The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25

was captured alive by the sailors.
"Chambermaids" in Mexican hotels
are male Indians, termed mazos. They
are deft and quick, and will hire them
selves to stranger in the capital for
So week, giving their employer I'M
divided and very welcome service,
Spanish professional beggars have an
expert who teaches them how to enlarge
the tonsils of their throats till it amounts
to deformity. There are also dealers
in deformed children in Lisbon who
rent the babies out at so much per diem.
In the treasury at Washington is q
rat catcher. colored man, who has II
record of 600 rats killed with his bare
hands. He has the knack of grabbing
the animal by the skin between the ear
and the jaw, and by sudden jerk
breaking its neck.
The Brooklyn bridge has proved u
serious competitor to the ferries. The
Union Ferry Company shows that its
receipts have fallen off from $1,000
600 per annum to $S00,000, and with
the approach of mild weather the CON-
pany was obliged to discharge sixty OF its
| hands.
The English have for many years had
almost II monopoly of the Chinese coast
| ing trade, but the Germans are crowd
ing in at rate which alarms Johnny
Bull. German steamers on the coast
are becoming more numerous every
month, while new line of steamers
from Bremen to Shanghai is sure to cut
into the traffic of the English COM
panies.
The Brooklyn Magazine contains q
series of letters on early marriages,
written by well-known women. Most
of the writers agree that the question of
| the time to marry must depend upon
circumstances and individual develop
ment; few of them believe in late
marriages, Mrs. Lucy Stone, for ex-
ample, declaring that to her the most
suitable age seems from 25 to so years.
The late Prof. T. ID. Sanborn, O;
Dartmouth College, married a niece of
Dartmouth's most distinguished alum
nus. Daniel Webster. In his lecture on
Webster, which lie delivered OCCASION
| ally TO the college students, the pro-
| fessor used 10 state that he was in Mr.
| Websters company great deal, and
never saw him under the influence of
liquor but once, and then he was not
really intoxicated.
Numerous devices have been invented
in the past few years for the cleansing
and curing of hogs hair. the object be-
ing thoroughness and expedition. None,
however. was satisfactory until patent
by DR.. Il. M. O'Cleary was tested q
short time since, which performs the
work of four months in the miraculous
time of four hours.
A Paris surgeon kindly set the limb
of u friends dog, and his patient, some
weeks after, brought him another dog
in the same plight. DR.. Barnum, of
Louisville, reports a similar case. The
patient was black-and-tan terrier. 1t
resisted the doctor to the utmost, but
was finally subdued and bound up.
Four days later he came alone to the
Office and had his bandages arranged
After that he appeared once each day
and held up his leg for examination.
Ladies in San Francisco do not con-
slider themselves born to blush unseen.
1t is not enough for them to look out of
the windows of their houses-they must
needs sit outside them altogether. To
this end u safety seat for ladies has been
constructed, and is at present in full
vogue. The front of a San Francisco
house fitted with the new invention
must present rather curious spectacle,
but one, no doubt, which the male pop
ulation of that city regard with appre-
ciative interest.
The hooking birds of Florida are fast
approaching determination at the hands
of winter tourists. The State has no
game laws, and has not needed them
up to the time when fashion set its
stamp upon that section us the proper
resort for escape from the rigors of the
cold months at the North. But the
woods are now secured every winter by
visitors with shotguns, and hooking
birds and cardinals are becoming so
scarce that at Jacksonville it is stated
that this spring there is not one bird to
be found in the city where there were
ten year ago.
The names conjured up by Dickens
are more than matched by recent SUBJ
scribers to the New York World, from
list of which the following are selected:
Maria Pickles, Cynthia Neiderfranken-
steinhauser, William +. Peterfish, John
j. Cowhog, Laura Loofborrow, Maggie
Mussmaker, j. Tyranny, Minnie Bigg-
host, Fannie Vinegar, Susie Souse, Nora
b. Freelove, Matte b. Toogood. Mollie
Whiteneck, Phcnia Suflicool, Effie
Bunk, Cora Coon, Viola Eystone, Rayte
Shivers, Pearl Shad, frankie Sample,
John George Dingledog, o. ID. Pancake,
Dick Turnipseed.
Alonzo Douglass, ripe scholar, an
accomplished musician, and an excel
lent painter, died in Louisville recently,
aged II. For nearly half century and
until less than a year ago he was II
slave to opium. At the age of 20 years
he was able to conquer the almost in
satiable appetite, and lived the remain
ing short interval of his life unaided by
the drug which had solaced him for so
long. For many years his customary
allowance was three or four ounces of
gum opium day, and he has been
known to drink rs much as gallon of
pareooric i'm twenty-four hours