The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-18
GLEANINGs.


Observation-Disclosures.
Emmeline West, of Richmond, has
been poisoned once, shot twice, and
stabbed three times, but is still. alive
and well.
1t is alleged that all the fish are leav-
ing the rivers of New Jersey. Proba-
bly, they have become tired of being lied
about
Twelve million bushels of corn were
last year made into glucose in the
United States alone. Brewers were the
largest consumers.
There is promise of an exodus of
negroes from Mississippi to Mexico, the
government having offered liberal in
ducements for settlement.
Ohio burglars have begun to crack
the safes in the newspaper offices. They
are usually rewarded with large as
sortment of unpaid bills.
The Hotel Mail calls for measures
that will prevent the frequency of sui
eide in hotels. The best means would
be to provide guests with digestible
food.
The cost of cremating body in Japan
is only 60 cents. If these rates could be
introduced in this country, that mode of
disposing of the dead would soon be-
come popular.
Commander Gorringe denies that the
obelisk is distintegrating, and thinks it
will survive 5000 years. We will make
note of the prediction, and see if it is
verified.
The raising of black cherry trees for
timber on the prairie lands of Nebraska
has proved success. They grow rap
idly and the wood brings high price
for cabinet-making purposes.
A Wisconsin firm has closed con-
tract for n patent process for the manu-
facture of whisky from the smoke of
burning wood, and $4,000 plant is
being laid down for the distillery at
Bernawood, in Shawano County. 1t is
claimed that six gallons of whisky can
be obtained from one cord of wood.
The bronze statue of Lafayette, on
which Mr.. j. Q. A. Ward is now at
work, will cost $4,000, and on its COM
pletion in September will be presented
by j. p. Howard, of Burlington, VT, to
the University of Vermont, the corner
stone of which institution was laid by
the French patriot in 1925.
A French doctor has invented new
bed for babies, the idea-being to fill the
greater part of the cradle with bran,
and immerse the legs and part of the
child in this nest and fastening it. The
bran is supposed to have warming
and stimulating effect. The inventor
of the system has tried it on his own
children, and declares that they delight
in their bran beds, and cry when they
are removed from it to any other kind.
Secret Service Officer Drummond, of
New York, has been instructed by the
United States Attorney to seize all en-
cravings in whatever shape having
stamped impressions of United States
coin or bank notes. He has already
seized several hundred thousand of these
engravings, principally in the form of
plaques. They will be destroyed. Some
of them were gotten up at considerable
expense, and'a large portion of them
are imported. They were intended for
gratuitous distribution, beihg in the
character of advertisements. Persons
engaged in the manufacture, sale or
distribution of these engravings are liza
BILE, if prosecuted, to a penalty of fif-
teen years imprisonment.
All speculations as to the origin of
the cabalistic sign, 0. X, are wrong,
the Memphis AUalanche emphatically
declares. "The cabalistic o. H." it
says, "was first officially used by Old
Keokuk, the pacific chief of the Sacs
and Foxes. When he sold Iowa to I'm
Gle Sam he signed the deed with his mi
tials, o. X. His co-chief, the fiery B.
X. Black Hawk refused to sell or sign
away the rights of his people to this
beautiful land and hence the Black
Hawk war;" Old Keokuk years ago
passed on to the happy hunting grounds
of the Great Beyond, but his sign con-
tinues to supply long-felt want in the
English language.
Among the words which Mr.. Skeat,
author of the new chronological Die
tionary," cannot find the origin of is
''polecat." This shows the folly of writ
ing on subject before consulting all
authorities that are in print. If Mr..
Skeat had ready the works of the late
ldlllcHtcu hulcTlCdu Guy luOlOSlSb, hiVC-
mus Ward, he would have learned that
the animal with the alleged mysterious
name is so called because it is variety
of cat that must be killed with pole
if the killer has any regard for his cloth
ing; further, that the proper length for
the pole, except when the cat is to
windward, is 365 feet.
Those who have been pestered to
death by the irrepressible dandelion on
their lawns may now take heart. The
pest will poster them no more. East
ern markets have begun to utilize them
for greens, SO that gardeners cultivate
them for sale. The plant having thus
become useful, the bugs will eat it off
above ground, the grubs will saw its
roots in two. the sun will parch it to
death, the rains will drown it out, the
rain will thresh it to strips, and boys
will dig it out and steal it. Thus the
dandelion, which has been among the
first of the weeds to coax its way into