Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-13
SilI.ANlNGS.

A Paris publisher is said to have the
skull of Richclcu carefully preserved
in velvet case.
The pearl fisheries of the Lower Cal
ifornia coast are said to have produced
SO, 900, 900 last year.
A Georgian claims to have perfected
Con,rivancc for running street cars
by quicksilver motor,
During the past sixteen years S75.-
UOO,OU0 worth of property has been de-
stroyod by fire in Canada.
A harpoon of the pattern made over
forty years ago was taken from whale
captured near Coos Bay recently.
General Gordon was never married.
He was a handsome man in face and
figure and of rare personal charm.
There are more than seven million
farmers in the United States, or nearly
onc-cighth of the entire population.
In some provinces of Brazil iron ore
is used in large quantities as building
stone, SO abundant and ready to handle
is it.
Iowa contains more persons who can
read and write in proportion to her
population than any other state in the
Union.
So high-priced have been peaches for
the past two seasons that 500 new
peach orchards have been set out in
Delaware within year.
An authority on the subject says that
q dog show is called a "bench show"
because the cage kennels in which dogs
are exhibited are located on benches.
There are in England over 800 600
cyclists, and the capital invested in the
manufacture of bicycles and tricyclcs
is $4,000, 900. employing 5000 per
sons.
A New York chemist asserts that in
every 100 pounds of green tea used in
this country the consumer drinks moro
than a half pound of Prussian blue and
gypsum.
The attendance in the public schools
OF England has risen in few years
from 1000, 900 to 10000 600. Juvenile
crime has greatly diminished in conse-
Qucnce.
There are published in Honolulu four
English daily newspapers, four English,
three native, one Chinese and one Port
ugucsc wceklics, and three English and
one native mouthlles.
Charles OConor enunciated the prin-
cip.e that "a reporter should get all
the news he can and give it to the
world, but lawyer should get all the
news he can and keep it to himself.
An infdel colony in Missouri, after
live years experience, is falling to
pieces. The people are continually
wranging, and "It's wise child that
knows its own father" in that town.
A congress of historical experts is
called ior early in September to decide
whether the set of bones held by Ha-
vana or the set held by san Domingo
is the true skeleton of the discoycrer OF
America.
One OF the business interests" of
San Francisco is the gathering of old
tin oil and fruit cans for use in the
packing Of matches. Collectors receive
4 cents each for them, and 10000 are
annually used.
NJ. Lauth, of Sevres, has, after ten
years OF Xperimentation, produced a
porcelain tar superior to the famous old
Sevrcs. 1t will take all kinds of glazes
and is susceptible of tho highest kinds
Of decoration.
Henry Clews has a collection of pict-
urrs worth in the neighborhood of
800 900. Dinners, he says, are the
highest and only rational way of en-
tertaining Balls he despises. He is
devoted to the opera.
The operation of the mechanical APP
plianccs in watch factory have be-
come so rapid and systematic that it is
possible to take the raw materials from
stock in the morning and have watch
running from them by noon.
Two years ago Professor O. Sars, of
Chrlstiana, received some mud taken
from the bottom of an Australian lake
Recently he placed the mud in a small
aquarium and produced from it quite a
fauna OF fresh water invertebrates.
No machine of travel that man ever
invented can equal the speed of wild
fowl. The canvas-back duck flies two
miles a minute. The broadbills 90
slightly slower. The teal can fly at the
rate of 100 miles an hour; the wild
goose goes abouty ninety.
The lean part of good beef should be
Of bright red color, with flakes of
white fat through it, not larger than
pins in thickness, with white creamy
layer OF fat on the outside. Very lean
beef that is free from fat will be apt to
be tough and tasteless.
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
50 near the minister that he can see
whether or not | am listening"
The saddle which General Grant rode
in from all the battles from Fort Henry
in February, 1862, until the surrender
at APpomattox, is now the property of
Colonel A. ii. Markland, to whom it
was presented by the General himself.
and it is kept in the Soldiers Home at
Dayton, Ohio.
John Leyeridge, born in New York
CITY in 1890, admitted to the bar in
1872, and soldier OF he war of 1912,
Is the oldest member of the New York
bar. He is still, at nnety-f,e years OF
age, IN active practice, and has son
siNty-eight years OF age, VINO is also
lawyer OF repute.
In France criminals under sentence
Of death are never told of the date fix
ed Tor their death They are informed
Of nothing until the fatal morning, when
they are awakened to be led forth to
execution. which event usually takes
place about O'Clock, or ia the winter
season as soon as it is light
The diary of Lieut.. Lockwood, of the