Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15
MUCH IN SMALL COMPASS.

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| Boulanger's book appears to have fallen
fat and is already drug in the market.
The Russian troupe which plays on twenty
four pianos at once is coming to London.
The log cabin in which Gen Grant was
born has reached Cincinnati, o., where ii
will be placed on exhibition
California parties are locating factory
for manufacturing soap from clay contain
ing soap properties discovered near Cotton.
The master tailors in the British army
complain that they have very little chance
Of promotion, and they want a change
Big flats well down town, in the cheaper
districts, are coming to be regarded in New
York as the solution of the rapid transit
problem.
The holy water disappeared from the font
Of church in Paris, and the priest sent a
detective to wasch the doors 1t was dis
covered shat a milkman was the thief
The London and Northwestern Railway
company has begun to lay rails along the
Shropshire canal in order to try the substi-
tuition of locomotives for horses for canal
boats.
A family consisting of two men, one woman
and two children have taken up their abode
in a mammoth hollow sycamore tree on the
banks of the kanawha river in West Virginia.
The largest tree in Ohio is near Clyde.
Seneca county. 1t was planted by Oliver
Comstock in 1923, and now measures 12 feet
inches in circumference and covers a space
of ground seventy feet in diameter.
A number of society girls in Mobile re-
Gently organized themselves into a minstrel
troupe, blacked their faces, donned the pro-
fessional wigs and gave performance
for the benefit of charitable society.
The combined capital of the Methodist
Book Concern is &, ,S92, S92 1854. The net sales
the last four years, deducting amount sold to
their own repositories, was So, ,5T, ,525 A,
showing a total Increase of sales over the
four previous years of SSSS, ,9O3.2
Recently a fleet of 1l3 steamers arrived at
the port Of Duluth. These vessels carried
lG0, 600 tons of freight, and were manned by
200 men. The Zenith City of the Un-
salted Seas" appears to be getting there.
The Douglas Sugar works at Arkansas
City, Kan, will be AZ by so feet, three sto-
ries high, with an attached building 16 by
30 feet. The boiler house will be 81 by 40
feet, and contain l00-horse power boilers.
The capacity of the mill will be $500 pounds
of sugar per hour.
A lemon was picked at Los Angeles, Cal,
the other day, that weighed so pounds, was
was 615 inches long and inches in diameter
The tree on which it grew had but half
dozen lemons on its branches, but the weight
of the fruit bent them almost to the ground
San Diego's new orphans home promises
to be one of the most important and best en-
dowed charitable institutions in the Union.
In addition to the home proper there will be
an educational and technical school. Four
citizens of San Diego have subscribed s., ,OOO.-
600, and the city has given 100 acres of land
in the city limits, worth nearly 81 ,OO00OO
The years experiment with profit sharing
at the great retail store of John Wanamaker,
in Philadelphia, has been very satisfactory.
Monthly dividends have been paid to the en-
ployes aggregating $50, 15S for the year. In
addition to that, S40, ,2s1 is distributed among
employees who have a record o. seven years
unbroken service in tine house, and SO, 900 is
set aside as pension fund for old employees.
The Denver Cattle trust has Just closed
contract with the French government to sup
ply the French army with 700 head of
beef cattle annually. The cattle will be all
range stock. The price has not been made
public. Shipments will be made as soon as
possible to Chicago, where 1t is understood
they will be slaughtered.
Baltimore can boast Of quite an original
lamplighter in the shape of a boy not over 10
years old. The little fellow rides along the
road on a big brown horse. Whenever he
comes to a lamp post he drives his horse
alongside of it, stands up on the saddle, opens
the lamp and lights it with a match. He is
SO quick that he is able to keep up with q
horse car going at a rapid rate.
A recent deer hunt near Martin, Tenn,
came to a queer end. After the sportsmen
had chased the deer for several miles, and
the hodnds were close at its heels, the fright
ened animal turned suddenly, and, running
up to one Of the hunters, tucked its head un-
der his arm, as if for protection. No one had
the heart to kill the pleading animal, and the
hunt was abandoned.
On June g. 1864, twenty-four years ago, at
the battle of Cold Harbor, Corporal Orlando
P. Bass, of company F, Twenty-fifth Massa-
chusetts volunteers, went to the rescue Of
two wounded soldiers who were beyond the
line of Confederate works and under heavy
fire, and got them safely off the battlefield.
He has just received medal OF honor from
the war department for the brave deed Our
republic is not ungrateful, but it's little
slow sometimes.