The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
aLEANINGs.

augustine, fla., weighs elgnt nunureu
pounds and is fourteen feet long
A Virginia physician says he has
never known an habitual consumer of
tobacco to have the typhoid fever.
The comptroller of Texas recently paid
into the treasury $4,000 to the account
Of the drummers' tax.
A Florida gentlemanis alleged to have
refused an offer of $12, 900 for twelve
acre orange grove planted five years
ago.
Baker Sam" wood haulero of Eureka,
New, had put away, buried in a stall,
the sum of $4,000 in 800 gold pieces,
and when he went to gaze upon his
treasure two weeks ago he found to his
utter dismay that all were gone.
An Atlanta, (Ga.) man studied the
habits and the health of chickens, and
upon the strength of bis observations,
tried diet of white sand as cure for
dyspepsia. In his case the remedy was
efficacious.
Greene county, Kentucky, boasts of a
citizen yet in the prime of life who is
said to be the father of tweIty-seven
children, twenty-five of who are living,
and fifteen of whom are married. He
also has sixty-five grandchildren.
Mad-stones appear to have a market
value in North Carolina where local
paper records the sale of q half interest
in one for $5, adding that a clouded
title lessened the value Of the share dis
posed Of.
A lady performed in the presence of
DIR. johnson a sonata on the pianoforte,
and after it was ended asked the learned
doctor his opinion of it. Madam"
said he, ''of all noises / think music is
the least disagreeable.
The fish pond in Benton park, st.
Louis, was stocked last spring with
twenty carp, and now there are three
thousand of them. A carp should be
two or three years old before it becomes
food.
No comment is necessary, but just see
what man can do when quiet is as
sured: Morse, who invented the tele-
graph, and Bell. who invented the tele-
phone, had deaf-mute wives.
The butler of Queen Vctorias house
hold has n salary of $4,000 and four as
sistants who do the purchasing of sup
plies and see that the widow is not
cheated in weight and measures by the
tradesmen.
A Victoria b. c., man is in quandary
Us to which he shall mourn the more
the loss of his wife or the loss of his for
tune of many thousands of dollars in
cash, which his spouse hid SO carefully
before her death that subsequent eX-
haustive search has failed to disclose it.
A beautiful white deer that makes
nightly visits to the cultivated fields
thereabouts is one of the sights on FL
lalgo Island, Washington Territory.
Attempts TO capture it have proved I'M
successful and superstitious feeling
regarding it has saved it from the hurits-
mans hand.
Judge Studley of New Haven, has
throttled the Connecticut blue laws. He
has discharged the managers of n steam
boat who were arrested for getting up
Sunday excursions, on the ground that
something may be necessary and mer-
ciful in crowded city which would be
neither in farming district"
The scales for weighing gold in the
assay office in New York are so delicate
that, when brought to balance with
two pieces of paper of equal size in the
pans, the mere writing of n name on one
Of the pieces of paper will add enough
weight in the paper to turn the scales in
its favor.
The body of every spider is furnished
with four little Jumps, pierced with tiny
holes, from each of which issues n single
thread, and when thousand of these
from each lump are joined together they
make the silk line of which the spider
spins its web, and which we call spi-
der's thread.
An indianapolis woman has brought
somewhat novel suit against the estate
Of dead man, who. just before his de-
,hise, cut and carelcssly placed upon an
open common lot of poisonous vines
and shrubs. Four of the plaintiffs cows
ate the noxious vegetation and died.
Now $500 is wanted as damages.
In New Orleans lives Creole woman,
now ninety-two years old, who was once
the nurse of General Beauregard. She
tells many interesting "reminiscences
about the city, and takes great pride in
the fact that one of the greatest leaders
in the Confederate army drank from
her breast the nourishment of infantile
life.
Prof. Ponfick, of Breslau, has been
clearing up some of the popular doubts
Aoncerning mushrooms. He says that
all the common ones are poisonous, but
that cooking deprives them of much of
their poison, though the water in which
they are boiled should be carefully
thrown away, and the esculent washed
in two or three waters. Dried mush-
rooms are only safe after four months
keeping.
An English chemist, who had been
called upon to analyze several socks and
stockings of red color, which had been
found to cause great irritation of the
skin of the wearers, discovered tho
cause of the trouble in the tin salt used
as mordant in fixing the dye. He sue
ceeded in obtaining over twenty-five
grains of tin in the form of the dioxide.
When acted upon by acid perspiration