The Clifton clarion., 1888-08-08
Current Events.

Current Events.
 A woman has arrived at Long Branch, with 128 dresses.
 A citizen of Canton, Miss, drives a pair of pet bears in a buggy.
 Rearing dogs for their skins is practiced in Manchuria and Mon golia just as sheep farming else where.
 The loss in transporting cattle across the ocean was in 1880 37 per cent It has been reduced to II per cent.
 The authorities of Buffalo have taken legal steps to compel the Western Union company to take down it's wires.
 The oak planted by the Prince of Wales in Central Park is dy- ing, though every effort has been made to save the trse.
 Wagons bearing immense ad- vertlsing signs are permitted to follow Chicago funeral process sions through the streets.
 London omnibusses are to be illuminated with the electric light, the storage battery to be carried under the seat of the drivers.
 A strange new insect, somewhat on the lines of the lady bug, has appeared by millions in the oat fields of Duchess county, New York, and threatens to make the harvest light and chaffy one.
 President Cleveland continues to receive curious presents. Two small, live red foxes have reached him from Dr. Frost, of Rolla, Mo. The animals are named respective ly Cleveland and Thurman.
 Farmers down in Jersey are about instituting ''bug days" wherein a corrected effort will be made to exterminate the insects of that region which just now are playing havoc with fruit and vege- tables.
 Talk of easy divorces in the United States, after what hap pened in Frankfort-on-Main last week, where married woman was pronounced the party at fault and legally divorced because-she did not know how to cook.
 Henry Price, ''the father of Masonry in America" died in Townsend, Mass, in 17S0. Now, rather tardily, a monument has been erected over hls grave. The location IS prominent and over looks the farm where Price spent his last years.
 In San Francisco suit has been brought against the estate of one Loewenthal, who committed sui eide last winter upon the day set for his wedding, by the father of his fiancee, for the S2,OO0 claimed to have been spent in preparation for the marriage.
 A farmer of Vesta, Neb., has discovered remedy for apple trees afflicted with blight. As soon as the top of tree shows that blight has struck it he bores a small hole in the body of the tree and fills it with sulphur, after which the hole is securely sealed or plugged up.
 A few days ago a notice was sent from the Interior department calling upon a party in Bronson, Fla, to pay three cents for an ex- cess of two-hundredths of an acre of land included in his homestead entry. As the notice was sent by registered mail, costing twelve cents, Uncle Sam is out on this collection.
 Cretonne of the cheap sort, used for decorating rooms, turns out to be as arsenically poisonous as green wall paper. Out of A sam- ples recently examined in London none were free from arsenic. The greens and blues were the least harmful, while the reds, browns and blacks were heavily loaded with poison.
 An idea of the vast business done by the postal department can be had from the statement that 433, ,629.O 900 stamped envelopes were made in the United States envelope agency in Hartford, dur ing the year ending June 30. In 1887, the whole number dIstribut- ed from the agency was 3S1, ,6O9,- 100.
 A new downtown cafe in New York, owned by B. s. Stokes, has a door of Italian mocoio u,b;ob