The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-20
NJ. G. CAMPBELL

The diam1 ii ~ ".'~pi I,tazl were first
opened IN i7&1. IL Is estimated tnat since
that time tary have produced at least
two tons OF diamonds.
Almost within sight of the Court
House at Monticello, Fla. there are 800
acres in watermelons and ninety acres
in potatoes, which crops are expected
to realize $4,000 for their producers.
When the Tennessee papers sent in
their bills for advertising, according TO
the published rates. the state authorities
cut down the charges fifty per cent.
This was ataste of the sweets of repudia-
ton.
The longest word in the English Ian
guage is onorificabilitudinity, which
has eleven syllables. 1t is appropriate
to Congressman and such digntaries,
since it signifies the state of being hon
orable.
The free libraries recently established
in every reimbursement of Paris had a
total issue last year of 1868, 900 volumes.
But of this total no less than 100000
were fiction, 10000 poetry and $4,000
history or science.
The subscriptions raised in Great Bri-
tain after calamities are often astonish-
ingly large. That for the relief of the
families of the 167 fishermen who per-
ished in 1882, off Eyemouth, amounts to
over $250,000.
Queen Victoria's Park estate on the
Harrow Road has 2,17S comfortable
houses to let to workmen, laborers and
railway men. On the Shaftesbury es-
tate are 1900 dwelling houses, rented.
On an average, six and half persons
live in one house.
Only eight insane asylums had been
built in the United States in 1904, be-
ing state institutions; by 1910, sixteen
were built; by 1850, twenty-five; 1860,
forty-four; and by 1880, ninety, of which
sixty-six are supported wholly Or in part
by state aid.
The sword of Hampden, who was kill.
ed while waving it to cheer his men for
a charge against Prince Rupert, has re-
Gently been sold at auction for EGO. 1t
is rapier of steel, with cross hilt and
scroll guard, and is thirty-eight inches
long from the hand plate.
Miss Belle Bryan, of Lafayette. Ind,
who had One-quarter of her skull torn
out in sleighing accident last winter,
is in fair way to recover, although she
lost more than cupful of brains. Her
mind is clear and she suffers but little
pain.
Out on Texas prairie, several miles
from the coast, lies the remains of a
Spanish-built ship. No one appears to
know anything of its history, as it was
there before the ''oldest inhabitant. 1t
is supposed, however, to have been car
ried there by tidal wave.
The cultivation of the olive in Cali
fornia promises to be great success
The trees begin bearing in three years,
and continue to yield for centuries.
Some of the olive trees are already eight
years old, and produce $50 bushels of
fruit to the acre, representing Sl,25O in
oil.
Loo Chin Coon, the famous Chinese
actor, was asked what he thought of the
Chinese drama in America. His eyes
took on dreamy, far away look, as If
he were thinking of other days in the
Flowery Kingdom. Then he said with
great emotion: "No." mo what?"
"No sable.
At the railroad station in West Corn
wall, N. Y, the travellers were stupe-
fed ut seeinga young woman attempt
the difficult feat of entering the car
through the window. She had never
before seen q railroad train, having liv-
ed In the inland country, and said she
thought that was the regular method OF
ingress.
A young lady of Lincoln, Neb., has
sued well-to-do voung man from the