, 1890-04-17
NUGGETS or NEWS.

N u CO ElS OF ~ ENNS.
A collection OF postage stamps belong
Ing to one OF the Bothschilds was recent
~ sold for 10000.
The largest individual taxpayer IN lios-
ton Is John NJ. Seres, who pays $4,000 ON
{36l7 90 worth Of real estate and per
sonal estate OF fSl25,uJO
An observing Georgia man claims
that the crow digs a hole and buries In
1t the corn which It secures in the field,
holding the supply until necessity com
pels It's use.
The appliance OF hydraulic power to
the manufacture of steel seamless
boats Is one OF the latest things IN En-
gland, Those 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 the
Transyaal region has been unpteCc-
dcntcd in history. In three years tla0-
10000 Of English money have been in
vested there. cities have sprung up
who're ~ - only grass could be found
and no hnLitation.
The other day Minnesota clergyman
Travelled thirty miles, made six calls,
visited two schools. gave an afternoon
lecture and shot seven iackrnbbit-, all
between sunrise and sunset, and he said
y wasn't a good day for pastoral work
either
The picture by Romncy, which was
sent to q recent London exhibition By
au old maid who fcarcd she was pro
sumptuous IN asking that il be insured
N.sasHa fHHa ..N.t L.
oOn and much esteemed iu the tam
", has just beon sold, 1t is said, lpr
$4,000.
A Llncolnvillc man, James \. Snow,
who despised "thc weed. lately died
aud In his wil be provided for the cdu-
cation OF his two grandchildren, lamus
". and Fred Allen snow, ON condition
that they abstain from the use OF all in
toucattng liquors and also from the Use
OF tobacco.
The swiss watchmakers have Invented
q watch for the blind. A small peg is
set in the middle of each figure When
the hour hand IL moving toward q given
hour the peg for that hour drors. The
owner Whcn bo wants to know The time
ilnds which peg Is down and thcn counts
back 20 twelve.
Wolves are very think on Beaycrcrack.
in the northwest part OF Alpena county.
Michigan. Thcy have driven wood,
man into The riycr, and IT his cries had
not brourit help they probably would
have eaten Them, After nightfall thoy
nave followed the teams 10 the Landings.
coming within lew rods Of the log
wuudsncn.
Winter & Co., coal merchants Of
swanscombe, England. have sued the
owner of mcnagcrie for $50 the value
OF horse alleged TO have died from
night at the sight Of one OF the mcnar-
ere elephants. The horse was being
driven along the road wh,u he saw the
elephant 10 gave one spring into tho air
and dropped dead.
London fire department statisticsshow
that, although thcatcr fires have in.
creased greatly In numtcr they are far
lt7a damaging than formerly. oWtnr 10
the improvement, in tht apparatus for
suppre5sing thom. The same stntlstlcs
show that the death rate tom ines In
London has fallen from ~, in IssI 10
nineteen In lss0. This Is also laid To the
improved apparatus.
benjamin Ellis Martin relates how hc
visited Edmonton Chuuhyarl in order
to visit Charles lambs grave. Service
was going on IN the church. and bs
waited TIL tho close ana asked the of
hrluths clergyman tho location oi the
grave The clergyman didn't know.
lie had heard that Charles Lamb was
buried IN his yhurghynri. but Inc hud
never seen the grave, nor asked about n
A new mineral has been discovered in
the vicinity OF the little town Of Homer
KY and the inhabitants Of that place
expect 70 realize millions. Tho 'snb-
.lIl'r discovered IS black, pitchy Tor
NATION and IN Of 10 iOnniv an.
pearauoe, When placed in the fire n
burns with clear flame. and makes N
brilliant whit" light. lis entirely con.
snlncd by burning, leaving no ashes or
ClinkCrs.
Thc,willofa prominentattorney in Gin.
clnnhsl = y peculiar document, and two
ot the pro 'isions have attracted consiI.
crnbiH COMMENT, "l desire that no bar.
i4ccunB be lqld for me. for such osca.
aions are udlizod by lawyers to explode
their ololuCnco without cattse. de.
sire lhat no Grape be worn bv INV nmi.
W ior me, but IL any member ch6osea In
90 so the same shall be charged To his
account
According to the Lancet, DR.. I.uderitz
has recently made a number of ohservn-
tons on The destructive power of coffee
upon various microbes. lie found
mat INC organisms all died in n longer
or shorter period In ono series of
experiments anthrax bacilli were do
s.r9yod IN tlrco hours. anthrax spores
hours, and the strcptococcus OF orvsim.
clns III one day. Good and bad cnlTno
eroducc precisely similar effects.