The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06


Lady Habberton's now celebrated di-
vided skirt, introduced into London last
season, is worn in the English mountain
regions by the most fearless lady climb
ers.
An obituary notice in Mormon pa
per in Salt Lake city closes touchingly:
"He leaves nine widows and thirty
eight children to mourn his irreparable
loss"
A philosopher says: 1.-THE man who
laughs is the sympathetic man." 1t is
astonishing how many sympathizers a
man has when he sits down and hurts
himself.
Josh Billings two springs in the
White Mountains are in excellent con-
dition, and over the cup of the one near
Emerald Pool is the legend, TAX a
drink, mi friend, but don't tax the cup.
Yurs, without struggle, Josh Billings"
The spring water sold in Boston is
from little mineral springs in the sub
urbs. Many little establishments have
sprang up in Boston for its SALE The
water is first aerated and thep sold at 2
cents glass.
The Church of England is said to re-
ceive rents from moro public houses
than any brewers firm in the country.
On the premises of the Archbishop of
Canterbury himself is public house
whose revenues from the sale of liquor
are 100000 year.
The British Museum has acquired 1873
volumes of Oriental manuscripts dating
from $50 to 1045. They consist of
Arabic commentaries on the Bible,
written by Karaite Jews; of Karaite and
Rabbinic liturgies and hymns, and of
various polemic and other treatises.
The Hon. Trenor w. Park, of North
Bennington, W., has bought mansion
and extensive grounds in that town
which he proposes to convert into a
home for destitute children and infirm
women. He will endow the institution
with half million dollars. The Boston
Herald says that this act will do much
to soften some of the hard things which
have been said about Mr.. Park in the
past in connection with politics and
railroads. rs~>
A member of the Quebec Legislature
receives $500 q year for his services.
The reduction of this salary to $500 is
being agitated by some of the Canadian
newspapers A New York legislator
receives $1,000 per annum, and fire.
quently manages to double that amount
before the session is over.
A letter from Montana says: "Hel-
ena has developed into lawful and
quiet city. 1t has none of the shoot
ing and hurrahs of olden times, and
which characterize the younger towns
of the Territory. The variety theatre,
which is literally supported in newer
towns, will not subsist here"
Tradition says that beer was first
made at Potassium on the Nile, 400 b.
c.; but nowadays only crude kind of
barley beer is made by the natives in
in Cairo, owned by Geneva company,
and worked on the German system,
which can turn out 400 barrels week.
At the meeting of the Free Thinkers
Association at Watkins. N. Y, Court
land Palmer, of Pennsylvania, delivered
lecture in which he urged the adop-
ton of a new calendar, to date from
LOGO A. d., at which time Bruno was
burned by the inquisition ut Rome for
declaring that there were other worlds
than ours.
According to native Japanese pa
per, the picturesque old junks which
have so often figured in stories and
pictures of maratime life in the far East
are rapidly disappearing. ut least as far
as Japan is concerned. Shipbuilding in
Japanese style is so far giving place to
foreign construction that by and by
there will be no such thing as junk
except in paintings.
The sins of chinatown" San Fran
cisco, are summed up in one months
record of arrests, to-wit: Visitors to
tan games, 85; keeping lottery agencies.
IA; visitors to lottery places, IL; having
lottery tickets in possession, IL; keep
ing opium places, B; visitors to opium
places, 26 battery, 2; obstructing side
walk, /; total, 161. OF these, Al were
sent to the County Jail and 2 to the
House of Correction. Cash received
from fines, 49,
The farmers of the Deerfeld valley
region, Massachusetts, to the number
of about 1900, climbed to the summit
of Mt. Pocumtuck recently, to shake
hands with Governor Long, who then
for the first time visited that part of
the State. That mountain was named
twenty-seven years ago by q party of
students from Amherst and Williams
Colleges, among whom was James A.
| Garfield
In Merchantville, N. j., magistrate
fined boy 81 for swearing. This fur
nishes o basis for calculation to a
brother of Colonel Sellers, who lives in
Camden. He reckons that in Camden
County there are 10000 people, half of
whom swear That would be 1856, 900
for an oath apiece. Each fellow swears
fifty times day. That makes 81, $780,
600 daily. income, S12, 250,0 900 per week,
and, counting twenty-six good working
days to the month $31S,500,000 each
month.
Perhaps Victor Hugo does no more
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