Telegram-herald., 1890-03-15
OLD WORLD ODDS AND tNos


Tx centenary Of John Howard, u.
prison phlznthropist, las bseR oels
or@t. IA England.
\ oG-c&rriers ia japan The NOR
tzr led into b. rs weighing abou.
six -Rds ana Ihro~n 70 ths bricklAy-
srs.
TiE creustory has now taken the
placc q tie potters neld in Paris Al
unclaimei bodies are cremated at the
lew establishment IN Pere Ia Chaise.
A LoSDoS confectionery store gives 20
svsry purchaser Of = shiliIng's worth a
ticket emitting the purchaser 70 nave
one photograph OF herself taken At "a
establishment upstairs.
NEW SOUTH WALES people are g-owl.
ing about the new scheme for printing
advertisements on ths backs OF postage
stamps. They say that the ink leaves
an unpleasant taste in the mouth OF the
Ticker of stamp.
THE beethoven House Society" OF
Bonn has come into possession of
Beethoyen's last piano. IL was made by
Conrad Graf, .of Vienna. Because OF
Beetnoven's deafness IL had four strings
10 each key instead of three.
a LOVE jubilee is the latest cele-
bration devised On the occasion OF
"the si2th centenary of the loves OF
Dante and Beatrice" a grand demon
stration in honor of the tender passion
will be held at the Politeamo at Flor
ence.
WORKMEN excavating near the CAL
cutta custom-house recently came across
an old iron cannon, five feet long. which
experts declare TO have been one of
those used on the ships of the English
feet that bombarded the town after the
tragedy of the black hole.
Ar Castua, a small town in Austria,
all the couples who become engaged
during the year are united In the bonds
OF wedlock at ono and the same mar
riage ceremony. In virtue OF this an
ciont ceremony, thirty young women
were the other day led TO the altar.
TIE price of game in France is al
legged to depend principally upon the
state of the moon. When the moon ia
dark the poachers can not SEQ to set
their snares at night, and game Is
scarce. When the moon is full there is
plenty Of light, and the poachors get
lots Of game.
OUE practice feet in the Mediter-
ranean has good deal of trouble with
foreign regulations. Spain forbade the
landing of crews anywhere on her
shores for land practice, ard Italy has
law that more than three war ships Of
any foreign power shall not be in any
one of her ports at the same time.
The English Government has been re-
deeming at their nominal value the old
-old coins that have become short
weight through much use, with tue idea
OF getting them out of circulation. It
was supposed that thero were twenty
million dollars worth of such coins in
the country. but the call only brought
out about half that sum. After the
18th inst. the old rule of taking sucL
coins only by weight Will go into force
again.
A CHEMIST has lately performed feat
OF no common order. Tho explosion
ard fire at Antwerp reduced to a charred
mass bundle OF one thousand form
Austrian obligations. Without pres
entation in some identifiable form there
could be no payment. The imperiled
obligations were given TO a chemist and
he succeeded in separating the whole of
them and finding ont the numbers, and
upon his report the money has been
paid.
AMONG the pictures at recent ezhi-
bition of old masters in London was
Romney, owned by a maiden lady, who
wanted il insured for g.. 500 because IL
was family heirloom. This sum was
thought excessive, but soon after the
exhibition opened the old lady was Of
fered $500 for 1t, and in a day or two
afterwa dealer raised the bid 70 s20,-
900. She took time 10 consider and
another dealer offered $50. 600. She did
not accept that either.
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