Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-01-13
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A JapaHeSe JuuSe lauely uneu U news paper man for not crediting an article clipped from contemporary.
 Nearly 600 newspapers in the United States bear the name of NeOs. of which thirty-four are located in Pennsylvania
 There is demand from China for 150 Christian missionaries at once. Con- verts are multiplying in all parts of the empire.
 An English lockmaker has construct ed a key which he says is capable of opening 22,600 patent lever locks, all of which differ in their combinations.
 Dr. Albert Thompson, a young Irish physician, has been presented with the Albert medal for removing poison in a case of diphtheria by sucking it away.
 M. de Lesseps is said to look wonder fully well, although for several months past he has been harassed by puny syn- dicates gotten up for the purpose of ousting him from his position as presi- dent of the 1Dteroceanic Canal associa- ton.
 Mir. George w. Childs, of Philadelphia, has added an interesting item to Ameri- can annals by his discovery that Com modore Stewart, grandfather of Charles Stewart Parnell, is the one who induced Joseph Bonaparte to buy land and build his house at Bordentown, N. J.
 A boy in Cleveland fell from a tree and dislocated his neck. A surgeon was sent for, who replaced the disjoint- ed vertebre so skillfully that the boy re- covered, and is to-day as we'll as ever. This operation has been frequently at tempted, but very seldom with success.
 Judging from paragraph now going the rounds of the medical press, the higher education of women does not conduce to connubiality and fecundity. Of 759 female college graduates only 196 are married. Of these, 66 have no chil- dren, and 130 have had 263 children, of which 292 are living.
 A well-known scientist says the feel ing of one while standing on high mountain or on the edge of deep abyss is to fly. Instances are noted where persons, unable to resist this impulse, have cast themselves headlong into dark, yawning chasms, in the belief that they would reach the bottom in safety.
 Of all the eminent jurists who have sat upon the Supreme Court bench of the United states from the organization of the government to the present time, only one of them has been impeached- Samuel Chase, in 1894. He was accused of unjust, tyrannical and arbitrary con- duct at certain trials, but was acquit- ted.
 By an automatic tea or coffee-pot used by the French army it is impossible to obtain drop of coffee unless the water is boiling. The water is underneath the coffee but when it boils it rises up through central tube and falls over the coffee or tea, percolates, goes down to the lower part of the apparatus, is warmed again and once more travels upward
 Near Odessa two Greek merchants by mistake purchased the same lot in cemetery. The matter was referred, after a warm dispute, to the District Judge, who decided first come, first served" and that whichever died first should have the coveted resting-place, it being understood that neither would take an unfair advantage of the other by conl- mitting suicide.
 The Prussian Ministry of Agriculture is just now engaged in prosecuting an interesting and thorough inquiry into the most advantageous way of dealing with the estates and agricultural pro- perties belonging to the State The ob- ject is to ascertain whether it would be most profitable to cut up and sell these properties outright or permanently to let them on lease
 Mrs. Livermore is an enthusiastic ad- vocate of cooperative housekeeping. She, with some fifty other families, has experimented with cooperative laun- dry, and has been able to reduce the cost of her washing and ironing to 27 cents dozen, including dresses and the most difficult pieces. She says the same economic results have been obtained in other departments of housekeeping.
 Mime. Adelina Patti will be married to Sig. Nicolini in June next-that is to say, in the legal period of ten months after her divorce from the Marquis de Caux. Nicolini's real name is Ernest Nicholas, and he belongs to humble French family. His wife, from whom he has just been divorced by mutual consent, and from whom he had been separated many years, is an Italian lady named Maria Annata.
 The ministers, it seems, trouble the librarians as much as any other class of persons. At recent conference of libra- rians in New York Dr. Bucl, Librarian of Union Theological Seminary, was asked how he got along. He said he was afraid that ministers were as bad as any one else, for since he had been lib- rarian more than 1000 volumes had been taken. ''One minister" he said, ''kept book twenty-three years, but finally returned it, with note to the effect that he needed the book no longer, as he had obtained better edition."
 A romantic marriage took place at Blakely day or two ago. Miss Mamie Haddock of Damascus was engaged to marry popular young society man of | Arlington Sunday. Last night Edward | $. Shepherd, former sweetheart of hers, paid call to offer his congratulations. | He laughingly said; Are you not sorry | you didn't marry me?' She replied: "Yes, when he proposed that they get n a t.riaH hn E,; |