The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-14
GLEANINGS.

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preme court judges are $2,250 per each
annum.
The students in Vanderbilt college,
Nashville, have adopted the ''bristol
board' caps.
The cattle business in Northern Cali
fornia and Oregon is in q fourishing
condition at present, prices being higher
than for a number of years past.
A Connecticut Dogberry, when he
heard that Florida oranges were going
a-begging, Immediately issued awarrant
against them under the vagrancy act.
Maryland has enacted q law giving
wife-beaters forty lashes, twelve months
Imprisonment, or both, according to the
discretion of the court.
The Chinese are invading British Co
lumbia and it is rumored that railway
contractors procure them on terms that
are but q slight remove from slavery.
A letter-carrier in Meriden, Conn,
whose wife has inherited $780, 600, still
goes his rounds, although the postmas-
ter has several applications for his place.
There is a rumor in England that the
Princess Beatrice is to be married to the
Earl of Fife, who is q handsome, clever,
and unusually agreeable young man.
The laundry-women at Paterson, N.
D., being on Il strike, the P~atersonians
took their clothes to Chinese laundries,
but the Cinnamon chivalrously refused
to accept the work.
Choung Chi Lang, aChinaman meas
uring 8 feet 2 inches in his s~tocking-feet,
and weighing 500 pounds, has arrived
in New York. He will be on exhibition
there for some time.
The pawnbrokers of New York are
greatly excited over the prospect of the
passage of a bill placing all pawnbrok-
ers' shops under police surveillance and
imposing argely-augmented license fees.
The neighborhood of Orange Court
House, Va, is much excited over the
alleged marriage of a young white man
to a good-looking colored woman. The
parties have long resided in the county.
Captain Fred Norman, the man who
went acros the Atlantic in a dory, now
proposes to cross the ocean in q row.
boat twelve feet long, four feet wide, and
from two to two and a half feet deep.
He thinks, if he isn't drowned, he can
do it in 100 days.
Some of the stuff on sale in st. Louis
as butter is shown by an official investi-
cation to be made chiefly of lard. The
oil is pressed out, and the remainder is
colorless, odorless, and tasteless. The
substance is called neutral" and to it
is added a little real butter to give it a
flavor.
A young clergyman of Richmond, Va,
accepted an invitation to marry a form
err sweetheart of his own to q more sue
cessful wooer The ordeal proved too
severe for him, and he faltered and
swooned in the midst of the ceremony,
which therefore had to be deferred sew
eral hours.
Ladies of the highest rank in England
are again wearing their hair cut short
and curled. The most graceful way of
adopting this fashion is to cut and friz
the hair on the top of the head, and wear
the rest in large, flowing curls, like a
Charles l. wig.
Italy's recent census makes Naples the
largest city, with q population of 490,-
600 in round numbers. Ravenna has
60, 800. Between these two i'm popula-
ton there are a score of cities. Milan
is second largest, with $1,000 people.
Rome has 100000.
Another illustration of the value of
advertising: A gentleman came into the
COUrant Office late the other night and
advertised the loss of o valuable dog.
When he reached home, fifteen minutes
later, he found the dog sitting on the
doorstep.-Hartford C0urGat.
A couple of sets of %ive-pronged deer
horns were found on Tiger creek, Plum
as county, California, a few days ago,
SO firmly locked together that it was i'm
possible TO separate them. As the skel-
etons were attached to the horns. it is
evident that the deer were engaged in n
desperate fight at the time of their
death.
An Italian is trying to form n COM
pany to tunnel under Vesuvius in search
of the streams of petroleum he states
will be found there. Petroleum. Now
we should have suspected that the base
of Vesuvius would have been found full
of supplies of the ''crater," as the Irish
call il.
A Russian has been looking about
Douglas county, Oregon, in search of
lands. He desires to find q suitable tract
of from Il, 1000 to 18, acres, all in a
body, for the colonization of four Rus
sian societies, composed of about thirty
five families each, who are now resi-
dents of Dakota Territory.
The first step toward ''Russianizing''
Russia has been taken by altering the
present uniform of the army to the an
cient Russian costume, which consists
of o sheepskin cap, a loose coat without
buttons, and baggy trowsers gathered
into high boots. Promotion, too, is snow
denied to all officers of German descent.
Ole of the once wealthiest landlords
in Connaught, who was well known in
the hunting fields there before the Land
League rose into power, is now driver of
one of the London omnibuses plying be-
tween tho Bank and Kilburn. He was
boycotted out of his belongings. He has
taken very kindly to the knife board,
and looks fat and lourishing over his