Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-29
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men in prison than any other state.
There are no less than IL, $40 women
engaged in giving musical instruction
in England.
A physician of Hammonton, N. j.,
has four sons who have adopted the
medical profession.
Alfalfa roots in California have been
known to penetrate fourteen feet to-
ward the center of the earth.
Vaccination is carried out so strictly
in the Prussian army that not a,soldier
has died of small pox since 1875.
DR.. Talmage rejects the revised Bible
and says he has become familiar with
the old one and will take no other.
Alexander the Great was born in the
year 365 B c. He rcigned eleven
years aud few months, dying at Ba-
bylon.
Julius Caesar was born 100 years be-
fore the beginning of the Christian era.
He was iifty-six years of age at the
time of his assassination.
Miss Braddon, the story writer is
Mrs. John Maxwell. She is rich. and
lives in n historic old mansion at Rich
mond, suburban village of London.
The st. Louis Court House dome
contains some paintings by Winner.
which are valued at several thousands
of dollars. but which are going to de-
cay through neglect
According to the view of number
of men in the rubber business the fac
torres Of the United States could easily
double their yearly production without
increasing their plant.
A queerly pictured stone, two by two
and half feet in size, was taken from
granite ledge at Berlin. Wis. On the
surface of the stone is q picture of a
tall tree and tamarack swamp.
Mark Twain told the Vassar College
students that his usual price for a read
ing was $780, but that there he was
quite satisfied to take 30 cents and get
the other Si95 80 in looking at the girls.
The richest colored man in Philadel-
rhia is John Mckee, n rcal-estate deal
cr, who is estimated to be worth be-
tween 100000 and 100000. There
are two or three others in the same
city whose fortunes run up into the
hundred thousands.
The white of an egg is stated to be
the best application for soothing burns
and scalds. 1t may be poured over the
wound, and forms at once varnish
which excludes the air. 1t is also far
more cooling than the usual applica-
tion of sweet oil and cotton.
A correspondent of an exchange says
that George William Curtis's hair and
whiskers are now gray and left to run
riot, like avid vine in autumn; his
eye is faded, and the lines of care and
years have ploughed up his fallow face
and buried his brilliant smile.
The Indian Medical Gazette records
the deaths of seven shepherds in the
Belgaum district from being struck by
hailstones of the size of cocoanuts. A
large number of animals wcre,killed by
the storm, which. from the accounts.
produced missals quite as dangerous as
the Russian cannon balls.
An Italian ship has been shcathed
with glass plates, east like iron plates,
so as to fit the hull, to take the place
Of copper sheathings. The joints of
the plates are made water-tight by the
use of waterproof mastic. The advan-
tages claimed for glass over copper
are its insensibility to oxidation and
its exemption from incrustation.
The late Charles O'Conor after q
visit to Ireland, began to spell his
name with a single a. because, as
Judge DAILY suggested when asked the
reason, his royal forefather had done
so. YES" said bystander. .the
Irish Kings had always been so poor as
never to be able to make both mn $
meet.
The best quality Of charcoal is made
from oak. maple, beach. and chestnut.
Wood will furnish, when properly
charred, about 20 per cent of charcoal.
A bushel of charcoal from pine weighs
~ pounds; one from hard rood weighs
30 pounds; 100 parts of oak make near
ly % of charcoal, red pine about 22,
white pine %.
Without doubt the pumpkin pie was
originally evolved in New England; but
Just where the pumpkin itself was first
discovered in wild state Is disputed
point in geographical and historical
botany, but perhaps the vine which Do
Soto found growing on the gulf coast
OF Florida was the progenitor of our
best pies.
A little girl while roofing up somo
punches ofvioless on the highest point
OF Maryland Heights, which overlooked
Harper's Ferry discovered three pieces
OF pig lead. weighing altogether $50
pounds. The lead has been identified
as formerly belonging to John Brown.
1t Is known that Brown received con-
siderable quantities of lead just before
he made his raid into Virginia.
Jinks-I don't believe will be home
before II o'clock tonight. my dear.
You see it is initiation-night at our
lodge. Mrs. Jinks-You expect to be
home before II, then, suppose? Jinks
o, yes; about II or half-past. Mrs.
Jnks-Well, in that case you will be
awake and don't need the key. Jinks
The kcyP Mrs. Jinks-No. The
masque ball closes about midnight.
Jinks didn't 60.
The words midnight and noon have
purely local character, like the words
evening and morning. At a given in-
stant it can be o hours on the whole
earth if we have agreed to designate
this given instant everywhere with this
number, but there can be midnight
only under one meridian at the abso-
lutte instant, so the words midnight
and noon are to be avoided when
speaking OF universal time.
1t is understood that the appoint
mcnt of Carl Schurz rs financial agent
and attorney Of the foreign bondbold-
ers Of the Philadelphia, New York and
Buffalo Railroad was the result Of rec
concentrations of Henry Willard, who