alexander Doyle, local sculp-
tor.
Young ladies of England having shown
a desire TO make palmistry the next SEN.
sational folly, the London Truth calls
attention to an unrepealed act of Parlia-
ment which imposes upon all who go
about practicing the art the penalty of
being scourged, having the ears crop
ped and being placed in the pillory.
George Chamberlain, member of the
state board of equalization, has left with
the Historical society for inspection a
stone dug up in the town of Enterprise,
jackson Co., ILL.,, by Mr.. Lester while
digging post hole. 1t is about four
inches in length and one in width, and
has carved on it rudely the letters M. X.
and on the other side 1777.
A Cincinnatian has written PAM
phlet recounting the events of "the war
of 1886" between the United States and
Great Britain. The result of the war is
the defeat of the United States. The
object of the pamphleteer is to arouse
attention to the fact that the national
defenses have been neglected and the
army and navy permitted to become in
efficient.
Mrs. Mary Anderson, aged 79 years,
lost her way on Lookout mountain,
Walker county, Virginia, and for eight
days wandered aimlessly about, exposed
to pitiless rain storm, which ragged al
most constantly. When at last discov-
cred she was covering in a cave near
the banks of Little river, nearly dead.
She will probably recover.
About two years ago Commodore
Watson, of the DeBary line, on the st.
Johns river, Florida, directed that no
more shooting be allowed from his boats.
This is done not only for the protection
of the passengers, but that the game
should not be driven from the banks of
the river. The order has had good
effect, and now the alligators and birds
may be seen as of yore.
The San Antonio Express reports a
case at the hospital there. A Mexican
was brought in sometime ago who was
bitten by centipede. The leg on which
he was bitten was treated and cured;
hut e., hap tn
drink spirits, and the old wound has
broke out afresh, and the gangrened
flesh is now dropping off the leg where
the centipede touched.
A professor of chemistry in the medi-
cal department of Bishops College,
Montreal, has made the astonishing dis
covery that rheumatism is nothing more
than one phase of indigestion, and he
recommends an eight day fast rs an in
falliblc cure. For the ordinary man an
eight days fast would be an infallible
cure for everything except the sins of
misspent life.
China is something of country. 1t
has four canals, equal to all the rest in
the world. Some of them are five thous-
and years old; the longest was dug six
Huuuicu years 'lSo, anu 10 IWicc aS lonS
as the Erie canal. That Titanic wall of
defense, the Chinese wall, was built
more than one hundred years b. c.; it
is from twenty to thirty feet high, and
fifteen hundred miles long, and repre-
sents more labor than any other struct-
ure on the globe.
Inventor Edison tells a reporter that
he does not believe submarine tele-
phone comes within the region of pos
sibilities. He says: "The present con-
dition of the art will not permit sound
to be audible by submarine or under
ground conveyance more than few
miles. 1t is all they can do to talk
across the English Channel, and that
with the very best instrument yet con-
structed."
The English Educational Department
has just published circular in which it
lays down the principle in instruction
that, as general rule, but especially in
the lower standards, the examiner
should be careful rather to ask for the
meaning of short sentences and phrases
than to require explanations of single
words by definitions or synonyms. The
circular mentions Robinson Crusoe"
as one of the reading books for schools
authorized by the department.
A number of physicians and other
citizens of Boston have united in a cir
cular addressed to the teachers of that
city. urging them to use all their in
fuence and authority to suppress the
use of tobacco among the children in
their schools. There Is no doubt that
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prevalent among children, to whom it is
equally certain to be injurious. The
makers of cheap cigarettes are largely
responsible for this condition of affairs,
which is attracting much anxious con-
sideration on both sides of the Atlantic.
The most beautiful woman in the
world is said to be Mime. Gautherot, the
American wife of rich Paris importer.
She is twenty-six years of age. Her
head is strictly classical, and she wears
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