The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-05
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Inc prcScHL DOpuittiOu Oh mOntdHd
is estimated at $4,000.
There is not native Texan in either
branch of Congress, it is said.
A mouse in Montreal munched
matches No insurance.
A Muscatine (Iowa) schoolboy has
gone insane from sitting up nights try
ing to find the streams mentioned in
the River and Harbor bill.
1t is said that there is on foot in New
York an effort to provide by subscrip-
ton a statue of Washington Irving for
Central Park adornment.
A Keokuk bulldog sprang at wood
en- representation of q beefs head i'm
front of a butcher-shop the other day,
and broke three of his teeth trying to
hold on to the nose.
A New York pianomaker says that if
the price of first-class piano was put
down to 1925 no one would buy. Three
fifths of the piano buyers like to brag of
the cost price.
The dishonest milk dealers of Gotham
are filed with terror because Recorder
Smyth sentenced two of their number
to three months each in the penitentiary
for selling adu!terated milk.
Messenger boys are now regularly
employed by private families on Fifth
avenue, New York and wear uniform
of kind that makes them rs conspicu-
GUS rs circus clown.
The same corporation supplies gas to
Cincinnati and Newport, KY, from one
establishment, hut charges the larger
city $1.43 per 1000 cubic feet and the
smaller town $l.20.
The married state evidently was not
pleasing to Il young man in Montreal.
After a few weeks of experience he
drowned himself by holding his head
under water.
Recently the citizens of Fair Play,
Col, decided that they ought to do
something to observe the Sabbath. So
hereafter they will not shoot on Sunday,
except in self-defencc, or when stran-
ger impudently refuses drink.
An Alexandria, Va, man made two
attempts, while drunk, to commit sui
eide by throwing himself before rail
road trains. but was both times pre-
vented. He was fined next day ''for
obstrucling railroad trains"
A visitor to u haby-show down in
Maine thus sums up his conclusions:
'For pure unauthorized foolishness
about baby. father can outfooiish
all the rest of the family-yes, and l
will throw in the grandmother on the
mothers side, too"
Iron armor plates faced with steel
will very probably be adopted by the
French Government for new men-of-
war. The steel ressts penetration, and
the iron backing gives the desired tn
acity. Iron and STEEL combined make
strong resistance to projectiles.
The convicts in the prison at Dart
moor, England, were found to have
made keys of bones taken from their
food. They were to have revolted I'M
der the leadership of one ofthrir number,
who had bone key that would unlock
any door in the tiers of cells.
There is on trial in Montreal most
peculiar suit for divorce. The plaintiff
is the wife, u most exemplary woman,
whose insanity has led her to think that
the faithlessness which she cOnfesses
has IN existence. 1t is known that the
fancy is entirely illusory.
A few days ago the State Librarian of
Minnesota was surprised at st. Pau by
receiving ffty-one bags, weighing sew
eral thousand pounds, filled with Con-
gressiOnal documents dating back to
1920, and intended us contribution to
repair the loss by the late fire.
A Montreal cabby, who was the
proud father of a pretty daughter, re-
fused certain young man admission
to the house. The certain young man
acquiesced in the decision, but, when he
soon thereafter got 'full," he stepped
into the said proud fathers vehicle as
it stood by the highway. and command
ed to be driven to the house of his ina
morata. The cabman refused to start,
and the certain young man had him ar
rested for refusing load. An interest
ing law suit is expected.
The young people of Connersville,
Ind, wondered how Professor Miner
could afford to give twenty dancing less
sons for So. and class of 140 was
quickly formed. They all paid the fee
in advance, got one hour of instruction
in the waltz step, and never saw Miners
again.
The New York saloonkeeper who was
pleased with his own cunning displayed
in chalking upon his ice-box the words
Frank Stucke is SIC beat" was af-
terward finally convinced that he was
not so funny after all when justice
placed him under heavy bonds for ut
tering a criminal libel.
Many of the leading mercantile men
of London are among the most active
and interested supporters of scientific
societies. The Stock Exchange and
Lloyds include enthusiastic botanists,
scientific agriculturalists, etc. Some
years ago the first Hebrew scholar in
London WAS asserted to be a retail
tradesman. ..., ...,r.
The proprietor of the Royal Opera
House, Toronto, MIR. James French
has forwarded two barrels of apples To