Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-08-13
GLEANINGS.

uounceu 'Geeren.
According to the London Times the
price of diamonds has steadily fallen
from $15 to 1915 per karat.
Mr.. Charles Loder, England's larg-
est personal taxpayer, is assessed on
property of that description at $115,-
100000
Railway loans constitute almost the
entire Prussian debt of G274, 445, 100.
The charge on this debt amounts to
$11,250,000 for interest.
A Louisville gentleman had the first
tooth of his grandchild mounted on
gold pin and wears it on his scarf as
an ornament. nt.-LouasuiHe (Ky.) Coatr-
ser-Joatr7a0l.
M. Renan is photographed as man
of almost repulsive exterior, who COM
pensates by the charm of his manners,
his fascinating smile, and his agreeable
conversation.
When the President wished that the
polygamist Mormons could be 'like
the rest of u.s. he seems to have gone
to an extreme, since he is himself
bachelor. RhtladelOhia Ledger.
Maurice Kingsley son of Charles
Kingsley, the novelist, has made for
tune in silver mines in Colorado, and
is about to settle in New Haven, Conn,
for the purpose of educating his chill
dren.
In the erection of new buildings last
year Chicago is credited with having
spent more money than any other
Western city, Minneapolis ranking
second, st. Paul third, and St. Louis
fourth.
The curfew law is rigidly enforced in
Albany, Ore. Young men under 81
and ladies under Is must be under
cover by 9 o'clock at night unless they
have legitimate business out.-San
Francisco Call.
A theory new and novel is that the
vast depressions of the ocean beds are
to be accounted for by supposing that
the moon broke away from the earth
more than fifty million years ago. The
basins are the scars then made.
1t is stated that the practice among
reformed inebriates is to take advan-
tage OF the bracing properties of tea,
''thus repudiating, says 4 medical
paper, ''absolute teetotalism and
adopting the plan of total tea-ism."
San Francisco City Hall is furnished
with water from a reservoir placed on
the roof. Recently several very large
and many small fish were discovered in
the tank, although it is shown that
none were ever put in there by any
person.
A ledge of white stone, which some
what resembles marble, and is suscep-
tible of a high polish, exists in Para
disc Valley, Nevada. When quarried
it is said to be much lighter and softer
than ordinary rock, but hardcns upon
exposure.
John Leveridge, Esq, of New York,
is said to be the oldest lawyer in the
United States. He was admitted to the
bar in 1911, and fought in the war with
England the following year. Only a
few days since he argued case in
court.
Col. T. W. Higginson finds it neces-
sary to deny that he ever said of George
Eliot that ''if she had ever held a dead
baby in her arms she would have
wanted something better to console
her than the philosophy of Herbert
Spencer
When Mr.. Cleveland went to select
pew in the Washington church which
he attends, he was asked what part of
the building he would like to sit in.
"Well," he said, II don't want to be
so near the minister that he can see
whether or not am listening.''
The Andanian Islanders believe that
their deity lives in big stone house,
fn a ch,;,,
small body of heretics assert that the
deity's wife is red shrimp, but they
are regarded as of little account, and
are vigorously prosecuted on general
principles.
A writer in New York paper de-
nies DR.. Talmage's assertion that
Daniel Webster never used tobacco.
The writer says Mr.. Webster used to-
bacco moderately for smoking, and
even for chewing, during the greater
part of his life, and was guilty of some
verses in praise of it.
A prominet surgeon, not long a resi-
dent OF Buffalo, says that he is sur
prlsed at the amount of cancer existing
IN this otherwise unhappy community.
He says that in q two years resid ence
here, practicing general surgery, he
has encountered over $50 cases of can
cer.-Bmtalo E1press.
The house in London which Dickens
describes in 'David Copperfeld'' as
containing an extraordinary staircase,
down which David describes himself as
tumbling and having at the time
vague impression that somebody was
falling downstairs, is now occupied by
William Black, the novelist.
Oriental proverbs give an idea of the
estimation in which Herat is held in
the Oriental mind. "Khorasom," runs
one, sis the oyster shell of the world
and Herat is the pearl, (Which is the
most splendid city in the world? If
you answer truly, you must say Herat,"
said another when the city was at the
height of its splendor.
New York men have taken to wear
ing 60utonnicreS of late, and flower
stands have sprung up from one end of
the city to the other Every other man