Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-12
GI.I,ANINGS.

Spurgeon, the great London preach
er, has become n vegetarian,
Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy, is
teaching clocution in Little Rock, Ark.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina.
Is said to be the best dressed member
of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln, Just before he
died. was measured. and found to be
six feet four inches in height
1t is said. ~ the authority OF n drug
gist, that half n cents worth of aIocs
makes % cents worth of pills.
Senator Evarts in the Iloyt will con
test said: death may be, for all we
know, mans most rational state"
Mrs Sarah B. Cooper. cousin of
| Bob Ingcrsoll, is prominent contribu-
tor to the Pacific coast religious press.
A new photograph of Mrs. Langtry
from one taken at the age Of l6 is Il
present curiosity in the London print
shops.
The interest bearing national debt of
| Great Britain in 1854 was $500, OO3,-
| GOO, and the annual interest charge
Sl42, ,672, $50.
| London produces 30, 600 tons of SCOT
per annun, winch Is worth S2Jo,oOO,
| and is used for fertilizer at rate of
ten hundredwei ght per acre.
A, Ash Ford. station on the At
| lantic " Pacific Railway, in Northern
Arizona The water supply Is brought by
| ran a distance OF sixty miles and sold
Tor % cents per barrel.
The oldest book in the Concression-
a! Library Is said to be The Olive
Lear by one Hatser, OF Georgia,
| tuhe pook concocted ''lor the glory OF
uod ana the good ot mankind.
| Although as high as 25O, 900 alira-
| tor skins have been tanned in Il single
| year in the United States and Europe,
| ii is said there is not single tanner of
these hiaos IN the southern States.
a Nevada woman took a fall of 3Sj
feet of Il ledge the other day, brought
up IN tree top, helped herself out.
and went home and cooked dinner as
II nothing but circus procession had
passed by.
The dairy products of this country
| exceed the oat cron $3.50 OO) O0o tho
wheat crop 100000, 900, the cotton
| crop S22O, ,UOO,UU the product of iron
bars and steel S2J1, ,OOO,O 900, and the
pig-iron output Sil9, 9,OOO,O 900.
GLOW TO prepare SchuylkiU watorr
| is a lesson in sanitary science yiven ,o
Philadelphians. Tn. process e eIoh-
ornle. and consists of iiltering hoiIino
and packing in ice. The mud remain.
ing at the end of the experiment is not
hurtful.
The tronical oooscborrv cul,;vo,od
| in Florida, i, n fruit rather smaller
| than the Siberian crab annie and IL in
| shane like n nattcned 1tnhn. il cor-
| tains one hard seed. TIE tree which
| attains from ten to fifteen foot in boi,ht
Is very ornamental, but the fruit is of
| little account.
The birds of Louisiana, papers Of
that state saw. will soon bc citnrmirat-
ed. The coiored people there not only
make birds an article of food, but have
| begun to use their eggs for the same
purpose. The eggs OF partridgcs, rob-
ms, wrcns, mocking birds, and ali 9TH
ers that they can get their hands on.
| are eaten.
A teIogra,h oncrotor yho oo,;oa 4;
rec,Iy from The snnnJar u"nn ,rnn
writer il rcnnrieJ from No.hE;ih,o
Tenn. the Grst and onIv oncra,nr ;r
the world who h,. succoodod IN Ja;nn
This Ono niC,ht recently La rooaiuni ni
and copied $1,000 words Of urcss mat
ter, DELIVERING il TO the news editor in
handsome type- writer copv.
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uSeh TO be report "lhat o d John Ja-
oop As'or' "hoh 100 ieeolo 10 sur
.,ounu, ,r",, Wa regularly s"oJec'ed 70 'hiS
'',"'n,on'' w
raui flnkiianl, OF Mlllhridge, bind
man. mas loiloWcd lhc lobster business
ior zen years lis boat Is guided by
MS Wiie, Dut ne ha'Iis his traps, takes
OUT ms ioD'ters' puts on the bait AS