The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
MiSCEILANEO

 to England, travelled all around Lon don, seen everything worth seeing in two-months trip, and all it cost her was S20O
 Thick wooden stockings lately saved the life of lady of Middlebury. Pa. She was bitten by rattlesnake, but the stockings absorbed the venom. The spot turned bright green.
 Pensacola, Fla, has magistrate that knows a thing or two. In dis charging a gentleman who was ar rested for fighting, he remarked. "lf you hadn't hit him you ought to have been hung"
 A man has been going around Orange Township, Ohio, clipping the hair off the tails of horses. He turns out to be insane. He explained that he wanted the hair to make bed and took his eaptors to a cave in the woods where he had three bags full of hair.
 Italians are not very strong in domestic ties Of 43, 0C0 Italians that landed in Castle Garden last year, 3i,- GOO were males. The emigration of females from Italy is smaller than from any other country, averaging but thir, teen per cent. of the whole number who landed. From Germany tie per eentage Is forty, from Ireland forty Live.
 There are alleged to have been many instances of colored persons turn ing white, but the case of a Yamaeraw, Ga, woman is most remarkable from the fact that her niece few years ago also became Caucasian to all appear ances, and that her skin drops off in big flakes. She is almost entirely help less, her limbs being paralyzed. He illness began with her change of color.
 One of the cannon used by the American eelonists in l7G3 in defend ing their settlements from the attacks of the Indian chief Pontiac, is embedded in the foundation walls of q residence of Bethlehem. Pa, where it was placed by the officers of the MoraYian church to preFent young America from firing it otf on liberty days.
 A steamer arrived at Philadelphia the other day with cargo Of fruit and number of tarantulas on board. Mem bers Of the crew were often obliged to keep watch at night and sweep the vipers into the ocean as fast as they crawled up on deck. The vessel was loaded to its hatehways, At times the deck was literally covered with them, and some were as big around the body as a good sized orange.
 When General Burnside was com handing in East Tennessee he was in- yited to dinner by an elderly farmer. The invitation was accepted. At the table sat the mother of the host, d lively old lady, but in appearance ex- tremely old Mother, said tEe Gen eral, may ask your age? You appear 10 be quite old for person who can get around aS lively as you do. She re- piled: "Ies, my son, l am very old l have lived here all my life. don't know adzackly how old l am, but 1 know that am little over ,000 years old. '-Columbus State Journal.
 The new machines for selling post age stamps adds another to the long list of nieAel-in-the-slot inventions. Most men prefer to pay five cents for a two-cent postage stamp rather than submit to the ordinary manner of the drug clerk who sells stamps at the Government price. Why the clerks should buy stamps, put sign in the window, and then sell them with such extraordinary ill-graee is one of the mysteries of the modern retail trade. It is a fact that most of the clerks consider 1t personal affront to have any one ask them for stamps. and the machine is considered the more cour- icons and apologizing.
 A century ago only 300 species of orchids were known, and those very imperfectly. Now the latest authority gives the extreme number of known species as 10, ,000. This may be an ex- cessive estimate, but it shows the i'm mcnse advances which have been made in our knowledge of these interesting plants for which collectors now ran sack the most remote quarters of the globe. It is said that the modern pas sion for the cultivation of orchids sprang from the exhibition of some re- markable specimens at the early meet ings of the English Horticultural So ciety.
 How Lobsters Are Gafed.