The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
GLEANINGS.

record in San Francisco.
In France nearly all the railroad
ticket and signal clerks are women,
who are paid as much. as men. They
are preferred because OF their sobricty.
Ventilated bedclothes is one of the
latest inventions of English genius.
They are perforated, and permit the
vapor from the body to escape.
Every seventh year In California,
since the rainfall record has been kept.
has been dry year. Unless this rule
is set aside. this will be dry year.
A New York Assemblyman has in
PRODUCED bill prohibiting the sale Of
cigars or cigarettes to boys under IL
years of age.
An English nobleman, now travelling
in the west, is charged with falling in
love with the housemaid of a Denver
hotel and wanting to marry her.
Miss Theodocia Gray, of Darien.
Conn.,, aged ninety, who has been
toothless many years, Is now cutting
an upper front tooth.
Lucius H. Murch, of Belfast, Me-,
passes as the most patient man next to
Job. Three times day for twenty
five years has Mr.. Murch recorded In
his diaries the state of the weather.
Archaeological diggers at Canterbury,
England, found q score of ancient skel-
etons, some Roman urns of rcd ware,
fragment of highly decorated Ro-
nan bowl, and curious flint instru-
rents.
In 1883 no less than rs, Gas, 596 tin
cans of tomatoes were put up in the
United States, the wholesale value be-
ing about $4,000, 900. Maryland puts
up about one-half of the product, and
New Jersey over fifth.
Georgia's penitentiary now contains
1922 prisoners--the largest number
ever recorded on the registry at one
time. The large percentage of the
criminals is made up of young negroes,
among whom crime is on the increase.
The Indians are the richest land
owners in the United States. They
number 237, 066, exclusive of the Alaska
Indians, holding 161, 397, 7SS acres of
acres per Indian. The average is about
one square mile to each Indian.
Greene county, in the eastern part of
North Carolina, is noted for tall and
large men. There were born and rails
ed in that county six brothers, all now
living. whose combined altitude is 81
feet nine inches, an average OF six feet
three and q half inches. Their aggrc-
gate weight is 1850 pounds.
VoL Il ,t;l
breaches to large congregations in
Richmond, and scouts the idea that his
usefulness and influence have been
impaired by the efforts of his enemies
to cause rupture in his congregation.
He says the membership of his church
now numbers nearly 1000.
A New York detective has Il plain
gold ring that has, in the past two
years, been used to perform 1876 mar
riage ceremonies. 1t Is used at the
Office of the commissioners of emil
grants, and is loaned to the groom
while the priest or minister performs
the service, and is then returned to its
owner.
DEVILS Lake, in Northern Dakota,
does not in any sense deserve its
name. for it is II fine sheet of water in
the midst of beautiful scenery, and
there are no evil traditions concerning
it. The fact is that the Indians called
it Spirit Lake. and the white man re-
garded spirit as necessarily a devil.
Residents talk of changing the name
back to the original Minnewakau.
James Fowler, of Unity, Me, eighty
five years of age, informs the Belfast
Journal that within 100 rods from his
house in Unity is a stump from which
was cut one of the masts of the frigate
Constitution. He saws one tree which
was cut for a mast lodged and broke.
The one finally procured was hauled to
the Sebasticook river and floated down
to Bath.
The treasures of long established
and successful manufacturing concern
in Providence, II. l.. when approached
by the representative of n bankrupt
business with proposition for settle
ment, accepted IL SO promptly as to
cause some surprise. In reply to an
inquiry, he stated that it had always
been the rule of his concern from the
beginning TO accept the first offer made
for settlement.
Don't Judge man by the clothes he
wears; God made one and the tailor
the other. Don't Judge him by his
family, for Cain belonged to a good
family. Don't Judge man by his
failure in life, for many a man fails be-
cause he is too honest TO succeed.
Don't Judge a man by the house he
lives in, for the lizard and the rat often
inhabit the grander structure. When
a man dies. they who survive him ask
what property he has left behind; the
angel who bends over the dying man
asks what good deeds he has sent be-
fore him.
Last autumn, among the guests at n
shooting lodge in Scotland, was a
young and beautiful Australian lady,
with the additional attractions of $751;
600 year of her own. She moved
about good deal with the shooting
parties, and in doing so had many OPP
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