The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1889-02-13
miscellaneous Items.

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Rren a mas signature he can icen-
tity it again if simply shown one
single letter of the name.
Last year fifteen Cinnamon were
married in Queensland-sne to a
native of the colony, one to Vic
torian native, two to Scotch wo~
men, three to Irish women and
eight to English women.
Frank T Lackey, who travels
for New York cloak house, while
yawning in Cambridge City, Ind,
ruptured some of the cords in the
vertebra, and since has been in a
critical condition. He is unable to
move his head.
A mule owned in Jersey City
performed the remarkable feat, on
Tuesday, of walking across n rail-
road bridge which spans the Hack
ensack river. The bride is trestle-
work, with space Of about four
inches between each tie.
At the festivities attending the
Emperor Of China's marriage next
year will be employed 10000 horn
lanterns, 10000 glass lamps and
"a, 900 pieces OF embl oidered silks,
and skilled artiflcers are now hard
at work manufacturing these ar.
ticles.
An old fisherman at Norwich,
Conn, makes the consoling pre-,
diction that the high water prevail
ing this season will be the cause OF
some astonishing coed trout fishing
next spring. The muskrats cannot
get at the trout, upon which they
ravenously feast when the streams
are covered with ice.
The waters of nearly all the hot
springs in Black Rock region, Ne.
vada, are SO strongly impregnated
with mineral matter, that they will
petrify vegetable or animal matter
in few years. One enterprising
genius has the bodies of three In.
dams in soak, and when they are
converted into stone he expects to
make fortune exhibiting them.
An old fellow in a Wisconsin
town who has been running a pri.
vate bank for some years, recently
requested to publish some sort OF
a statement. So he posted the fol-
lowing on the door OF his bank:
"Notice-This ere bank has got
$4,000 behind her. She don't
owe nobody a cussed cent. Good
paper discounted, as heretofore,
and nobody purposes to cut sticks
for Mexico or Canada"
The number OF paupers in Lon
don in the last week in December,
exclusive of lunatics in asyIums
and Migrants, was 100,315, as
compared with 104,097 on the cor
responding day of the previous
year, S,611 in 1886, and "a, 800 in
1885. The Migrants relieved in
the metropolis on the last Satur-
day of December numbered ,156,
of whom 949 were men, 10 wo-
men and q children undr 16 years
of age.
There is a company in Birming-
ham, England, that makes about
100000 Of pms every day, the
weight averaging five tons per
week. The company are in pos
session, as proprietors, of the priv>
iIeges and rights of the original
patentee of the solid,headed pir.
There are at least two other exten-
sive pin manufacturers in Birming-
ham, where it is said that halt the
gins used in the world are
shade.
A rude stone cist has been exam.
med III Orphlr, Dlrkwall, INSIDE
OF which WAS found textile gar,
ment supposed to be woelen, also
an amber bead aud the nucleus of
a glass one. This is believed to be
the first cist found in Scotland with
a textile garment, supposed to be
FOR covering the body, and the
beads tor ornamenting the cover
ing. This burial place is thought
to be anterior to the Morse inva-
sion, about the eighth or ninth
century.
A sea monster has Appeared near