The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-06
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made of S00,000 miles of spool silk.
A New Yorker writes that Denver is
far more cosmopolitan than Chicago
Servant girls in Helena, Montana and
Portland, Oregon, get $50 month.
San Francisco has worse record for
divorces than Chicago or St. Louis.
A Dresden artist has made a watch
entirely Of paper, which keeps good
time.
Deer hunting is a favorite sport of
some Of the young ladies of Centerville,
Tenn.
The ground upon which Cincinnati
stands was purchased by j. G. Symmes,
about ninety years ago, for 81 cents per
acre.
There are said to be 1900 convicts
in the Texas penitentiary. OF this
number three-ffths are negroes and
Mexicans.
The chemist Of the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington says that the
soil best adapted for the growth of
sorghum for sugar appears to be sandy
loan.
Miss Belle Cushman Eaton, of Boston,
only II years of age, grand-niece of the
late Charlotte Cushman, has entered the
field as public reader, and is said to
be a success.
Tall, slim men, with spider legs,
should wear close but not tight-fitting
garments. Fat men look best in tight
pantaloons; swells wear stripes, gam
blers plaids.
1t is stated that Nine. Patti will sing
in opera in this country next season,
under the management of Colonel
Mapleson, at salary of $1,000 per
night
Fifty thousand bushels of corn are
used daily in the manufacture of glucose
in the United States. 1t is chiefly used
TO adulterate sugar, syrup, candies and
beer.
An authority says there are $780,
600, 900 invested in the {, ZOO, 900 miles of
fences in the United States, and that
Z they have to be renewed on an average
once in fifteen years.
Complaint is made at Sierra Leone,
Africa, that tobacco imported from the
United States is dishonesty packed and
ton is not according to sample.
The late Marshall Jewell, of Con-
necticut, is to be honored by the peo-
pie of Denver, Col, who have decided
TO name a new park on the outskirts
of that city ''the Marshall Jewell
Park"
From the Duchy of Cornwall, last
wear, the Prince ofWales received sum
of f63,S70, the total receipts of the
Duchy having been f105, 052, of which
f10,530 were a balance from the previ-
GUS year.
Krupp's works, at Essen, Germany,
now employ 439 steam boilers and 456
steam engines, with the aggregate of 18,
500-horse power. There are SO steam
hammers, carrying weights ranging
from 200 pounds to so tons.
A lady in Providence has, among her
elegant articles of bric-a-brac in her par
lor, large carved wooden spoon with
wooden chain attached, hung by the side
of the fireplace. This unique ornament
is over 200 years old.
Servant-girls in Helena, Montana, T.,
and Portland, Oregon, get $4,000 q
month. They might get it in this State
if they could be persuaded to do suf-
ticient work to earn it.-Rochcster DEM
Ccrdt.
William Knight, who died in Loreina,
Ala, recently, was 100 years old, and
had served through the war of 1912. He
leaves l65 children and grandchildren.
Besides these II great many are dead,
some dying from old age.
Simmons, of Manson, Ia, dug q els
tern for his neighbor. Moody. On set
Element there was difference Of Sc. Tho
suit following has been tried five times
in several counties and has accumulated
over $1,000 costs.
A'writer in one of the medical jour
hals says he has found the application
IF strong solution of chronic acid, or
times day, by means of cancels
hair pencil, to be the best and easiest
method for removing warts.
In Lyons, France, the cold-bath meth
cd treating typhoid fever has been
adopted with marked success. In the
civil hospitals the death rate was reduced
from 26 to 9 per cent. and in private
practice to or 2 per cent.
To remove fixed glass shoppers, tap
and then unscrew with this sort of
wrench made of a piece of strong wood:
Have the wood 3.5 inches long and inch
in breadth and depth, with piece NOR
tised out large enough to admit the fiat
part of the glass stopper.
Competition between the two gas
companies of Baltimore has brought
the price of gas down to 81 per thou
sand, and it is believed by some that
they will be offering it before long at
rs cents. throwing in "beautiful chro-
mo-"
Rattlesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts and slippers are
also made of the same material, the rat
ties serving as ornaments thereupon,
instead of bows or tasseIs. Northern
visitors come home bearing numbers of
these trophies of their sojourn.
Bismarck, it is said, was much affect
ed by the news Of Prince Gortschakoff's
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