The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-05-05
FACT AND FANCY.

msn IN Atlantic City makes good vine
from tomatoes.
Baltimore talks OF erecting a monumental
statue Of Johns Hopkins
Green's short History OF England Ia.
reached sale OF l3o. 900 copies
A capitalist has offered 10 build K,ralfy a
spectacular theater in New York.
NpAlss Booth. OF Harpers Bazaar, is said to
earn $4,000 year, including her salary OF
$4,000.
The bodies OF Schubert and Beethoven are
10 be removed presently to the new cemetery
at Vienna.
Arthur schleman. OF Sanford. Fla. killed a
rattlesnakc the other day aud found In II a
large rabbit
Mrs. Carrot Anderson. the leading woma n
physician OF England, makes an income Of
$4,000 year.
II is thought that the opening OF the Sioux
Reservation will inaugurate lively boom In
Southern Dakota.
Prof. Swing has said the briefest thing on
"Christian Science: "It Is not Christian,
and II is not science"
Miss Fellows the Dllxota girl who has de-
termlned TO marrs an Indian, stiil adheres
immovably to that intention.
Rev. DR.. Fcwsmith. OF Newark, n. j., NAV
be interested TO know that there is a man In
Montana named Manysmith.
Senator Hoar has received the degree OF
IL. ID. from Harvard, Amherst, Yale, will-
Jams, aud William aud Mary'A
Andrew Carnegie denies that lie Is to Give
$LOU0OOO to establish polytechnic schoo.
at Pittsburg equal 10 the one at Boston.
The autobiography of Garibaldi win not ap
pear in book form until 1t has undergone
serial publication in Ha,psr's Magazine
Miss Grace ArlIc, white girl, Of Toledo
had typhoid fever and when she recovered
her skin was as black as that OF negro.
st. John, the Prohbltonist, has purchased
tract OF land near Chico, Cal, with the iu-
tention OF making 1t his permanent home.
The FIRST slave labor within the present
limits OF the United States was that en-
ployed at the founding OF St. Augustine In
1865.
At the Queens first drawIng.room this
year "more high bodlces were worn by special
permission than had ever been observed be.
fore.n
A mushroom was recently cooked at
Santa Barbara. Cal, that measured eight
inches In diameter. 1t was said TO be deli
cious.
The total value OF glass products imported
into tho United States in 1857 was 81. CSC,
O5l, against s6,757, lOs worth imported in
1885.
The swords In the possession of Mrs
Shields, belonging 10 her late husband, ten.
James Shields, are to be purchased by Con-
gress for $4,000
Mr.. Carlisle Is now In his third term as
Speaker and when he has completed 1t
Kentucky will have had the speakership
twenty three years
The average time OF 1900 New York busI-
ness men at their downtown luncheon Is
eight minutes. This is a matter OF record ia
leading restaurant
Senator Dawes. OF Massachusetts,, is past
seventy. and his health is breaking down lie
has spent more than thirty years In the two
Houses OF Congress.
A San Francisco suicide left note request
inc that his body be not put on ice, '1or,n
said he, ~ am always cold and would like
once 10 get warm"
BY the will OF Prof Asa Gray, OF Cambridge,
all his copyrights Of books, his portraits OF
botanical subjects are presented 10 the Her.
barium OF Harvard College.
Mrs. John w. Mackay's Gift 10 the Prince
and Princess OF Wales, on the occasion OF their
silver wedding, is toilet mirror heavily
mounted and embossed In silver.
Louisa, the mother OF the dead Kaiser,
wrote In 1908: 'Our son William will turn
out II / am not nuch mistaken, like his
father, simple, honest and intelligent"
Henry Wick. who recently took charge OF
tho plant OF the Warren Rolling Mil Com
pany at Warren, O., will cxpend about $2o,-
600 In putting the works "a shape to run.
Henry Clay is the only man who sat more
than eight years Ia tho Speakers chair. lie
presided over the House for twelve years. aud
he was elected Speaker at the age of thirty
four.
A check for e.. 90. 900, drawn on a national
bank In Sheffield, Ala recently passed be-
tween two merchants OF that place. IL was
probably the largest check ever drawn In the
State.
A notable event In the history OF the Uni
vcrsIty OF Michigan us the election Of DIR.
Hattie Allen, OF Waterloo Ia, 10 al the po-
sition OF Assistant Professor of Medicine In
that Institution.
Oliver Lays portrait OF Edwin Booth upon
which he has been long engaged, Is now on
exhibition at Richards Gallery. in New York.
II shows the actor as "Hamler" seated In the
solIloquy scene.
New York retail merchants hnd the dogs,
which are led by chains 10y fashionable wo-
men, such nuisance ia their stores that many
have put upa gilt sign reading: Dogs are
not admitted here unless In arms"