The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-08-14
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there are G. 600 specimens of journalism
from all parts OF the world.
w. j. Rainey. of Butler County, Pa.
was picked up by a vicious horse and
shaken till one arm was broken.
1t is said that the wine product of
California this year will reach 10, 600, =
OOO or 20, 900. 900 gallons-the largest
for years.
Girls are no longer to be logged in
the industrial schools of Kirkdale in
Lancashire. Such is the order of the
local government board.
The runaways on the Brooklyn
bridge average two month in sum-
mer and one month in winter. Ar
rests average four week.
The causalty record for the English
football season just over shows twelve
eases of death directly attributable to
injuries received in matches"
Theodore Tilton is preparing a new
volume of poems. He still lives on
the Isle st. Louis in Paris and mani
tests no desire to return to this country.
There is but little demand for yachts
in England Just now and an unprece-
IDENTIFY large number are in the market.
A boat which cost "a, 500 to build was
sold lately for only f640.
There is Il spring in Bear Valley,
face OF which bubbles of air and sand
ascend about ten inches and burst. The
spring is ten feet in diameter. The
water is pure and refreshing.
A ful.-grown wild boy, aged about 16
years, has been captured ut Enoch's
Point, Australia. His body is said to
be covered with hair four inches long,
the hair on his head being four feet
long and his nails five inches.
The ashes of Nine. Blavatsky are to
be placed in II magnificent urn of gold
and guarded by the British section of
the Thcosophical Society. An effort
will be made by the Washington Theo.
sophists TO have the urn stored in the
national capital.
A jeweler at Pleasanton, Cal, has a
live tarantula in glass jar, where he
has kept it for more than year with
out food. About two inches of dirt is
all there is in the jar, and how the
creature lives is n mystery. He seems
as frisky as ever.
Following upon the Duke of Port
lands agitation in favor of doing away
with the bearing or check rein from
carriage horses, the Queen has direct
ed him, as her Master of Horse, to take
of the bearing reins from the horses
that draw the royal carriages.
An action has been brought by
Boston woman against another in
Saco, Me-, to recover $400 for CHAP
eronage." This suit has probably been
brought as test case, that the powers
and limitations and true value of
chaperon may be determined.
In suit in which it was claimed
that lot of tobacco was damaged.
brought at Douglasville, Ca, the
Judge took some of the weed and chewed
it. He decided that it was damaged
to the amount of ID cents per pound,
and gave judgment accordingly.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes
that body and mind are both affected
by the character of food consumed.
IAN exclusively pork diet gives Il
bristly character to the beard and hair, y
and too much food from the sea gives
the shine and motions of Il fish.
The oldest living ''boy preacher" is
probably Rev. j. III. Jones, of Ohio.
who is now 49, and went before the
people with that title when Is years of
age. He still fills an occasional pull
pit. but. unlike some of his class ceased
to be boy preacher when the grey
hair appeared.
An American debutante is said to
have disturbed the equanimity OF the
English royal circle this season by
Selling the queens hand and giving it
a hearty but unceremonious shake,
after which she hoated by the other
royalties without paying the least at
tention to them.
The American archnologists who are
at work at Platea, Greece, have come
upon the remains of an ancient temple.
parts of which apparently 90 back to
the sixth century b. c., or within a
hundred years of the authentic begin
ming of Greek history. Developments of
great interest are expected.
Following the suggestion of DR..
Varincourt, of the department of agri-
culture in Russia, large number of
farmers have put their cattle in blue
spectacles to protect their eyes against
the terrible light of the snowy
steppes. About four thousand pairs of
the blue spectacles are thus actually in
use.
An Englshman has invented an APP
paratus through which. he de-
clares. he can see the soul leave the
body. He arranges lenses that so
magnify the particles of dust in the air
that their disturbance by anything
passing upward can be detected. How
he is to see those souls that pass down.
ward is not explained.
A new safety match has been patent
ed in England by a Belgian, who
places on different parts of the same
match two compositions. which in
ordinary safety matches. are generally
placed respectively on the box and on
the end of the match. In obtaining
light the match is broken across the
middle and the ends rubbed together.