The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-03-05
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There are $3.50 postefices in the
State of Pennsylvania.
The new American Episcopal church
in Paris cost 100000.
The Chinese have known the use of
artesian wells from time immemorial.
There are only eight lawyers in Phil
adelphia that have been in practice over
50years.
Bismarck wants to have established
more diroct passenger communication
between Berlin and London.
There are $40 hunting packs in En-
gland, comprising 1000 hounds.
Their annual cost is 81, 10000.
Englishmen eat brown bread with
their oysters, while Americans only eat
lemon juice and pepper on them.
The Brewer gold mine in North Car
olina has yielded more than S1,000.0 900,
and the Dora Nine SLIGO, 900 and up
ward.
By paying his daughter $500 year
to run his kitchen, Lord Coleridge
saved enough money to make the trip
to America.
John Swinton says the saddest sound
heard in New York is the hammering
of the tough becf-steak set on boarding
house tables.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria, B. c.,
is reported to have made some remark
able cures in cases where white phys
icians have failed.
Hundreds of people are said to be
actually starving in the North of En-
gland, with many thousand more hum
cry and destitute
The hot water cure has become a
craze. A New York druggist claims
he has 1000 disciples now swallow ing
tumblerfuls before breakfast.
Miss NJ. E. Braddon, the most prolif-
ic of English story writer's, in private life
is Mrs. Maxwell. and owns up to have
reached the mature age of fifty-six.
The total number of hogs slaughter
ed annually in the United States is esti-
mated at 1000, 900, the average dress
ed weight being 175 pounds each.
Pearl-rimmed eyeglasses of violet
color are now used extensively by fash
ionables of both sexes in New York.
The originator was Vassar school
girl.
Bacon at Is cents pound, says the
Fort Worth Gazette, is a greater barrier
to the advancement and growth of
Texas than either short crops or lack of
water.
Eating small piece of soap at stated
Intervals is recommended by Berlin
physician as better remedy for dys-
pepsia and sour stomach than soda,
macnesia or lime water.
The best cabinet Rhine wine of the
vintage of 1868 is reserved especially
for the imperial table at Berlin. 1t is
worth $3.50 bottle. It is made
from grapes picked one by one out of
the Rhineish vineyards on account OF
their perfection.
Many towns on the Pacific coast
forbid In .ians to come within their
limits after nighlfall-not because
the noble red man is dangerous, but be-
cause he is thief and q sneak, and his
wife, who accompanies him, more upon
his order and for his profit.
Genera! Berdan, of sllarp-shooting
fame. to whose daughter MIR. T. Mar
ion Crawford has just been married,
was sometime ago offered field mar
shalship by the Sultan, but he declined
it, saving he could never wear any 9TH
er than the American uniform.
Dom Pedro, when recently starting
on pleasure trip on a small steam
yacht down the Bahai el Iodos Santes,
from Rio de Janeiro, fell overheard.
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naval engineer officer and an ARMY Oil
Ger. Bolh were made -Barons.
Recent vital statistics show that un-
der the age of fifteen there are more
bovs than girls, but after the fifteenth
yenr there are more women than mcn.
and between the ages of ninety and
p:,e hundred the proportion is three to
two in favor Of women.