The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
eLEAN1Nes.

Statistics show that French women
live, on an average, thirteen years long
er than French men.
Since q tax has been placed on Rock
and Rye, it is now sold under its maiden
name of 'whisky and gum"
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is living
almost the life of recllrse at West
Gloucester, Mass, and working diligent-
~ on a new story.
The furry against the trade dollar in
Eastern cities is subsiding, and that
coin, like the prodigal son, is returning
to its par.
Cincinnati's twelve national banks
have a capital of $500, 900, with sur
plus and undivided profits of S1,265,-
064.
The Patent Office Examiner has de-
clared that, in majority of the details
of the telephone, Mr.. A. G. Bell is the
earliest inventor
In Oregon you can leave home in
summer, to be gone for four months,
without carrying an umbrella or fearing
shower. 1t makes it up during the
winter by raining every day.
Eight of the graduating class of the
University of Virginia, this year, have
been called to professorships in other
colleges of the South.
A cloud has darkened the mind of
Mile. de la Rance, better known as
''Quida." She is, in consequence,
strictly secluded.
A traveller in North Carolina saw near
Waynesville church 28X44 and Is feet
high, with pine steeple, all made from
one tree, and there was enough lumber
left over to fence the church-yard.
A girl at Cape May playfully threw
sand into the eyes of young man who
scrutinized her bathing attire too closely
and there is danger that he will never
look at anything again.
A Washington detective arrested
Boston detective as he stepped from a
train, mistaking him for ''crOok. -
Probably it was not an unnatural mis-
take.
We find this in Washington letter
to the Albany Journal: General Crook
has told me that he had often fought
Indians in obedience to orders, when he
knew they were in the wrong. He is
An enormous SPIDERS web seen re-
Gently in Franconia Valley, N. H.. was
of the geometrical kind, stretched be-
tween two trees. The guys or supports
were fifteen feet long, while the web
was.three feet in circumference.
The price of gas in English and Irish
cities, per 1000 feet is as follows: Dub
lin, 80 cents; Belfast 80 cents; Plymouth,
60 cents; Leeds, A cents; Carlisle, 60
cents; Manchester, Ga cents; Birming-
ham, Sc cents.
Angela Cordelia, q Nevada miner,
claims to be the strongest man in the
world. His bones are all extraordinar-
lily massive, though he weighs but 1873
pounds. He can lift 200 pounds with
one finger.
1t was noticed in q. criminal case re-
Gently tried at Brooklyn that one of the
jurors paid no attention to the evidence.
Investigation disclosed the fact that he
was Frenchman and understood not
word of the English language.
The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times is in
dignant because the convicted Major j.
R.Wasson is allowed to retain his ''love-
ly, dropping mustache" in the Peniten-
tiary, and demands that he be shaved
clean like any thief.
The Austro-Hungarian bill for work.
mems insurance against sickness rend-
ers insurance obligatory on ali manual
laborers, at u cost of II to per cent of
thewages. Employers also pay some
thing.
The boy who pulled the trigger of
pistol while bathing in u Georgia pond
knew the weapon was loaded. hut sup
posed it would not go off under water.
and was astonished when it killed his
companion.
The statement published all over the
country that no patent has been taken
out by negro, is incorrect. A Boston
negro has patents on carpet-beating
machine, and negro woman of the
same city has patent on flat-iron heat
ers.
A Lansingburgh N.Y.) boot and shoe
dealer in closing up his business affairs
for the reason that his progenitors died
at an age which he is fast approaching.
He is sure he will die at the prescribed
age. and is making arrangements ac-
cordingly.
The Omaha belle to whom a seeming
ly valuable diamond brooch was given
had no great confidence in the gallant
donor, and lost no time in taking the
stone to an expert, who pronounced it
worthless. That ended the social career
in Omaha of the -'Count Roscommon."
The American printing house for the
blind, just dedicated at Louisville, the
first building ever erected in the world
for that sole purpose. 1t stands in a
large yard, surrounded with trees, and
is of brick, three stories high, with an
ample basement
They have an annual running race
over in Persia. A lot of men enter their
horses and deposit the entrance fees
with the Shah The race is then run,
after which the Shah takes possession of
the winner, and sticks to all the en-
trance money.
The fine hotels at Saratoga are Op-