The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-09

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The man who Joves 10 Tree his mind
b himself . slave TO temper.
A cooking school Il agood institution,
but an eating school wouldbe more pop
ular. =
The weight Of the Eeyptisn obslisk A
Central PARK, New York city, u 2lst
tons. F1
A two-year-old tootsy- pootsy told her
aunt IL was ..yaining." because shs
''heard its feetsteps on the gallery"
Tommy asked his mother fthe school
teachers ferule was apiece Of the board
At education 49,
In the State Of California there are
not less than forty million acres Of land
lying idle.
Smiles is the longest word in tho Lam
fguage. Between the beginning and the
end Of 1t there ID just . mile.
Sir Walter Raleigh made his way to
fortune and fame b politeness. He was
not one Of the E~lizabethan ruffs.
OF all the criminals and paupers that
were sent to our shores by the Govern
ments of Europe last year, only forty
five were returned to their native land.
Translated from the Omnibus: Lady
cit is just awful-two wash-basins
and neither is clean" Cookess-'O,
my lady, that is the housemaid; / wash
myself the whole day mott"
Out West, whenever an impulsive
vigilance committee hangs the wrong
man, they atone for the little mistake by
buying the widow a handsome suit of
mourning.
In Germany pecuniary damages can
not be awarded by the courts in a case
of breach of promise to marry, but the
defendant who is found guilty must
marry the plaintiff or else remain I'M
married.
Luminous. First swell: 81 never did
like 'May'-not nearly so pretty rs
Mary wonder they don't change the
name of the month to Mary" Second
swell: ''Clevaw ideaw, by Jove! make
a%wystaws good to June, you knowI"
Bulwer, Dickens, Thackeray, as well
as Byron, were alike unhappy in their
marriages. Thackeray's wife was in
sane nearly all her married life. And
yet in all cases the wives survived the
husbands.
Post Dispatch: Gentleman, by request
of lady-''Conductor, put this lady off
at the next corner" Polite new con-
ductor-'Excuse me, sir; seems as how
she's a behaving of herself; don't seem
no occasion forproceedin' to extremes"
Since P~arisians learned the merits of
horseflesh as an article of food during
the siege, hippophagy has made steady
progress in the French capital. In 1875
the butchers disposed of 1000 horses, in
year the supply of meat was further in
creased by the carcasses of 400 asses
and mules.
Nine massive Norman collins have
been discovered under the floor of the
chapter-house of Bristol Cathedral. The
sculpture upon the covers of some of
them, although very old and somewhat
rude, is exceedingly interesting. One
of these covers, which is said to be at
least 700 years old, has been carefully
preserved and now stands in the YES
try.
Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns:-''That
lady was evidently intended by nature
for q Chinese, Sir Charles! 1 wonder
who she can beP" Sir Charles:-''She
happens TO be my sister. May 1 ask
you why you think nature intended her
for a ChineseP" Mrs. de Tomkyns
equal to the emergency)-"She struck
me as having such exquisitely small
feetr'-Punch.
One Of the Zuni Indian Chiefs from
New Mexico, in an address in Boston,
showed an amazing appreciation of the
of his hosts. 81 am happy to
look upon the American people," he
said, ''for they smileon me, which shows
the goodness of their hearts. We re-
gard the Americans as great gods-as
we do the sun. They are like our ami
NAL gods, However wonderful and
precious they are, they show by their
kind looks that they have room for us
In their hearts,"
A writer in the Rochester Express says
that he has heard a ''young m of
respectable parents in that city remark
10 her sister at night: "Let us go out and
see if we can find some fool who will
buy us the oysters" According to the
same papers showing, it is a common
thing for highly-educated Rochester
girls to be dragged out of saloons in a
of beastly intoxication.
1t is said that Henry M. Stanley, the
African explorer, when on the staff of
the Omaha Herald, a dozen years ago,
was rejected by a bewitching little act
ress then known as Annie Ward. She
married an actor named Baker, andf
years afterward committed suicide at
st. Louis, driven to desperation by the
neglect and desertion of the man she
had chosen in preference to the ex-
A Munich painter, who was formerly
\ blacksmith, has recently produced a
which has stirred the whole
own. He exhibited it in a miserable
little back room of a place, but it has
been visited by throngs of people, many
,f them distinguished. He has fixed his
price for the work at 100, 900 marks, and
by q Paris dealer has been already offer
ID $4,000 marks The artists name is