, 1890-06-26
NuGG ETs og NEWS.

Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, has
produced tvo-ounce strawberry,
measuring six inches In circumference.
The national council of Beruo. Switzot.
land, has almost unanimously adopted
the principle of state insurance against
illness or accident.
young merchant in Berlin has mar
ried tlv woman that nurseJ him when u
babe. She was then II years Old. lie Is
we'll oil In worldly matters.
The old monitor Saugus, which fought
Mt Fort Fisher, and has In its turrst
thirty dents made by confederate shot,
Is TO be broken up and sold for old iron.
oil bearing rock is said TO have been
discovered under Big Rapids Mich, but
ns quick as the borers found II they
plugged the hole and telcgrdphcd tho
stockholders.
For tho first time In its history the
BosI ton dental college will graduate u
woman. This years graduate WHO has
tina; honor Is said to lead her class, and
to lie the recipient of several prizes.
Tho Influenza was not wholly an ILL.,
wind. On account OF ito sway the beef
eNtrnct companies have been unusually
successful, one company having lately
declared u dividend of % per cent. In ad
ditiOn to IL bonus Oi 10 per cent.
There is q craze for cooking schools In
England aud scotland, Ia England tho
prices range from yb0 10 500 for twenty
lessons, according tO the grade Of cook
ing. while IN Scotland they are given by
the dozen as low as 80 cents To 81.
A well known Irish Judge In reported
to have saId of q parsonage who had an
apparently congcnial indisposition to
deyiate INTO ycracityi 81 only once
kne him to speak tho truth and then
| could tell IL by the natural onbarrass-
mcnt of his manner
The narrowest dwelling house In
Brooklyn Is 10 be built this summer. It
will measure ~ by 10 feet. The lot
upon which the building is to stand Is in
one of the best streets In the city, and
has been thought by many to he almost
worthless because OF its small size.
Cricket is becoming popular pastime
among English women, who defend
themselves from any charge of oddity
by referring to women crickctors in
English literature and history. Miss
Austen, for instance played cricket and
made the heroine of "Northanger
Abbey" play 1t.
The Nipuck tribe Of Indians In Massa-
chusetts has become extinct, the last
| survivor, mn old squnw of sevaniy-six,
having died last week. Massachusetts 8
always waged the most unrelenting war
against the Indians of any colony OF
state and drove the hardest bargains
with them.
Minerals appear to abound in Georgia.
| The Atlanta Con,titution remarks
"From every quarter of Milton county
comes the news oi newly discovered
minerals, In Double Branch there Is
iron, gold, silver aud asbestos. In Big
Creek aud the Old First there is iron
| ami gold. In Alpharetta district there
| Is iron without end
In the year i7O6 tho average weight OF
faited steers Ia the London and Liver
pool markets Was but $40 pounds; this,
too, at the average aye of > years. In
| l.bh this nyetaye weight WAS increased
to 5s2 pounds. In 1880 the weight was
go pounds more than double that oi
1905. Tie average weight oi tho fatted
steer to-day Is four times what 1t was In
l1UO, only lSi years ago.
The Queen Of Denlnark, ,it IL said-snd
all honor to her II II be correctly said
has forwarded to tho czsr all the ac.
counts of the cruel treatment Of political
prisoners in Siberia. According to the
Berlin correspondent Of the Daily New,
the cznr has answered In a long letter
that he would order strict investiga
ton into the cases mentioned, and pun
ish severely all excesses committed by
officials.