Telegram-herald., 1890-05-31
ODDS AND ENDS


The Holland society. OF New York, IS
keeping the memory g She early Dutch
settlers green by marking historic sites Ia
New York city with appropriate tablets,
The papers are full Of accounts Of sil-
YER center piece which is being Inanufac-
tured for the queen, and which contains
| 900 ounces Of silver. As there is already
| plate'a at Windsor castle valued ~ upwards
| Of two millions, il Is difficult 10 conceive
/ what the queen can want with another cen
/ ter piece
The important work Of draining the
| Roman marshes, on which the Italian gov
/ ernmcut has been engaged since 1884, is now
well advanced toward completion. The
work can only be carried on at certain
seasons Of the year, owing 10 the unhealth-
| mess OF the district.
A lady went TO one Of the groceries in
/ Wildwood, Fla, and bought two pounds Of
| butter that had been bought in the country
! by the merchant When the nice yellow
lump was cut in two, there was found in
the center Of it large Irish potato, nicely
| peeled and carefully covered over with
! butter.
The favorite flower for the buttonhole is
! perhaps, the carnatiOn. IL is a cheerful
] little blossom that lasts for days with its
stem in glass OF water, and smiles frankly
/ and oontentedly all day long when thrust
/ in n buttonhole and uncheered by drop of
moisture.
Howardsville, Colo. has a curiosity in
tie shape of an ice mine. The mine is owned
by parties who in the earlier days ran a
| 81 10 nd
struck a spring beyond AS the water flows
out of the tunnel it freezes, and the tunnel
il now filled nearly to the roQf with pure
ice. 1t has long supplied ice for the town,
and never thaws, winter or summer.
The London Geological society possesses
a white peacock The bird preserves the
| markings which distinguish the species,
particularly the large eyelike spots on the
tail feathers. The effect of these spots is
remarkable. They are exactly like the pat
tern on a damask tablecloth.
Last year the world raised 1000, 600, 900
bushels Of wheat The United States grew
400, ,OOO,0 900 bushels; France, SOC, ,O0O, 900; In
dia, 237 ,OO0, 600; Russia with Poland), 3O0.-
OC0, 600; Portugal. 9,OOO, 600, Denmark, 5000,
600; Spain, ., ,OO0, 90; Switzerland, :, 500 900
Germany, $1,000, coo, Hungary, 95,OO, ,OO0
Asia Minor, 100000 Persia, 2, 10000.
Obstinate nose bleeding is frequently one
Of the most difficult things 10 check Sew
cral aggravated cases have lately occurred
at the hospital of the University of Penn
sylvauia. As last resort Or. d. Hayes
! Agncw tried ham fat with great result
Two large cylinders OF bacon were forced
well into the nostrils and the hemorrhage
I ceased ut once
A remarkable surgical operation was
performed recently near Red Oak, Ia. A
week ago a l+year-Old son Of James Hall
was shot by hired man with 3s-calibcr
revolver, the ball passing into the abdomen
and cutting the intestines in four places
To was placed under the influence Of ether,
The intestincs removed and the cuts sewed
NJ. lie may live.
In gratitude for their deliverance from
the peri!3 OF the voyage in the Inman liner
City OF Paris, tho passenger, before land
ing. subscribed 600 IS a thank offering
and appointed q committee 70 decide uyon
its application. Il is understood that the
committee have decided 70 hand over goo
20 the Seamcn hospital. Liverpool, for rs
general purpose. and o. cndow with the
balance q hed ia the same institution for
sick American sailors.
4 considerable sum II the Ruseian rev
/ cuue ia annually spent in payment for the
/ ccruses of wolves Tho official estimate Is
that no fever than 1000 4 tho creatures
are roaming about II largo Last year tho
inhabitants u the province Of Vol0gda
ei.led 40.0D0 n the brJ3tes and in the Cas8n
dist riot 81 .oOo were killed. The wolves Dc
stroycd 3i2 human beings in the course Of
tho last twelvsmonth.
Habit clothes are made extremely plain
aud are constructed as 70 dispense with ai'
the weight possible This matter Il weight
il something that women are striving 70
avoid The fifteen and twenty pound
skirts which women have been hurlencd
with and which physicians have con
damucd are Iudi1ously discarded now.
There seems o. 10 good rcason for faarins
that the zeora il r7pijir becoming extinct
Sportsuen and travellers concur in report
ing that the zebra ~ south Africa is row
more and more dif7cul. - End. and is. list
the aboriginal racos - primitive lands. die
Appearing before the march of civilization
And. unlike he nol3a savage ~ tha a-ii.
zebra has ever reso,ately refused 80 p.
tanned
n london alone there arr uprarl - 81
piano factories Over 9r0 shops end fac
tories in 'he metropolis ara fev-- ed - fh'
supplying n nusicai goods q aIl so--s
Throughout th0 provinces there are atcr
90 rnusic esra shr'7--s of eerirrs kinds
Trey possess ir Ens.srd m fewer ~
thir-7 seven 1e~rspe pes dealing eV-.usfr re
.T wlfa rus.- A. he annual hsng1e- o
tHe So-ie-v r. N8si-sl I,sf-n--s-t Msru
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