, 1890-07-31
E.rs os' NEWS.

The white rose Is the iayorite flower In
France this summer.
A san Bernardino, Cal, paper Is print.
cd with blue ink.
A wreck on one OF the Georgia rail-
roads few days ago destroyed over
5000 watermelons.
A machine has been invented for
drilling square, oblong or heXagonal
holes, heretofore found impossible.
According to the Wilmington Every
Evening nail was found in the heart
oi "A COW that died near there recently.
Constantinople is believed to have
founded the first hospital in the world,
AS We now understand hospital.
About 1850 species of wild bees are
known, OF wasp- l, 100 OF which 40 and
l6 respectively live in Britain.
Mrs. Eva B. Hart. who died near Syfa-
cuse, y. V, recently Mt the reputed ago
[ OF ll3, smoked as FAR back as her chill
I dren can remember.
Few ladies' consider that they carry
some forty or tifty miles of hair on their
/ head the fair haired may even have to
dress seventy miles OF threads OF gold
every morning
John Cosler, of Montgomery county,
Ohio, in moving around u wheat field 80
Us to set Il reaper at work, uncovered u
nest from which three quail hens hew,
revealing ninety quail eggs.
One day last week a passenger on the
Tacoma street car offered i've copper
cents Tor his fare. The conductor re
fused To accept the tender and elected
the passenger. Now tue company is
called on to stand suit for S2,OJO dam
ages.
As soon as the horse cars from Cairo
to the pyramids are completed, and the
work Is nearly done, an elevator wiIi 10
made to the tops of the venerable piles
so that ascent may be made quickly aud
comfortably to the modern traveller.
The French mint will soon replace tho
copper sous with nickels. Siugularly
enough the and 10 centime pieces will
be perforated in the center after the
manner Of Chinese coin. This enables
them to be strung and counted, or han.
died with great ease.
A German of Detroit tried to figure tho
height of OJ,OOO,OOO silver dollars IL
placed one on top of the other, and be-
cause he couldn't get 1t within n foot or
two he jumped OIL a wharf with suicidal
intent. Although he has never had a
pile foot high he wanted TO be exact
about other peoples money.
American naval officers who have
adopted the cholera belt in the tropics
hnd II SO beneficial that they often re-
tain u in all latitudes. 1t Is simply
bibth bdHh VI HdllNtl NOTIl HlklN NuAl
day the year around tight about the
waist, so as to protect the stomach from
sudden changes OF temperature. |. IS
an excellent preventive of stomachic
disorders.
A very influential committee has been
organized IN New YORK, with DR.. A. l..
loomis AS president, to preserve the Adj
rondscks from further destruction by
reckless tree cutting. Ii is hoped that
. the slate he lnUngnH In tflrel ALL
rights, and To convert this beautiful re-
gion, which is highly spoken of by New
ORR physicians for its health giving
| climate. into a state forest park
The English love of dancing still puz-
zles lazy orientals. At a recent ball at
Rangoon two native grooms we're watch
ing the festivities from veranda, and
one OF the Observers asked his compan-
ion why the couples walked about after
each dance. The other groom described
the reason in stable phraseology: The
sahibs run the meins and misses round
TO make them hot, and then walk them
round to cool them down"
Ii is strange how badly important
matters ot history get mixed. Ask any
well-lhiormed person who invented the
sewing machine and the reply will be
Elias Howe, which is far from the truth
! in the case. The first sewing machine
was patented in England BY Thomas
saint IN l7OO, sixty years before Howe
was born. One of Saints old machines
is now on exhibition in the Royal Agri-
cultural Hall, Islington, England.
The annual snowfall in Colorado Is
enormous. AT Dillon, according to the
Enterprise, the snowfall there from tho
first day of November, 1889, to May 10,
1880, was twenty feet aud ten inches.
At kokomo in lSS4-5, by actual daily
measurements, something like ninety
six feet OF the beautiful fell between No
vember and June I. Ofcourss IL kept
on settling all the time, and when spring
opened up there wasn't more than six or
seven ieet on the ground.
The second parade of the Royal Bo-
taric society in Regent Park was bril-
liant success. All kinds of vehicles
wreathed In howers formed n charming
striking device of the day was dog cart
draped in white, shaded by a huge UNI
breila, which gave the elect OF an ee-
phants howdah AS 1t appeared in the
distance OF the grounds. Near at hand
this chariot was seen TO be entwined
with plated straw and white mar
guerites.
letter from Dover, DEL, to the Bal
timore American says: "A drive through
what ought to be the center of tho peach
belt-lower Kent and upper Sussex
counties-wili convince anyone that the
much abused peach liar of this penin-
suia VIII have no chance this season for
the reason that there are no peaches to
ne about" There are miles and miles
OF thrifty-looking peach orchards wholly
destitute OF fruit. The buds were killed
by cold, sleety rains IN the spring.
A Fatal Explosion.
GREESsBuRd, Ind, July 30.-TLls
morning at the Sand creek stone quarry
| "a hoilar Hal .,,I