The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-30
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interviewers intellectual mosquitoes"
Mrs. Whiteside, the owner of Look
out Mountain, offers it for sale.
Senator Sharon pays per cent. Of
the taxes collected in San Francisco.
Seven new hotels, four with 1000
rooms each, are being built in London.
Agriculture and not the mines is now
the main source of wealth in California.
Philadelphia bankers and merchants
employ more than 1900 private police
men. ~
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge says
the Hudson is the most beautiful river
in the world.
1t takes about eight tons of iron to
make the wheels, axles, bolts, nuts,
&C., Of an ordinary freight car. .l
Eighteen counties in Georgia have
decided by popular vote to abolish
| fences.
! Ben Hogan, the reformed prize
fighter, is holding rcvivals in Portland,
Oregon. s9rSA 8g Llslta.t ..uyI
Beatrice, Neb., has brass band the
members of which all belong to one
family.
General Grant, who is very busy
with his Mexican railways, is learning
Spanish.
Bismarck says of Gladstone: HE is
cOld-blooded man, with healthy
mind"
The farmers of Hartford county,
Md, have 81, 600, 900 invested in can
ming factories and are building more.
Fasting from four to eight days, with
water and lemonade at intervals, is the
latest ''sure" cure for rheumatism.
Andy Johnson's tailor shop sign is
still to be seen on q little old shanty in
Greenville, Tenn.
.Stoddard county, Missouri, claims to
have the oldest bridegroom on record.
He is eighty-seven.
Brazil has 1,514,64S slaves. Of these
$4,000 are the descendants OF free
native Indians.
Last years crop of oranges in Flor
ida was reckoned Mt SO, 900, 900 oranges.
This year it is put at 1000, 900, and
at s. per box is worth $l,80O,000.
Michigan boasts of a man 80 years
old who was never known to say an i'll
word of tellow-man. Then he is not
a musician.-M. Y. Herald.
Elder Uriah Smith, of Battle Creek,
Mich, says the world will come to an
end before the close of the present
century.
A man in Bethel, Conn, gave party
on the one hundred and second ami
versary of his birth, and died the next
day.
New York has put $48, 900 into
building this year, of which $26, 000,-
600 went into flats and first-class tcne-
ments.
Washington is now getting the
asphalt for its streets from an asphalt
lake in the Isle of Trinidad, on the
South American coast. -l
Ex-senator David Davis has not
bought ready-made suit of clothes
since he was a boy. His clothes arc
made in boiler factory.
1t is said that the sum of $4,000 il
annually contributed by American
ocean travellers to British charity insti
buttons.
"Not one-third of the lawyers O
San Francisco" says real estate col
, lector of that city, "arc able to pay
their Office rent" The whole numbel
of lawyers is 897.
Sergeant Jasper, the hero who fig
ures in Revolutionary annals, is to have
. a monument at Savannah. VI TIT
$4,000 required for the work $6,SS'
have been subscribed.
A correspondent of the Buffalo EJ
press informs it that its published list O
pensioners in Erie county contains TIT
names of some who have been deat
i. for years. H
: Deafness is said to be increasing il
. prevalence in the United States. DE
f, fective teeth are largely held RESPONSE
BILE for it, but how is not SATISFACTORY,
explained.
= The United States Senate is q thirsty
; body. From June to June % las
year. as by bills of the Secretary, 400
quarts of Apollinaris water were pur
: chased for it; and Apollinaris waite
was not all.
r Rev. Mr.. Thompson, of Branchburg
| ooihOioOe SOuhvyt ~ ~, 10y
old watch, which his grandfather foun'
in the road near New Brunswick 500
}, after body of British Cavalry ha'
passed. 1t still keeps good time.
|, During the war of 1912 two kegs Q
3 gold coin were sent from Prescott +
/. Kingston, Ont, by stage. The stag
r broke down and the gold was sccrete
T. somewhere near Hog Back Hill. Som
!. people think the coin may be foun
u there still, and many holes have bee
+ dug in search of the missing treasures
John X. French, formerly Sergean,
alarms of the United States Senate
a in his lecture, s.Ten Years Among tn
II Senator's" ranks William Pitt Fesser
den as the greatest member of tha
r. body he ever knew, but says that b
6 went in and out of the Senate Chambe
with less pretension than the man VIII
opened and shut the doors. 7 Z
The King of Siam, who Is only
l. boy of 20 years, has allowed his fingC