The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1890-12-06
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achievement.
Athens, Ga, has cat that weighs six-
teen pounds.
A machine for making shoestrlngs out of
paper is recent Philadelphia invention
It IS curious that there are no direct do
sccndants of Napoleon, Wellington or Wal
| ter Scott.
Marriages Of convenience, which have
been social bane In Franco, are said to be
on the decline there.
Paris has bad touch Of Englishism. The
Anglomaniacs Of that city send their linen
to London to be washed.
The present Sultan Of Zanzibar is only 81
years old. He Is thought to be an able
young man, for that country.
Three Tampa, Fla, hunters in two days.
hunting killed two deer, four turkeys and
100 each Of quail and squirrels.
A rattlesnake died in ten minutes after
biting colored man at Lumplrn, Ga. The
man suffered no serious results.
One police court in New York In three
hours disposed Of 100 cases-an average Of
minute and half to each case.
Labor is cheap in Ceylon. The coolies
there can live on 81 month, and are glad
to get 1211 cents day for their work
A new mania for collecting has broken
out This time it is not snuff boxes or
canes, but shaving mugs. What nextl
Locks were used by the Egyptians,
Greeks, Romans and Chinese. Du Cange
mentioned locks and padlocks as early as
1881.
AtMontichiari batteries Of artillery using
smokeless powder kept up fire for half an
hour without their position being discov-
cred.
A ''peeping Tom" at Martinez, CAL, was
caught in tree the other night and was
played on with hose until he begged for
mercy.
It is not generally known-in fact, popu-
lar prejudice points the other way-that
the last carriage in railway train is the
safest. ,
Henry Walker, Of Waylonza, Fla, is the
owner Of pig that has six feet and twenty
four toes, while q neighbor has one with
only two feet.
The Atlanta, Ca, fair association offered
premiums for rat scalps and one farmer
brought 1900, killed on his farm, and got
the first premium.
It is estimated that the 200, 900 bushels of
cranberries which New Jersey will send to
market will realize to the farmers round
million Of dollars.
Paulsboro. N. J., measured 20 inches in
circumference and weighed twelve and
one-half pounds, it is said.
Germany sent to the United States last
year beet root sugar to the value of SIG, 0OO,-
900. Two years ago the amount was less
than million and Q half.
A colored man living in Worth county,
Georgia, is the owner Of little red steer
that recently trotted twenty-five miles in
four hours hitched to cart.
A man stood on street corner in New
York recently and offered to bet $500 to .
sent that "behind the clouds the sun is still
shining" He had no takers.
The explanation of the peculiar density
of thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact
that the vapor is partially condensed into
drops by the electrical action.
This country is not the abiding place Of
the Chinese. Hosts Of them left New York
the other day for China, having achieved
competency for their own land.
A method Of rendering tobacco smoke
to the mouth, heart and nerves
without detriment to its aroma is claimed
to have been discovered at Vichy.
An expert says the Florida phosphates,
though immense in extent, are disappoint-
ing as to richness, and the proportion Of
high grades is exceedingly small.
The people Of the Truckee complain that
they have had no summer this year. Ow-
ing to the surrounding snow banks they
might as well be living in q refrigerator.
Chicago has formed company for manu-
featuring aluminium from clay beds near
the city. 1t is believed that the clay soil
around the city is full Of "the coming
metal"
A German doctor, Mendel Of Berlin, has
discovered that coffee intoxicates. He is
behind the time. People have always
known that it stimulated II it did not in
ebriate.
There is an inmate Of the Georgia State
Lunatic Asylum who imagines in his insan-
ity that he is grain of corn. He will not
go into the yard, fearing the chickens will
eat him.
The women Of Anam wear a hat that II
like large barrel cover, being twenty
seven inches in diameter. Six Lor seven
silk cords as thick as quill are suspended
on each side.
An old chief gave his experience of In
dian agents this way: 'Spose agent heap
bad man, heap swear, steal half Iniun
blanket, Iniun -four; spose agent lovum
Jesus, steal ALL"
The theory that good apples cannot be
grown In the south seems to be disproven-
Apples ten and twelve inches in circumfer-
ence are raised as far toward the equator as
southern Florida.
A rich find Of silver is reported to have
been made in Calhoun county, Alabama, in
what appears to be mine formerly work.
cd by Indians. The ore Is said to assay 60
per cent of pure silver.
A woman at Baskerville, Me-, who has
son Of twenty years, has not been ''down-
town" but once in twelve years, and at that
time she was taken there against her viii.
What an anomaly she Is Gone a-shopping
but once In twelve years.
Annie Brown, colored, lives in Houston
county, Georgia. She is forty-seven years
old, weighs 500 pounds, is feet inches in
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