The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-09

nom whom he stole 80 cents.
The boss pension agent has turned
up ia Natchez. He secured q negro
widow q pension of 81 900, and handed
over $50, taking the remaining $3.50
for his fee. -sst7l
Il il said that FHpper. the negro
West Pointer. who was cashiered Tor
alleged stealing, and who joined the
Mexican army. Is now a brigadier gem
eral In that service. g, ~ *
The pupils in Philadelphia institu-
ton for feeble minded children gave q
performance of ..Pinafore," and, It is
said, proved equal to the require
inents. ~
The greater part of cargo of sound
cocoanuts shipped from the West Indies
were found, upon arrival ut Philadel-
phis, TO be worthless. Rats had gnaw-
ed out the eyes, drank the milk. and
thus ruined the meat of Che nut.
OF the large number OF persons
whose names appear in the Philadel-
phia, Directory, fifteen are Large, six
Bigger. fifty-five Small, and one hun
dred and thirty-two Little, but there
are only two Littleboys.
It struck Colorado Springs CORE
spcndent of the Springfield Republican
as little singular that the man who
described the place as "a paradise for
invalids' was making living by bury
ing the invalids who died there.
Railway travelling is safer in Norway
and Sweden than elsewhere in Europe,
year often passing without a single
IN al r. 4
and France one is killed out of every
1900. 900 passengers. Spain and
America have the worst record.
An original idea is that of the Mis-
souri, apiarist, who took carload of
hived bees to Florida. He expects
them to make honey all winter, and
hopes to return TO his Missouri home in
the spring at least $1,000 richer than
he was
Lord Melbourne, on being pressed to
do something for q journalist. on the
ground that he always supported his
lordship when in the right. retorted:
That's just when don want his help.
Give me fellow who will stick by me
when am in the wrong"
An Ohio editor who is down among
the orange groves of Florida, describing
his visit to one of them, says that zap
petite seemed to feed upon inexhausti-
bic supplies, and the sweet succulence
of the golden bulbs spurted in shining
sprays from pressing lips pouting with
PUPPY fragrance.
Ten years ago, George a. Gordon,
nineteen years of age, went from n lit
tie town in Maine to learn u trade in
Boston. Somehow or other he was in
duced To take to the ministry, studied
aud ia 1875 graduated and begun to
preach. He has just accepted an S.
000-a-year-a call from the
famous Old South Church, of Boston.
Awestern cattle-breeder reports that
the greatest profit is made in the first
wear OF an animals growth. This is in
creased, but in less proportion the sec
ond year. If kept year longer not
only is there no profit, but all the clear
gain of the second year is wasted. This
is striking commentary, ON the adyan-
tagc of early maturity. aAlc AAA
A four-valve speculum has just been
found in Pompeii, where two-y;ilye and
three valve specula had been before dis
covered. The last of these ingenious
instruments for looking into orifices of
the body in surgery is said to be of u
construction SO uniform and well pro-
portioncd, admitting the expansion of
valves, Us to be superior to modern con-
struction.
The Rev. X. w. Hill, who has been in
Alaska, draws a gloomy picture of the
intemperancc of the natives. The In
dians will give away wife and children"
he says, '.to obtain liquor, and their
carousals are so fierce and reckless that
murder and suicides are frequent results.
He believes that il the progress Of ruin
10 not stayed the end of the Alaska In-
dian is not far of.
A woman who has been in the
Georgia penitentiary for eighteen years
on life sentence, is to be released by
Governor AleclS Stephens. He would
pardon her il he knew what to pardon,
but the fact is that nobody knows what
she is in there for. There is no record
" her misdeeds on the prison register,
and the woman herself does not know
why she is imprisoned.
Several broad columns of large type
with conspicuous head lines were re-
Gently devoted by the Pail Mall Gazette
to an account of the Mollic Maguires OF
Pennsylvania, being for the most part II
narrative based upon Mr.. Devices book
Old and getting to be forgotten rs this
story Is here, IL was never before made
fully known in England, and the OBJ
ject for making it fully known now Is
declared TO be .'its bearing on the
canos who arc now again ut work in
Dublin" which is Every evident and en-
tremely interesting"
The importation of Sumatran tobacco
into the United States has increased
from SO pounds in 1880 to 7S3, 76S
pounds in 1882. The Oriental kind is
used exclusively for wrappers, and for
that purpose brings very much higher
price than any native sort. The tobac-
co-growers in this country, especially
those of the Connecticut valley, who
feel the competition most keenly, are
greatly disturbed by the rapid increase
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