The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-14

| wv ell, my ueaT, lfeateu ln1S one pretty
well, didn't Ip''
Better than sometimes, Jules" she
answered.
Wonderful man for 90 bar n few
days, rs the Emperor William is, and
obstinately us he persists in doug every
thing as he used to do it twenty years
ago, save go riding, | hear" says the
London World, that he is in an extreme
| ly precarious condition, and that any
day the candle may go out. The once
broad, full chest has quite fallen in; his
voice has become so weak, and comes
from so far back in the throat, that it is
very difficult to catch up his utterances;
and he is very. very lottery on the legs"
In the distribution of slang American
| phrases do tell" and II want to know"
are confined to New England. as that
SO, )" n heightened 'indeed," is to the
unrefined American what 'so' is to the
German. IT is capable OF conveying
dozen different meanings 1t was also
in New England that 'budge" was Sc
duced from its goc.l old Saxon meaning
and conveyed into Il synonym of "inti-
mate" Bulge was never Il pretty
word, and when it appeared in such
sentence as ''She and your sister are
quite bulge" it sounded more unwield.
~ than ever. It has still another slang
mcaning-when Il gentleman is intoXi-
Gated it is deiicately said of him that he
is full of bulge"
A remarkable feat in book renovation
has Just been completed by French
man named Lahonton. He had sent
him a copy of Coverdale's Bible that
was completely saturated with fat, and
had been badly eaten by mice. His pro-
cess was to treat each leaf to judicious
course of chlorine in solution and am
monia, while the dirt was removed by
some process only known to himself.
He then supplied the defective portions
by carefully grating on selected pieces
OF paper of the requisite texture and
shade. The missing letter press was fac
SMILED. The whole was then sized and
afterward appropriately bound by one
of the best Partisan binders, the whole
cost of this treatment being 5000.
The extensive scale on which the
Western cattle companies conduct bust.
ness is illustrated by n project of the
Standard Cattle Company at Ames, Neb.
About 5000 acres of land, including
thirteen improved farms, has been pur.
chased, on which the company will
erect feeding barns, elevator cribs, meal
houses, offices etc. The main building,
or feeding barn, will be 6S2x204 feet,
and will contain 5000 stalls, where each
steer will stand alone and united. The
elevator will be of 10000 bushels capac.
ity, with cribs attached to hold $4,000
bushels of corn in the ear. The works
will be run by sixty-horse power
engine. The establishment will turn
out 5000 to 10000 beeves per annum.
Maj. Gen. Alfred II. Terry, United
States army, who has just been pro.
NOTED to fill the position made vacant
by Gen. Hancock's death, was intro
duced not long ago somewhere In the
northwest to the cultured wife of cap
tain in the 10th United States infantry.
II am glad" said the lady ''to meet the
hero of Fort Fisher" Gen. Terry re.
piled: MADAM, the real hero of Fort
Fisher is the commander of your hus-
bands regiment If it had not been for
him there would have been no hero OF
Fort Fisher to congratulate" The Off
Ger referred to by Gen. Terry was Gen.
G. Pennypackcr, who led brigade at
Fort Fisher, and who now, ut the age OF
73, is living in Philadelphia in such re-
tirement that the new democratic post
c;nce SuSloTisloc TIE oJncr cay sever.
tisGd that letter directed to him re.
manned in the Philadelphia office.
An ornithologist who recently rode in
Madison avenue car, New York City.
Coll 49, lx,l \
thirteen women, of whom eleven wore
birds. as follows: Q) heads and wings
of three European starlings; (2) an
entire bird Species unknown) of foreign
origin; (3) seven warblers, representing
four species; (D a large tern; (5) the
heads and wings of three shore-larks;
co. the wings of seven shore-larks and
grass-fnches; ca onc-half of a gallinule;
(S) small tern; COY turtle dove; Q0)
a vireo and yellow-breasted chat;
QD ostrich plumes." In a short time
there will not be pIumage bird left
alive in North America, or perhaps
Europe; and their determination must
be charged to women's wicked vanity.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin is said by The
Le,oiStowH Journal to be an inveterate
player of "high-low-jack." Almost
every afternoon, in his long-tailed coat,
with his necktie carelessly knotted, and
his thick, wavy hair bristling from his
head like the Circassian girls, the es-
teemed and venerable statesman sits
down amid the luxurious velvets and
bronzes, the rare paintings and en-
cravings, the royal Worcester vases, and
all the glitter and richness of the Tar
ratine club, and lighting another cigar
as soon as one burns low, pursues his
favoritc amusement till the shadows are
thick. In his game Mr.. Hawlin often
upites the daring of youth