The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-05
had an awful dread OF the moose, but
professed fearlesspess as 70 death by the


professed feaslessness as 70 death by tn
rife.
Scene In the auditorium of theater
Actor (who has appeared in the frs
piece); GOOD evening. MayI take the
seat next your" Lady;q"C Certainly; bu
don't You appear any moro to-nightP'
Actor: ''No." Lady: '"Oh,1 am so glad
Pray sit down." ~ aifgk f.,a so-.ra,
Someone says: Bread and butter i.
the dress of this world love and kind
ness its trimming" Wen bet @400 the
man who wrote that isn't married.
Any married man knows that the trim
mings always cost four times as much
as the dress.
Prairie and wood fires have been rag.
ing in southern Arizona and southwest.
ern New Mexico recently. The terri
tory burned over is reported TO cover
forty miles square, and the damage done
is immense. The origin of the fire is at
trtbuted to the Indians, either domestic
or renegade, who roam ut will through
out the country. except on ration-day.
"How are you getting alongp" asked
widow Of her late husband, who APP
peared to her as ghost. Ghost: very
well, indeed-much better than during
my twenty years married life on earth"
Widow (delighted): Then you are in
heavenp" "Oh, no."
The emigration from Switzerland last
year was the greatest on record, the
number. of emigrants who left the coun-
try in 1881 having been 10,935, against
1885 in 1880, and 4, 288 in 1879. Bv far
the greater proportion Of them were
from German Switzerland.
The Russian bath il said to have or
iginated with Peter the Great. 1t is re-
corded that when he was advised by
foreigners to introduce hospitals and
dispensaries into Russia he was wont to
reply that .'While Russians had baths
they needed nothing else as q health
giving remedy against mortal ills"
Lord Cranbourne, an elder brother of
the present Marquis of Salisbury, who
died before his father, was stone blind,
but he could distinguish colors by the
touch as accurately as Others can by
the sight. He could also tell by sound
the extent and hight of any room he en-
tered.
A Rochester street-car horse shot out
with his heels the other day and hit the
driver with one and the cash-box with
the other, and an investigation showed
that he had kicked Sc into the drivers
overcoat pocket. Such wonderful sa-
gacity on the part OF the horse caused the
discharge of the driver.
Miss Lillian Taylor, daughter of Bay
ard Taylor, studying art in New York,
says her father never wrote up place
without making a careful study of it,
which studies were the origin of the
hundred and fifty sketches lately exhibit
ed, which were a surprise to those who
did not know Bayard Taylor painted
with any other pencil than his glowing
words.
A mulberry tree at Griffin, Ca, acted
in very curious manner the other day,
emitting what seemed to be puffs of
smoke at short intervals from all por-
tons of the tree. The smoke, or what
ever it was, was light and thin, like Gig
ar-smoke, and scarcely visible to the
casual observer. 1t was q phenomenon
that nobody could account for.
Bands of music are forbidden to play
on most of the large iron bridges of the
world. This is due to the well-known
phenomenon that n constant succession
of sound-waves, especially such as come
from the playing of a good band, will
excite the wire vibrations. AT first these
vibrations are very slight, but they in
crease as the sound-waves continue to
come.
The receding of the ocean at Atlantic
City, N. j., for many years past, has
left much fresh land above high water,
and litigation with regard to ownership
is threatened The lot-owDers claim
riparian rights, but the Land company
that sold the property claim that the
new lots should belong to the company.
The property in dispute is valued at
$150,000
Three hundred and forty convicts of
the New Jersey Penitentiary are let out
to contractors in the branches of indus
try described as shoes, laundry, shirts,
collars, boxes and whips, at an average
of little more than fifty cents day,
and the authorities are grumbling that
the law limiting the number at each
trade to 100 compels the state to sup
port more than 200 able bodied men in
absolute idleness.
George Washington Greene, the friend
of Longfellow, who is to write his bio
graphy, lives in an old-fashioned house
on hill overlooking the Village of
r. l. From its upper win
dows there is a view of long stretches of
cultivated country and of the waters of
Cowesett Bay, an arm of the Narragan-
sett. Several years ago Prof. Greene
had an old windmill, which stood in
an adjoining field, moved up to his
house and fitted as library. In this
old house have been entertained Wash
ington, Lafayette, Longfellow, and a