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the first to die.
Brick Pomerov writes from London
that English capitalists are spelling to
tunnel the Rocky mountains.
There is plot afoot to crush poker in
Europe. The st. James Gazette and
also certain officials are encouraging it.
Mrs. Ellen McCann, of Tacoma, W.
T., is well thought of there because she
has recently given birth to baby weigh
ing twenty-five pounds.
A good-sized hog which jumped over
board in Lake Erie when the steamer
was q mile off shore landed in little
over an hour in pretty good condition
Isaac Murphy, the colored American
jockey, is the nearest approach we have
to Fred Archer his annual earnings be-
ing placed at from $4,000 to $4,000
j. w. Britton, of Cleveland, has re-
ceived handsome gold medal from the
Prince of Wales in recognition OF the
merits of his machine for the leyeling OF
iron and steel rolled plates.
The locomotive cow-catcher was in
vented bv L. b. Davis, who is still living
in Ohio. He did not make anything
out of his invention, being lacking III
business tact, as inventors usually are.
Two years ago Baroness Alquier left
81. 100000 to the city of Paris for an
asylum to be named after her. The
municipality has now purchased park
of 275 acres and will erect the asylum
therein.
Hrr William Herr, the famous Berlin
manufacturer of ladies' cloaks, recent
ly celebrated the completion of tho
100, ,000th cloak of this seasons make
with grand banquet to all his en-
ploycs.
The engineer of an Alabama coal
mine got into Il discussion about reli-
gion with his fireman. and the water
ran out of the boiler and an explosion
followed. While four or five men were
killed. neither of the two mon was hurt.
A Cedar Springs, Mich, young man
called OH young woman the other eve
ming and fell asleep in his chair with
one arm around her waist When he
awokc he found that he was embracing
churn, and that the girl had gone.
Joe Demones, fifteen years old, and
black. went down to the landing at JEFF
fersOnville, Ind, TO see n steamboat 60
out As he stood looking she blew her
whistle viciously, and Immediately the
boy lost the power of speech and hasn't
spoken since.
A negro we'll digger in Leesburg. Ga,
was alarmed at the disappearance OF
his crowbsr which he was using in the
bottom of well. Investigation show
ed that thin crust of stone was be.
tween him and pool of cold water
tvaniv faat in Hionaiar
A young man in Winston county,
Mississippi. concluded he would marry
in brand-new suit without paying for
it. He went to a merchant, obtained
the clothes on credit, stood up in them
and returned them the next day. claim,
ing that they did not lit him.
A Californian is sueing the New
York Central Railroad Company and
the Central Sleeping Car Canpany fol
$4,000 damages-S40,000 each. His
complaint is that while he was on his
wedding tour he got into an alteration
with sleeping-car porter, and the por
ter knocked him down.
John Mackay is said to have lately
squeezed $2,000,00O out of San Francisco
mining-stock operators. lie caugh
three biz operators short of 2O,OO(
shares apiece of Consolidated Virginia
and gave them such n twist US has no
been known in the California specula
tive camp for many year.
A parti-colored baby is reported t,
have been born recently at Aberdeen
Miss. Its father is very black negro
its mother is a light muiatto. Half tn,
childs body is black: the other hal
nearly white; the hair on one side of it
head is kinky; on the other, light an'
straight, while one eye is black and the
other blue.
William Lockport Hunter. the famous
Texan hero, who was one of the four
teen survivors of the massacre of Go!ad,
died few days since at Austin, Tex,
He was also one of the three men who
left the fated Alamo in the hope OF
securing help for the gallant garrison.
At the time of his death he had reached
his s0,h year.
Erastus Brooks, who died the Other
day in New York with something more
than million, wisely guarded against
the lawyers becoming his residuary
legatees by dividing his estate among
his children long before his death, re
serving for himself Il mere competency
20 secure the comforts due to age anC
declining years.
Lately redwood tree was cut on the
south fork of Elk River, Humboldt
county, CAL, which was sawed into
twenty-one cuts, four of which were
sixteen feet long, twelve We're twenty
feet long, and five were twcnty-fonr fee
long, making the total length 424 feet
An accurate tally at the mill showed
that the twenty-one logs furnished 79,
736 feet of lumber.
Henry NJ. Stanley is going to publish
another book. He has grown fat an,
gray since he was last IN this country
he attracts attention by the oddity o
his dress. An old brown Derby hat o
q style several years gone by, a dingy
brown overcoat, ..loud" check trousers
an Old-fashioned linen collar, and ;
general air of neglect are marked feat
ures of his appearance.
Isaac Simonds writes to the Bostor
press as follows: 81 am negro, full
blooded, and was born in slavery.
am perplexed and troubled because
am rapidly turning white. think tha
it is a disease, but | don't feel sick
There is change every day in my
color. would like to have you NEE
a number of scientific men who hav,
invited 10 see me and tell me what they
think"
The duke of Argyll. the father o
Lord Colin Campbell, is small man
with rather ignoble face and lot o
bushy white hair. He wears usually
rusty frock coat and his trousers are III
ways about five inches too short. Hi
estates in Scotland are not very produc
tive. in fact, he is a very proud but ex
ceedingly poor member, OF the British
aristocracy, and has the, distinction o
being very generally disliked.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is II
years old, but walks vigorously. and
though at times depressed, she converse
usually with her characteristic sens
and clear judgment, and with frequen
touches of her natural humor. Though
since her husbands death she expresse
herself as considerably more intereste,
on the other side of Jordan than upoi
this earth she enjoys hale old age ant
maintains her cheerfulness.
Count Hochberg. the new Intendant
General of the Roval Theaters of Berlin