The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-22
GLEANINGs.

Employ tho hired hand whose
clothes are patched in front rather than
behind" Is current farm note.
White frosted glass globes for chan
deliers are no longer the fashion. Col
ored ones are taking their place. ~
The thirty-eight states of the Union
contain 2.299 counties. Texas leads
of with Isl, and Georgia follows with
127.
Biologists say that II no new deposits
are found, the coal beds Of the earth
will be completely exhausted in 1880
years
Philadelphia is almost ready for ca
BILE propulsion of street cars, having
eighteen miles of cable ready to put
down.
Twenty-one thousand widows of sol
diers of the war of 1912 are stated to
be still drawing pensions from the gov
eminent.
The Germans steadily increase their
navy. Twenty-Five torpedo boats are
now under construction, besides many
larger vessels.
Arizona produced more than 17.000..
600 pounds of copper last year and Will
probably produce about 25,O0O.OOO
pounds this year. rrCs
The emancipation laws of Brazil are
poorly enforced, and many thousands
who were long ago entitled to freedom
remain in bondage.
A horse can scarcely lift two-thirds
of its own weight while one small
specimen of June beetle can lift sixty
six times its own weight
A few years ago the women of India
were not allowed to learn to read.
Now there are 126. 348 girls attending
schools established for them.
It is almost impossible to take fish
with net from Indian river, Florida,
as the sharks attack the nets when
filed with fish and thus tear them to
pieces.
The orange tree at Versailles, known
as the Great Constable. is nearly 500
years old. 1t was planted in 1922 by
Eleanor of Carlisle, wife of Charles Ill,
King Of Navarro. d 't} "
The cod fishery at Iceland has proved
total failure this season. and great
distress exists In consequence. The
privations are said to be more severe
than prevailed during the famine two
years ago. yr7 a.rr.., r
In one of number of eggs that Mrs.
Patrick Sullivan, OF Sheboygan, was
breaking for breakfast omeIette the
other day. a minnow two inches long
was found imbedded between the white
and the yolk.
An English gentleman named Sum-
ner, who was found dead in his bed at
the Midland Hotel, London, left an es-
tate of IS, 600, 600 and had not made
his will. The nearest heir-at-law is
farmer 76 years old.
The natives of the coast of New
Guinea, having no iron, shave them
selves now with piece of glass. For
merly they shaved with flint, which
they could sharpen quite well and used
with considerable dexterity.
According to the Denver Republican
there are 100000 cattle roaming
over the ranges of Colorado, with u
valuation estimated at $40, 900, 600.
The nominal value of sheep, horses,
mules and other live stock in the State
is put at $13, 600, 600.
In Queensland immunity from pun
ishment induces the white men to think
nothing of taking the lives of tho ma
.tives, and the latter are killed for steal
ing a few pieces of tobacco, as was the
case with a skipper at Dufaure Island.
For trifing theft he shot three men
whom he suspected.
OF the native population of Texas, SO
per cent. Is Southern and the remain
der of Northern extraction. OF the peo-
pie who have settled In that state. New
England has contributed 4, 064, the rest
of the country north of the Ohio river
60, 3O5, and the older Southern States
have furnished 556.379.
A regulation is in force Mt the Hague
by which every one in nose house an
infectious disease exists is bound to
hang upon the front door a notice to
that effect, and to state the nature of
the malady. so that any one whose
business takes them to the house may
risk the danger or not as he sees fit.
There is living near Bonneville, Fla,
q colored man with the classical name
of Romeo, who is welded to a fair maid
of his tribe called Juliet. This happy
couple have twins. whom they have
named Romulus and Remus. This in
teresting family Is conveyed to church
on Sundays by horse named Pontius
Plate.
The Empress Eugene is now busy on
the book she has had in mind, if only
rarely in hand, since the death of the
Prince Imperial, and arrangements are
already being made for the publication
of her "Memoirs. which will be pro-
duced simultaneously in England and
France. The book is being ''done"
into English under the supervision of
lady of the highest rank, to whom the
Empress is much attached. =
DR.. Gamgee, of Birmingham, Eng,
has been interesting the Paris surgeons
with his artificial sponge. 1t is made
of cotton, rendered absorbent and
treated with antiseptics. One of them
the size of walnut will absorb water
until it reaches the dimensions of a
cricket ball. One Of its most impor-