Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-26
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\ wagon load ot pumpkins was sold on
the street at lug Tavern, Fla. dav "r tive
ago fer so cents.
Ia Southern Louisiana zoo nr 800 feet
below the surface are strata of solid prIr,
crN >talllne sulphur. 100 feet in thickness
and of unknown extent
\ Kansas City man has constructed a vio
lin out of old wood which is pronounced by
experts to surpass the products of Suadi
yariu> in richness of tone.
\ German naturalist finds that the East
erH hemisphere affords 26g plants and fifty.
eight animals useful Ia man. while the West
"rn World contributes only fifrv-two plant,
and thirteen animals.
The Jackson tMich.l Wagon Company
ha> received an order for several wagons fol
the Russian government, 10 he shipped q
Odessa. RuSsi>. The order came through
the Russian vice consulate q; Washington.
The trees on Boston Common are again
ia'.-ird with their names. common and Sys-
trUatic. ~ was the case many wears age
when Gould. the naturalist, was alive. The
common thus becomes an Object lesson in
bprauy
The Latest explanation OF the fact that a
drunken man usually escapes injury by a
fall = that his nerve Cenirrs are paralyZed.
ll"nc" they are not affected by the shock Of
the fall. which, with a sober man. would
haN" acted violently upon the heart.
There j. man in Minneapolis whose
Quick"nrd compelled him 10 hand 10 his
father rnnfc-Sor $50 Ia send % party in
jamestown. D. T., from whom he had
wTunCfully taken tn. amount q year ~
mHTr ago.
\ pretty woman in silk. with fine purse
We'll filled. and whose blue eyes even the
E'azr of death did not al first hedim. leaped
from the top Of the Column of July" in
Paris few days ago and was killed. NJ
"n. no saw the body knew her name.
The drug clerk is not the only person
iiahi" Ia accidents with roiSons. A recent
cas-. i cited in .Jcannerctte. La. in which
= father OF two sick children gave the
medicines prescribed for each of them 10
the other thus killing both children.
\ Minnesota mill man me, hi, death in a
peculiar way He went Ia loosen the bran
in a deep hin. and. when looked for, only
hi> hnur- were visible. II is said that the
bran -mothered him quicker than water
would have done He was supposed to
have fallen in head first.
SAWYER Ha~ler in mill at Milton. up "n
the >u~qurhanna. Pa. wa, about To feed a
hungry circular saw with a water--oaked
log. when he caught a glimpse OF flsh in
rn,. hollow Further search showed no less
than eight big bass alive and iiouncing in
th., lng. which had been drawn up from a
pond.
Professor Rice. Of Wesleyan University,
i'm a recent lecture. told of a freshet al one
lime when the Connecticut river was fifteen
miles wide at Hartford. and 200 feet deep
N Middlrt"wm. The mountains between
I'M. latter citN and Mrridrn were Islands in
rn, river that run Ia the Sound in two
channels. the new one running over the
Walingford plains i'm New Haven.
Panoramic photographs III connection with
military surveying and the lik" are now
taken hI a simple French instrument called
the c,lindr"graph, 4 >rmi-Cirruar cylinder
having small lens in the center moves on
ar. axis. and i provided with dark slide OF
some material that bends without breaking.
When a view i to be taken the lens Is moved
from one side of the landscape 10 the other
pr Won Gallhorn. who had been greatly
troubled with insomnia. tells Of the method
which be- had found ctfectual for two years
i'm ,.Iriup il II consists In bandaging one
irs,. nm +, the knee with several layers of
W., calico. and covering these with sheet
of waterproof cloth. The procedure dilafes
tbt vessels of the leg and, by diminishing
the amount Of blood IN the head. induces
sleep.