The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-15


DurindIkn weeks forty nine men commit
ted suicide At Monte Carlo.
A cigar dealer in Mannheim has rooster
which can uniie shoe strings.
A 81. Louis man drew sis 900 ia the Louis
lana lottery, hut Lost his reason.
A Chicago advertiser sets forth that he has
diamond ring TO exchange for Goa.
The roller skating craze Is now At it, height
In Washington Territory. Oregon aud Mantle.
bs.
A Brighton (Mich.) woman digs forty-nye
bushels OF potatoes day aud comes up slDl
log.
Cunard steamer VIII shortly begin
monthly service betwecn Hal lax and the
West Indies
Cornell University claims the largest fresh
man class ever entering an AmerIc N coil,ge
II numbers 400.
Gainesville. Fla. IA the only city having
yellow fever which has not been prorered aid
from outside sources.
A Frenchman spent ten years OF his life TO
Invent noiseless clock, and when he had
succeeded nobody would buy H.
boxing match between two London boys.
aged eight and ten years respectively, result
ed in The death Of one OF them.
A century plant ia full bloom" Is adyer-
tised as on exhibit at hall la Boston. IL
costs twenty five cents TO see n.
A reporter NJ Manchester. Eng, being uu-
able TO find any star Ting news. attempted
suicide and wrote column about II.
John Swan, OF strood. England, drowned
A.. 81.
oyerhapplness at his approaching marriage.
A single shad produces 1907 900 eggs, and
only about 1900 are hatched naturally. BY
the artificial method 90, O0l are successfully
Matched.
An inhuman fellow who cut out horses
tongue WAS sentenced last week by Judge
Staples, OF Springfield, Mass, to three years
In states prison.
An aesthetic looking blue lobster. with
delicately tinted pink tail, was captured at
Portland, Me-, recently. and Is now swimming
In close quarters as n curiosity.
The longest through car service OF any
railroad line In the world Is said to be on the
Southern Pacific road. between New Orleans
and San Francisco, 2,495 miles.
The twenty.four men who composed the
petit jury for the September term Of the
buchanan county court. In Missouri, weighed
b,o3s pounds, the average OF 23S pounds.
The Honiton lace industry Is dying out.
The race for variety and cheapness has driven
the hand made laces from the market ma
chine limitations having taken their places
The success OF the great Worlds Fair at
Melbourne. Australia, has melted San Fran
cisco TO undertake Great Pacific Slope and
international Exposition" In that city in
year or two. ~
One 81 the best gas wells IN the Indiana
field is the one recently opened at Lafon-
talne. II is less than 900 feet deep and two
flames, each 75 feet high, burn from the
threc-inch tubing OF the well.
A recent English tcsiator bequeathed hts
wife one farthing, which he directed the ex-
ecutrix TO forward TO her by post unpaid,
because in his lifetime she was In the habI
of addressing him as "old Pig"
Calvin Bowker, who has just resigned his
place as postmaster OF SAVOY Hollow, Mass.,
was appointed in ls4i under President Ty-
Ter and has held the Office continuously ever
since He Is eighty-two years old.
An unknown rascal entered a stable at
Troy, Ga, and administered strychnlne 10
twelve valuable horses. When the dastardly
act was discovered most OF the horses jaws
we're locked. and they were wrthing In
agony.
A colored man at Wateryllle. Me-, who has
Just spent three months I'm jail for helping
himself 10 n barrel OF -four not hts own give
as reason for his misdemeanor the fact
that he had been entertaining a good deal OF
company lately
Dr. schullze, OF Vienna, advises strongly
the drinking OF beer out Of mugs instead 81
glasses. Beer deterlorates very quickly un.
der the influence Of light and mugs, par len.
larly covered nuns, are much preferable to
transparent glasses
NJ. Jules oppert, the AssyriologIst has lust
commun Icated to the Academy Of Inscrip-
lions and Belles-Lettrcs tho translation OF
cuneiform inscription describing two ecipses,
one of which Was observed at Babylon 10 the
year l6s OF an unknown local era, aud the
year $50 Is. G.
The wife Of wealthy Chinese merchant
on the Pacific Coast over n year ago started
on n trip'to the Fiowery Kingdom. Daring
the voyage she gave birth TO child. Now,
on arriving at San Francisco, The Customs
officers refuse 10 allow tho woman TO briug
the infant ashore.
Six thousand pounds OF powder we're set
OF at singIe blast In San Francisco, causing
a trembling Of the earth for miles around
akin TO that produced by an earthquake.
The charge was Cred in quarry on Tele-
graph Hill, and dislodgcd. Il is estimated,
from $1,000 To $4,000 tons OF rock.
A passenger on a west bound tran from
Chicago hid his money In one OF his shoes on