The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-29

present upward OF a million people In
Great Britain who receive charitable
relief.
In the last four years $500, 600, 600
has been spent building new railroads
and improving old ones in the southern
States.
Cardinal Newman entered the Ro-
man Catholic church when he was 45
years old, and Cardinal Manning was
a clergyman Of the English church un-
til he was 43.
Walt Whitman says of his poems:
''They proceed out of. and revolve
around, ones self. myself, an identity,
and declaredly make that self the nu-
cleus Of the whole utterance.
In spite of the statement of some Of
the clerks in the post Office department
not long ago, that the postal note was
failure, the use of this great public
convenience is constantly increasing.
Roger Kirby, of Huntington. L. l.,
went to sleep with his arm over his
head and woke up with il SO far out of
joint that 1t took three doctors to yank
it into shape again.
Mr.. Blake, inventor of the telephone
transmitter so much used, lives in a
palatial home in the suburbs of Boston,
and amuses himself by working as an
amateur blacksmith and machinist.
What this country is yearning for is
q public school system which will
teach the wives of the future that light
housekeeping Is something more than
reading novels and starching their hus-
bands stockings. -FaR River Advance.
Jules Verne has ordered the con-
struction. by firm ut Nantes, of
large sailing vessel, in which he in
tends to make a cruise in the Antarc-
tic Sea to collect material for future
romances.
The president of the United States
Cremation Society says that ..over
s, 900 Americans are pledged to have
their bodies burned" The original
crematory ut Washington, Pa, is run
ming on full time, and $4,000 have
been subscribed toward the construc-
ton of new one in New York.
The official record of the death of
young girl in Brighton, Mass, filed in
the registrars office, gives as the cause
of death: Primary-duc TO the Boston
school system of 'cramming.' too much
study and brain work. duration six
months; neutrality-suspicious. of the
brain, resulting in coma, duration thir-
teen days.
The spy belle Boyd" who at the
outbreak of the rebellion was fifteen
years of age, is the matronly wife of
Colonel John Hammond, of Texas, who
dwells on a ranch near San Antonio.
He was one of Stonewall Jackson's
scouts in Virginia. She was, as may
be remembered, banished to Europe.
She has four children.
tertained by 200 of his Ayrshire tenant
ry, was told by his health drinkers to
take pattern by the Duke of Buccleugh,
a model landlord, who knows every
farm and field on his vast estate, as
well as those that live upon them, and
was, furthermore, advised to marry q
young Scotch lassie, as another Duke
of Portland did before him.
Centuries ago oak was by far the
most valued forest tree in England, on
account of acorns fattening hogs. In
ancient records it is put down how
many hogs such and such woods would
carry. Pannage was the right of feed
ing swine, and to this day persons adj
joining the New Forest have the right
Of pannagc for six weeks there on pay
ing small fee.
Mrs. Waite, wife of the Chief JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court, is quite deaf, so that her daugh-
ter, Miss Mary, is the first to greet
visitors at their home, and then she in
PRODUCES them to her mother. Mrs.
Waite is a little below the medium
height, and her figure is well rounded.
She is sailow in complexion, with
small, sparkling black eyes and black
hair, waved and brushed low upon her
face.
Kate Field is represented as having
been measured for an urn. This was
not something new to wear, but to hold
her ashes after she had been cremated.
She Is an advocate of incineration in
place of interment. She has made
careful calculation, based on her weight
and data gained from cremation at the
Washington crematory, as to the size
of receptacle that her remains would
require. She has taste in art, and has
taken great pains in the matter of the
urn.
On the occasion of a candy-pull each
guest should be furnished with pair
of CREASED gloves, white paper cap
and apron. Each lady is expected to
take home with her quantity of the
pulled taffy. At a late entertainment
of this character. down the center of
the supper-table, laden with all manner
of good things, huge taffy-balls were
placed on steel sticks. The balls were
hollow, and in the interior each person
found pretty little souvenir. Ordi-
nary street dress is the rule at the
candy-pulls.-Troy Press.
A Vermont woman, living in the
country, says of lady help: "In the
course of the last two years and quar-
tor l have only been able to secure q
regular servant during forty-one weeks,
or something more than one-third of