Griggs courier., 1890-03-07
MlscELLA us.

MISCELLANEOUS.
I'm Iceland there are NO prisons aud
no police. Only two thefts in l,o0o
years.
There is sure to be something serious
on foot when q man goes to the chiro.
podist's Boston Courier.
An eighteen-year-old girl who could
speak little English was recently sent
from Texas to New York, with card
pinned to her dress giving her destina-
tion.
The English-speaking people num-
Der one-tenth Of the human race. The
wealth of the world is largely in the
hands of Christian nations.
The crews of the United States war
vessels composing the squadron Of evo-
luton were attacked by the influenza
in midocean and forty-eight men were
prostrated. This experience indicates
that atmospheric causes produce the
disease.
"A Battle Creek, Mich, man request
ed the city recorder to order all the sa-
looms in the town not to sell him any
thing to drink. The recorder took the
sensible drunkard around to all the GIN
mills, told the proprietogs to take good
look at him and to not sell him bulge
on pain of prosecution.
There has been placed in the Man
chester, Mass, public library copy Of
the Bible published in 1899. 1t is the
gift of Miss Ella Lee, daughter of the
late Charles Lee, to the Manchester
Historical Society. This rare and valua.
BILE publication is known as the Bishops
Bible. and was first printed in 1868.
Java is the most fertile, the most
productive and the most populous tropi-
cal island in the world. The Dutch
have had possession of it many years,
and have derived great revenues, espec-
tally from the coffee plantations, but
have done little for the religious eleva.
tion of the people, who are Mohamedans.
The Detroit Journal has undertaken
to create fund for the purpose of pre-
senting to France a fitting token of re-
membrance and gratitude for the assist
ance rendered this country in her strug-
gle for independence. The amount is to
be as large as possible and is to be raised
by one dollar subscriptions, the descend
ants Of Revolutionary officers and SOL
diers to take the lead. The names of
subscribers are to be bound in book
form and accompany the testimonial.
Justice, a London paper, has been
giving tho results of some curious G al
,ulations, which, If correct, will make a
fellow little cautious about guessing
On the size of a crowd, and Offering to
bet his last dollar that he is right. Ac-
cording to the calculator on the staff of
Justice, all the people in the world,
about !, 400, 600, 900, could stand in y field
ten miles square, and, by the aid o, tele-
phones, could be addressed by single
speaker.
"A large class of applicants for
teachers positions assembled in the
rooms of the Santa Clara, CAL, school
superintendent last week. They were
set to work on the examination papers,
and everything went smoothly until
the question cropped up in the history
division: ''What was the name of the
head steward of Stanley's exploring
party, and was he any relation to the
ameer OF SWat? The whole class ST.
lently left the room and walked out in
the drizzling rain to cool of.
The original post-office box used in
the town of Pomfret, Conn.,, 100 years
ago, is now owned in that town, being
the property of Benjamin Grosvenor,
one of whose ancestors, Lemuel Gros-
venor, was the first postmaster appointed
between Hartford and Boston. He re.
ceived his appointment from President
Washington, and held the office until
the election of Martin Van Buren, when
the infirmities of age demanded his re-
linquishment of Office. The box itself
Is ~ feet in height and feet in length.
There are two apartments at the top
with five drawers underneath, making
curious relic of the earliest postal days
and service in Connecticut.