The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-05
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10 England.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, the sue
cessor OF Attorney General Garland, has
fondness for chocolate caramels.
A tunnel $500 feet in length is being
cut through the hill at Bridgeport
Conn.,, for the new water-works system
Cat-tails stained red, blue, purple
and other colors are being sold by the
Boston small boy as specimens OF rural
ingenuity.
The Curtis house, aged $50 years, was
torn down recently at West Roxbury,
Mass, to make room for modern i'm.
provements.
Mr. Junius Hebron, aged 92 years,
is citizen of Cuthbert, Ga. He is quite
active for his age, works for his living,
and has seldom called upon his rela-
tives, who are rich, for aid.
DR.. j. S. H. Fogg, of Boston, has q
complete set of the autographs of the
signers of the Declaration OF Independ-
ence, having paid $50 for one sigma
ture cut from the fly-leaf of book.
A new industry has sprung up in
Maine. 1t is the shipping of fur-boughs
for pillows. Thus far "a tons have been
sent from Sebec alone to parties in Bos-
ton. The quality of the boughs is the
very finest.
At q recent wedding at Waterloo,
Me-, the bride and bridegroom were
respectively "A and rs years of age. The
ceremony was witnessed by some nine
hundred people, representing all the
surrounding towns.
The publishers say that the publica.
ton OF work in cheap form lessons
very little the sale of better edition.
AT first authors were averse to the cx-
pertinent, but the result was both sur
prising and gratifying
Miss Cleveland's novel furnishes this
admirable addition to the number of
mixed metaphors: He felt the magnet
ism OF his conjectural passion ut his
side, and many wavelets of emotion
played upon him rs they walked"
A countrywoman went into store at
Sparta, Ga, one day last week, when
the merchant smiled benignly upon her
and inquired if he could sell her any
goods. "Oh, no." she replied, II just
thought Id como in and monkey around
a little until John 'ud weigh his hogs"
General Boulangcr served under the
Due d'Aumalc in Algeria. The Duke,
in one of his reports, appended the fol
lowing note: ''Boulanger, good, intel
licent officer. but ill-bred." Now that
!, Boulanger commands the army the Due
d'Aumalc is turned out of France.
Thomas Edison, the father OF the in
ventor, lives at Huronia Beach, Mich,
is remarkably well-preserved man of
eighty-two years. The Detroit Free
Press says that he has six children,
three by his first and three by his pres
ent wife, and that the youngest child is
but four years DID,
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
New York World, is credited with the
possession of 100000 in registered A.
percent bonds, and his income for the
current year is estimated ut $500, 900,
indicating the possession of property to
the amount of S7,500,000. Twenty
years ago he was pcnniless boy in st.
Louis.
louisiana sportsmen have hitherto
cranes which abound in ST. Landry,
but now large numbers of these beatlti-
ful birds are being killed solely for
their feathers, which are used on the
wearing apparel of women. There
should be an Audubon society in Louis
lana.
There are several towns in Montana
without single unmarried woman, and
the local papers tell piteous tales of the
rich and eligible bachelors who are
travelling about from town to town look
ing for wife. In some parts of the
territory, it is said, commission of
from SO to $40 is freely offered for
good article In wives.
An Eastern composer has written a
serenadc entitled Wake Not, but Hear
Me, Love-" which is described as being
very sweet and full of pathetic tender
ness. 1t occurs to one, however, that
'lovc" would have hard time endeav-
oring TO hear her Aionzo if she did not
wake up. 1t would seem that even 4
composer might have sense enough TO
know that.
Balloons for war purposes are among
VIC idtcst IONtItlcS, anu lpIOlhlSc w uc
of great utility in many ways. When q
domestic breeze begins to blow the man
can step into the back yard, turn off the
combination lock on the balloon, and
soar away out of the storm center. As
a means of retreat in times of danger
the war balloon beats the cellar. or the
roof OF the house, out of sight
When the patent granolithc sidewalk
pavement is first put down it is very
sticky, but it hardens quickly. This is
why a young couple of Bridgeport who
stood on fresh slab of the composition
while bidding each other good night
had to be dug out with pickax. Their
shoes were ruined, but they were very
grateful to the night Waterman who
released them, and who promised not to
tell.
The somewhat harsh provision of
English law which gives almost every
thing to the eldest son is curiously Illus
trated py the case of the Earl of Dur
nam. who is now in this country, and
his brother. The two are twins. but one
was born two minutes earlier than the
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