Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Twenty thousand Cinnamon are


Twenty thousand Cinnamon are to
be brought to Brazil at cost of $40 a
head. They are to be indentured for
Ave years as laborers, and will be paid
80 cents per day, out of which they
will have to feed and clothe them
selves.
The climate of Siberia is popularity
supposed to be very sefer5. At Phila-
delphia, however, the Rev. Sheldon
Jackson, who lived in Siberia five
years, said in lecture: mo words can
be strong enough to express the charm
of this delightful land, where a eli
mate softer than that of the north of
England insures at all times of the
year full enjoyment of all the lowell
ness around you. In forty years." he
added, "the mercury has been but
twice below zero"
Mr.. Sheridan, humane electrician,
has invented an apparatus for execut-
ing criminals which is designed to take
the place of the clumsy but somewhat
eilicacious gallows. 1t is simply a
chair, properly insulated and connected
with wires to a convenient dynamo
electric battery. The victim is seated
in the chair, a conne elton is made with
the spinal cord, knob is touched, and
lie is knocked out gracefully as with a
bolt of lightning. Mr.. Sheridan has
made the government present of his
invention, and he hopes by it's intro
duction to strip public executions of
their popular horror. He will find it
an uphill business to supplant the
primitive gallows.
Jacob Becker, laborer living in
Cincinnati, was given powerful
emetic to ease a pain in his stomach, and
began vomiting, and did not stop until
a snake eighteen inches long, and one
large and five small lizards, and sack
containing a number of eggs were
brought up to light of day. The af-
fair caused considerable Of excitement
in the neighborhood, and when Becker
was questioned he said that che had
not been well' for eighteen years-in
fact, since one day while wandering in
the woods near Frankweiler, Germany,
he took drink of water from a way
side pool, at which time it is probable
he acquired the undesired geological
collection.
Several years ago, according to the
Detroit Ne,os, Miss Cynthia E. Cleve-
land was an efficient dress-maker at
Pontiac. She got interested in the
temperance cause and became one of
the most efficient workers in Michigan,
and as such was favorably known
throughout the state. Two or three
years ago she went to Dakota, where
she likewise became ffnedsin the anti
beer and anti-whisky cause, becoming
president Of the State women's Chris
tian temperance union. Less than ;
year ago she was admitted to the bar
being the first lady to enjoy that higl
distinction in Dakota. A short tim,
ago she had her first case in court, and
stranger than fiction, it was woman
on trial for selling liquor without a Ii
cense-and she won her case.
1t is estimated that the browning O
the Gear Alexander at Moscow cost tn
impoverished people of Russia some
thing like $10,O00,000 The countr,
is virtually bankrupt, and new issu
of treasury bills will be necessary t
meet this foolish expenditure. TIL
Russian crown is only worth $500
600, and it probably ce,il9a't be pawne
for half that sum. The big Brookly
bridge only cost 100000, and it wi
be standing monument to the geniu
and enterprise of man when the d.
scendants of the Romanoffs are war
dering beggars. 1t would have bee
better if the car had contracted t
have his coronation job performed b
professional GROWERS for somethin
like $4,000, and spent the remainder {
the 100000 for a new bridge or
railway.
The continued disappearance of tn
sardines, once so abundant on the coas
of Brittany, has become serious CT
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