The times., 1890-08-08
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OVO,VOV Woit od eSSo ioih Ndhiuu last
year.
A sand pump near Boise City. Idaho,
recently brought up u flint idol from
q depth of $40 feet.
Hannibal Hamlin has survived all
but two OF his colleagues in the Maine
Legislature of 1886.
The Lewiston Journal says it'sa pret-
ty small Maine town that hasn't ''dry
goods palace" nowadays.
Secretary Blaine attributes his good
health to the fact that he has given mp
his habit OF eating meat three times
day.
Miss Annie Patterson has been award
ed the first degree of doctor of music
which any lady has yet gained at the
Royal University of Dublin.
Our own wild turkey has been sue
cessfully acclimatized in Austria.
There are great flocks of them in the
forests belonging to Count Rrenner.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has made preparations for fenc-
ing both sides of its tracks in Oregon.
1t will require 700 miles and will cost
$16S,OO0.
Private Secretary Halford was once
a newsboy, and he is now earnestly
urging some action looking to better
ment of the condition of the waits of
the streets.
There has been discovered near
Visalia, CAL, the stump of sequoia
which, four feet from the ground.
measures AZ feet in diameter and 1873
feet in circumference.
Stephen Pettus, the Brooklyn fl
nancier shot dead by Mrs. Southworth,
left an estate valued at 100000. BY
his will, drawn in 1881, his property
all goes to his wife.
Nearsightedncss is overrunning the
| French people as much rs the Ger
mans. Among the senior boys in the
| different French colleges more than
4G per cent are nearsighted.
A Santa Clara correspondent of the
San Francisco Bulletin gives list of
eleven women in that county who run
and manage prune orchards, doing
much of the work themselves.
The Rev. c. d. Martin, who now
lives at Dakota City, Neb., in April,
1860, preached at Vermillon the first
| Protestant sermon ever delivered in
what is now the State of South Dakota.
The soil of Bradford county, Florida,
is said to impart Il peculiar gloss to
Strawberries, making them look as if
vanished, and giving the berries u
beautiful appearance. 1t is due to the
silica in the soil.
Alfred East, celebrated artist, has
returned to England after trip around
the world. He states that in Hasa,
Japan, he saw native poet reading
Tennyson's 'In Memoriam," which
had been done up to the tongue of
SatSuma.
Cardinal Gibbons is a happy illustra-
ton of the Scriptural saying that the
humble shall be exalted. Born of
humble parents, and in early life
poor grocer's boy, he is now Prince
of the Church, in whose presence the
proudest Roman mobiles must stand in
respectful reverence.
At Crawfordville, Ind, the other
day, the members of the city school
board presented Miss Constant with
handsome set of Tennyson's works.
Miss Constant attended the Crawfords-
vile schools for eleven years without
being absent or tardy single time,
and the presentation was made on that
account.
About two months ago Mrs. Ed Wes-
sells, of Frost, Clare county, Michigan,
moved to Tennessee. She took her
dog with her, but lost it in Cincinnati.
A few days ago the dog made its APP
pearance at the old home in Forest, a
good bit the worse for wear, but happy
TO get home. How did the dog find its
way back?
The old gunboat Condor, which, un-
der the command of Lord Charles
Beresfcrd, did such efficient service at
the bombardment of Alexandria, has
been condemned and sold. The Con-
dor will be broken up for the old iron
that is in her. Lord Beresford takes
command of the cruiser Undaunted and
will do duty in the Mediterranean.
Ayoung lady of Augusta, Me-, has
received q bill amounting to over 500
that tells little history. The bill
came from Peter Clark. OF New York,
and in it she is charged with twenty
two yards of silk dress goods, two gold
bracelets worth $40, one diamond ring,
hat and several other items. Clark
was rejected suitor of the lady, who
claims that the above named articles
were presents from him.
The Sultan's presents to Emperor
William and his wife during their re-
cent visit in Constantinople cost $780,
600. They were packed in twenty
four chests, and consisted of shawls,
silks. rugs, and carpets, made express
ly for the royal Prussians. The most
expensive gift was the diamond brooch
with pendant of pearls and diamonds
for the Empress. The ornament cost
$4,000. Count Herbert Bismarck also
is said to have carried away from Con-
stantinople some $50, worth of
diplomatic plumber.
a "coal palace" $50 by 800 feet and
three stories high. is TO be erected in
East st. Louis. This palace will be a
decidedly novel structure. The coal
companies will furnish the material for
the Observation-Disclosures coal of every
kind, and wrought out by saw, by ma
sons hammer, and into artistic forms