, 1890-08-14
NUaciHTS or NEWS.

creased last year nearly f2fOOO,OOO.
| Paris has produced special coiifnro
for tho waltz known as the "Ondulee."
There are about 600, 0OO0 bicycles and
tricycles turning In Great Britain.
The wife of q painter at Macon, Ca,
has given birth to child Weighing forty
pounds.
| Canada claims to be larger by 10000
square miles than the United States, in
cluding Alaska.
| So much snow has fallen in Switzer-
land this summer that 1t has put stop
to mountain climbing.
1t is estimated that there arc q, 600
married men in New York city who are
supported by their wives.
| only one county (Washoe) in Nevada
shows any increase in population over
the census ten years ago.
Sixty thousand bluo gum trees have
been planted this year on one ranch in
Los Angeles county, Cal.
| The corporation OF London has made
a contract tor supplying electric lights to
a large portion of the city.
| lt is said that coyotes have killed
more than 800 lambs on one ranch near.
Napn, CAL, since last fall.
Partisan dandies now wear pink, blue,
or red shirts in the evening, with regu-
lar low.cut evening waistcoats.
| Five persons fell from upper windows
in New York and Brooklyn sunday, and
three of them were killed outright.
At Davis City, w. Va, a policeman ar
rested II drunken mau and, there being
no Jail, locked him up In u box car.
Mrs. Mary Wing of Fayette, Mo-,
80 years old does the washing, cooking,
sewing, knitting, etc., for family
| four.
| A bicycler recently rode down Mount
/ Washington, making the journey, about
eight miles, In an hour without acct-
dent.
/ A typewriter manufacturer says that
| there are 40, 900 women in this country
/ who make living by running the ma
| chimes.
/ The Mormons aro gaining a foothold
| in the Canadian Northwest, and, il is
believed, will make trouble for the gov
ernment.
/ Hollyhocks and ferns make popular
table decoration, and other roldfashioned
[ flowers have been taken into fashionable
favor.
silk from paper pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, with about two-thirds the
strength of ordinary silk and about the
Same elasticity.
a citizen of Griffin, Ga, planted
nearly quarter of an acre with morning
giories few days ago, thinking they
were potato slips.
| A summer charity In Philadelphia
has given a days pleasure to nearly
| 100000 people, mostly children and
babies, in thirteen years.
The form of real estate deeds has boon
reduced from three pages to one in New
| York and tho cost OF recording from
Sl,75 to 80 cents and 81 each.
The fre-charred wreck of great
steamship, supposed to be the unlucky
Egypt, has been seen right In the track
OF incoming ocean steamships.
The second international congress of
believers in cremation '.ill soon meet in
Berlin. The first congress of sixteen
delegates took place in Dresden in 1879.
Seals have good nppetites. 1t Is cal
day are required TO feed the fur seals
that the United States want to protect.
1t is proposed ut Vienna to span the
| Danube canal with bridge lined with
shops like the famous Ponte Rialto Mt
Venice and the Arno bridge ut Florence.
A Birmingham man, while under the
influence of drink, knocked off his great
toe with q hammer, imagining that he
was cutting his throat with carving
knife.
Washington hotel, at Vicksburg, Miss,
Will employ white waiter girls when the
weather becomes cooler, the first hotel
hotel IN the South to employ white
female help
The sentence "Pack my box with five
dozen liquor jugs" has been found to
| con tain all the letters of the alphabet as
well as important Instructions to the
! servants.
Rhode Island Is afraid of being over
/ crowded, since 1t has been learned
through the census that the population
has increased about 67,Tl during the
past decade.
| Ivan Ivanovitoh, aged one hundred
and five years, has just departed this
life in Russia, after having gone to bed
drunk every blessed night for eighty
seven years.
A Greenville man is the victim of q
utrange phenomenon. His hair comes
out in spots, and in q short time the
| vacant spots are covered with hair of the
purest white.
| \ Cairo bachelor, who, the ad. said,
was 'eighty-seyen years old, but rich"
has received go applications from ladies
willing to be his vile and-and risk his
dying pretty soon.
The other day IL man at Independence.
Kun, was fined 81 Tor whipping his wife.
and the same day another citizen of that
place was placed under bond of 5000
Tor selling whisky.
| A young man in Findlay, Ohio, whose
atfianced died about year ago, nasnow
] set ull ttt BOSSIpH tntIc lalklllb ny clOD-
ing with the girls mother, woman
about fifty years old.
The western busy bee has not been
making honey this year. In Iowa there
has been a total failure of the honey
crop, owing to the fact that there has
been no honey in the flowers.
There has Just been placed in the
cathedral of Charkoy, Russia, u clock Of
solid silver, weighing COO pounds. Ii is
in memory of the czar's escape from
death in the railroad accident at Borki.
The kentvlle (N. 81 Star tells q story
of man buying an orange for sick
wife ard returning 1t the next day with
the startling announcement that she
was dead. 1t says the story is vouched
for.
a cloud-burst in the Santa Rita
mountains, Ariz., not only swept away
and drowned cattle and horses,
hut lot of wild animals, such as deer,
bears and wolves, were caught and
engulfed.
The oxford County Advertisers
Bethel correspondent recently saw
several leading citizens of that town
flying kites on the common, among
helm being "a prominent physician and
justice of the supreme bench.
There appeared one week recently in
the abituary columns of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger notices of the death of
twenty -one persons, sixteen men and
five women, who had lived to or beyond
the advanced age of eighty years.