The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-23
GLEANINGs.

The Tooth anniversary of Washington
lrving's birthday occurs on April 3.
Large dots, circles, and moons bid
fair to be as popular as ever in the new
spring goods.
Over 50,000,000 cans of tomatoes were
canned in this country last year, half OF
the work having been done in Maryland
and Virginia.
California fruit ranches command
high prices. One, of forty acres, has
just been leased to some Chinese for
$3.50 an acre, or 3d. 700 for the whole
place.
The New York Times is of the opin-
ion that wedding presents are made for
show purposes. They swell newspaper
account of wedding to great and graf
flying proportions.
Lebanon county, Pa, has q man AZ
years of age, who never had any hair OIL
teeth. The Philadelphia Press, which
tells the story, is very trustworthy on
most subjects.
A large trade in new American cider
has sprung up between New York and
Liverpool. The English article is in
ferior and brings a less price than the
American.
Two propositions are being considered
to protect the obelisk in Central Park,
New York, from the weather. One is to
place plate glass sheath around it, and
the other to build museum with q
dome for the shaft to stick up in.
The Shenpao, Chinese newspaper,
gives an account of a man thirty-four
years old with thirty-two children-six-
teen pairs of twins. The father is a
poor farmer and the children are sup
ported by their neighbors.
Silver coins reduced in weight by
abrasion are redeemable at their full
face value; but clipped and punched
coins are bought by weight as bullion.
There are few clipped coins still circu-
lating. Let them be retired.
Miles away from the coast in GER
tain part of Texas, high and dry in the
rank prairie grass, lie the remains of q
once gallant ship. The vessel is sup
posed to be of Spanish build, and is
thought to have been driven inland by a
tidal wave. So long has the vessel been
there that there are not even traditions
concerning her.
House lizards have long been known
to be very sensitive to the strains OF
music, but scientific writer says that
it is not due to the sense of hearing, but
to the sensibility of the cutaneous sur
face of the reptile to sound waves, and
that double chord struck with suffi-
cient force upon pianoforte will shock
one to death.
When John Eicholtz died at Urbana,
Ohio, he left behind him the accumula-
tions of forty years. On his farm were
10000 bushels of barley, thousands OF
bushels of corn partly rotted, old
horses that had never known harness,
vehicles with solid wheels cut from logs,
and among the curiosities was an old
pump mounted on wheels like cannon.
California has spring which emits
free sulphuric acid, trace of nitric
acid, chlorine gas and ammonia. The
overpowering stencil which permeates
the circumambient atmosphere is so
potent in resisting close inspection OF
the premises that the exact source OF
this sulphurous conglomeration has not
yet been ascertained. In the opinion OF
the residents thereabouts, hades is not
far distant from that locality.
DIR. Neuber, at the late Congress OF
German Surgeons, spoke highly of the
antiseptic virtue of peat or black earth,
which is filled into bags made of loose
gauze and laid over wounds. The bags
are held in place by bandages of the
same material. There seems to be little
or no necessity to change the dressing.
All secretions are rapidly absorbed by
the earth or turf, and the healing pro-
ceeds very rapidly.
The application of science to the frus-
tration of justice has been remarked in
the case of Tennessee horse-thief.
whose distinguished features were a
"cast' in the right eye and a broad sur
face scar on the left check. A skilful
occulist Strengthened the eye and an
equally skilful surgeon cut out the scar.