The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-15


a book urging women to- become
plumbers.
Professional courtesy is nice thing
to see. A Plttsburg poet speaks OF
zone Dante"
The stone of which the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris is composed is fast
crumbling away. 81 q. N
| Minnesota has no less than 1000
lakes, which take up over 2.700, 900
ceres of territory. hI
More than 60 per cent of the adult
male population of New Mexico can
neither read or write. 49,, 49,.
A Washington. correspondents claims
that much of the cold tea drankat the
Capitol is the gift of the whisky men.
Foggy London, an English maya
zine fears. will, in few years, become
ga grimy Chicago or a stuffy New
York"
In some parts of Africa brides on
their wedding day have their front
teeth extracted and their finger nails
cut very close.
A Northern Texas editor complains
that the number of marriages is ridi-
the time squandered in buggy riding.
A story is told of lawyer in Athens.
Georgia, who was employed to defend
in a suit against marrow. gauge rail-
road, and who took the road as his fee.
Pittsburg, Pa, has 1880 manufact-
uring establishments, with an aggre-
gate capital of $1O6. 600, 600, employing
nearly sc, 600 persons. The annual
product is valued at STAG, 100000
The first church erected on American
soil is still used as a place of divine
worship. It is situated just outside of
the City of Mexico, and was built by
Cortez during his second visit to that
coast. "a u
Having lost her singing voice Aimee
will next season come to America 10
act in dramas. when can't speak"
she lately said. "Ill 60 into panto-
mime. There's nothing like adapting
ones self to circumstances.
| The stream of German emigration is
again rising, the total number of those
who left the Fathcrland for America in
the first quarter of this year having
been 90, 1872, as compared with %, POI
! in the same period of 1883.
Pine trees in some portions of North
Carolina are dying in large numbers,
it is supposed from injuries inflicted by
the 'bore worm," or .'sawyers," which
played havoc with the pines In that
state about thirty years ago. Their
ravages are not confined to the old
trees, the young ones dying just as
rapidly and numerously.
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans. once
so celebrated as a chess-player, is only
forty-five years old, but Is q mental
wreck. He goes up and down the
streets of New Orleans, always neatly
and stylishly dressed, muttering incO-
herently to himself. His insanity re-
suits from the loss of lawsuit.
Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant says she
has lived on army rations once and can
do so again and will. This is nobly
said by very bravo little one, but we
wish her cause were better one. Col.
Fred Grant might take pattern after
his wife with excellent results, and he
certainly ought not to give up in de-
spair with such help-matc.
Among the historical treasures sold
with the personal property of the late
Mrs. Smith, the housekeeper of
Thaddeus Stevens, was gold snuff
box, bearing the following Inscription:
ITO the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, from
Colorado Territory. When old Thad
takes snuff Colorado will sneeze. This
box is made of Pixies Peak gold"
The latest craze among collectors is
that of saving breakfast rolls of ladies
of note, actresses, and for that matter
also of distinguished men. from which
rolls q bite has previously been taken
and the remnant of which is then
ticketed by the collector in this wise:
This roll was bitten into by Miss So
and-So on June II, 1884, while taking
her coffee. e ~, sa a Nkse II
The first bag of flour eyer made of
California wheat and exhibited at q
public fair was the one made by John
M. Horner, of Horner's mills, at Union
City, Alvarado, in 1850, and shown at
fair in the Music Hall, San Francisco,
in that year, and to which was awarded
the highest premium of $50. That bag
of flour is now on exhibition at the
rooms of the California Farmer in San
Francisco. I
LII. NULL, WIN has JUST icbuiuou W
Berlin from India, where he has dis
covered the cholera germ, is described
as of medium height, very thin, with q
serious, spirituelle students face. His
beard is brown, but his hair is becom-
ing gray, and this, together with his
glasses, makes him seem to be older
than forty years. There are those who
declare that the discovery may make
Koch rs famous as Jenner or Harvey.
The oldest travelling man in the
world was visiting in this city the other
day, and his name is ID. G. Smith, of
Little Rock, Arkansas. He is now 81
years of age, and has been on the road
since 1916, and has visited in that time
every land and climate to which civil
lized man has ever gone and got back.
His business is painting and repairing
of tin roofs, and he was here in this
city in 1869 and took contracts in
Council Bluffs and Omaha. He still
looks hale and hearty, and bids fair to