Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-08
nj lSSING LINKS.

Ing at lady is an oircnse.
A Pennsylvania woman was run
over by locomotive on her Tooth
birthday.
Sixty thousand books and pamph-
let's have been published by Congress
since l77G.
An English church has Just been
built on the top Of Eggischorn. in the
Alps. 7,2OO feet above the sea level.
pleting the New York Cathedral by
the erection Of spire $50 feet high.
1t was witty Frenchman who, on
visiting Germany. exclaimed in horror:
Three hundred religions and only one
gravyr
A Bicnvillc cannon. with which In
dians were killed century ago, is sta
toned in front of police headquarters
in Montgomery. Ala.
More than 1900 kinds of tumblers
are known to the trade. There is q
great variety in beer glasses. the small
est being those on Coney Island, and
holding one-third of an ordinary glass.
Hogs blood is said to be now man
ufactured into buttons and similar ar
ticles, and the hard shell that covers
the cartilage of the foot is now sold to
parties who manufacture springs for
railroad cars.
Sarah Althca Hill. the woman who
pursucs Senator Sharon so rcmorseless-
ly. is said to bc no longer an object OF
interest in San Francisco. AT the late
rchcaring of the case the courtroom
was almost deserted.
A now species of bear has been dis
covered on Mount Shasta which 10
found in no other part OF the world.
1t is about the size Of u shepherd dog,
is white and very fcrocious. Three
have been killed lately. - Sacramento
(CdL) Union
Thc Western Reserve University, af-
ter letting girls into its medical depart
mcnt many years. now excludes four
candidates. The president says that
the best opinion now is that feminine
pupils in medicine and surgery ought
to be in separate institutions.
A native of Madagascar who studied
medicine in Edinburg and returned
home now has seventy Young men
studying under him, and large class
of women whom he is training for
nurses. He is in great favor with his
Queen, and is about to marry the Prime
Minister'S daughter.
DIR. +. Parmiy Brown SAYS the Sand
wich Islanders formerly had the sound
est teeth OF any people on the globe,
but their teeth have now begun to de-
cay rapdIy-an effect, it appears of
eating large quantities of salt. This
substance and sugar are leading facto-
rcs in the destruction of human teeth
at the present time.
Barnum says that those who think
the world Is going to ruin through rum
would sec their error if they coutd look
back fifty years at the drinking habits
of New England. He drank freely un-
Vii lSi7, and was then converted TO to-
tai abstinence by speech OF Cnapin's;
aud in 1860 Willard Parker scared him
so about tobacco that he has never
smoked since.
Morris CLARK, Of JohnstOwn. Pa, can
boast Of the longest and strongest and
hanLsomcst beard in the world. In
color it is rich. dark brown. aud its
is, OF course. proud of it. but does not
make any display, wearing the Won
dcrlu growth in a huge roll, part of
VIII ch Is hidden under his vest. He is
Il blacksmith by trade, and has for
years been employed in that capacity
by the Cambria Iron Company, yet has
preserved the beauty OF his beard
through all the flying sparks.
Some of the evOlutionists are trying
to make Us believe that Adam and Eve
were monkeys. Well, their genius for
getting into mischief. the amount of
mlschi they were able to commit
when they were turned loose in the
garden. and their general cussedncs."
all do point that way: but when we
read how drftly Adim lodged all re-
spOnsibiIity and laid all the blame on
the brethren, Eve may have
been the monkey; we won't deny it;
may e she was; but. as sure rs the
world stands and truth is eternal.
Adam was man. - BroOklyn Engte.
A gentleman vcrScd in the language
of the Celestial informs me that a very
faccti0us Chinaman, in the employ OF
ST. Paul tea firm ut the State fair
wrote and presented to the ladies who
made application for the same petite
billets-douX in Chinese. lilo was. with
out doubt. Il shrewd Celestial. With a
scrutiny at once quizzical and affec-
tionatc. he would inspect each OF his
fair petitioners, and then proceed to
write out some message that would
correspond, no doubt. with his idea of
the party Some 2O.JOO of the notes
OF this entcrprisIng young Oriental are
now in the possession of ladies from
the two cities. st. raul (Utnn.) Hs-
Ouspr- Pr.es
Ihe famous village OF totem poles at
Wrangel, lies along the beach. the
mountains rising high in the rear, with
snow on their tops. About dozen
white people live there. There are
about 200 native houses or huts. The
designs OF the totem poles are different.
On tho top Of one pcrchcd II rayeD-
they are all OF wood. and sometimes
the tree or log from which they are
made is followed out in the back
another tops off with a fish or bear,
and humor and gravity are cOmically
intermlngled One OF the simplest, and
yet most Interesting poles, has bear
on the top looking down with Il grin,
as much us to say, "llcre | am, high
and dry, and well out of your way"
Tracks of the bear are cut in the up
right pole-a foot and II half thick-on
three sides OF it, the toes are pointing
up. An Indian grave. built Of logs
laid up "corn cob houses" fashion, is
surmouuted by Il life-siHe wooden fig
ure that close ~ resembles an alligator,
although it is a mystery where these