The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-11-05
CRISP COMBINATIONS.

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Michigan has $50 Chautauaua circIas
with 5000 members. a
There are about 60owornen in Chicago
who own and ride bicycles.
An Ohio peddier claims ID lave clear
ID $1,000 out Of his summers work.
The late Henry Westoyer, eoachsnas
70 the Prince Of Wales, left over $45,.
900.
The electric light on the Eiffel tower
can DO seen Of Orleans seventy miles
distant 49,
A patient flgurer has found that In is..
100000 years the sun win be Is dense a
the earth.
There Is only one colored congressman.
He l. from North Carolina, and his mans
d Cheatham.
Steel ID being turned out Of Readins
mill which Is said to be superior 10 tho
Sheffield product.
Nathan Hale's statue, TO be- erected In
City Hall park, New York. will be Of
bronze, eight feet high.
A landscape with six red oxen, painted
BY Rosa Bonheur In 1847, was sold re.
Gently In London for 81, 1900.
John Ericsson's house, on Beach street,
New York, In which the Nonitcr was
planned, has been sold at auction fos
$4,000.
J. D. Green, Of Mosherville, Mich, cap
tured an eel La his mill fiume which
weighed six and one-half pounds and
was forty inches long.
Mr.. Goodman, Of England, on a bet
smoked eighty-six cigars 10 an inch 4
length In twelve hours he ate Il ehoy
and took brandy during the ordeal.
There are sl5 women who have 90
tanned the LII d. degree OF st. Andrews
university since 1887, and there are mov
candidates this year than ever before.
The country having the largest pro
portion Of cultivated land Is Denmark,
Russia having the smallest The United
Kingdom has 20 per cent. OF land titled,
against II untitled.
A superstitious QUARRY boss q Potts
town, Pa, spentaswhcle night recently
revolving wagon wheel, thinking thai
the operation would bring back the thia
that stole his powder.
oSoup. one Of the Sioux chiefs, has
placed the wants OF his people befors
Lord Stanley, Of Canada. LIS frihs
wants . stallion, doctor, q pedigree
bull and patent windmill
A farmer In Brooke county, w. Va.
has an old fashioned pocketbook that hi
father and grandfather used to carry.
Hesstimates that mere than s2O0, 900 ha
hssn u y since u has been u use
ne hupan shin q cemposed d thrss
layers aysrsging ID al between one
twelfth and onc-eighth Of an inch IL
thickness, and, In extreme cases, a.
much a. one-fourth Of an inch In thick
mess.
Tho first living skeleton was Clauds
6ewrat, born In France In 1879. He WA
! tall and woald have bean wen shaped
had there been any hesh on his body; a
Il was. every bone could be distinctly
seen. ..-.+
An ancient and remarkable clock hai
been recently set mp In The reading room
Of the municipal library. 1t Rosen.
Franco A single winding keeps Il run,
ing Tor fourteen yuars ana some odo
months. ~I
Through Italy the principal cities arr
providing places for the treatment q
hydrapl.obfas by pastsur's system. and
III isoaae Nc municipal covncil has dc
voted a sum Of money sufficient to fur
nish . Pasteur institute.
Each square Inch Of the akin contains
s.coO sweating tubes Or persplratior
pores, each Of which may be hkened 4
little drain tile one.fourth Of an inch
In length, making an aggregate length
of the entire surface Of the body Of 20i,
100 feet, or tile ditch for draining III
body almost forty miles long.
The s.staF Of life" down IN Maine ap
pears 70 b tobacco A contractor WIG
has employed . crew Of twelve men Zoe
six months. on settling up With theL
found that ten Of them. who are tobacco
chewers, had consumed - worth u 70
bacco. besides cigars. and that the COS
q -four for the whole dom wAs &SL