Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-07
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The annual army estimate in England Ia
sl6, 10000.
Niagara appears in panorama in London
by Philippoteaux, sos feet in circumference
Bears are playing sad havoc with the Cana
dian Pacific telegraph lines at Griffin Lake
and Revelstoke, Quebec.
An avalanche has fallen upon the famous
| Hospice of st. Bernard, in Switzerland, bury
ing the church, but causing no loss of life.
There is a gentleman in Boston who wants
to give dinner to the twelve greatest Ameri-
can authors, and be would like the public to
decide for him who they are.
"Pilgrim's Progress" has just been trans
| lated into the language Of the Fantes, tribe
occupying district in Upper Guinea, on the
| gold coast. This is the eighty frs: foreign
version Of Bunyan's work.
A citizen Of Newcastle, Pa, dreamed that
he was fighting with neighbor and kicked
| him violently. The next instant he awoke
with a howl, for be had splintered the foot
board and broken his big toe
A jury in the superior civil court at Bos-
ton decided, the other day, that the Boston
and Albany railroad must pay 81, 900 for a
boys leg, which had to be amputated owing
to injuries received at a railroad crossing.
Blocks OF ice chat were cut in the lake at
Memphis, No, for storage in the ice houses,
were found i'll many instances to contain
large catfish that had been frozen solid.
Some of the fish were over foot in length.
A number OF years ago man in Quitman,
Ga, as ed friend for q part of an orange
he was eating. Being refused, be asked for a
seed, which he aftsrward planted. The seed
developed into a sturdy tree, more than q
foot in diameter, and which at last accounts
WAS loaded down with 2, 800 oranges.
A stained window glass was recently set
up in the parish church Of Elstow, the birth
place of Bunyan. 1t forms the jubilee me
mortal for Eistow, and is the fifth window Of
stained glass that the church now possesses.
Two OF the others illustrate the "Pilsrim's
Progress" and The Holy Var"
The great English law come down with
all its force upon two Ii 10 boys of 8, who
had stolen shilling from child of and
spent it in sweetmeats. They were sent to
the workhouse, the judge refusing to give
| them up to their parents, because they were
'young hishwaymen who bad committed
robbery with violence"
It is announced that tho Standish monu.
ment on the DuIbury hill overlooking Ply
mouth harbor is to be finished this season
The obelisk is now y feet high 1t will be
and visible 20 miles at sea- 1t has cost S27,-
200, and needs Slo, 900 more to finish it.
A recent inquiry into the desdliness of cer-
tain trades is interesting when the register
generals report on the decrease Of mortality
in England is remembered The latest statis-
tics show that dry grinders of forks live on
an average only % years; Of razors, 81 years;
scissors, 81 years; edge tools and wood shears,
% years; spring knives and files, IS years,
and of saws and sickles, 80 years.
The Colorado Historical society, under the
championship Of Dr.. Bancroft, its president,
is making an effort for the preservation of
the Aztec ruins found in the state These
ruins abound in southwestern Colorado, and
are Of great interest 70 students of American
antiquities and to sightseers as well 1t il
proposed to have the country in the neigh
borhood laid out as & great national park
A citizen Of San Bernardino, Cal, hes sue
ceeded in making living OF of one acre of
land. Around the acre is a row OF fruit
trees from which he has realized s4OO for
seasons fruit He put a quarter of the acre
in Strawberries and sold s200 worth. From
the rest Of the acre he took three different
crops Of vegetables, and was so successful
with them that he sold 81 900 worth, besides
keeping cow, pig and fowls.
Philadelphia capital is about to develop an
important marble industry in Dakota. An