The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-24
GLEANINGS.

One seasons bearing of an apple tree
at Fauquier, Va, has made forty-gal-
Ion barrel of brandy.
A circus billboard at Bowling Green,
KY, fell and killed man, and the jury
has assessed $4,000 damages.
Nearly one hundred lady teachers in
Philadelphia entered the matrimonial
state this summer.
There are about 10000 Christian In
dians in the United States, and one
! half of these are Baptists.
Chicago is spoken of as The Mush-
room City OF the Lakes" yet it is about
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
its incorporation as city. How old
must city be to get by the mushroom
charge, pray?.-Bq6alo Express.
Cucumbers, according to M. Deliee,
caterer of the New York Club, should
! be peeled and put to soak in ice-salt
water at least an hour before served.
The salt extracts the poison and the ice
renders them brittle and easier to be
digested.
A telegraphic cable to be laid between
Cadiz and the Canary Islands is now in
process of manufacture by an English
firm. The Spanish government has Or
dered the work, which is expected to
be finished this Autumn. The length
of the cable is about one thousand
miles.
II. H. Cole. of Sandy Creek, Oswego
county, N. Y, has invented flying
machine by means of which, he feels
sure, man can fly as nicely as bird.
The wings are made of the lightest kind
of muslin, and are fastened to the body
near the hips, and extend ten feet each
way from the body.
4 few years ago two of the bellies of
Newport were the twin daughters of
Maturin Livingstone, of New York.
One of them married an English lord.
The other is the wife of son of ID. o.
Mills, the millionaire banker of New
York, and she has recently presented
him with pair of twins.
A little old lady of Davenport, Iowa,
Mrs. Mary Kenny, is ITO years of age.
and walks two miles to church once q
month. Her hearing and eyesight are
good, and her family expect her to live
many years longer. She is a native of
County Mayo, Ireland, and came to
this country forty years ago.
The Kaw Indians in the Indian Ter
ritory are disappearing with strange ra-
pidity. There were fully ten thousand
of them in 1870, and the tribe was not
ed for the physical power and warlike
disposition of the men, but since then
the smallpox and other malignant dis
eases have done the most deadly work.
1t is said that only about three hundred
now remain, and these are diseased and
likely soon to die.
The square pianoforte appears to be
doomed. In Germany and other Euro
pean countries it is seldom seen, and in
America its place is being rapidly taken
by the upright, 'pianino," as the Ger
mans more POLITICALLY call it. One of the
leading piano firms in New York re-
Gently announced that it had eliminated
all styles of squares from its catalogue,
and would henceforth manufacture on
ly uprigsis and grands.
An exchange says: ''Give your wife
a vacation" There is no doubt that
she needs one as much as man.
| While he can throw aside his work at
the expiration of office hours, her work
is never DONE She lives in the midst
of it constantly. There being no sur
cease from cares and anxieties, it is no
wonder that she gets nervous, and would
fain fly to the uttermost parts of the
land and sea. When she feels in that
way, it is certainly time to give her n
vacation.
A Philadelphia bill-printer relates
this anecdote of Sothern: "A lady in
his company who played very minor
part gave herself an extraordinary
amount of airs at rehearsal. Sothern
came here and ordered bill to be
printed with the lady's name starred
in large type, supported by the follow
ing ladies and gentlemen and then fol-
lowed the names of the company, end
ing up with Sothcrn's in the smallest
type of all. The bill was hung up i'm
the theater. and the young lady's pride
came down several pegs.
A quack in Erie tells those who stop
at his stand on street corner that il a
person affected with incipient consump-
ton blows through glass tube into
water 1t will at once turn milky, and
invites them TO make the trial. As the