The evening world., 1888-01-04
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Jasper Brown, an employee in a Prttsburg mill,
ago aud broke his spin column. The doctors said
he conld not live lwenry-four hours, but he is stlll
u i've and IS growing letter every day.
A citizen OF Amer'cu., Ga, Will passing A rond
ne r the r'a size just on a de Of the city lImi 3
Jaw q han some otter poke Its nose above tre
wafer n'ar the shore. He Killed the animal with d
rluh, brought II TO iowa aHd sod the skin for a
neat sum.
one Of IN" Oldest residents Of Chicago Is Matthew
Lanin, who is nearly ninety ut 'opsnt look It He
settled In the Windy City In 1887 a, the ~ e I " an
East, IN powder huu Q aud ha- 8 nee become ero -
mou'Iy wealthy. lie owns quaint les Of Govern
ment an railroad bonds and srrputei TO be the
largest no der Of American exIres,stmk.
Manager Lynch, OF Chicago, bee ime the posses-
sor OF u very urge and lustrous opal several years
ago, ami says tOat inslc d u ringing him bad
,uck II proved 10 be n masco, rs long as re wore 1t.
On several occasions he narrowly mi. sed Ir,Ins that
met with disa ,lrous accidents and once he waS
CT ,wded out OF II hotel thai burned doN N the same
night.
Leopold Blo"m, the Chicag, spectator, ma @ n
net Irp1t of $3.50, 900 by his ~tr,nsac ions in .ra,n
AMI royislons on ne Chic8 o Is Isrd OF Trade las,
Ne n,slsy aud Tnur.diy. Bloom Is u chubby
faced, Tut little C iap Of thirty -thEre, with a iain
.ugges,ion OF siue-whi.k'r IA. lie Is worth about
$500, 900, every dollar of wuicn was made in specu.
lalon.
1t Il said to DO a common thing for a Chinese
merchant, wnen imp Irttng diamCn = from Cuba
% san Franclsco. to llace the preCi rus stones IN
his mouth wn' n The Custom ilou Q ono ais search
HIM. the eHamIu atiun chances to be- to- rigid,
he quietly swallows he stores nd when rs!essed
| Z lnN n tna in nm with IN aIu1fIg IA oh 49, . ,IV
brings them o light az In.
Bell Teller hone STOCK, with a par value OF 800 q
shar Is SELLING at $500. It pays IS per cent. divi.
d,nds and is supposed TO earn about 80 per cent.
Tae largest bl IvE OF the s ocg is held 10y the inve,
TOR and his wife. An tner large h, der Is For e.,
the Boston c. p'tal'st, W o has u controlling tut rgs'
IN the Burl nglon DAD 4 d is filher-iL-law Of
PERKINS. the road 9 President.
1t is not generally known that w shing'on is tn
most southern oil the cApnals Of the great ma ioui
of inc Northern Htmispht re. Madrid, Constants
uOpl- and Rome are even ,urther north, wni e PART
is up in he latitude Of Ntwfound aud, Sn LondlI
and Berlin are on the line OF L,bra or. 81. PsteTs
nurg Is on the same parallel AS Greenland anu /
/, 46O miles due nortu VI Washing on.
Mrs. CHRISTIAN X. Ross, the mother OF Charll,
Ross, the thiladel. hA 10Y Who was advertise,
Yeas ago and never heard OF al Crw irds, T..
prominent mem er OF the Woman's Foreign Nj s
sionary SO ietJ. II is due in 4 great TART 10 ht
EFFORT that a fund was r iscL for the supp TT o
he Mexican Cir $ Orphanagc, rstah,is ed rccen Il
DV Bishop Foster in an Old Catholic ABBEY IN tn,
City OF Mexico
Pretident Newell, OF the LAX" Shore road, is N,
re resenIA i've Of The vande Oilt Interests in IN,
West, his position there BEN ! analo Gus to that o
Chlurcey NJ. D,pew In Inc + a.. lie has been
%railroai man ali ~hslIe, and ueRa at the bot OH
Of the la der, up VI len lie has riaeu sep by step
lie bel ng 10 The bare half-Iozen Of raj r ad,r
who e removal 10 anothtr road woul cause a n, c
worthy nuclualjou in the stock Of tue Old road an,
the new one.