The Clifton clarion., 1889-04-26

A new occupation for woman is that of superintendent of weddings.
 Four Harvard students paid $2O in justices court for participating in a cock-fght.
 Ninety Arapahoe Indian girls at tend St. Stephens Missionschool near Lander, Wyo.
 Half 8 million dollars worth of canned goods were shipped from this country to tropical regions last year.
 Philadelphia is the only city in the country that gives profitable patron ago 10 8 permanent company of min strels.
 A close observer IS credited with the statement that shoddy in America dis penses with the employment of no less than 5O,OOO,OOO sheep.
 The British gunboat Spider, which was to have proved such marine terror, is failure, and her trial trips are of the most unsatisfactory charac- ter.
 The largest ruby in the world is said to be a stone weighing twenty four carats and measuring an iuch in length and three-quarters of an incl in width. It is owned in London.
 The first metrical work produced in tEis country is said to have been a translation by George Sandys, Colo nial Secretary of Virginia, of Ovid's sMetamorphosis." It was printed in London in 1926.
 There are women in the east end of Londcn who slyly squirt dirty water out of syringeS on ladies' dresses and then overtake them and wipe it off with their aprons in order to get the small fee that is usually forthcoming.
 Russian officials have tested and re- ported favorably upon an invention for applying the revolver principle to the barrels ofthe Bcrdan rifles. By this arrangement a machine gun is obtain ed which will fire 4SO shots per min- ute.
 Senator Spooner is outspoken in his disappointment regarding his States share of the spells. "We have not se- cured all we want" he said few days ago, "and it is not probable that we will. Wisconsin is after everything in sight"
 A new York burglar got into q genuine pickle the other day. Officers discovered that some one was feloni- ousiy at work in butcher shop, but after they had entered could not find the man until they looked in a pork 7 barrel, when they discovered him up to his neck in brine.
 Cotton-seed meal is very rich food for fowls. It may be used sparingly, say half pint in the ground feed for 100 head, administered twice or three times week. In the abuse of ihis article troubles have arisen, but in its proper use good results only will be secured.
 The Albuquerque Democrat says: New Mexico covers a vast lake, and as wells are being sunk in different parts of the Territory this fact is being as sured. A we'll sunk at Gallup has penetrated body of water 50 feet in depth. and wherever hole is sunk to the water it is found to exist in inex- .--haustible quantities.
 Fred A. Stewart, mate of schooner whleE recently arrived at Portland. Me, was sleeping in his berth the other Alght when he felt something scrap ing his face. He grabbed it with his hand and threw it on the floor, and. getting light, found it was good 'sslzed rat hehad killed, which had been gnawihg his face.
 The class of'79, Princetown. decid- cd some time ago to place in the col lcge chapel mural statue of pr. Me Cosh. The work is now rapidly ap- preaching completion. Dr. McCosh lately gave the sculptor one of the leai slttings, and the relief will be - ready presentation at next con- hiencement. The artist is St. Gail- dens.
 John Mcguire, New Haven lad. was caught by the hand in belt. and. although carried around on the rapid " moving shaft about 700 times, re- celVed only iniurieS fro,n 1rb;cb bo