The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-28
OF GENERA. INTEREST.

The first apple tsee planted in Ohio.
they say, can be seen alive and vigorous
on farm in Marietta. 1t was planted
In 1889.
"A kid glove with little outside
pocket in the palm for the wearer Tn
keep car fare, is one of the latest devices
for comfort.
"A citizen of Taunton, Mass, saw,
that he knows woman who for several
years made from 1000 to 1900 pies a wear
for a family of three persons, and one
member has eaten more than two-thirds
of them.
1t is said that women in Nea OR.
leans enter more occupations unusual to
the sex than in any other city. Thew
become merchants, hunters, florists
dairy farmers and manufacturers, and all
make good living.
In Lawrence, Kan, comparison
by means of photOmeter, between the
brightness of the full moon and that of
the arc lights in use in that city, showed
that at an average distance of 100 feet
from the light of the lamp the brightness
was twenty-five times that of the full
moon.
The principal sea fish that serve as
nourishment to the human race are the
skate or ray, the shark family, the stur-
yeon, the funny, the mackerel, the cod
iish, the herring, the sardine, the an
chovy, the salmon and the eel Some
readers may be surprised to see the
shark included, but it is numerous
family and all are not man-eaters. The
shark fishery is regularly established
industry in some parts of the world.
In the United Kingdom valuable
waste products derivable from fish refuse
ere usually ignored in every household.
Excellent stock or basis for soups can be
made from the heads, bones, skins of
fish and of filleted fish, familiar econo-
my in China, where even sharks fins
often fetch about thirteenpence pound.
A bread of fish flour is popular in
some countries English rays are i'm
ported into France for making soup;
bone earth from fish refuse for manure;
albumen from fish blood.
The wife of farmer at Maysville,
S. D., having learned that her husband
had mortgaged his farm to pay whisky
bill contracted at 'blind pig" as illicit
drinking places are termed there, col
lected seven more women, and the eight
sailed forth armed with pickaxes and
hatchets Before noon the determined
women had broken up several "blind
pigs" and destroyed their fixtures and
furniture. The proprieturs offered but
feeble resistance, being taken by sur
prise. A large crowd accompanied the
women on their rounds and cheered
them on.
The original post-office box used in
the town of Pomfret, Conn, one hun
dred years ago is now owned in that town,
being the property of Benjamin Gros-
venor, one of whose ancestors, Lemuel
Grosvenor, was the first postmaster APP
pointed between Hartford and Boston.
He received his appointment from Pres
ident Washington, and held the office
until the election of Martin Van Buren,,
when the infrmities of age demanded
his REIMBURSEMENT of Office. The box
itself is four and one-haf feet in height
and four 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
Divorces, according to the report of
the Commissioner of Labor, have been
granted in this country for the follow
ing causes: Zone woman was granted a
divorce because her husband persisted
in coming home at ten o'clock at night
and keeping her awake talking. This
she called mental cruelty, and the court
agreed with her. Another woman Sc
cured divorce because her husband cut
off her bangs by force, and still another
because her spouse refused to cut his toe
nails. One wife's feelings were lacerated
to the point of legal separation because
her husband would not wash himself,
thus causing her mental anguish. The
sensibilities of another wife were out
ragged past cure because her husband
said her sister was thief. One man
got divorce because his wife didn'tsew
on his buttons"