Tombstone epitaph., 1891-05-24
STRAY CTS.

Kerosene ni s responsible for nine tentha M the fiios that take place in China
 The fresh fruit crIp of California this sea on has an estimated value of Sl0,OOOOOO
 Pullman says he can build sleeping can containing six nice bedrooms, but passengers -ould have to pay SC instead of S2 per night
 From $SO.OOo,O0 to s4OOOO,OOO of old ewery lies idle in England, and various firms have begun to melt it down to make aew patterns
 4 New York civil engineer has applied foa : patent for locomotive and tender, by winch he claims Le can make ninety -tivo miles an hour with ten coaches
 Stumm Bros., of Neunkirchen, Germany, have offered prize of S3,5OO for the best means of preventing the inhalation of dust by the workmen engaged in grinding sag
 The fastest armored cruiser in the world is said to be the German vessel Grief. of 2,0vC tons and 5,400 horse power From Kiel to Wilhelmshafen she attained speed of twenty three knots an hour
 Twenty of the leading restaurants and cafes in Paris are being united into q com pany It's capital will be 7,5O0, ,000 francs, ia bO0 franc shares, l3,500 of which are to be offered to the public at par Two fishermen in the Dee, ;a England, have caught sturgeon weighing POO pounds, | over five feet long and as thick as mans ! bcdy. The best previous record was l58 pound sturgeon two years ago. The Yale sophomores have declared against hazing. They are entitled to commendation. Altbaurh tho ,,rootsoa nf ha, has pearcd from most American colleges, it's mod ern prototype, rushing" sti fingers A new device has been introduced for ths German army. It is cloak cut and finished in such a way that two of the garments to gether may be converted into a tent, the sup ports for which accompany the cloaks. A few years ago the Argentine Republic | did not raise wheat enough for home con sumption. Last year it exported 1000, ,00C bushoi. lmmense tracts of pasture are being converted siso farm land, and the counti / is becomi E great grain growing | region.
 | A new submarine torpedo boat has been tried by both France and Russia and is said | to be successful. It is driven by an Edison | dynamo, provided with compressed oxygen, tor use under water, and large pair of scis, sors projecting frorn the prov, in order to cut torpedo wires.
 Frank Crabtree and Henry Cyrus killed an old bear and two cubs out in Oregon. They went after the game with team, when one of their mares became infuriated at the smell of blood. She attacked Frank, knocked him down and stamped on him, and struck old Mr. Crabtrne in the face, nearly killing hipa The greatest national debt among the na. | tions of the globe is borne by France. It is about SC, 6,250, ,000,0O0 Russia comes next, with S3,GO0, ,O0O, 900; then England, with S3- 6o0,00o,00O: Austro- Hungary, with $2,4S5.. 0O0,O00 Italy, with S2,225, ,00O,O 900; Spain, | with Sl ,207 ,500, ,0o0; and Prussia, with S1, 1 00),000,00O.
 The etymology of the word honeymoon is thus given by good authority: Among the | aorthern nations of Europe there was an I ancient practice of newly married couples to drink metheglin or mead, kind of wine made from honey (hydromeD for thirty days after marriage. Hence the term honeymonth or honeymoon. Attila, the Hun, drank so much mead at his wedding feast that hS lied"
 A young girl ln London has turned the l taking incidents in the public thoroughfares and parks She has an eye for situations, and
 catches them full of natural spirit and action. She is out from 10 o'clock until 8, and under her camera characteristic scenes of city life are being turned into hard money. Her pict- ures gre used great deal in studios, and they are full of suggestion.
 A otizAn of Eatonton. Ga, smokes about twelve pounds of tobacco yearly in pips that he declares is over two hundred years old. This leads mathematician person te calculate that if that were the average amount 'ised in the pipe since its first day 2,4O0 pounds of the weed have been burned In its bowl, and if the first SIP had been put out at compound interest at the rate of 10 per cent. it would now have grown to the sum of S1, ,755, AZ, ,200. Just how this would have benefited the first owner of the pips lees Sot appear.