Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-31
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Many Of the interior towns of OREGON ara
raising money to import song birds from
Germany.
A canal across Italy is being planned, to
connect tho Adriatic and Mediterranean. 1t
will begin at Fano.
There is one place in Ventura county, Cali
fornia, where there are 5000 acres planted
with beans
Sentimental London ladies, to help the
starving Hindoos, are sending out stuff for
their next seasons frocks, TO be enriched
with marvellous oriental embroidery.
A statue to Shakespeare is to be erected in
one OF the most conspicuous and fashionable
parts OF Paris, but it is at the expense of an
Englishman
vulture, measuring nine feet from tip to
tip, was lately shot near Julien, San Diego
county, Cal, as it was sailing away with a
full grown sheep in its claws.
The cultivation of grasshoppers NAV be-
come profitable industry in the neighbor-
hood OF St Paul, since it has been decided to
pay 81 a bushel for them.
An English court has decided that railroad
servants cannot eject persons from trains
who say they have lost their tickets the only
remedy being to sue the passenger for breach
Of contract.
The auditorium on the Ohio Centennial
Exposition grounds in Columbus is hemi-
spherical in shape The floor is $50 feet in
diameter, and the highest point of the roof Is
eighty six feet from the ground.
An observer on Hyde Park corner reports
that between IL and in the afternoon nine
tenths Of the girls that pass have their faces
painted, their eyelashes and their eyebrows
darkened and their lips reddened
During recent fete of the Bologna uni
versity the students of Parma sent TO their
Bologna brethren Parmesan cheese weigh
ing l6O pounds and covered with Latin in
scriptions worked in macaroni A huge tun
OF Barbera wine went with it.
A new state is about TO be added to the sis
terhood Of nations. Letters patent have
been granted to THE British East African
Company" giving them full power to erect
and maintain a government, with taxes and
army. 1t lies north OF the German East
African Society near Zanzibar, and includes
some Of the finest land in Central Africa.
The defense scare in England has brought
out tuc idfls lLdt tne udtlOu uaS >S4 aumlralS
and only fifty armored sea going ships. Only
thirteen admirals are employed, drawing
s37 600 while 2sl unemployed recei-e el6l,-
900. At the same time there are 40 generals,
Of whom 100 are employed.
The Salvation army are having great sue
cess in India according to all reports. They
are said TO live on twenty cents week per
capita, and submit to great privations un-
complainingly, and it is also said that Com
missioner Tucker, their leader. recently re-
signed a government place worth 1000 a
year to join the army.
According to a first class authority, horse
flesh Is largely eaten in Alsace, Germany
The choice cuts are retailet for about eight
cents per pound, and the ordinary six cents
A large quantity is used in the manufacture
Of sausages. All horses are given a strict
examination before and after being killed,
and il found in any way diseased are -
jected In Strasburg the flesh of thirty
horses is eaten every week.