The Butler weekly times., 1890-09-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


s.. Louis has dog that Is fre-
ouenter of funerals, seeking them out
and making them especially in his diver
sions-
Chinese women. TO secure the bless
ing Of children, get shoe at the temple
OF the goddess OF children, and return it
70 the temple if the object is accom-
plished-
"A farmer who resides near Lewis
ton. Ne, says that some years ago he
planted beans the first day Of May, and
that in less than six weeks they were
shelling them out
"A woman in Ohio not long since
lost a child through diphtheria, and
forced her other children to kiss the
dead body. They all grew sick with the
same disease and died.
An Irish boy in New York City
cour. recently pleaded guilty to burg
larry to save his guilty brother, but the
brother came forward when he saw the
innocent one convicted, and insisted on
being sent to prison in his stead.
Rocky mountain sheep are not very
numerous, and the handsome head Of
that animal brings from s35 to 500.
Mountain sheep are sold in pairs, when
the taxidernist has saved the whole
animal, and they sell for $3.50 pair.
The statement is made that at least
seventy letters day misearry because
of the similarity in the names OF Oswego
and Owego. For this reason each town
wants the other town to change its name;
but of course neither town will do so.
Some one has figured that there are
in Denver, Col. thirty-one millionaires
whose aggregate wealth is $40, 500, 600,
and thirty-dve semi-millionaires whose
wealth aggregates ST, 800. 900, making
in all ss4, 600, 900 owned by sixty-six
men.
1t is an interesting point in Ameri-
can history If, as stated. the Confederate
gray uniform was borrowed from the
First Virginia Regiment, which borrow
| ed it from the Seventh New York Regi-
ment- The Confederate song ''Dixie"
was of Northern authorship
That there is great deal OF exag-
| geration in almost all the stories that
come from Russia can not be doubted. 1t
| is quite certain that the country is in a
disturbed, or, perhaps, even in a danger
Gus state; but the bulk of the people are
unconscious that the Car is really the
| tyrannical monster which most of the
European journals represent him to be.
There is very curious stone about
| which very little is ever heard. 1t is
| called the "Alexandrite" in honor OF
| Alexander of Russia, who was very fond
| of it. In the daytime the stones resemble
| an emerald, except that they are some
| what darker, but at night they are a
deep purplish red. They are found in
India, and, like all rare stones vary
much in their qualities.
One reason why France, Germany
and Russia discourage immigration to
! the United States is because foreigners
who come here soon drop into the
English language and discard their own,
thus making loss Of number to the
| other language. This feeble check will
| not delay the ineyitable month.
English as she is spoken will be tn e
| universal language of the world in time.
| More than q century before the
Christian era there were many beautiful
| cups in China. The Portuguese, it is
| said, introduced the ware into Europe
about 1918, called it China" after the
country so long pre-eminent in its pro-
duction. The first English manufact-
| ory of earthenware found place at
Stratford-le-Bow,i in Elizabeth's reign.
The Shakespeare jug is the best known
| of Elizabethan pottery.
Barring Gould. in his Legends of
the Patriarchs," says: THE custom of
| saying God bless you" when person
| sneexes, dates from Jacob. The Rabbis
say that before this time men sneezed
| once and that was the end of them-the
shock slew them: but the patriarch, by
| his intercession. obtained a relaxation
| of this law, subject to the condition
that in all nations sneeze should be
consecrated by a sacred aspiration"
German explorers last summer
| found reindeer on the little Ryk Us is
lands, which are so small that the en-
tire area of the three islands is not over
| three or four square miles. There they
| were in the Arctic Ocean. thirty miles
from the nearest land, one of the largest
Spitzbergen islands, from which they
are supposed to have migrated. OF
course the islands were not within sight
Of the mainland, and the appearance of
| reindeer on these little rocks shows that
| they are great ice travellers.
HUMANlTY'S AVERAGES.
All About Weight, Height. Blood, Resplra-
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