The Dickinson press., 1883-10-20

dered caustic again by contact with COM
bustible gases from the separate genera
tor; thus the same lime acts continuous
ly without removal from the chamber.
General Notes of Interest.
In the Chinese theater at San Fran
cisco the members of the orchestra sit in
Il row on the stage, smoking their pipes,
and keeping up a most awful discord.
The "supe" sits at their head like an
''end man" in a minstrel band, in his
check shirt, and occasionally gets up and
pulls OFT or pats on some piece oftoggery
for an actor, or moves Il chair from one
place to another, and then resumes his
pipe and his cross-legged position as an
end man.
The Baltimore Day says: "There is
no harm in keeping men at work in
Druid Hill Park on Sundays exhibiting
camels to visitors, but, according to the
president of the board, Watering the
roads on that day would deprive work
ingmen Of their needed rest"
Miss Blanche Gray, weight 5l7 pounds,
the New YORK Bowery Queen of fatness,
WIN uluIIlCu MIs bdSlu MUSES., ayGO
seventeen years, is said to be gaining
ut this rate, Moses may love l LII pounds
of a wife.
Foreign capitalists have Just bought a
large tract of timber land in southeast
ern Arkansas said to contain AGO, OOO. 900
feet of timber.
A party of Minnesota young women
have gone to the Argentine Republic to
teach school, and they write back that
their first impressions are pleasant.
The Pittsburg Dispatch hopes that the
use of natural gas for fuel. and of smoke
| consumers, will, in the course of five or
ten years make that city one of the most
pleasant places of residence in this
country.
The little village of Annswille on the
Hudson has derived its existence for
nearly half century from the AIMS
vile wire mills, which employed up
ward of 400 men at good wages. Re-
Gently the wire mills were destroyed by
fire, and threw out OF employment all
the working population OF the village,
The proprietor of the wire mills decid-
ed not to rebuild, and last week leased
Sharp's rifle works, at Bridgeport, for
ten years where they will in future carry
on their business. AS result the store
keepers of Annsville have been forced
to close up, and the village is rapidly
becoming depopulated. A more DESC
lac looking place can hardly be imag-
ined.
Many of the water distributing pipes
in Philadelphia are reported fouled
with rust.
A negro met his death in Clark Coun-
ty, Georgia, by licking molasses from a
rock, the gravel getting down his throat,
The police of Cambridge, Mass, were
called recently to save a man who was
being murdered by his wife, and on re-
pairing to the place of the butchering
found a new married couple, where the
young wife was spanking her husband
with various kitchen utensils, intending
the pancake turner, for coming home
drunk.
Mrs. Wells, near Utica. N. Y. says
she never feels better than after a days
piowing in the field.
"Native" oysters are selling now in
London for a dollar a dozen, and are
poor at that price.
An iron steamboat for the revenue
service was built in sixty daysin Buffalo.
The vicar of st. Paul's Church, South
London, is very indignant because a
wealthy miller of the interior who had
become converted to cold water princi-
Piles destroyed all the winesin his cellar,
including $50 bottles of "fne old port"
The vicar, in a letter to a blue ribbon
friend, remarks: II could have told you
of a parish of 5000 poor, where several
invalids are languishing, to whom a cou-
pie of glasses of such wine daily would
mean life. and in come cases a mothers
life. AS for yourself, l leave you to your
ecstatic dream; but if there should be
any more wealthy millers' or others
anxious to relieve themselves of a few
dozen, or even a few bottles, of fine old
port or other wine | shall be thankfully
happy to receive the same for my many
sick; and if its medical administration be
a sin, | am quite prepared to be a sim
ner."
Nobody has yet ventured to explain
why there is no entrance to the new
Philadelphia postofice on Chestnut
street, but meantime it has been discov-
cred that there is none on Marketstreet,
and there is coming to be much wonder
expressed that the architect did not for
get TO put al entrance on Ninth street.
There is, however, a capricious rear exit
to a neighboring restaurant, which is ev-
idence that the architect wa not entire.
ly out of his mind when he made his
plans.-Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer.