The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-09-08

There has been big fall in Panama Cana.
shares In Paris lately.
The pig iron export from Birmingham, Ala,
Is steadily increasing.
The order OF Knights OF Labor Ia extending
into foreign countries
A huge shark, weighing 400 pounds.
OF the man-eating spices was caught In
wire of Cotuitport Mass, the other after
noon.
Sir Isaac Newton's autograph In the shape
OF letter brought s3is ut a receut sale In
England. 1t was bought for Trinity College,
Cambridge
Near Chambcrsburg, Pa, hve-weeks'-old
baby was attacked by rat and so severely
bitten on the mouth and gums that II Is feared
the child Will die.
At a recent sale 10 Paris $1,000 was paid
for a velvet pile Persian carpet A less nnc
one went for $4,000. and tapestry OF the
fifteenth and eighteenth centuries realized
extraordinary prlces
AT Elm Station, on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. John Condor. the Chestnut street tai
Tor, as an amateur horticuIturlst has sue
cecded in raising some stupendous straw
berries that run forty to q box
Three statues OF Roman art were discover
ed at Athens on May 20, one OF the Emperor
Hsdrian, another OF Antonius, and the third
a small one OF Bacchus. All three are well
preserved aud OF excellent workmanship.
There is a boat clnb at Webster. Mass,
whose members must always be able TO pro-
nounce its name, both after as well as before
races and bahQuets aud club meetings. The
name Ia The Chaubunagnngamaugh Yacht
Club
The gold mines OF North Carolina are again
being vigorously developed, aud exceptional
ly rich yields are reported from most OF them.
At the Mann-ArrIngton. In Nash county,
some men who work over the failing merely
are said 10 make so day.
The other day, while the great Michigan
storm was at It's height the town OF Norway
was so badly ON fre that the engines we're
powcrless 10 control IT, aud the downpour
heavy enough TO extinguish IL seemed to the
inhabitants vcrltable godsend.
farmer near walpole, N. II. recently
plowed up what is declared 10 DO the skeleton
OF an Indian who was killed In the famous
'Kiburn fight" In 1855. IL was at this light
that two men, two women, aud two boys de-
Tended themselves for six hours against 400
Indians
Near Covlngton, La, the four-year old
daughter OF Mrs. Mabey fell into n forty foot
well with eight feet OF water at the bottom,
and, upon coming to the surface, caught
hold OF the lowered bucket clambered into IL
and was drawn out only slight brulse the
worse for her fearful experiences.
There have been twenty.stx suicides from
the Clifton Bridge IN England In the twenty
four years since II was built The jump Is
25O feet, aud death Is presumably easy, which
accounts for the popularity OF the route. TIE
last person who went over IL was young
man who was 10 be married In week.
The big Nova Scotia timber raft whose
owners are not alarmed at the fate OF the
Lesry raft, VIII soon be launched aud started
ON its way for New York city. Il Is made OF
$1,000 sticks bound together, making raft
200 feet long. with spars rom IS to l75 feet
In length. IL will be towed, but will also DO
manned aud rugged TO sail
Thomas X. Butler, who recently died In
England In his nincty-hrst year, before the
time OF railroads conducted the bullion
wagons between Dover and London. Hls
books show that over twenty millions OF
specie had been under his care. The last con-
Segment OF which he had charge was too and
half tons OF silver en- route from London to
the East Indies.
The first decision OF the status Of life In
surancc policy, where the wife, for whose
benefit II was taken out died before the
husband, has just been made by Judge
Seldom In ST. Louis. He holds that where a
man insures his his lie for the benefit of his
wife and then survives her the policy win
insure 10 the benefit OF the children indc-
pendeniiy OF the nsured's creditors.
Several years ago a valuable calf belonging
to T.. o. Bancroft. OF Warehouse Point.
sucked a diamond ring from his finger as be
was teaching II to drink milk. The calf
grew and became valuable COW. aud the
other day died mysteriously. A post-mortem
examination showed that the ring had re-
Gently become detached from n muscle,
where II had hitherto remained harmless,
and had been the cause OF death.
John Carswell, deacon OF the Scotch
National Church at bloomsbury, England,
was recently fined IS In a police court for
sssaultng the wife OF johnson, a village
painter. IN the church. The evidence was
that be struck her with the pedestal OF the
offertofy box and pushed her 80 that she be-
came III and had to leave the church. The
assault was part Of a row between tho
church officials and the pastor, Rev. J.
Mackie.
The popular idea that razor needs rest oc-
casionaliY has a scientific foundation IN tho
case OF fine razora The grain Of the best
Swedish rszors runs In diagonal direction
from the upper end Of the outer point toward
the handle. Constant stroppins win twist
the steel untIl the grain sets up aud down
and steady nae draws the grain stlll farther