Telegram-herald., 1890-03-04
NOTES ON VARIOUS MATTERS.


An indianapolis girl, while suffering
from la grippe, sneezed almost steadily
for forty-eight hours.
THE city of Boston has four women in
her school board and two colOred men in
her Common Council.
NEW YORK retail merchants want
law allowing them 10 per cent. Of a
debtors wages till the debt is liqui-
dated.
THE Emperor William has succeeded
in reducing the time occupied by tho
most elaborate state banquet TO twenty
five minutes at most.
THE condor of the Andes Is said to
kill its prey with its bill, and the fash
ionable milliners are trying the same
game on the married man.
THE production and consumption of
milk in France amounts yearly to l..
$50, ,OOo, 600 gallons, which is three times
in excess of the production of wine.
EVERY lost, broken or worn-out screw
or bolt should be replaced with a new
one before spring, so that each imple-
ment will be ready for work when
spring comes.
A MERCHANT Of Detroit recently ad-
vertised for SNOWFALL, Offering ten dol
lars for genuine sample. few days
later he received one by express, packed
in cotton, all the way from Tilsonburg,
Can.
THE collapse of Carmen Sylvia" the
Queen of Roumania, is due to overwork.
She has been very ambitious 70 win
fame in literature, and TO certain ex-
tent she has accomplished her object,
but her constitution was not strong
enough to endure the strain to which she
subjected IL.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw says he made
the great mistake of his life when he
delivered his first humorous speech. He
didn't see it then, but now he realizes
it keenly. Instead of being regarded as
convincing logician or a good lawyer,
or even as serious thinker, he is
always taken for a funny man.
No SLAVERY is so abiect and humiliat-
ing as that which chains US in servile
obedience 10 our own appetites and pas
sions, and no power on earth can free US
from such bonds except the power of
self-restraint. This power, like all
others, is developed by continual exer-
else, and be who resists or contemns all
external restraints shuts himself out
from this development
a MOUNTAIN OF clam shells has been
discovered about three miles east %
Mount Vernon. 1t is over six hundred
feet high and has surface Of soil near
ly foot thick. Underneath this clam
shells abound to the level depth. There
are trees growing on the mountain
which showan age, judging by the rings
about the heart, of from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred years.
CARPENTRY was the trade OF tho
American aborigincs. The tent
poles OF the Sioux Indians even now
show pretty specimens Of work; and the
Moqui Indians, since long before the
landing Of Columbus. have known how
TO mortise timber. 20 make ladders and
70 swing doors on hinges from the top.
The ohisel they push rather than ham
rer and they work the board Up and
down on fixed saw, but the results are
oreditable.
TIE Sultans presents 20 Emperor
william and his wife during their recent
visit in Constantinople cost $500. 900
They we're packed in twenty-four chests,
and consisted mostly Of shawls. silks,
rugs and carpets. made expressly for the
roval Prussians. The most EXPENSIVE
gift was the diamond brooch. with
pendant Of pearls and diamonds. for the
Empress. This ornament cost $4,000.
Count Herbert Bismarck also is said 70
have carried away from ConstantinopIe
some 10000 worth % diplomatic
plundsr
THERE are four members Of The United
States senate who car never ~ cau5i-
dates for the Presidency Or thfs Repub-
lie rnder the constitution because q a.
alien birth. Senator Jones. of Nevada.
vas horn in Hersfor5shf-e. Eng. Cen
ersI " Milan. of Mfobirsn. in Ha-~r-
ton Ont Senator BecE- of Ka~trelrv.
~ Dan f-ieshire Scotland. and Senator
Pas~o. * Flori5a. IN london. Fr~.
Wallet is che excsr aon rather tsan
otherulse thst 4 Senator vas born il fta
safe BE rep~ese-ts sectforsi lines have
been closely observed oftae northern
Senator'S Only t~1 were bern ir the
Soutn-CaIiom. ~ Iliaos ard senator
Haplev. ~ Connecticut fn Norts
Ca-offaa Not one Soatnern senator e
- Sorthern oTiT Tln-
u. rarh-ncls e rarisnen ear a