Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-23
GnEANtN0S.
A bullet travels mile In three and

of Central Africa will give out in ten
or fifteen years.
| Three thousand habitual smokers in
San Francisco expend $l.OOO,OOO o
| year for opium.
| Professor Thormholt, Of Norway.
has photographed the aurora polaris
with partial success.
The first words of General Grants
| preface to his memoirs are "Man pro-
| poses and God disposes."
| Rossini wrote one OF his finest operas
in bed, and was too lazy to pick up o
sheet that had fallen away.
| W. +. Stead. editor of the PdN Mall
| Gazette, is great admircr of tho
American style in newspapers.
| At some time in their lives Miss
Cleveland, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs.
| Hayes were all school teachers.
The United States produces nearly
| 5000 lawn mowers annually, and ex-
| ports TO every civilized country On tho
| globe.
| Bonanza Mackay is said to be re-
markable Judge Of men. to which in
stinct much of his success in life since
he won start by luck is alleged to be
due
The wild story is circulated concern
| ing Mayor Low of Brooklyn that he is
| desperately in love with his wife. Out
side of Office hours he is generally at
, home.
| In the language of flowers a moss
rosebud is a confession of love; a red
rosebud implies that the giver considers
the recipient young and beautiful, and
| if she returns a white rosebud she de-
clares that she is too young to love.
Last wears income of the Girard es-
tate in Philadelphia was $3.50. 900. Its
real estate alone is valued ut $7,346,-
900 besides the college buildings and
| grounds. The collieries of the estate
produce |, ,4OJ, 900 tons OF coal during
the year
The Rev. William NJ. Blackburn, ID.
| d.. late President of the University of
| North Dakota at Grand Forks. ID. T.,
has accepted the Presidency of Pierre
! University, and will at once remove his
I family to East Pierre and enter on the
duties of his Office.
| Immense quantities of writing paper :
are used in the Baltic provinces of
Russia. but not for writing As to-
bacco is extremely scarce, the Russian
peasant makes cigar out of cabbage
| leaves and writing paper. and this he
smokes with perfect content
| Texas telephone eXperimcnter
claims to have perfected magnetic
telephone. the whole appliances of
which are simple iransmitter and re-
ceiver and horse shoe magnet With
| this and a single wire he claims to be
able to send message around the
world. He proposes to secure foreign
patents before making application in
this country.
! The actual cost of what are usually
sold as 5-cent cigars at retail is thus
stated by one who claims to be in
formed on the subject: Actual cost of
tobacco (namey, what the tobacco
raiser gets for i) for 1000 cigars. 81;
| cigar-boXes, 50; wages for l 200 cigars.
| IS; packing, 81 stripping 80 cents;
total cost of production, $3.50, or 1t
cents cigar.
a writer upon coaching in London
concludes that the use of the whip is
now nearly lost art one reason for
which is tnat whereas, in old times
almost any animal was considered
| Soou u III NohCl, anu lnc stlIu-
| ulus of the lash was a necessity, now
only high-bred and not over-worked
horses are employed, and there is little
occasion Tor urging.
Ohio has l.0l7.OO0 head of cattle.
making "A. to the square mile; nli-
IUis 26 New York Is, and Texas, 1873
For the United States at large this is 8
| mead for each $40 acres. Germany has
32 per square mile, Great Britain "a.
In the United States there are three
head of cattle for each four inhabitants,
while in Europe there is only one ami
NAL for each six persons.
| "The Great American Desert" is q
thing of the past. The quadrant which
this desert once occupied on the
map once embraced the area now oc-
cupied by the States of Minnesota, Da-
| kota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kan
sas. Arkansas to the Indian Territory
IAN axea in total equal to nine New
Engiands.' The grain product OF this
desert in 1880 amounted to G42, 49,
| POO bushels.
Last autumn bookseller named
| Meyer, of Ronncburg. tied q water
| proof label under the wing of a swal-
low which had occupied nest at his
| house, and had become comparatively
familiar. On it he wrote query in
German to the effect that he wished to
know where the swallow would pass
the winter The bird returned to its
former nest bearing an exchange label
similarly fastened saying in German
also: ''ln Florence, in Castellaris
house. and bear many salutations."
The instrumental music question,
which has been debated annually for
fifteen years by the Prcsbyterans of
Ireland, but never satisfactorily set
tied. well nigh caused schism this
| year. Indeed, a number Of elders did
seccdc from the assembly for short
time and held an opposition meeting.
In few hours, however. a truce was
arranged. but such was the tension OF
feeling that it was deemed incxpedicnt
continue debate on the subject, which
was accordingly postponed till next
year.
In 1910 Obadiah Hills went from
Eewbury to Lcominster, Mass, and
began making back-hair combs from
horn, working in his kitchen with rude
hand tools and without an assistant
To-day Leominster is engaged in the
| manufacture of horn combs, chains,
bracelets, lockets, knives, ornamental
trinkets and various other useful ar
ticles, including horn chains. More
than score of firms are in the bus
iness, and hundreds of people are en-
| plOyed. More horns of cows. dHen and