The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-03-08

Horses are carried by steam In Chicago,
and $50 horses are cleaned In two hours.
England is said TO have one cow TO 81
persons, France one cow TO SIS. and Amer
lea one cow 10 Is persons.
"The French have saying that woman
who buys her complexion will sell H."
French maxims are not always true.
Queen Victoria's regular mail Is about
34J letters per day. She IL ready TO dis
criminate quickly aud answers but few Of
them.
A former Marion county Nest Virginia,
man now residing in Iowa has returned 10
a Fairmont family book he borrowed over
forty years ogo
A farmer OF upshur county. West vir-
ginia, who owns number OF guinea hens,
found nest where they had been laying
containing 81 eggs
The first apple tree planted In Ohio. they
say, can be seen alive and vigorous on
Jerome Vincenrs farm In Marietta. IL
was planted In 1854
A bed Of rock salt, over 100 feet in depth,
has been struck by gas prospocters at MAIDS
worth, Ohio. The salt is 400 feet below
the ea-ths surface.
The four-year old son OF r. c. McPhar-
ustead Greenvillo Tex, accidentally bit
his own tongue, producing n wound from
which he bied 10 death.
A novel feature of the coming exhibition
In Edinburg will be- working ship rail
way, In which the vessel will be immersed
in water while upon the car.
South Chester resident has received a
letter from a friend In Tacoma, Mash.,
where he says, IL costs 80 cents 20 got
shaved and 81 for a haircut
Rice, New York suicide left this mos
sage: ut has come to pass that rum won't
drown sorrow any longer" There Is big
sermon In that short sentence.
The highest individual taxpayer In Bos-
ton is Joshua Montgomery Sears, who In
1889 paid sJO,o5l55; next is Frederick l..
Ames, who contributes si3,l,2.61.
The Lancet says that the human body
can be embalmed so as 70 show identifica-
tion three thousand years after death. That
may be 30, but who is To do the identified
tioni
Explorer Stanley, In n letter TO one OF his
friends, says; my hair Is like snow from
RuwenEori, but il is the crown OF busy
period, ana wear II without regret as tho
| gift OF time.n
White mahogany is exceedingly rare but
sparingly introduced as borders for tables
and delicate frame work OF upholstered
uits. IL has a soft enamel like gloss aud
Is very costly.
The project of tunnelng the English
Channel is still cherished by company OF
British capitalists, who have expended
100000 on experimental works which are
not YET completed.
The Chinese government has just or
dered a new edition OF the famous encyclo-
pedia which was originally compiled during
the reign OF Kien-Lung. The index alono
fills twelve folio volumes.
Albert Gallatin Morton. OF Amesbury,
Mass, was born In 1904, began preaching
in 1925, and has occupied his pulpit regu-
larry ever since without In a single in
stance writing out n sermon.
" hat are supposed TO be the first playing
cards used were recently found In the
Pompoiian excavations and are now in tho
possession OF collector In Philadelphia.
The cards are perfectly square
A single lemon tree In Caloosahatchie,
Fla, has on II over 1900 lemons, many OF
which weigh pound each. IL is predicted
that Florida will soon become the greatest
lemon growing country In the world.
A four year old son OF William H. Wood,
OF Center Square, Montgomery county,
who swallowed a carpet tack la March,
1888, coughed IL up few days ago. His
throat allied continually In the interval.
A lady at Titusvilie Fla, has novelty
in the way OF roses. Ono OF her many VA.
rieues bears a bud which Is green when IL
blossoms. In the bud IL il so nearly tho
color OF the foliage ms to be hard TO distin-
guish.
Tho earliest known will has been discov-
cred by Flinders Petri at kahun, OF as tho
town was known 400 years ago, Iilahun.
She document is so curiously modern In
form that IL might almost be granted pro-
bate to-day.
The most costly book IN the world IL a
Bible In Hebrew. An offer OF its weight
In gold was once made and IL was asccr-
tanned that this offer amounted 10 $4,000,
which was refused, and the volume Is sim
in the library Of the Vatican.
| Talmagc knows whore TO make himself
solid. lie recently said III could preach "a
whole sermon on the ting blessing OF
81 good newspaper. A good newspaper IL
| the grandest temporary blessing tnat God
has given 10 the people Of this country
Pombolano is the name OF a plant found
| Ia Mexico, tho root OF which is said TO con
tain substance analogous 10 but moro
powerful than quinino In its antiperiodic
action. IL has been found 10 cure rebollious
intermittent fcvcrs that had resisted tho
action OF quinine.
Sonnini gives an account OF dog that.
| about 1900 ''to the kuo ,yiedrep of All Paris -