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than at the surface. In many bays on
the coast of Norway the water often
freezes at the bottom before it does
above.
The Judges of the Supreme Court OF
are ridiculed for wear
ing silk gowns, which they have just
adopted. the innovation is generally
unpopular.
An alum mine has been discovered
in Utah. 1t yields 80 to 80 per cent.
pure alum, which can be extracted by
simply placing the crude material in
boiling water.
A correspondent of the New York
World makes the discovery that the
letter A appears in the name of every
President the country has had, except
i'll that of John Tyler.
A discovery has been made at Gla-
morgaushire, Wales, of remains of a
large Roman villa and 4 military sta
cred by the buildings.
The London Standard says that
millions of dollars have been spent on
the heatheus of China by European
missions, aud it doubts if 800 benefit
has thus far come of it.
An English joker took down the
calendar in business office and hung
up one two wears old Dates for inn
portant papers were taken from 1t,
and a loss of $4,000 was the result.
The latest estimate of the coal sup
ply of the world gives us fuel for the
next 800 years, by which time some
genius will have invented way to
make one corncob heat big house for
week.
American apples are sent to England.
Germany, France. Italy, Spain, Aus
tralia, Asia, Africa. South America.
and Mexico, and if the Eskimos want
few barrels all they have to do is to
speak mp.
A singular accident happened at
Albany recently. A horse being rid
den was suddenly paralyzed and its
hoofs gave way, turning up to its tet-
locks. while the horse came down on
its ankle bones.
1t has been decided in the Massachu-
setts courts that Il Boston man cant
leave his mistress $685. 900 and his wife
$1,000 The decisiuu is that The wife
takes all. and she needn't do any weep
ing over his grave. either.
In II lately published story book for
boys the author has Il hoy thirteen
years old capture three burglars, save
four persons from drowning, discover
and nut out II fire. save IL city from in-
undation and find $4,000 in an alley.
as to executing criminals by elec-
tricity, a New York paper observes:
'sWhile the originators of the ridiculous
new capital punishment law are figur-
ing on some method OF carrying it out,
the Legislature can afford desirable
relief by repeating the law
One of the candidates at recent
teachers examination in Chippewa
county, Michigan. said Gin answer to
the question. Give the principal occu-
patton of the Inhabitants of your town
ship'): Fishing. Turning, and on
election day selling their votes"
There has been begun in Paris a
campaign against trained nurses, and
a return to the old system of nursing
by sisters of charity has been strongly
advocated. 1t is alleged that the NOR
tality in hospitals is 4 per cent higher
since the Introduction of trained nur-
SeS.
An Indiana court has decided that
unless a woman is pleased with her
photographs she need not pay for
them, no matter if Il dozen of her
friends declare that they ..look Just
like her. She doesn't want them to
look that way. They must look better
than she does.
Mr.. Edison says: Undoubtedly the
next great discovery will be some
method of getting electricity from coal
direct without the Intervention of
boilers to make steam, steam-driyen
engines to run dynamos, which iu
their turn, with the Intervention of
magnetism, do work. whether in opcr-
ating motors or in making light.
There is a married man in Atlanta
who wears eyeglasses with a gold rim.
His. wife wears eyeglasses. too, and
the two pairs are just alike. They are
the parents of three children the
youngest being ten years of age-and
each of the children is near-sighted, so
much SO that they wear eyeglasses.
too. Five pairs Of glasses in one fam
lily is rather unusual.
uUWH IS Ouc I'll lUG
very bad habits. Recently an Oxford
county. Maine, man went 10 a meat
market to buy small piece of liver
t'How much?' asked the man. 81
will make you present of that" said
the butcher. The man put on his
most knowing look, stepped back,
rubbed his hands together, looked the
butcher square in the eye, and said:
''Ain't that rather highP"
A Buffalo girl got rid of an undesir-
able sHitor in a unique way. He pro-
posed on the way home from church
Sunday evening, and the fair creature,
who is ''o'er young to marry" said
eyes, but added that she would not
marry Linn till he gained the consent
of her father. The young man dis
covered the next day that the young
lady's father died several years ago,
and the disappointed lover has emf
grated to Black Rock.
The New York Legislature has some
sharp clerks. The first thing the new
1y appointed officials of the Assembly
did was to hunt up the pay clerk and
draw their mileage. This is computed
by the usual highway, and the know
ing ones figure close. How far is it
to your home?' said the clerk to the
messenger. 1T is PIG miles by rail,
and live just three-quartcrs of mile
from the station, so you can call it 217
miles. was the reply.
While excavating a cut beyond Kin
chafo6nee Creek, near Buena Vista,
Ga, the railroad hands took out
wagon load of bones, and among them
was a scull with bullet hole in the
back of the head. Along with these
bone was crude earthen pot made of
some kind of material which looked
like mari. The presence of the pot
leaves the impression that they were
Indian bones, as it was custom with
the red man to bury some kind of a
trophy with the dead. 1t was no doubt
a graveyard made when the creek was
lined with redskins.
The queerest Sunday service held in
Maine, or perhaps in the country, is
that of the Liberal fraternity which
meets every Sabbath afternoon in
hall in Portland, Me. Here infidels,
agnostics, spiritualists. Buddhists, and
thinkers of various shades of hetero-
n