Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-18
GLEANINGS.

Dill IOrDluulnS cOnlpanicS W uisoiiih-
mate against the colored race in the
rates for insuring lives.
Some crank has written to the Detroit
Times solemniy asserting that the lire
which recently destroyed its Office was
q visitation of Providence.
Holding u cartridge between her
fingers, Julia Pegg, of st. Louis, be-
gan experimenting with \ lighted
match. The explosion cost her two
fingers and n thumb.
William Rowland, King Of the DIRK
ney gypsics, has just died at the age OF
1872, and his widow, aged over 80, was
able to smoke n pipe vigorously during
the funeral services.
London has seventy-siX guilds, c l.
dowed by wealthy bcnefactors for the
benefit Of the different trades, and their
trust property alone yields an income
of 9200, 1000 annually.
1t has beca decided that the inscrip-
ton placed upon the bust Of Beacons-
field, in Westminster Abbey, shall be
simply: Lord Beaconslield, twice
Premier of England. "
Captain Rodney Baxter, of Hyannis,
Cape Cod, offers to pay $500 ito any
person who will produce materialized
spirit in my presence, within my reach,
witness being present, and that will
there remain even five minutes"
Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept
away by the crash of 1873, is to-day
one of the wealthiest men of Pennsyl-
vana. lie has investments in iron,
coal, gold, and silver mines, and rail-
roads reaching far into tho millions.
Justice Massey. of Brooklyn, has
sent Miss Emily Vogel, eighteen years
of age, to the penitentiary to complete
reunion of the family, all of whom,
father, mother, two brothers, and q
sister, had preceded her to that estab.
lishment.
In tho city of New York alone it is
estimated that there are at present no
fewer than 400 millionaires, thirty of
whom own from 50, 900, 900 to $50, 000,-
900 apiece, while there are about ten
vino possess from $50, 900, 900 to $780,
100000 each,
Travellers rave about the soft purple
light which fills Italian skies and gives
q peculiar beauty to Italian mountains.
The light has now been discovered on
the mountains of Southern California,
md tourists are so informed by the
railroad companies interested.
T. b. Aldrich is taken to task for
making the word Mel Tin describing q
Marechal Mel rose in poem in the
May Atlantic) rhyme with "steel. "
His critics urge that the French word
Mel of two syllables might rhyme with
"well" or "dwell," but hardly with
"steel."
There isa birch tree in York, Maine,
only about forty feet high. two roots Of
which have been able to lift, some
twelve inches. block of granite COM
puted to weigh twenty tons. The tree
is still growing, and the rock continues
to be raised and pushed sideways at
the rate of nearly an inch year.
A little boy was buried in Meridian,
Miss, the other day, and behind the
hearsc in the funeral procession
walked his pony with its saddle draped
with Grape, Strangers even looked
with mostened eyes upon the little fel
lows pet, upon which he had beer
often seen to ride through the streets
but n little while ago.
Tho general rule OF law is that
person having a pecuniary interest in {
will is disqualified from acting AS ;
subscribing witness thereto. In re-
cent case before the Supreme Court o
Iowa this rule WAS soughtto be extend
ed to case where the witness was ,
corpora,or OF Il charitable institution
and distributee upon the dissolution
thereof, the will containing bcques
thereto. The Court declined to so eX
tend the rule.
A scientific physician says: ain tn,
morning there is an acrd state of tin
secretionS, and nothing is so well cal
culated TO correct it rs peaches, apples
etc, The small seed fruits, such i
frs, blackberrleS, raspberrics, may be
classed among the best fruits and medi'
cines. The sugar in them is nutritious,
the acid purifying and the seeds laxa.
tive. We should look more to oul
gardens for our medicines and less tc
our drug stores.
The New York Graphic says: "Sau
Francisco and Chicago have been using
cable surface railroads for many years
past. New York now talks about
adopting the system. Isn't this really
reversing the order of things? Does
the star of progress take its way East:
Is it not possible that somebody here
has invented something great deal
better than that which our young folks
out West are calling already half obso'
letc?"
The president of the French repub.
lie sent some little time ago to the
French ambassador at Constantinople
three handsome cimeters made in exact
imitation of tho much-prised Damascus
blades, for presentation to the sultan's
three sons. An Oriental potentate re-
ceiving a present from such a quarter
would probably have preferred some
product of European art to counter
felt Of what he can get better at home.
"If you want to make an Englishman 8
present." says French paper, criti'
cising M. Grevy's gift, "you would moi
offer him dozen of pale ale, an article
of Sheffield cutlery, or a coat made by
Poole"
Utah hos now 10000 small farms
averaging twenty-five acres, and the
whole must be irrigated. There is
only one large farm in the territory,
and it is owned by company. The
Great Salt Lake. according to Elder
Cannon, contains enough salt to supply
America for centuries. All that is nee
essary in preparing it for market is tc
drive to the edge of the lake with s
wagon, and n man with pair of rub.
Der boots can load it with q shovel
The salt lies on tho bottom of the lake
in small, coarse crystals. After load