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The English admiralty say that the
total abolition of masts and sails in all
future fighting ships has become abso-
lutely necessary.
Mrs. Thomas j. Jackson has applied
for u pension for the services OF her
late husband. Gen. ''Stonewalr Jack
son, in the war with Mexico.
A Philadelphia shoemakers dog
didn't know the difference between a
piece of steak and a piece of leather,
and swallowing the latter was soon
dead canine.
Mrs. John McWilliams, n Nebraska
wife, prays the court to restrain her
lawful husband from patting her on
the back, poking her in the ribs. and
talking baby talk to her."
interviewing has been got down to a
science by Partisan who advertises
that he will furnish for the provincial
press interviews with distinguished
men, two week, for $15 a month.
Andrew Carnegie is SIS years old. He
had less than 500 twenty-six years
ago, but since that time he has made
| $50, 900, 600, of which he now holds
about $50, 000 900 in his own right.
The waters of the Ochtahatchee
Lake in Florida ran off through its
underground channel few days ago,
and an immebSs number of the finest
kind of fish were secured by the citi-
zens of the vicinity.
The Prince of Naples, heir-apparent
TO the throne of Italy, will spend the
summer in n tour of the European
caurts looking for a wife. The Prince
is dark, slender youth. not bad-look-
I ing, but with very delicate constitu-
ton.
The appliance of hydraulic power to
the manufacture of steel seamless boats
is one of the latest things in England.
These boats are thought to be in every
particular superior to those made of
! wood and can be made at about the
same cost.
The rush to the gold fields in tho
Transvaal region has been unprecedent-
ed in history. In three years f150. 000,-
600 of English money have been in
vested there. Cities have sprung up
where in 1886 only grass could be
found and no habitation.
The other day Minnesota clergy
men travelled thirty miles, made six
calls, visited two schools, gave an
afternoon lecture and shot seven Jack
rabbits. all between sunrise and sun
set, and he said it wasn't q good day
for pastoral work either.
The picture of Romney, which was
sent to recent London exhibition by
an old maid who feared she was pre-
sumptuous in asking that it be insured
for So, 300, because it was an old heir
loom and much esteemed in the family"
has just been sold, it is said, for $40,-
600.
A Lincolnville man, James A. Snow,
who despised 1.-THE weed" lately died,
and in his will he provided for the edu-
cation of his two grandchildren, James
w. and Fred Allen Snow, on condition
that they abstain from the use of all
intoxicating liquors and also from the
use of tobacco.
The Swiss watchmakers have invent
ed watch for the blind A small peg
is set in the middle of each figure.
When the hour hand is moving toward
given hour, the peg for that hour
drops. The owner, when he wants to
know the time, finds which peg is
down aud then count back to twelve.
While prospecting in the Okefeenokee
swamp. Georgia, a man killed an ami
nal in the swamp of which natural
history gives no account. 1t resembled
a turtle in some respects, but was4 1-2
feet long and "a inches across. The
back was covered with hard, scaly
substance. somewhat like an alligator's
hide. and the animal had long, hook
ed beak.
One of the curiosities Of Washington,
the new state, is Medical Lake, not far
from Spokane Falls. A property Of its
water is that L forms lather whenever
it is agitated violently or rubbed
quickly on the hands or the surface of
the body. No fish or other living thing
has been found in these waters. and the
lake itself is rather repulsive and muddy
in appearance.
London fire department statistics
show that, although theatre fires have.
increased greatly in number. they are
far less damaging than formerly, owing
TO the improvements in the apparatus
for suppressing them. The same sta
tistics show that the death rate from
fires in London has fallen from 238 in
1887 to 10 in 1889. This is also laid TO
the improved apparatus.
The marriage of two Digger Indians
in Butte County, Mont, was unearthed
the other day as follows: 'Kanaka to
Ginny: hereby certify that on Thurs
day, the 9th day of March, 1867. at my
office in Oregon township Kanaka and
Ginny-a Shasta Indian squaw-were
by me lawfully joined in marriage in
the presence of many witnesses, Sam
Glass, j. p, Oregon, Tp."
Benjamin Ellis Martin relates how he
visited Edmonton churchyard In order
to visit Charles Lambs grave. Service
was going on in the church. and no
waited till the close and asked the Off
ciating clergymen the location of the
grave. The clergyman didn't know.
He had heard that Charles Lamb was
buried in his churchyard but he had
never seen the grave nor asked about it.
A new mineral has been discovered
in the vicinity of the little town of