The Columbus journal., 1885-09-09

News Notes.
"L1ou1D gunpowder" is the lates,
invention.
JAPANESE laws compel fish to b,
sold alive.
BERLIN hotels are using pape,
(mache) plates.
The Mormon church architect il
named Angel, and he is polygsmist
ARTIFICIAL human ears are beina
made of celluloid, . recent inyentiou
A GEkMAN doctor claims to have
invented . machine for looking into
the brain.
RHODE ISLAND retains the greatest
density Of population Of any state In
the Union.
In Montreal Q man 10 not allo wed
to work at the shoe business unless
he 10 vsccinated.
TwENTY-EIaHr states have adopted
laws restricting the practice OF med.
icine to educated persons.
LIGHT frosts were reported on the
eastern division Of the Omaha road
last week, but no damage.
BONES quickly dissolve in sea water,
and consequently they are seldom
found in ocean dredgings.
TIE children Of Queen Victoria
now take 100000 year from the
purse of the British people.
PAPER is taking the place Of wood
in the manufacture of lead pencils.
Gas pipes are also made of paper.
In the revised Bible, published at
Oxford, only three printers errors
have as yet been discovered in all the
editions.
TWENTY-FIVE cases of small-pox
were reported the other day at Mon
tresl and seventeen deaths from the
disease on the same day.
The infant child of Wesley Brady,
living near Knoxville. Iowa, crswled
to an uncovered well the other even
ing, fell in and was drowned.
The supreme court Of British COL
umbia is the only place in America
where the judges and lawyers wear
the wigs and gowns Of English usage.
The newest thing in musical in
struments is "duplex strung violin,
by which, it is claimed, Q tone is pro-
duced equal to two ordinary instru-
ments.
The total number of immigrants
who arrived at the seven principal
ports of the United States during
July was 2S,3O4, and for July, 1884,
the number was 32,772.
Mr.. BoYLEs, an old resident of
Madison county, Iowa, committed
suicide the other night by hanging
himself in his bedroom, near Win
terset. Cause unknown.
MILO WHITNEY from LaSalle, ILL.,,
was recently robbed of $500 by four
confidence operators at Valentine.
The thieves were arrested but in
some way made their escape.
GRANVILLE SERVER, q carpenter, Of
Lincoln, Neb., committed suicide the
other night by shooting himself. He
leaves a wife and one child. Tempo
rsry insanity believed to be the cause.
GARDNER, HOLMES & Co.'S. furni-
ture factory in New York was de-
stroyed by fire the other morning,
causing q loss Of 100000. John
Ennis, a fireman, was killed by fal-
ling walls.
Miss MARY JUSTIN is clerk Of the
First National Bank of Bloomsbury,
Pa. She has the privilege of signing
her name to bank notes "for presi-
dent" the latter officer having nearly
lost his sight.
AN Aroostook, Me-, paper claims
a woman, resident since 1881, who
is in full possession of her faculties,
and has not visited q neighbor or
been in any house save her own In
twenty years.
A DISPATCH has recently been re-
ceived at London stating that cholera
has appeared at Nsgasski, Japan, and
that the presence of the scourge has
created great excitement. especially
among foreigners.
DANIEL CHANDLER, . car inspector
for the Union Pacific railroad was in.
stantly killed the other evening by
being run over by box car near the
freight depot, Omaha. He leaves .
wife and five children.
H. H. WINCHESTER, q travelling
man, representing the Minnesota
Furniture Company of Minneapolis,
suicide at Sheldon, H., the
,ther evening. There was no ap-
parent cause for the act.
DIR. A. s. HALL, a well-known ply
'ician of Carlisle, Iowa, was run over
" the cars in the Rock Island yards
he other night in Dee Moines, mang-
ing his left leg frightfully. He died
he next day after the accident.
RIPLEY, assistant ticket agent Of tho
New Albany, Chicago and