, 1890-05-29

Scotchmen banqucting In London are
now entertained with music OF real
northern bagpipes, played into u phono-
graph and sent to London by express.
A Maine girl, 3 years and o months of
age, recently Travelled from Michigan To
her home in Thomaston unattended.
She attracted more attention than q cir
Gus,
An Aroostook. Me-, couple wcro mar
ried last week, whose combined ages
were - years, the bride being Ia and tho
bridegroom one year her senior,
Tho popular fad In Washington nova,
days Is the study of the language and
literature OF spain, which was given u
great impetus by the session OF the Pan
American congress
An Ansonia, Conn, druggist has an
electric bell in q cabinet containing poi
sons, When the door opens the bell
rings, rem hiding the compoundor that
he Is handling poisons.
A rich Italian has purchased the Villa
Zirio at San Reno, In which the EN-
pcror Frederick was Ill so long before no
went to Berlin to be crowned, and has
closed IL vigorously against all visitors
An English naval officer has invented
a pneumatic line-throwing gun, very
light and portable, which fires q hollow
shell bearing the cord to a wrecked yes
sci or into burning building on dry
land.
A new red glass has been recently pro-
duesd In Germany. Besides It's use for
the manufacture OF bottles, goblets, aud
vases Of various kinds, it IL applicable In
photography and In chemists and opti'
clans laboratories.
A farmer at Ipswich, Mass, while
plowing turned up an Indian idol Of
ia g..t al. 49,
Is thirty inches in length and of q dark
color, 1t is to be deposited In the Essex
institute collection at Salem, Mass.
For original ideas in the line of theft
Walter johnson, a young man of Spring.
field, y. d., is hard to beat. lie recently
drove to the farm of James 5, WOrrell,
Jr., near Nlnceton. stole load Of hay
and drove OFT to market. lio is IN jail.
Captain owen j. Sweet, of the Twenty.
Fiflh infantry, and u special detail OF
troops have completed the work of set
ting headstones over the graves of Gen
crnl Custer'S brave band, who toll In the
battle of the Little Big Horn, June %,
1876.
Grasshoppers are very numerous on
the Grass valley slope OF the Sierra Ne.
vada. In the edge OF the snow line they
come forth in great numbers. As the
edge OF the snow Creeps up the noun
tain the grasshoppers riso out OF the yet
moist ground,
A pretty incident accompanied the
shower Of rice at n recent wedding. As
the departing couple were showercd with
rice, u flock of city sparruws swOoped
down and covered the pavement and
before they flew away not grain Of rice
was left.
A citizen OF Charleston, W. Va, has
long been bothered with smoky chin
ney, and the other day he gotta mason
to investigate. In the Hue was found a
tin box containing s., 900 in cash, which
some one had hid away during the war
and never returned to get IL.
A sheep owned by New York state
farmer gave birth to lamb last week
with two heads. Every feature of each
head was perfectly formed and complete,
the heads beginning to unite Just back
OF the ears. Unfortunately the queer
freak did not live.
A new disinfectant has made its ap-
pearance under the name OF Thiocamph
IL Is combination OF camphor with
sulphurous acid, containing over sixty
times its volume of sulphurous acid gas.
room, Is gradually evolved.
The law enjoins upon Maine mayors
the duty Of seeing that the prohibitory
law Is enforced. Yet in the face OF this
this the mayor Of Bangor coolly notifies
the governor and council that lie Wi at.
tend 10 having the Bangor rum shops
closed on sundays and at 10 o'clock oy-
cry EVENING"