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only 80 cents year.
The experiment Of treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion of the
patient in water has been tried with
gratifying success.
A RATHER was killed in Cucamonga
Canyon lately that measured 7 feet 2
inches long by IL inches around the
waist. 1t sported twenty-one rattles
with button.
Zenas and George Mayo, at Hancock,
N. T., married two sisters simultaDe-
ously, and. just as simultaneously. the
two sisters obtained divorces from tho
brothers for cruel treatment
A woman at Westerly, Conn, who
had rheumatism and neuralgia arose In
the night and daubed herself with lini-
ment. In the morning it was found
that she had used ink, and she is not al
home to callers.
Au electric typewriter Is being con-
structed which will write letters in New
York as they are transmitted from Bos-
ton, and vice versa, the communications
being transmitted simultaneously over
four separate wires.
A Matilda A. Scott living in North
May street, New York. has kenpel
and q dog farm, where she raises toy
terriers that net 5000 year. and shs
pays all her expenses with the proceeds
OF the canine sick ward.
The statement is made that Mt least
seventy letters day miscarry because
OF the similarity of the names OF
Oswego and Owego-cities in the State
of New York. For this reason each
town wants the other to change its
name.
The largest steam derrick in the
world is used by a shipping company
at Hamburg, Germany. 1t is kept at
the docks and used in lifting immense
weights on and off shipboard. 1t can
pick up ten-wheeled locomotive with
perfect ease.
An accepted authority says the spring
onion is great inducer, and about
equal to quinne for malaria. 1t Is kept
out of its useful province by tho pre-
judice against the odor. This may be
overcome by hypnotism, and made n
nasal delight.
A novel way of raising money 30
build "A church has been adopted by a
congregation in an Iowa town. They
borrowed $l20. 600 and gave life insur-
ance on number of the members,
which is to be applied on the debt as
fast as death ensues.
Murder seems to be the least perilous
of all the felonious pastimes known TO
this country. Out of IA, 779 murderers
who took human life in the six years.
srom 1884 to 1889 only sos paid the
penalty of their crimes by yielding their
own lives to the law.
The kola nut was experimental with
during the German autumn maneuvers
Of last year with such evidences OF it's
ability to enable men to endure inn
mense physical labor that the German
war Office ordered thirty tons of it for
consumption in the army.
Women inventors appear very often
On the patent Office records, and one Of
hem who succeeded in pushing through
an improvement in an eye-glass spring
Is said to have made a very comfort
able fortune by the capitalization of
ler ideas in practical form.
The most prominent experts in dogs
m this country are firm in the belief
shat thoroughbred dogs are less intel
igent than mongrels. Nearly all the
logs exhibited on the stage are cross
breeds aud dogs of low lineage, IL they
,an boast known parentage at all.
King Dinah Salifou, the dusky mon
arch of the Nalous who attended the
Paris Exposition accompanied by tho
sons of several political opponents as
hostages of peace in his absence. is not
dead, despite the reports that he was
poisoned or strangled for introducing
European customs.
A novel method Of blowing was tha,
recently adopted by colored man in
North Carolina. His steer refused to-
work when hitched to the pillow, and
thereupon he hitched 1t to cart and
fastened the pillow behind the cart. He
proceeded to pillow with the steer with
out any further trouble.
An ear of corn on exhibition at San
Luis Obispo, CAL, is described as being.
in the exact form of n human hand,
the wrist. palm, thumb and fingers be-
ing all perfect. 1t is covered With
small grains TO near the tips of the
fingers. which are bare prongs of cobs,
giving the hand the appearance of be-
ing clad in init.
English religious papers frequently
sheer at this country because mar
riage which is lawful in one state may
be unlawful in another state But %
similar condition of things exists in
great Britain. In England, for in
stance, marriage with deceased WHO'S
sister is illegal while in the Island Of
Jersey such marriage is valid.
The Marquise Clara LAMA. DIR. Ham
mond's daughter, is described as dc
cided blonde, whose fluffy hair. lying
in short boyish locks against forehead
and neck, could scarcely be paler
yellow. or her skin of most unvary-
ing pallor. She has lovely eyes, o.
rare grayish blue, and regular features,
but her charm lies chiefly in the mo-
bility of her expression.
A firm in Munich has made n car
riage which is propelled by gas geDer-
ated from benzine or analogous ma
terial. The motor which is not visi-
BILE from the outside. Is placed In the
rear of three-wheeled carriage over