Telegram-herald., 1889-09-16
ODDS AND ENDS

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Upward of twenty eight isrgs bales q hu-
mar hair were brought 70 Francs Ia tie l.st
steaEneF that ARRIVES from Tie Orient
The richest man Ia he house II commons
Is ssid - Be Mr. AcEwan. Home kuie nem-
bsr ior one of the divisions u .--labur9n.
worth a., ,0oJ Isr annlm-
Il Is not generally known that Mr. Glad
stone has only three fingers on MS left hand.
The index finger wAs shot OF forte seven
years ago by al accident IL the hunting held
The art q putting the right men in tie
right places Is lrst ~ TIE science of govern
meni but that of hn1lng places for tie c.s-
oontented is tie naosI difficult -Is4leYr rand
A recent cargo of Java sugar, landed al
Philadelphia, was IN. asted VIII s~arins ~
sugar ne4s resembling potato bugs. ana IL
tlcting stang hAe "a boes
A FIRE that broke out In e shaft of eoal
mine at Birmingham. Ala. Imprisoned a
miner aud sixteen mulos The miner ~as
reached about ten days aftsrward and was
found 10 De dead Eshteen dEys after the
fire the mules. which were much furthor
back ia the mine, were reSchod and al blt
one of the sixteen were alive. although too
weak - stand
A San Francisco Newspaper thinks that
sl2 ,ODo 900 Is yearly drained" by the CHI
nese through various channels from a city 4
10000 inhabitants 1t figures this way.
There are a. 900 Chinese IN San Francisco.
These persons earn at least a. day each
over and above their board That Is SO .001
a day, 81 ,040 600 a month OF twenty -six DAYS
and over sl2,000, 900 q year. Most o. this
money, il thinks goes directly or indirectly
70 China, never 10 return
The highest structure of masonry IN the
world is said 70 Ice the nstionA museum
Gently completed az Turin IL WA originally
designed for a synagogue bat At proved "a
adapted 10 that purpose and was sold g the
city. 1t was then converted into a museum
es q monument 10 the memory u Victor
Emmanuel On top OF the dome rises spirs
nearly az high as the whole Of tie rest Of The
building The gilt statue on the top % thls
spire stands SIS feet from the ground
An Indian called Old Gabriel, living at the
Monterey County hospital, Cal is believed
10 he $50 years old In ITO Gabriel was al
ready grandfather, and in III assisted IN
the construction Of the first chapel at Monte
rev. In 1915, when be married his sixth
wife, be was said TO be over 10 years old
III y flt~f TIC "a III A1Ae a. hdNbfIfAs
and the developed insects are caught IN sys-
tens of screens The quantity % eggs col
iected was 375s tons IN 1872. 81 tons Ia 1850
and $50 tons in 1851 More tran COCO
screens were used in 1852. and l95, 900 O00. 900
insects were destroyed. while IN 1856 there
were more than II, 900 screens and 1900
traps, the former representing al aggregate
length OF about 3l5 miles.
H.. Ill -. J.. -. -.
because the length oi the year IL not exactly
$685.. days. II Is really little less gelcven
minutes and fourteen seconds, and - ne
difference keeps increasing from year 20
year. Il is necessary 70 drop out the extra
day e., ely hundred years OF 30 20 bring The
calendar right Even this correction is not
quite exact, but IL win serve for n great
many centuries, 81 there Il no pressing need
Of reform.
The features g. the poetess ssppho hnv,
perhaps been discovered in n mosaic recently
unearthed at Sparta The greater part q
mosaic foor Of private house ia fair Yrescr-
vation, contains 3 square with omsDf
bust labeled Ssppbo. The bend is -rowned
with wroath. and the face is handsome.
Other portraits were in the Same mosaic. bit
unfortunately that which VIVA lsbolsd Al
keiades lacks the portrait tsef
Apropos Of the story told about th. ,hsh
rnistaking one of ;be smart silker programmes
provided for ham at the opera for pocket
handkerchief, IL II sosd that that fsTnou. pi-
+ ratlcal Princess GrAnna Naills Grace O'ksl.
lew, when al Queen LIzsbeths court. wns
decidedly primitive IN her hsblts Observing
this. lady in waiting, faDcying Grace bad
forgotten her poc.es hsndk ere hiof. handel
her q canbric one. Grace who hs5 q lad
cold, used it promptly, and then threw Il IN
the fire. doing % every time . fresb nouchor
was lent her.
The export trade in matches Is q most I'm.
portant one 70 Japan. China. however. -
alrnos; her only customer. NoIez than es2 oc
yens worth were exported % the fo-erv isrd
in 1857. The matches made Ia JspsB a-s a.
safety matches" and. slthougb taleT ers
given out % be inferior % The BDrop~aD arts
Gle. the price is - low ss ~ defy competition
in the ChiDess msrkets
The country home - Hr Charles A. Dens
is en- Island. called Dosoris on fhe north
shore of Long Island The island consists -
forty-ive acres under high sfats - cutlvs-
ton, being one irrnenss garden Tbs Tes-
ture and forage lands srs on tie main ien1-
a sea wal. over which hang fesfoonf - vines,
runs around the entire island The housr -
al Old one, hut II IL lsrgs and comfortable.
and surrounded ty vine covered piazzss A
perfect lawn ia front runs down to Tire sound,
the treea