The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-09
GLEANINGS.

Jersey City fire department lost his eye
sight by coming in contact with some
red hot telegraph wires.
There are three negro preachers in
the Henderson, XIV. county jail. One is
charged with adultery, one with burg
larry and one with grand larceny.
A Camden, N. j. man put an iron
weight on his cows TAIL 1t was not
heavy enough to keep the tail down.
but it broke his jaw when she reached
for n fly.
With the exception of n few. years,
Madagascar's rulers since 1928 have
been women. A niece of the late Queen
has just succeeded her to the throne,
making fifth Queen since that year, ond
the fourth in an unbroken line.
Joseph Reefe, n farmer living near
st. Louis, has complained to the author
tiles that an invisible wagon and
team ratified up to his gate in the even
ing. He wishes to have the spirits ar
rested who are thus annoying him.
The Philadelphia patent medicine
man who agreed to pay $3.50 to have an
advertisement of his nostrum painted on
the great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt,
now refuses to settle with the man who
did the job, and law suit will be the
result.
Relatives of Martin Luther are being
discovered in great numbers. Among
the earliest found are q book-keeper in
circulating library, policeman, and
registrar in the Ministry of Public
works, all in Berlin. They are direct
descendants of the Reformer's younger
brother, Jacob. Some descendants of
Martin Luther's youngest daughter,
Margaretha, are living in Denmark,
and bear the name of Wagner.
A respectable colored man in Wind
sor, Ont, has raised q commotion
among the equally respectable white
people of that conservative town by in
sisting on sending his child to the white
school instead of to the colored school.
The dispute has been referred to the
Canadian Minister of Education, and
the father meanwhile threatens legal
action against the school trustees to
compel them to admit the child.
A veterinary surgeon says the cutting
away of frogs of the feet of the horse
in shoeing should never be permitted.
Nature has placed them there for USE
full purpose. They are elastic and give
the animal light, springy step. Be-
sides they aid the horse very materially
in keeping his footingo on icy roads. The
frog should be permitted to remain in
tact, rs it prevents many defects and
diseases of the foot incident to use on
hard roads.
A story is told of a certain political
caucus in Maine which was attended
by only two persons, Hannibal Hamlin,
and one other. Mr.. Hamlin elected
the other man chairman and proceeded
to transact the business in hand. But
fed that they were elected at large
and respectable caucus of the Repub-
licans Of, because, as Mr.. Hamlin
explained to the troubled chairman,
you are large and l am respectable.
Some of the tradesmen of Indianapo-
lis are very cute. A tag on pair of
boots in front of an establishment on
South Illinois street reads: 1925, not
each" The strange device was only
clear after the contemporaneous histo-
ry of mercantile life on that thorough
fare was learned. A rival of the above
house advertises boots at 81, %. A Gus
toner makes n purchase and the guile
full shop keeper demands S2,50-$1, 20
for each boot.
The engineer of q train running be-
tween Norristown and Philadelphia few
nights ago was Mortified to see just in
front of the engine the body of man
lying on the ends of the ties outside of,
and parallel with the rails. The train
apparently passed over him before it
could be stopped. But on going back
to find his mangled body the engineer
found him entirely unframed and sound
asleep. On being awakened and told
of his narrow escape from death he ex-
hibited no emotion but grumbled at be-
ing disturbed. The engine must have
passed within one or two inches of his
body.
The country has been badly imposed
upon by alleged imitation of the style
of dress of the English nobility and
gentry. An American who desires to
look like real English lord, will do
well TO follow these directions: Let
him get friend two sizes larger than
himself to order three suits of tweed of
different colors: let the large man wear
them till they bag. Then let the small
man put on the coat of one suit, the
vest of another, the trousers of third
and with silk bandana for a necktie
n ruffled plug hat, red face, q wall
eye and big stick, he will look as IL
he had come over to join the Northern
Pacific excursion.
An officer of school in Boston for
the blind says that sightless persons
may become the most expert piano tun-.
ers. Through its constant exercise the
faculty for hearing becomes SO acute
that intervals in the scale of sounds,
which are so slight as to be unnoticed
by other persons, are readily detected
by the blind. The slightest imperfec-
ton in unisons is discord to them.
Their knowledge Of the mechanism Of
pianos IL obtained through the use Of
models and the dissection of old instru-