The examiner., 1882-02-04
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

The New York Hour calls attention to the fact that greater care is taken o young fish than of children in that city For while more than half the childre1 die before the age of five, the fish com missioners say that only about two pc, cent. of the SD avn of shad or salmon are destroyed.
 About 3O,OOO people in the city o Buffalo d rive their support from the railroad companies. The amount ex- pended there by the different roads in wages will foot up over $3, GOO, ,OOC annually, During the past year over $1 ,OOO, ,OOO have been expended in that vicinity for Improvements.
 Bruised and burned in the Spuyten Duyvil IN. Y 6isaster-bis arm con sumed to the elbow and the throes of death upon him-Oliver B. Keely thought of his wife and sent her mes sage of love" Write to my wife and give her my love"-a last, precious message to str; cken heart. That man died hero.
 A stone bridge to be built over the Mississippi at Minneapolis, Minn., bids fair to become one of the most notable structures of the world It will con- sist of sixteen eighty-foot spans and four 1OO-foot spans, and, in ncIuding the shore pieces, will have total length 1900 feet. It will support two railway tracks at height of over sixty feet above the water, and will run diagonal ly across the river below St. Anthony's s falls. The cost is estimated at nearly $500,00O.
 There is bird in the London Zoo logical garden called the hornbill, whose keeper stands ten feet off and losses grar.es at the bird so rapidly that nobody's eye can follow them through the air, but the birds eye can, catching every one in it's bill at almost every conceivable angle; of half 8 dozen grapes shot at him in rapid suc- cession, he will not miss more than one. In this country he could get 8 first class position in tue nat ional base ball league.
 Ex Governor Bagley, of Michigan, who died not long ago, was very suc- cessful man in business and eccentric in his habits of life In his will he directed that his employ oyes-those who had made his fortune-should not suffer by his death. They were to be retained in the service of his heirs, for time at least, and on the day of the testator's funeral they were to receive presents as follows: Fifty dollars to all who had been in his service five years, $2OO to all who had served him ten years, and $500 to all who had served him fifteen years.
 On 8 cold night prisoner who was being court martialed cn the United States flagship Lancaster, at Nice, France, broke from his guard and leaped into the water. Some sympa- thizing comrades tried to inter cept his pursuers, but John Morris, corporal of the marines, pushing them aside, jumped in with clothing and equip ments on, caught him after swimming 2 15O feet, held him under water until he submitted to arrest and delivered him on deck with soldierly rigidity and gravity. A cold wind was blowing from the Alps at the time. The corporal has been recommended for romotion.
 The town of Dennisonville, near the south end of New Jersey, has a singu- lar industry in the digging of cedar trees out of 9 swamp where they have lain for hundreds of years. The swamp is ten miles square, and the trees are piled to an unknown depth. The dig gipg has been going on for ninety years, and but fraction of the timber has been taken out. The trees are large, and the wood, winch is perfectly pre- served and not even waterlogged, is used for making shingles, tubs and pails. The diggers locate the trunks, at the depth ot few feet, by prodding, clear away the earth and roots and cut them off at top and bottom with saw like that used to cut ice, when the logs rise in the water and are hauled out. It IS supposed that the trees grew there when the swamp was filled with fresh water, and that, by some change of land, sea water suddenly came in and that the trees were overthrown and buried.
 A French chemist named Gros pro-