The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-28
GLEANINGS.

From 1868 to 1888 the lottery players
turned into the Royal Italian Treasury
1915, 600, 600. Count Cayour used to
call the lottery 1.-The tax On fools"
Spider-lcg pcnmanship is obsolete,
and the tip-top of fashion is declared to
be the copper-platc style, just as it is
done on the head of the page in school
wrting-books.
President Barnard, of Columbia, tried
to quell cane rush the other day, and,
being Inadvertently pushed by par
ticipant, reached out with his right
in manner which caused the blood to
flow copiously from the frcshman's
nose.
A sword exhibited at the recent
Tooth anniversary celebration OF Mont
gomery county, Alabama, was made in
the year 1915. Among other exhibits
were the saddle, bride and trappings
used by General Santa Anna and
captured at the fall of Mexico.
temperance lecturer, still lives, and
after making and spending several
fortunes, relies for support on the de-
livery of lecture on q subject he must
know something about 1.-The Idi-
osyncrasics of the Human Mind"
Crime seems to be decreasing in
Great Britain. The number of Offend
ers committed for trial and convicted,
had between the years 1868 and 1883
decreased in England from $4,000 to
1000; in Ireland from $500 to 1000,
and in Scotland from =, 400 to LOO.
A deaf family in New Hampshire has
been traced back to the fourteenth
century in England, and in all that
time has regularly shown succession
of deaf mutcs. In Maine there is a
family in which there arc nincty-five
deaf mutes, all of them connected by
blood or marriage. at,s
The views of public buildings in
Washington. taken by order of the gov
eminent for exhibition at the New
Orleans Exposition, are the largest
photographs in the world. They arc
five feet wide by seven feet long, and
have been framed in finely finished ash
frames with gold lining.
An excessively hard winter, from q
business and financial point of view,
is looked for throughout Southern Eu-
rope, owing to the cholera and failure
of crops. The curtailment and stagna-
ton in trade are complained of as I'M
PARALLEL in Central and North Europe,
with no immediate prospect of relief in
view.
An English surgeon says that shay
ing is deadly practice, and il steadily
INDUCED in shortens life by several
years; and Arabs believe that washing
the face is simply an indirect form of
suicide. 1t is not, therefore, without
reason that the tramp looks with noble
scorn upon these practices of degcn-
crate civilization. NNa
Honigmann's locomotive is to be in
troduced in the st. Gothard tunnel. IL
can be charged from stationary boiler
with steam and hot water sufficient to
make the twenty minutes journey
through the tunnel without requiring
any fire. II, therefore, does not vitiate
the atmosphere with smoke. The ex-
haust steam is taken up by an alkaline
solution in special chamber.
Queen Margherita of Italy is making
an effort to revive the making of Vene-
tian point lace. She has established
school, from which the graduates go
out to teach to others the mysteries of
the craft. Already there are 1000 pu-
pills, all at work, and thirty-four varie-
ties of point are turned out. Only by
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