The Columbus journal., 1884-07-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There are noY sixty life convicts in
Sing Sing prison.-NeV York Sun.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has pu,
its wires in Philadelphia underground.
"A Vermont paper chronicles the
death of bride of a year at st. Albans
Bay. at the age of seventy-three.
"A Philadelphia boy tied wings on
his little sister and induced her to jump
from q balcony. She broke one of her
legs.
Two patient cribbage players in
Boston have played 23.eC0 games. and
at last accounts one was only one game
ahead of the Other-BoSton NerGid.
Buffalo Bill's suit to recover sixty
has failed. Bill will have TO conten:
himself with the boundless prairie
Cercland HeraM
Kate Van lvenstine, 4 young Unmar-
ried girl in Union Hill. willed her So
600 of property to David Bourne, her
lover. who boarded with her.-Bnfaio
, ca. ~ E-:f,re~s.
: New Orleans recently had baby
+ show. with ninety-nine infants on eNhi-
! b:tion. The first prize was won by a
! seven-months-old baby that weighed
! thirty-one pounds. .-New orleans Times.
! A New London lad Of sixteen years
, ran awav from his comfortable home 4
; few months ago and was traced to Il
/ Southern cation field. where he was
! shoeless and hatlcss, working among the
negroes for sixteen cents u day.-HdIt-
-; ford Post.
! There is a physician in Rochester
whose heart only makes twenty-siX
pulsations minute. He is forty-four
! wears old, and enjoys excellent health.
The average for healthy men is sixty
five heart beats to the minute. .-ROch-
ester IN. ~ Express.
7. p. Fitzpatrick a Norwich Conn.
oyster dealer. has a curiosity in the
shape Of Il pearl oyster, taken from Il
lot of Fair Haven oysters. in which
there are one hundred small pearls, the
central cluster forming column in the
center of the shcll-N. Y. Mail
"A jcweler in Paris has committed
suicide from slight enough cause. He
found that watch which had been left
with him for repairs had been stolen.
When his wife found him dead she i'm
; mcdiately shut herself up and put an
end TO her own life. What method for
suicide these people adopted is not
stated.
Large quantities of silver have of
late been found in Arizona. Manv
mines have already been opened, and
millions of dollars worth of silver cx-
tracted. In mine recently opened in
the Turkey district, $6U,0O0 worth OF
silver was obtained in the first fifty feet
of the shaft sunk. Other deposits have
been discovered in Yarapai County.
which yield copper and silver in abund-
ance.-DcmcCr Tribune.
The Chinese are said to have a
curious way of determining the future
occupations of 4 male infant. On the
first birthday he is seated in a large
seive, with money scales, q foot
measure. 4 pair of shears. u brass mir
ror, a pencil, ink. and books. an abacuS,
and similar articles ranged in circle
around him. The article which he
handles first is sure prophecy in the
direction in which his future activities
will lie.
When George Warrell. of Rapid
City, Minn., went to be married he
found his progress impeded by river
swollen by the spring floods. With Il
rope around his body ,e end held by
friends on the bank-he swan the
stream. and then, on an improvised
raft, towed over his clothes and two
saddles, one of them his wedding pres
cnt to the bride. Then the horses were
guided across and the wedding was
celebrated. Pau Press.
One of the most magnificent stair
ways in the world is situated on Calvario
Hill, west of the city of Caraccas. Ven
ezucla. 1t is of sandstone. one hundred
feet wide and eighty feet high, and was
built in IL park that cost - GOO. 900. The
crest is six hundred feet higher than the
level of the city, and is surmOunted by a
statute of the Great Prcsident.' Guz-
man Blanco. the ''illustriolls American.'
as he is called. who has done so much to
pacify and build up the country.
DR.. j. f. Renner left indianapolis
in the summer of 1873 and rolled up
his sleeves in the cause of humanity at
Memphis. His work during the cpl
demic was heroic and he fell in the
cause, dying of yellow fever in the latter
part of September that year. Now his
grave is an unmarked spot of dcsola-
ton. and near him lie thirty-twO other
volunteer physicians and forty-two
nurses. none hOnOred in marble, though
all gave their lives for the public good.
Chicago Journal.
Mrs. L. NJ. Wheeler, of New York,
received the 81, 600 prize recently offered
for the handsOmest design in wallpaper.
1t is known rs the bee pattern" and
represents golden-winged bees in
wealth of clover blossoms. The second
prize was won by Miss Clark. Her de-
sign is gold iishing-net on a light
ground with a dado of seaweeds and a
frieze of seashells. This is quite
triumph of the ladies, as quite number
of men artists were in competition.
NeU York Times.
Going to see the Chinese baby at
the Chinese Legation is ii fashionable
amusement among society ladies in
Washington. The old Minister is very
proud of his offspring. and rolls his
eyes delightedly when told the baby lis
the perfect image of its father" At
Mrs. McElroy's reception Saturday af-
ternOon this baby was a topic of CONVEX
sation, and it was generally stated and
believed that the young and handsome
mother of the interesting chick is the
twentieth wife of the aged Minister
Washington Post.
SsMOuce TraDS and Other SVeetmeteS.3