Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-03-20
Odds and Ends.

lIeu III DoSiOl.
Chicago las 2l,000,0O0 bushels of
grain in store.
The sulphur beds of Utah embrace
several million acres.
Baltimore boasts of Il debt of thirty
eight million dollars.
There are 5000 homeless and desti-
tute chiidI ell in Chicago.
1t takes $50 bushels of potatoes to
make a ton Of starch.
Germany is going in heavily for beet
root sugar culture.
Many New England cotton mills are
running on half time.
Two men were attacked by a mob in
Spain for selling Bibles.
London Bible societies gave away A.
9S9,66O bibles last year.
Tallulah, Ga, has two women deputy
reyenue collectors.
Chicago is making an effort to stay
the tide of divorce seekers.
Gen. HerRimer is to have mOnu-
ments sat Oriskany, n. Y.
Pickpockets are said to infest every
railroad town in Mississippi.
A statute of Garfield has been ordered
at Berlin, for San Francisco.
Not one Of the six Congressman from
California was born in the state.
Niagara hackmen haved formed ar
association for self.protection.
Indiana pays her ministers over a
million dollars a year in salaries.
Chinese laundr"men in San Francis
co have organized Labor union.
A blast in 4 quarry near Bodie. Cal,
uncovered five pelilied eggs.
Forty-three English yachts are now
cruising in the Mediterranean.
\ colony of German farmers are on
their way to southern California.
A Massachusetts baby has twelve
toes, ten fingers and two thumbs.
Second Adyentists say the world will
end on the 4th of November.
There are 10000 members of the
Methodist church in South Africa.
Over 1900 men are employed in the
ScrametO River salmon fisheries.
The output of the Michigan ircn
mines last year was , 2.300,0 tons.
New Hampshire has 9S surviving
veterans of the war of 1912.
In four years 100000 900 haev been
spent on the new railroads in the south.
Four hundred and fifty-two railroad
trains leave Boston every week day.
One person i'll every 900 of the pop
ulation of New FORK State is blind.
The Ohio breeders of Jersey cattle
say their herds are worth 81 100000.
There are a million people in Great
Britain who receive charitable relief.
There is great distress among the
Chinese laborers in British Columbia.
At Jonkoping, Sweden, is the oldest
and largest matchfactory in the world.
China now manufactures firearms Of
all kinds and superior workmanship.
Teachers of French in England have
organized society far mutdl protec-
ton.
There are places in New York where
you can get stale beer for cent glass.
The wooden boxes that bring oranges
form Florida are manufactured in
Name.
The manufacture of salt in Michigan
is one of the most important industries
here.
If you would not have affliction visit
you twice, listen at once to what it
teaches.
Milwaukee has more saloons in pro-
portion to population than any other in
the country.
Horses and cattle west of Medina riy-
er, Texas, are dying by hundreds for
want OF grass.
Long Island farmers are forming Yig-
lance committees for prosecuting thiev-
i:g tramps.
The spruce trees in Vermont have
been attacked 10y mysterious disease
which is destroying them.
The Detroit Free Press says that
four-ffths of the female hired help i'll
that city came from Canada,
A Lady Of Havana, H., though now
ninety years of age, has worked 10000
yards of lace in the last two years.