Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-02
EVENING TWNKLES.

A curious ferryboat il building at Glasgow
Instead Of requiring movable landing floats 10
meet the rise and fall Of the tide the deck of
the boat itself will be movable carried on six
hydraulic elevators, by which it can be raised
or lowered. The boat will be a double epder.
100 feet long, IS feet beam and II feet g inches
draught.
Martin Luther keeps saloon in New York.
This member Of the family Is not in the reform
alton business.
his intellect, twenty years OF his life and $50
VOO In developing perpetual motion machine
started NV
Prof Mitchell, a blind musician Of Eureka,
Kan, has organized concert company. every
member Of which Is blind.
novel contest took place recently in Mon
treal at o church fair. A certain number OF
boys were to quilt half o quilt in the time il
took the same number Of girls to saw half q
cord of wood The girls won.
A New Orleans lady sent half dozen DESIGNS
TO one OF the big cotton-print mills at FAN
River Tor approval, and some weeks later thew
were sent back to her refused. Shortly after
ward she saw the identical designs on some
calico Just received in New Orleans from the
mill and wrote an indignant letter to the mill
owners demanding an explanation. In return
she received q handsome check for her work e
wood sorrer' Is said to have cured a Maine
man of cancer on the nose
boston servant girl has been detected in
using sugar to kindle the kitchen fire.
The Rothschild mansion in the Rue LATTE.
Paris, has been transformed into a museum as
a memorial of Baron James Rothschild, who
died in 1868. 1t was built in the time of Louis
XIV, and was for some time the residence OF
Queen Hortense, mother of the Emperor Louis
Napoleon. The Rothschilds bought it in 1922
Since the Baroness James died, in 1885, IL has
stood untenanted
The obelisk to be erected on the summit OF
the Ortler in commemOration Of the fortieth
year of the Emperor Francis Joseph's reign
will stand on the highest point in the emperor's
dominions-over H. 900 feet above the sea level
The latest hen story comes from Withla-
coochee, Fla, and is to the effect that hen
there Matched and raised to the size of par.
tridges sixteen chicks from fifteen eggs.
A herd of swine got drunk eating grape
pomace on a ranch in Marin County, Cal, and
after fighting among themselves for some time
big boar attacked an italian, tearing him in a
fearful manner.
Twenty-one apples picked by a New Holland
Pa, farmer completely filed a half-bushel
measure. The smallest weighed exactly ]
pound, and the largest pound ounces. The
entire lot tipped the scales at "a pounds
A Sheboygan County, Mich, girl made leap
year call on her lover, a tender on drawbridge
local paper states, and, after bidding him q
final good night, she left him. Before She got
on the bridge it began to close and she was
caught and squeezed. Her only recorded ex.
clamation was: mot another one, Bob"
A fine illustration of the accuracy of English
statements about American affairs is found in
the fact that a London historical manual saws
that President Lincoln was shot in a theater in
Boston.
Eight million dollars is spent annually fol-
paint and powder for their faces by American
women,