The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
GLEANINGS.

The Yokohama bank will establish a
branch in New York.
Trade between the United States and
Australia is growing rapidly.
.Artesian wells were known at Thebes
1000 years before the Christian era.
Mary Anderson. after Lolita. is the
wealthiest woman in her profession.
Pomegranates are being cultivated in
the South. They yield 500 per acre.
Amos Perkins, at tho age of ninety
four. is Treasurer of the town of Unity.
n. III.
Any quantity of castles are for sale
in Germany, to which fact the atten-
lion of rich Americans is called. rs
George Augustus Sala says that he
has written during his journalistic ca
reer of thirty-five years more than 900
newspaper essays w ~ ~A
The young women of Schenectady
have resolved to girlcott any young
man that smokes or goes out OF the
theatre between the acts.
The United States is now the
wealthiest nation in the world, the in
crease in wealth having been 20 per
cent between 1870 and 1SS0.Er,e-fD
Alcohol is said to be an antidote for
snake bite poison only when the pa
tient is not addicted to drink and his
system already saturated with alcohol
There are more ways Of spelling the
name of Wiclif than of Shakespeare.
Over fifty ways are found in old author
tiles, ranging from Whit to Guyeo-
clivus. 80 49, '''''' -
Whenever person. is killed on 8
railway in Mexico the ambitious au-
thorities arrest the engineer and put
him in prison, especially if he is an
Americas. "A AA &As&
~ The forests in Prussia, unlike those
lin any other inhabited lands, are i'm
creasing instead of decreasing. In
Hanover alone they have increased
$4,000 acres.
The Salt Lake Tribune publishes
names and dates to show that polyga-
nous marriages are still frequent in
Utah, although great exertions are
made to keep them secret.
Over 600 lives were lost bysg boiler
explosions in this country during the
past year. Nearly 800 persons were
killed outright, and many of the re-
mainder were MANNED for life.
A Parsee girl has astonished her
race in India by bringing a suit for
breach of promise of marriage. 1t is
the first episode of the kind known in
that land, and it has created a great
scandal.
English farmers now offer cents
per dozen for ,sparrows' heads, and
the same price per dozen for their eggs.
These prices have stimulated a raid of
almost complete determination in some
counties.
Of the 100 largest cities in the United
States, standard time has been adopt
ed by seventy-eight of them. The
three notable ones that continue with
out it are Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Detroit.
One hundred and twenty acres of
the Potomac flats have been reclaimed.
1t is expected the marshes south and
west of the White House will be con-
verified ere long into splendid park of
500 acres.
Since it was made public that Queen
Victoria is very fond of fried hominy
and has it every morning for break
fast, the London hotels have fallen in
to line and now have the following on
the bill of fare, "Hominy fried, Her
Majesty's style" ,,...
1t is the custom of really stylish
New York shop girls to carry to their
fields of labor bundles of school books,
in order to convey the impression that
they are completing their education at
some fashionable institution of learn
ing instead of working for their daily
bread. zoe n
A sorrowing widow pledged herself
not to marry again till the grass was
green on her husbands grave, and was
found by the sexton three months later
planting some grass seed on the mound
and fastening its termination with
daily applications from watering can,
that no time might be lost in freeing
her from her unlucky promise.
An English paper says that during
the first introduction of cholera into
st. Petersburg in 1882 highly-respect-
able firm of iron founders, employing
500 men, informed them that all those
who would not take q tcaspoonful of
charcoal on entering the works in the
morning must leave their employ.
What was the consequence? They did
not lose single man, while myriads
were dying around them"
The old question whether a smoker
can tell with his eyes shut If cigar is
lighted or not is revived by state
ment in the London Graphic that there
are scarcely any smokers among the
blind. Soldiers and sailors who lose
their sight in action sometimes continue
to smoke for little while, but, as a
rule, they soon give up the habit They
say it gives them no, pleasure when
they cannnt see the smoke; and that
they cannot taste smoke unless they
see it.
An English printers circular candid
ly acknowledges that job printing in
this country is superior to that done in
England, and attempts to account for
it on the grounds of the great compe-
tition which exists there among the
printers. 1t claims that work is taken
at such ruinously low figures that the