The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-28
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Hereafter, in France, when number
of stamps are to be affixed on letter,
they must not be placed close together,
but with space between them. The
reason given for this is that, if q con-
siderable portion of the envelope is COW
cred with stamps, it is easy for dis
honest person to remove them, open
the envelope under them, abstract the
contents of the letter, and paste them
on again without being discovered. II
is said that n great many bank notes
have been stolen out of letters in this
way.
The eight Arabs who landed in New
York last March pcnnilcss, but laden
with beads and crosses made from the
wood from the Mount of Olives, are
now about to return TO their native
land rich enough to buy camels and be-
come merchants, u financial condition
which they could never have hoped to
attain at home. They intend to start
M agency to send out shiploads OF
Arabs next spring.
Gertrude Donald. sixtecn-year-old
school girl of Alliance, Ohio, was shot
and instantly killed by q peculiar acct
dent. While u wagon load of house,
hold goods was passing through the
street n drawer in one of the bureaus
slid out and off the cart. II so happen
ed that loaded pistol was in it, and
the force of the fall to the ground dis
charged it. Singularly, the ball struck
Miss Donald in the back and killed her
almost instantly. She lived only long
enough to say, 80, I'm shot"
When Field Marshal Won Moltke was
recently staying at Ragatz two young
Frenchmen inhabited an adjoining
room, and, learning who their neighbor
was, proceeded to annoy him with I'M
earthly noises at night. On the illus
trious soldier demonstrating with them,
they remarked that che might win
campaigns, but he could not attack
them in their own rooms, and that if he
did not like French music he had bet
ter change his quarters" This, with a
quiet dignity, and without further re-
monstrance, he did.
In 1927 Charles Babbage superin-
tended the printing of a set of trigo-
nometrical tables for the ordnance sur
vey of England and Ireland. Only
thirty copies were printed. The ia
bles contained six millions of figures.
They were prepared and corrected with
the utmost care, and when completed
were hung up in the hall at Cambridge
University and reward offered to any
one who could find an inaccuracy.
Since their first issue in 1927 no error
has been discovered, and it may rea-
sonably be concluded that they are alb
solutcly correct.
In Washington they tell that John
Mccullough once, when playing there,
went out TO the hotel at Cabin Johns
Bridge for dinner, and thoughtlessly
tarriod there until quarterpast seven,
when, for the first time, he remembered
that he must appear on Ford's stage as
Spartacus at 8: 20 precisely! And he
was fourteen miles away from that
stage. 1t took five minutes to get the
swiftest horse at the hotel harnessed to
n light wagon, and there remained just
IN hour for the drive and to dress in.
Mr.. Mccullough came on the stage on
" five minutes late. and never played
Spartacus better in his life than then.
Most people knew that we owe the
Chinese some of our showiest flowers
tho aster, the chrysanthemum, the
China pink, the camelia. the bcgonia,
Lord Mccartney hortensia ca kind of
hydrangea), etc.-but few are aware
that the Guernsey lily, thatrare beauty,
which exaggerates the crocus and
snowdrop habit of putting forth its
flowers before its leaves, halls from the
Flowery Land. An English ship, with
q number of the bulbs on board, was
wrecked off the Channel Islands; the
bulbs were washed into one of those
sandy bays which nestle between the
granite cliffs, and the mild gulf-stream
climate did the rest.
A natural history book relates an an
ecdotc of the horned toad of South
America, which, ''when placed on the
metals beneath an advancing train, cx-
ploded with loud report like the fir
ing of gun That is wonderful
enough, but another batrachianin Can
ada has achieved a greater feat. A
train OF the Grand Trunk Railway was
thrown OF the line and twelve persons
Injured. lowing to a broken frog" If
Mrs. Leo Hunter had but known of
such n case what Il grand poetic JUS
ticc she would have introduced into the
fate Of 1.-THE expiring frog on log"
which upset u train and injured a round
dozen of humanity. London Globe.