The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-14
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in Congress are Washington, Taylor,
Grant, Arthur and Cleveland.
1t is said that about 10, 900 900 crowns
yearly are sent home to the fatherland
by Swedes dwelling in America.
Mrs. Gen. Fremont has taken house
at Washington and will remain year
among her old friends at the capital.
The conscience fund" ut Washing
ton, begun in 1927, now amounts to
S220,O00, and is increasing every year.
Ignite may be readily pressed into
bricks for burning by the addition of a
little tar, or fluid pitch, OF asphalt.
Dr. Pesyra, of the University of Mchi-
gan, demonstrates that water puriiies it.
self by freezing to the extent of 93 per
cent.
The Italian bee is said to be the
gentlest of the various kinds and to
work on greater variety of plants than
any other
In the United States every 200th man
takes college course, in England every
500th, in Scotland every Cloth and in
Germany every 213th.
The United States have nearly three
times as many doctors as England, and
nearly four times as many as France in
proportion to the population.
Harry Brownlee, OF Adair county,
Iowa, has eaten twehty-three big Gu
cumber pickles in four minutes, and
therefore claims to be the champion
pickle-eater of the state.
Hot water is good for clocks as well
as human beings. An East Saginaw
woman boiled the works of refractory
clock for two hours the other day, and
since then the timepiece has done good
service.
Nov that l am getting old and can
climb the hills no longer" says Mr..
Ruskin, ''my chief pleasure is to go to
the theatre" Theatre-going with him,
he sassy, ''is one of the pleasures that
have least worn out"
Beavers on Fall Creek. near Yelling
ton, Kansas, have cut down 100 trees
last winter, some of them eighteen
inches in diameter, floated some of the
logs nearly mile down the stream, and
built a complete dam across the creek.
1t has been ascertained that the great
Jumbo was still child, the bones still
being cartilaginous in part. and the
public will never know how he might
have looked if he had attained his
growth.
Citizens of Augusta, Ga, are talking
about resorting to force to drive the
Chinese out of town. 1t has long been
the headquarters of Chinese immigra-
ton south, and there are hundreds
there; and many new arrivals and the
promise of more seem likely to result in
u decided anti-Chinese movement.
Mr.. b. p. Shillaber (Mrs. Parting ton),
writing to the Boston Gazette his remin-
iscences of the late j. ii. Paine, miser
and musical critic, recalls that the latter
set the town aghast on the occasion of
Jenny Linds debut in New York by
audaciously declaring that the illustri-
Gus singer had "flatted" some of her
notes; in which criticism he was proved
to be correct.
Butter, rs has been developed by re-
cent discussions on oleomargarine, has
its origin among the Scythians, Thra-
clans and Phrygians. After they had
become acquainted with the manner of
making it, 1t was only used as medi-
cine or as an ointment in the baths, but
not as an article of food nor in cookery.
1t was always in an oily state, and not
firm like our butter.
Some of the best corn lands in India
are the bottoms of ponds which have
been drained, but in certain of these the
working of the soil on warm days causes
IN intolerable itching, followed by burn
ing pain in the skin for some days. The
cause of this is found to be the minute
spicules of sponges which once grew in
the pond and remain in enormous
abundance in the dust.
The five states of Delaware, Colorado,
Florida, Nevada and Oregon combined.
have not so great population by about
100000 souls as the city of New York.
Yet New York has only eight representa-
tives in Congress, while the five states
have sixteen besides ten Senators. Vir-
ginia now has the same number of Con-
gressmen as she had in 1879, when there
were only sixty-five members of the
House.
lHcrc is tTOuDlc Ill Derlll because Unc
latest pattern of repeating-rifles adopted
in the German army has been surrepti-
tiously conveyed to the French Govern
ment. The evidence goes to show that
II Saxon officer is the guilty party, and
it will 60 hard with him if he is caught.
This is one of the little difficulties in
separable from the kind of intrenched
camp business now being done by the
principal nations of Europe. Pending
q renewal of the fighting the several
Governments pilfer one another's mill
tary secrets, inventions, plans OF
fortresses, etc.
John Throp thinks that the new pas
sion flower, Constance Elliott, will
probably prove an acquisition. Its color,
pure white, with just n suggestion OF
purple at the base of its corolla, is in its
favor, but its chief advantage over the
old pessifora c9rulia. from which il
springs, is its longer period of bloom.
1t flowers when the vine is much smaller
than the old kind and consequently
much earlier when planted out, and will
continue all the latter part of summer
up to hard frosts. 1t will probably be
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