The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-01
GLEANINGs.

Football is all the rage in the Eastern
colleges.
Judah 2. Benjamin expects to return
to America to reside.
Emily r. Miner is my heir" is the
entire will of Pennsylvania.
There are over $4,000 miles of un.
broken pine forest in Southern Georgia
Stock raisers in Sprague River Valley,
Oregon, offer $50 for each bear killed.
Henry County, Georgia, has not had
a hanging within its borders since 1887.
The sale of postal cards at the New
York post-offices is about 10000 daily.
Two-thirds of the millionaires Of
Australia are denied admittance to
"the best society,""
Stitch Brothers are clothiers in New
York, and Mr.. Oven is baker in
Buffalo.
A whaling company with one million
capital has been started in San Fran
cisco.
An enterprising Englishman is en-
gagged in making illuminating gas from
sawdust
Everything in furniture covering now
adays is ''scarf." There are no more
table cloths.
California has 900 churches of all de-
nominations, and about 100000 in
habitants.
Travellers in Africa assert that the
most certain cure for malarial fever is
strong coffee.
A niece of Richard Wagner is in New
York with a crippled husband and four
hungry children.
Major Robins, chief of police at In
dianapolis, is charged with speaking of
the police as ''thieves and blackguards
not worth hell ROOM"
The subject of bridge across the
Mississippi at New Orleans is under
discussion, the estimated cost being
$13,000,000.
A Washingtoa woman who was ac-
Quilted of murder on the ground of in
sanity some time ago has just married
her lawyer.
A Baptist divine estimates that all
India will be Christianized in fifty
years should the present good work be
continued.
Experiments are in progress in Ohio
for turning palmetto leaves into paper
for news print. 1t was the material
used for Bank of England notes with
such secresy for years.
Paris last year ate 100000 chick
ems and 250,OO0,000 eggs. The frogs
couldn't be counted. To wash down
these and other kinds of solid food
1000, 900 gallons of wine was used.
The income of the Girard properties
in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Penn
sylvania has increased over $70,0 900 in
the past ten months, compared with
the same time last year.
A curious debate is going on between
San Francisco and several interior
papers as to whether the wife whose
liberty must be restrained by her hus-
band is worth having.
Mr.. Bell. the new Supervisor of Arch
itecture at Washington, thinks the
Capitol Building has been built to on
all sides until it is all out of proportion. |
1T looks like very big hat on small
man."
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided that certificates issued by mar
riage endowment associations are void
as against public policy, and as being
mere wagering contracts as to the time
when persons should marry.
Wire fences and blooded stock are
revolutionizing the cattle business in
Texas. The first dispenses with cow
boys and rounding up" and the lat
ter enables the growers to compete
with Montana cattle.
The Marquis of Lorne, in his article
on Canadian home rule, says: Canada |
could not stand alone, but would be an
nexed to the United States on the first |
pretext were there not behind her the |
majestic form of n united empire"
The Toronto Globe does not believe |
that the Sunday-school is an unmixed
blessing The institution disposes par.
ents to rely upon it too much for the
instruction of their children. 1t can
never supersedc, and is vastly inferior
to, home instruction.
The Princess of Wales and her sisters
were photographed during their recent
visit home, standing beneath q tree in
their old playground, the garden Of
Castle Bernstein. This photograph has
been chromographed and gone all over
the land.
1--WE have Wilkie Collins for plots,
Mr.. Black for sunsets, Mr.. Howells and
Mr.. James for unrivaled painters in
miniature, Ouida for emotions, but"
says the London Times, I'VE have not
novelist equal to those of the days Of