Morris tribune., 1886-08-04
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La Nature claims that a machine o.
one-horse power would keep 27,000,00C
watches going.
There are said to be more than one
hundred tlourishing newspapers in
Northern Dakota.
Gypsum, in paying quantities, and g
ledge OF slate tit for roofing purposes
have been found near Phoenix, A. T.
The wife of Joseph Bullock, of Syra
cuse, n. Y, for the third time in foul
years has presented her husband with
twins.
William L. Visscher. the humorist,
has been appointed chief clerk in the
surveyor generals office of Wyoming
territory.
1t costs the English Government
$4,000 yearly to furnish policemen to
guard the mansion of Lord Kenmare al
Killarney.
The consumption per head of spirits
in Scotland is tiyefold what it is in
England. but then the Scotch keep the
Sabbath better.
Queen Regent Christina of Spain has
decided to wear mourning on all occa-
sions. The only jewels she wears are
two gold bracelets.
The agricultural papers of India are
inveighing against the plague of goats
there. There are something like four
teen million goats in the Presidency of
Madras, and it is alleged that not only
have they destroyed young forest trees,
but reduced, through the annihilation
of misunderstanding herbage, many
of the watercourses to dry ravines.
There is an old colored woman living
on Dry Creek, Cal, with her son, who
has arrived at the extraordinary age of
10 years. She can walk around with
out support, and has q good appetite.
Her eyesight is almost gone. 1t is said
that this aged woman looks every year
that she is credited with, and could tote
a good-sized child around during the
revolution.
In lecture on the microscope, Mr.
John Mayall said that historians were
almost unanimous in asserting the
great antiquity Of the instrument, but
he thought the claim would have to be
abandoned. After carefully reviewing
the evidence, he found that sit was GER
tain that the invention of the micro
scope was not anterior to the latter part
of the sixteenth century" The lecturer
exhibited over 200 microscopes of var
ious forms.
A Connecticut Valley paper-making
firm sent to the Paris Exposition blank
book weighing 200 pounds, and having
5000 enormous pages, rs sort of uni
versal autograph album. Only one
fourth of its pages were filled in Paris,
after which it served alta local fair, and
last year was sent to New Orleans,
where it was filled. II has now been
returned to Holyoke, Mass. and will be
exhibited. 1t contains $4,000 names,
some well known.
The late Miss Katharine Bayard, the
Philadelphia Press tells, had Oscar
Wilde introduced to her when that
young man was in Washington. twas
in the afternoon, and two brilliant So
cial events were to occur that evening.
Said she: "Mr. Wilde, will you 90 to the
reception tonight" WELL" he re-
piled, ''if am not too much fatigued
after my lecture" A short pause fol-
lowed, and then he said: miss Bayard,
of course you will be at the receptionP"
"Well, came the answer, ''if am not
too much fatigued after your lecture!''
War horses, when bit in battle, trem-
BILE in every muscle and groan deeply,
while their eyes show deep astonish-
ment. During the battle Of Waterloo
some of the horses, as they lay upon the
ground, having recovered from the first
agony of their wounds, fell to eating
the grass about them, thus surrounding
themselves with circle of bare ground,
the limited extent of which showed
their weakness. Others were observed
quietly grazing on the field between the
two hostile lines, their riders having
been shot off their backs, and the balls
flying over their heads and the tumult
behind, before and around them caused
no interruption to the usual instinct of
their nature.
In the little village of Mount Pleas
ant, in Staffordshire, England, is to be
found a child whose extraordinary
growth excites great wonder. Little
Alice, as she is humorously called, is
but 4 years of age, yet turns the scale at
$50 pounds-the circumference of her
waist being no less than five feet, while
her hight is four feet, so that literally
she is broader than she is long. She is
bright, intelligent, and remarkably
pretty, her head being crowned with
mass of golden hair. Her size does not
interfere in the least with her activity,
as she may often be seen playing with
the other children of the village or
wandering in their company through
the country lanes. Her appetite is
enormous.
The oldest editor in Connecticut is A.
e. Burr of the Hartford Times, who has
been at the head of that paper for forty
seven years, before which he was on the
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