Telegram-herald., 1890-03-04

CoLUxsVs, o. has = fourteen -year-ola
widow
A LoSDoS curiosity Is fal-grown
seer only foot ia length
~JUsr FoE FUS" = the name Of so
cizl q 20 started 10 New York
Tx cost % the recent Haytisn wsr
it's stated Szs about SIC. coo 600.
"IFIdieI want nav vile 10 have what
/ got i the wording Of Viii hled for
probate al Pittsburgh, Pa, last week.
A NEw YosK nan has been sent 10
prison Tor failing 10 Pay his wife 500
thathe borrowed before their MARI 2ge-
WEALTHY citizen Of the city CT Mex
leo has subscribed for $3.50, 000o OF Chicago
fair stock. and promises 10 raise g., 800
90 if given time.
THE people OF New York State pay
cut about SIS, coo coo annually toward
the support Of It's $50, 900 criminals, pau
pers, tramps and yagraats.
SOME OF the finest hospitals in the
world are the municipal hospitals in
Brazil The MisericordiA at Rio Janeiro
receives IA, 600 indoor patients yearly.
A SAUGArUCK (Mich.) housekeeper
discovered the other day that's fowl she
was dressing Was supplied with two
hearts and two lisers, al perfectly
formed.
OKLAHOMA seems TO have greater at
fractions for the negro as an emigration
field than the banks of the Congo. There
are already p. 900 colored people there
and more going.
N Maine spruce gum now brings 20
the men who gather IL from $3.50 70 $50
barrel. according TO quality. 4 bar
rel weighs about one hundred snc sew
enty pounds.
ONE Of the keepers in Bushey Park,
Eng, lately discovered two fine bucks
lying dead in ditch with their horns
locked together. Both animals had re-
ceived severe body wounds.
A YOUNG lady of Natchez, Miss, is do
ing a good business by manufacturing a
new candy from the flowers OF the sweet
olive tree, and also clear sirup for ia
BILE use from the same plant.
THE Territory of Wyoming has one
law on its statute books that has no
counterpart in any State. and that is
the law securing equal pay for equal
work TO women and men as school
teachers.
THE longest frosts in England are. as
general rule, those which begin be-
tween Christmas and New Years Day,
and the deepest falls of snow during
the last twenty years have commenced
in tho middle Of January.
THE new States have all been nick
named, but the character OF the nomen-
clature is more suggestive than elegant
According TO supposed authority North
Dakota is the Flicker Tail State, South
Dakota Swinge Cat, Washington
Chinook, and Montana the Stubbed Toe
State.
TIE way immigration has i'm
pressed itself on Minneapolis is shown
by reference TO the new directory of
that fourishing city. which contains
1000 Ole Olsons, 1910 Erick Ericksons,
1915 Nels Nelson's, 1,OI1 John Johnsons,
1,010 Peter Petersons, $50 Jurgen Jur-
gensons, 900 Paul Paulsens, 500 Swan
THE island of St Helena is again to
be used as political prison. This
time instead OF atfording a shelter to
another world-dictator it will be the
home of certain Zulu chiefs who dared
to fight against England in defense of
their fatherland Evidently a rage for
the burlesque has taken hold Of the
Tory Government.
PROF. HADDoy, the English natural
ist, who lately spent some months on
the islands Of South New Guinea, says
there will never again be so good a
time as now to study the natives and
make anthropological collections, as
the Papuans there are dying out fast
and are still more rapidly discarding
their native arts, preferring 10 buy tho
merchandise that the whites bring
amOnp them