The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-28

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'olt ITO barrels of cotton seed oil per
week.
The boys at Shenandoah, Pa, gather
Sulphur diamonds aa,d sell them for $40
n pound.
The natives of Alaska believe in
witchcraft, and have horrible punish
ments for so-callel sorcerers.
The average weekly income of work
ing women in New York State is $3.50,
and $6. 10 for men-
In some parts of Mexico precious
woods are so plentiful that the natives
build pig-styes of rosewood logs.
A hawk-trapper at Swatara, Pa, in
eleven days last Month killed 112
hawks. He gets bounty for their
'scalps.
Examinatio-4 of the bed of the Erie
Canal shows it to be narrowed and
greatly thickened by accumulations of
debris.
The Mexicans have such passion
for mirrors that the interiors of their
houses are said TO look like steamboat
cabins.
Edward Everett Hale deprecates the
use of the word knight in modern
American organizations, as the term is
a relic of feudalism.
There are no less than seventy-five
Aztec ruins in the Salt River Valley.
California, besides the old canals and
waterways of the Aztec people.
Dredging boats are now taking away
1000 tons per week of the debris Flood
Rock. Dynamite surface blasts are
used to break up the boulders left by
the submarine mine.
The largest coal breaker in the world
! is in operation at Edwardsville colliery,
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. 1t pre-
pares for market 1000 mine cars of coal
every ten hours.
Ex-Minister Gen Schenck is profitably
practicing law in Washington, but
doubtless can be privately consulted on
the subject of the great American game
of poker, in which he is an eminent OK
pert.
On the Pottsville & Mananoy Rail-
road tunnel 800 feet in length is being
cut under mountain and through
solid rock. Three hundred men are
employed and the work is prosecuted
day and night.
Gen Sherman will be jealous when he
hears that Walt Whitman, at the con-
clusion of his Lincoln eulogy in Phila-
delphia, was surrounded and kissed by
dozens of gushing girls. Thus does the
poet get ahead of the General As Mil
ton remarks: ''Peace hath her victories
no less renowned than war"
An agent of the government of New
foundland has been buying live black
game for the purpose of stocking the
Newfoundland woods with this gigan-
tic grouse. He has had difficulty in
procuring many, however, and reports
the excessive rigor of the past winter in
Scandinavia has made game scarce.
TO obtain perfect rest go TO bed as
soon after sunset us possible, for it is
laid down as universal law that the
hours of darkness are the only ones
during which healthy sleep is possible.
All worry and anxiety should, as far rs
possible, be habitually excluded from
the mind for considerable time before
retiring.
Lord Macaulay found time in the
midst of his literary and other labors to
cast his eye over full-dress affair or
two, and he gives this advice to those
ladies in decollete who may or may not
have known where to draw the line:
''Thc drapery should be so arranged rs
at once to answer the purpose of modest
concealment and judicious display"
Talk about discrimination in freights
in this country. An English paper
states that the shopkeepers in the town
of Bacup, in Lancashire, England, can
buy sugar in London, send it to New
York, via Liverpool, order it back to
Bacup, again via Liverpool, ut tenpence
a ton less than they can get it over the
railroad from London to Bacup direct.
There are several photographers in
New York who have posed collectively,
over 5000 dogs and cats. One of them
says that in most instances the photo
grapher is not permitted to touch the
animal. The dog is taken into the gal
lery in Il basket by waiting maid, the
mistress spreads costly rug on the
table and the dog is then posed in diff
fcrent attitudes.
The old war governor of Virginia,
extra Billy Smith was on the floor of
the house the other day. He is over 80
years old, his hair is qu to white, but he
is as vigorous as ever. He is thrifty,
careful man (when he was in the field
during the war he always carried an
umbrella), and saved comfortable for
tune out of the stage-coach business
many years ago.
Mime. Astic de Valsayre, who fought
duel with another woman on the field
of Waterloo, has aimed at notoriety in
various ways. She urged Pasteur to
try his first incubation experiments on
her; next she asked DIR. Grusdevach to
make her the subject of freezing her
solid and then thawing her out aft
er a year or two; and now she is anx-
ious to go with De Brazza to the Congo
country to assist in civilizing the ne
groes.
The last lecture of Father Hyacinthe
at his Gallican Church in Paris was dis
turbed by four enemies of his doctrine,
who assailed him with fou1 ahuSo As