The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-02

ones income" The American is fortu-
nate who can kept it within twice that
proportion and live according to his
wife's sense of propriety.
When spelling is ''reformed'' she'll
write:
.I'm sailing on the oshun,
The Sc IL hi, no sail I'm site.
1t fills me with emoshun."
hut one spell will not change its name,
For she'll be seasick all the same
The charge for the Edison light in
New York is now at the rate of SO an
hour for light equal to 200 candles, or
about the cost of gas at So thousand
cubic feet Meters for the registry of
the current used are being put in as
fast as they can be made and tested.
st. Louis physicians and druggists
unite in denouncing soothing syrups'
as poisonous, and consequently danger
Gus, especially when administered to
children by inexperienced and ignorant
persons. Many deaths arc said to have
been caused by their use.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
leads off in the pardon business. Dur
ing his administration of nearly four
years he has pardoned more than 1900
criminals, RENTED fines of more than
$2,000,0 900 and granted respites to other
fines to the amount of some 81 900, 900.
A Bostonian says there were twenty
four stormy Sundays last year, and that
the average in Boston during the past
fifteen years has been 16i stormy Sun
days year. The Bostonian seems to
have kept careful note of his excuses
for not attending church.
Miss Jessie +. Detchon, of Philadel-
phia, the sister of Miss Adelaide Detchon,
the actress, is one of the two practicng
female dentists of this country. She is
q graduate of the Pennsylvania Dental
College, the alma mater of the lady who
is private tooth carpenter to the EN-
press of Germany.
Judge James Garland, of Lynchburg,
Va, has just retired from the bench at
the age of ninety-one. History records
but one instance before this of Judge
reaching his ninetieth year, while vet
performing the duties of the bench.
That was Sir John More, and Judge
Garland exceeds even him.
Whygo. Igo, Mosquito, Morecabbage,
Disadvantages. Ballcabbage, Yesyoucab-
bage, Cusecabbage, Mehigh, Yrmush,
Mycat, Crowbait, Cheek, Botherbroom
and Overcoat are the names of Allen
town, Pa, miners whose natonalities
are shrouded in mystery. Some of
them, however, are supposed to have
come from Havana.
An Anti-Vaccin ntion Society has been
formed at Cape Town, Africa. where
the negroes are bitterly opposed to vac
cination. The population of the town
is about 10000 people. and during the
last two months 5000 of them have
been afflicted with smallpox, and 2, 400
have died from the disease. It will take
great deal of anti-vaccination litera-
ture to confute such an argument as this.
The daughter of q Covington, KY,
woman, who was worth $4,000 was so
badly treated that SHE went to Cincin-
natl and hired out as a house servant.
When her mother found ont where she
was she went to her employers and babe
them beware of her. The girl was dis
charged. She sued her mother for
SANDER, and the old lady compromised
by promising to settle half of her estate
upon her willful child.
Mary Anderson, the actress. was, it is
said, really ''mashed" on Oscar Wilde.
They met at fashionable reception in
New York, and she became victim.
Mary's mamma and papa objected to
his calls. Mary, grown self-willed, met
Oscar by appointment at Long Branch,
and spent one whole day wandering up
and down the pebbly strand with him.
This all happened lastsummer-if at all.
The new penal code in New York has
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who have been notified by the police
that they must close their shops on Sun
day, or else be fined and go to jail. So
they make a virtue of necessity and say
that they are going to close anyhow,
for they Ego to Mclean mans Sunday
School," Then they put on their doors
some such notice rs this: ''Notis.
Sunda. No washee, no Gomez. Man
gochurchee. New codee. Quong Long"
The record rs q mixer of the wonder
full COW owned by A. ID. Hull, of Char
lestown, N. H., is attracting considera-
BILE attention in that section from cattle
breeders and dairymen. She is years
old, and from grade Jersey and
Ayrshire COW imported by Sherman
Paris. Her weight is 950pounds, which,
in the space of 10 days, has been ex-
ceeded by that of her milk, which
weighed 953 pounds 10 ounces. The
first milking weighed 46 pounds 10
ounces, the last SO pounds ounces, and
averaged upward of 80 pounds per day
for eleven days of the time weighed.
The Sultan of Zanzibar, having made
trip to Paris, has returned to his own
dominions with a passion for two things
in particular pendulum clocks and
strawberry ice Greenland he has en-
gagged skillful confectioner and an ex-
pert matchmaker as part of his regular
retinue, to supply him with these two
luxuries to his hearts content. His
palace is furnished with clocks in large
number, and he takes delight in watch
ing them, and seeing that they keep
| time with perfect accord and strike the