The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-11-08
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Until l776 cotton spinning was per-
iormed by the handspinning-wheel.
Germany manufactures over e. o0.-
100 worth of children's toys every year.
TO salute with the left hand Is a
deadly insult to Mohammedans In the
East.
The natives pronounce Newfound-
aud '.NulIonlonr with the accent
hard on the last syllable.
The veteran Dan Rice is going into
he show business again with an old
fashioned one-ring circus.
Coustantinople is believed to have
founded the first hospital IN the world.
as we now understand a hospital.
A machine has been invented for
drilling square. oblong or hexagonal
holes. heretofore found impossible.
The average width Of the path of de-
struction with tornadoes is said TO be q
little more than one thousand feet.
About 4. 800 species of wild bees are
known, of wasps LOO. of which l7O
aud 10 respectively live in Britain.
According TO the Wilmington Every
Ercning nail was found in the heart
Of "A COW that died near there recently.
An Owosso (Mich.) firm advertises
job-lot of tombstoncs. and advises peo-
pie TO hurry up because there are only
few of them left.
Mrs Eva Ii. Hart. who died near
Syracuse. N. Y. recently at the reputed
age of l13. smoked as far back as her
children can remember.
Seattle. the Indian chief after whom
the Washington city was named. is TO
have monument erected 10 him by
the whites. He died in 1866.
The Portuguese nation is said 10 be
one of the least instructed In Europe.
the illiterate inhabitants being official
w stated at 80 per cent. of the total
population.
One Of the heavist wagers ever laid
was that Of the Marquis of Hastings.
who bet $500. 900 on single horse race
and lost. The Marquis and his money
were soon parted.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on
their head; the fairhaired may even
have TO dress seventy miles OF threads
Of gold every morning.
Ii is said that woman in Missouri
had her husbands name put down on
the census enumerator's report as
lunatic because he had sold out two
years ago and left Kansas.
Professor Daniel Willard Fiske. who
won the 81. 500. 900 lawsuit brought by
Cornell University. is abroad nj pres
ent. He is noted for his Icelandic
scholarship and his big lawsuit.
Justice Stephen j. Field is the poor
est MANN dollars and cents-on the
Supreme Bench, and yet he is several
removes from being hard up. His re-
sidence is one OF the finest in Washing
ton.
II costs the English Government 81
962. 600 annually to support Queen
Victoria and her immediate family.
Whenever the Queen visits Balmoral
Castle II takes $1,000 to defray the
railroad expenses of the Journey
AS soon as the horse cars from Cairo
TO the pyramids are completed. and
the work Is nearly done, an elevator
will be made TO the tops of the yener-
able piles SO that ascent may be made
quickly and comfortably TO the modern
traveller.
Samuel Dey. OF Wesley, Me-, is one
OF the greatest bear hunters of his
time. During his life he has killed
220 bears and cubs. receiving over g.
900 in bountics therefor. He must
have gone around pretty well loaded
all the time.
Ralph Woodman, workman, OF
Auburn, Me-, snatched 3-year-old
child from In front OF railroad train
ana nad sucn narrow escape nimselr
that the cow-catcher OF the locomotive
knocked of his hat. and 1t was carried
under the wheels.
The French mint will soon replace
the copper sous with nickels. Singular
ly enough the aud 10 centime pieces
will be perforated in the center after
the manner OF Chinese coin. This
enables them TO be strung and counted,
or handled with great ease.
David Dudley Field says that he re-
members hearing Mrs. Fannie Kemble
say some years ago. OF the 1900. 600
people then inhabiting Massachusetts,
that. taking them all in all. she thought
they were the foremost l. 200. 900 peo-
pie living together in the world.
John Rose Ward the British Admiral
whose death was recorded recently.
organized the working department Of
the National Life-Boat Institution, and
during his thiriy-one years OF service
ms General Inspector OF Life-Boats
that institution saved more than 20, 600
lives.