Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-06-12
TERMS---S2. 90 PER YEAR
ODDS AND ENDS.

Five million base ball bats have been made
this season.
Two diamonds have been found in Wis
consin, and now companies are organizing
to dig for more.
| A Northwestern writer asserts that there
are no venOmous snakes in The entire state
Of Minnesota.
Investigation has shown that the air In
the Houses of Parliament is dangerously
contaminated by sewer gas.
Two residents Of Webster county, Neb-
rsska, have rows of lightning rods on their
houses that cost 500 each.
| A Georgia hunter, sixty-ive years old.
says that since he began hunting he has
killed 9ol deer and 1S7 alligators.
A boy at Gera, Germany. died of blood
poisoning in consequence OF playing with
cat which had just killed rat.
Flax has been sewn in eight counties OF
Nebraska by way of experiment, to see II
1t will not be more profitable than wheat.
More new buildings are going up or are
contracted for in Boston than during any
spring since the confagatiOn in 1878.
| A valuable vein of semi-bituminous coal
Of unknown thickness has been struck near
SnydeTtOwn, in the Shamokin coal distrlct.
At recent meeting In Chelsea London,
for a charitable object, much emoarrass-
ment was caused by the refusal or laules 10
act with Lady Dixie.
Three boys received the remarkable SEN
tence Of ten years each to the State prison
| Of New Jersey for breaking into deserted
cottage at Atlantic City.
There are 5000 beer saloons In Paris.
Since they have become so numerous not so
/ many thirsty throats as formerly are cry
ing: "On to Berlin"
Two and half million pounds sterling has
been the average value for the past three
years of the Kimberly diamond mines In
South Africa.
Some West India negroes carry snakes
poison under their finger nails. A single
scratch from poisoned nail Will cause
death in few hours.
The sale of the Sanford collection Of pos
tage stamps in New York last week netted
great prices, some OF the rare stamps being
worth three hundred dollars.
Thirteen Southern capitalists have organ
lied cOmpany with 81, 600, 900 capital, aud
will build and operate eight iron furnaces
near Birmingham, Ala.
Every prisoner in the Massachusetts Re-
formatory at Concord has had his allowance
of tobacco cut off. This Is the beginning or
crusade against the weed.
A man in London has been arrested for
Systematically starving his aunt to death.
For wears it has been his custom to lock her
in room every other day without food.
The large Italian iron-clad Italia lately
made run of fOrty-seven and half miles
in two hours and twenty minutes. This
means an average speed OF close on eighteen
knots an hour.
A cad, Mr.. WedgewoOd, the etymologist,
tells us, is not the remainder OF cadet, as the
dictionaries say, nor a descendant OF the
Scotch caddie, but means the devil, ana Is
good old English.
The special mail delivery system is voted
to be a great annoyance by postal clerks.
/ - A l. ,hnr xuotn a
letters bearing its stamp while sorting thOus-
ands Of twO-centers.
Grave-rObbing on a systemized basis seems
to have been going on for some tlme at the
Wayne county, New York almshouse, and
. thorough investigation Is to be made by
the district attorney.
While making excavations In ruin on
the Appean Way, near Rome, three two
prong silver forks were found; which would
Indicate that all the old Romans, at least,
did not eat with their fingers.
A prominent New York physician, in an
, , address before the Academy of Science, ad-
, vocated the planting of shade trees on the
I street as means OF lessening the heat and
,, reducing its alarming mortality.
An Elkhart, Ind, farmer dug into large
mound on his farm and found the skeletons
of twenty-five bodies that had been buried
face downward, and the skulls of all had
been crushed in at the back.
e The Indians at MinnedOsa, BrOadview,
9 Fort QI'Appelle and other points In the
a Dominion are starving and 1aking over
swill barrels to get something TO eat: The
: question naturally arises, who fills the bar
. rels?
! The latest and most important society
news from St. Paul Is that Jo 10, the dog
, faced Russian boy, Is engaged to Kee-BOo.
the Michigan dOg-faced girl. The wedding
: will occur in New York in July.
y The colored men of Boston are raising
: money for a monument to VIM. Z. Nell,
through whose efforts the color Rhine" was
broken in the Boston schools and who was
the first colOred clerk in the postOffice OF
that city.
The city of Guatemala contains 5000 in.
habitants. Last winter FieDch opera
troupe played two months engagement to
5 crowded houses every night. Guatemala
y has electric lights, telephones, streetcars
N and good hotels.
o It is expected that the Grec.an canal, con-
a Meeting the CULTS of COrinth and Angina,
70 will be completed by the end OF the present
3 year. The canal will be less than three
D miles in length, but the deepest cuttings are
nearly 250 feet in depth.
A farmer named Newbern killed eight
Q large rattlesnakes on his farm near Scandia,
% Kan, one Gay last week. At one particular
" locality on the farm the snakes seem 10
y have taken I'D a claim, as quite number
M had been killed by other partles before.
Is The recent loss of the steamer Fcronia on
- the Dutch coast involved also that OF ship
y ment of s, ZOO, ,0O0, 900 needles, sent By -four
~ large manufacturers in Iserlohn to China
% There will doubtless be a "corner" on need
Ss les In the Celestial empire.
90 Considering the threatened invasion OF
% cholera it is announced that German phy
- scian has discovered that small coins are
10 10 important factors In the spreading OF dis
IL | hoa nd hoat nd yaQQtQbll
Q fungus in scrapings from the metal.
8 Joseph c, Barrett, of Newport, Pa, while
working in the woods, hung his vest on
~ bush. The woods caught IRE, and whel
~ Barrett went for his vest only the button
remained. His gold watch lay on the groun'
ticking STEADILY in spite OF the fire.
n O.. k,,+ unpan.