The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-23

and 1920 in flax.
In Mexico, as in Spain and other
Southern countries, a lady retains her
maiden name after marriage, and,
though she annexes to it that OF her
husband by means of "de," she is
universally known by her own family
name.
There is church being built in
Michigan in which the seats will be
open chairs of cherry, mahogany fin
ished, with II tilting-back, each seat
provided with hat, shawl, cloak,
book, umbrella and cane rack, and a
foot-rcst
English postage stamps are all OF
one color, and in consequence much
confusion to the Post Office Depart
ment and to letter writers in general is
reported. An agitation in favor of diff
fercnt colors for stamps of different
value is on foot.
So important have French academi-
clans found salt to be that animals fed
on flesh deprived of its saline qualities
died of starvation. There was plenty
of nutriment in the food, but there was
no medium for its solution and absorb
ton and hence it was useless.
Two ounces of soda dissolved in a
quart of hot water will make ready
and useful solution for cleaning old
painted work preparatory to repaint-
ing. This mixture, in the above pro-
portions, should be applied when warm
and the woodwork afterward washed
with water to remove all traces of the
soda.
1t was q Frenchman who wrote:
What is womanp For q painter,
model for doctor, a subject; for n
peasant. housekecper; for Partisan,
a dowry; for naturalist, female; for
an Albanian, beast of burden; for n
Roman, a citizeness; for schoolboy,
an angel; for an honest man, COM
panion.
1t is seriously proposed to provide
each night policeman in England with
a large dog. 1t has been matter of
surprise to us that this has not been
done before. 1t is difficult to compre-
bend how an officer can dog the steps
of criminal when he has no dog. The
dog supplies a long-felt want.-Teras
Stttings.
Colonel Cash, the notorious South
Carolina man, makes the assertion that
in every regular duel fought in the
United States the man with the fewer
syllables in his name always killed his
antagonist. He adds, moreover, that
it has been so in all history, from the
time of David and Goliah to that of
Burr and Hamilton.
The people of England and Scotland
are, remarks the Spectator, multiply
ing so fast that pessimists may well be-
excused for feeling some anxiety as to
the future. The population of tho
kingdom, which in 1915 was Is, 900, 900,
is now 36, ,00O-that is to say, it has
grown more in the last seventy years
than in al the untold ages of the pro-
vious past.
Nearly $500 people have been arrest
ed in London the past year for assaults
upon the police. This evidence of the
increasing boldness of criminals, COM
bined perhaps with the greater activity
of dynamiters, has weaned the authori-
ties from their stubborn conservatism,
and the night police have at last been
allowed to go armed into the slums if
they choose.
The handsome wooden frame carved
by the lady students of the Cincinnati
School of Design especially for the
| White House portrait of Mrs. Hayes
has been taken down and slowed away
in the garnet of Mr.. Arthur's temper
airy residence in Washington. The
White House folks say its removal was
necessary because the carving caught
the dust and was beginning to turn
yellow.
Between Damascus and Jerusalem Is
said to be tribe of about 5000 Israel
ties, who have probably been there
since the beginning of the Christian
era. They have neither city nor town,
but live in tents, and speak the Hebrew
language among themselves, but use
the Arabian with strangers. They have
remained, like the primitive races, ex-
clusively tillers of the soil and warri-
ors. They 60 armed from head to
foot.
The eucalyptus tree has hitherto
been in favor for its anti-malarial prop
critics, which are especially familiar in
Australia, where it is one of the Hottest
of timber trees. 1t has, however, lost
its favor in the province of San Pedro,
Brazil, from the belief that it stimu-
lates the generation. of poisonous
dragon fly, which attacks all living
creatures, to whom its sting is fatal in
few minutes. The destruction of all
eucalyptus trees has, therefore, been
ordered in San Pedro.
There are great differences in the
average growth of some of the more
common trees. In twelve years the
white maple increased one foot in di-
ameter and thirty feet in height; ash
leaf maple or box alder, ono foot and
twenty feet; white willow, one foot and
half and fifty feet; yellow willow,
one foot and half and thirty-five feet;
blue and white ash, ten inches in diam
eter and twenty-five feet in height;
Lombardy poplar, ten inches and forty
feet; black walnut and butternut, ten
inches and twenty feet.
In Formosa there is not much sick
ness, but when man is i'll they string
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