Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-12
OF GENERAL ERESf.
In Havana cigar manufacturers
paw their hands three times day

In Havana Clga manufacturers
paw their hands three times day.
Goldfish are swarming in Shasta
River. Cal fnrnia. where hey were
never knUwC A$tnre. They bear re-
marka5le resemblance to salmon
San FruHCi>cU cal.
1t is proposed 10 utilize the motive
power of the Nontmorrnci Falls. neaf
Quebec, to operate a railroad to inc
miraculous shrine of ST. Anne when
yearly attracts eighty or one hundred
thousand visitors.
A Texas editor complains OF .
hook and ladder conpamv recently
organized in his ncighborhood. The
editor intimates that the ladder Is used
for getting INTO windows after dark.
after which the hooking is doue.
The swftest large river in the
world. according to a travelling CORES
pondent. is the Sutlej, IN British India.
Il has a descent of twelve thousand
feet in one hundred and eighty miles,
an average of about siAty-seEcn pei
mile
While some colored hands were
packing cotton near Monticello. :. c.,
an IRON bolt weighing nineteen pounds
fell distance OF nine feet aud struck
one of them on the head without cau>.
ing any perceptible injury. y.-Att0nid
Ca Chronicle.
The Jacksonville Ola Hera'd re,
ports that most excellent lady SAYS
that she has pract ced the following
rule for twenty wears with never IA fail
ure: Trim your finger nails every
Friday. and YOU will never have the
toothache." But perhaps the most
excellent lady had no teeth.
Horse cars in Brazil are called
''bonds. from peculiar circumstance.
which illustrates how words can be
popularized. When started bv some
Americans. the bonds of the company
were first offered on the market and
everyone talked of them. When the
horse cars. or mule cars. arrived they
appropriated the name of bonds.
The latest "propah capah,' in Lon
don society (where there are initiative
dudes as here) is to affect American
accents and infections. The Spring
ll'-li MASS. htpf Subl1ilb- lpI lllt
benefit of our English brethren two
specimens of the genuine thing. such as
"Wal, | swow, and "Anter fcelIn'
right smart peert terday; on'y toller-
bic"
La NdcjOH. a BuennS AvreS paper.
contained an announcement. signed bv
eight physicians. that connection by
sal.nhAna will ha y,,.ln "a
by any patients requiring medical at
tendance at night. The fee for Il visit
after eleven p. IN. would seem some
what large in our latitude thirty dol
lars but 1t is not thought 10 be eNorbi-
tant there.
1t appears that in Philadelphia the
names of applicants for marriage IL
ceases are not to be given out for publ
cation. on the theory that, whatever
interest the community may have in
the marriage itself. the agreement to
marry is a private matter. VIII ch should
not be made public except with the
consent OF the parties Immediately y con
cerned. Miiddciphia Press.
The industry of a honey bee work
ing 4 clover field is something wonder
full. Each clover head has sixty Sepa-
rate flower tubes. each containing about
the five hundredth part of q "'ain of
sugar There are seven .nousand
grains to pound. So that the bee must
have sucked the contents Of three mill
ion tive hundred thousand clover tubes
to have gathered one pound of honey.
-Chjrdgo Htrdid.
The amended game law of Colorado
saws t!lat insectivorOus birds shall not
be killed at all Except patridges.
pheasants. prairie chickens. prair e
hens. and grouse. and these only be-
tween October l and November lJ).
No person shall kill or wound. entrap
or snare anv elk. deer buffalo or bison.
fawn. or antelope. between the lst dAv
of January and the 18th day of Octo-
Der in each and every wear" Noun
tain sheep can not be killed for ten
years from April !. 1885.
l have peeped into quiet ''parlors. ="
where the carpet is clean and not old.
and the furniture polished and bright;
into rooms" where the chairs are neat
and the floor carpetle>S; into .'kitch-
ems where the family live and the meals
are cooked and eaten. and the BOYS and
rlS are as blthe as the sparrows in
the thatch overhead. and see that it is
not 80 much wealth and learning. nor
clothing, nor servants. nor toll, nor
idleness. nor town, nor country, nor
stat on, As tone and temper that render
homes happy or wretched.-Dr. John
Hall.
Mr. D. A. Coffin is the most truth
full if not the most facet ou> hotel keeper
in Maine. He advertises on his en-
velopeS: The original and only third
class hotel-keeper in Maine where
everything ia Is TO Sut-tough beef
steak. dirty rooms, useless servants.
deblitated coffee. This house. of
worldwide bad reputation. is owned.
occupied and presided over by the
--latest man n the State. Satisfaction
not guaranteed; no money refunded.
Dilapidated stable in connection.
Everything warranted strictly shoddy."
-B0St0n Journal.