The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-09
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Tho village OF Bannister, Mich, ID
moving along without any church or
ganization.
There is a young man about 20 years
old in Athens, Ca. who says he lives
on 30 cents a week. s.
1t is said the Queen of Portugal great
ly dislikes her new stepdaughter, the.
Princess Amelia of Orleans.
Miss Jeffrcys-Lewis, when on tour
lately, gave a benefit ut Tombstone,
Ar. Ter, to aid in putting a fence.
around the graveyard
There are over thirty criminals in Jail
in various parts of the State of North
Carolina under sensence of death. Over
half of them are likely to be hanged ere.
the year ends.
A costume adopted by the Fat Mems
Base-Base Club, of Orlando, Fla, con-
sists of a Mother Hubbard dress, and
it is said to be cool and comfortable, il
not an aid to fast running.
Gen. Lew Wallace has settled himself
permanently at literature as a profess
sion at his home in Charlottesville, Ind
He receives $500 a year from the
books he has already written.
A Toledo police justice refuses to pro-
tect women out on the streets after 10
o'clock. He says they have no business
at that time to be anywhere but home
and out OF danger of insults.
Edmund III. Pendleton, brother of
Minister Pendleton. and author of "a
Centennial Bohemian" is said to be
putting the finishing touches to another
society novel at Bar Harbor.
The following rather mysterious pas
sage appears in the last number of the
London World: 80 the pretty Welsh
matrOn has driven the American maid
en- off the field. So much the better.
The Yankees have enjoyed too long a
run of popular and royal favor"
Here is what they used down on Long
Island for a clambake, and the cost was
$3.50: Twenty bushels soft CLANS, l
barrel of hard CLANS, 40 sheepsheads, 2
large Kennebec salmon, $50 HOLSTERS,
100 chickens, 100 pounds of tripe, 6
dozen punches of asparagus, so pounds
of frogs legs, l barrel of hard crabs.
Charley Sheehan, thirteen years old,
OF Lafayette, Ind, went in bathing &C
companied by his dog. The boy could
not swim, and while padding about in
water nearly up to his neck, the dog got
on his back and pushed him down. AS
fast as he came up the dog pushed HIM
under, and the boy was drowned.
The people of Fremont, Ohio, are q
little bit sensitive over the disparaging
remarks frequently made of ex-Presi-
dent Hayes by the unmerciful news
paper paragraphist. The r. b. Hayes
known in these parts" said ono of the
citizens recently, sis a benevolent, cult
ured, and courteous gentleman, heartily
in sympathy with his n~eighbors. in
stantly ready with purse and voice to
forward every wise scheme for advanc-
ing the material interests of the town"
The President has had the head
florist of the white house Conservatives
out to his farm to see what it would
cost to fix up the grounds. Also an
architect to see how much money it
would require to make the house habi-
table. Both improvements will necessi-
tate an outlay of $4,000. Phistor, the
florist, says the President has got q hole
out there thatll hold lots of money. 1t
is said that the President will sell off
some of his twenty-nine acres.
Two needle stories come through ex-
changes. One is from Rockland, Me-,
where a farmer killed a COW and found
embedded in the flesh neal the heart a
large darning needle. The other comes
from Groton, Conn.,, where a horse re-
fused TO eat, and nearly starved to
death before a careful examination of
his tongue revealed n needle over two
inches long. The obvious comment is
that each of these animals had succeed
cd in finding q needle in q hay stack.
His Majesty Dom Luis, of Portugal,
who speaks some h%alf-dozcn languages
and devotes most of his time to litera-
turo and science, granted an interview
to the London Times correspondent at
the recent marriage festival in Lisbon.
His Majesty declared that Shakespeare
would occupy his attention for some
| time. He has already translated into
Portuguese and published "Othello,"
Hamlet" "The Merchant of Venice"
and Richard the Third" THE Tam
ing of the Shrew," now in proof, comes
next.
Two highwaymcn recently stopped
the British Columbia Express Company's
coach on the Cache Creek route. They
told Driver Tate to get down from the
box; but he said that it wasn't safe to
leave the horses. 'It's u Id sight
safer than to sit there" said one of the
robbers. "Get down." He got down,
and one of the bandits stood in front of
the team with his rifle cooked and
pointed at Tate, while the other went
through the treasure bag, which they
robbed of its contents, with the excep-
ton, as the report says, ''of one small
package of $1,000, which they over
looked"
Chickens are valuable outside the
question of eggs and flesh. A full
grown hen will yield from two and one
half ounces to four and one-half ounces
of feathers and down. The feathers
serve for bonnet decorations, the orna-
mentation of military shakos, and for
busters. The average sized feathers are
employed for beds and holsters, the