Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-03-24
SCISSORS AND PASTE.

There are thirty-seven Japanese students
in the University of Michigan.
Florida nurseryinen are doing large busi.
ness in shipping young orange trees to Cali
fornia.
The London fremen are to follow their
French colleagues in being dressed in asbestos
cloth.
The Peruvian government invites offers for
the introduction of the telephone in that
country
In the diocese of London, with a popula.
ton of 5000, 900, there were 81, ,S94 baptisms
the last year.
Four sheep and ten bushels of wheat set
tied an Iowa breach of promise suit where
So 600 damages were demanded.
A club room in Portland, Me-, is said to be
paved with s., 400 worth of old lottery tick
cts, not one of which ever drew a cent
By Queen Victoria's orders, no intoxicating
liquors will in future be allowed upon the
premises of the Peoples palace in London.
There is in the vicinity of Vaughnsville, S.
c., an infant 2months old whose mother is II,
grandmother 32, grandfather 81, and great
grandmother 81.
OF the seventy-six United States senator's
only thirty have received classical educa-
ton, and of the 333 representatives but 1OS
have attended college.
1t is asserted by those who profess to know
that the entire surface of Raleigh county,
W. Va, is underlaid with coal from four to
. twelve feet in thickness.
The lot on which the California theatre
81 MI ,,,S L. 4.
purchased by Kate McDonough for Sl27 600,
was bought forty years ago for St5.
The presence of eighty-three students in
electrical engineering at Cornell university
is an indication of the rapid growth Of the
interest in the application of electricity to
engineering problems
An electric elevated railway for the con-
vc-ance of small parcels and newspapers at
a high rate of speed is under consideration
by Baltimore capitalists, with strong pros
pect that it will be constructed.
The story comes from New Lenox. Ills.
that boy there has two big Cochin China
roosters, which he has ''broke'' so that he can
drive them double to a small sled or wagon.
The last boy that got into the newspapers for
doing this lived in Maine
The town of Bellevue, Ills. is entirely free
of dogs. Since the terrific nitro-glycerine
explosion there some time ago not canine
has been seen on the streets. At the first re-
port every one started on dead run for the
woods, and not one has returned yet
A company has been formed at Pittsburg
with a capital of 100000 to manufacture
brick from blast furnace cinders. The in
dustry is successful in England, and the pro-
iectors count on turning out 80 600 brick per
day, which they expect to market at IS per
thousand
The cost of maintaining the imperial fam
lily Of Germany, with all its various branches,
is 100000 900 year. The sultan Of Turkey
costs the people sl5,0OO,O00 annually The
most economical court in Europe, consider
ing its size and the wealth of the empire, is
the Austrian
The Russians and Poles are crowding into
the factories where sewing is done For sew
eral reasons they are strongly objected TO by
the other nationalities. In the first place
they are inhumanly dirty and vitiate the air
already none too pure They will work for
the least possible amount and carry work
home to be done at night.