The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-11-10
PEN AND SCISSORS

and Texas are required by their new
constitutions to do the same thing.
The Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets has overruled the exception in
the case of Fannie j. Poor VS.. j. Mont
gomery Sears, and sustained the ver-
dict of $12, 625 given Miss Poor for
injuries by the fall of some shaftings
in building owned by Sears, in 1887.
The effect of the continued floods in
England is very marked. The river
Thames, in some places, extends for
mile or so beyond its banks, and fiat
bottomed boats are being used to con-
vey people in the streets Of Elton and
Windsor.
James E. Graves, an employee of the
Standard Stave Company in Boston,
was accidentally locked into the steam
room where barrel slaves are seasoned,
and literally cooked to death. Graves
body was one mass of blisters and his
face scalded out of all semblance to
humanity.
After thirty years. vain struggle
against an adverse destiny the levia-
than steamship Great Eastern was
beached on the shores of the Mersey,
near Liverpool, and for many months
past dozen men have been knocking
her to pieces. Her bones sold for
$4,000.
Edison promises to run railway
train between Milwaukee and Chicago
during the Worlds Fair at a speed of
100 miles an hour by his new electric
motor. By his invention two pounds
of coal will do the work of six with
present appliances. He says the plant
will not cost as much as the cable
system.
Imitation gold is new compound
which was recently discovered, and
which puzzles the best jewelers. to de-
tect. Its weight is that of gold, and
the acid boils trifle when applied t.
it, although when it is wiped off no
spot is left. 1t is cheap and is easily
worked. Its chief factor is aluminium
composite, from five to eight per cent.
"Convent hair" is an article we'll
known to the trade and highly priced.
When young takes the veil in the
Roman Catholic church her hair is
cut off, and her tresscs are sold for the
benefit of the convent. AS the hair is
cut pretty close to the head, the tresses
are usually long, and thus "convent
hair" has special value.
An eastern branch of DIR. Keeley's
institute for the cure of alcoholism
has been established at White Plains,
near New York. John F. Mines,
LII D., writes to the North American
Review, a narrative of his own per-
sonal experience eff cure at the insti-
tute in Dwight, III. lie says he is
satisfied that he is permanently cured
of his appetite for intoxicants.
The giraffe is in danger of extinc-
ton. Ten years herds of seventy or
eighty could be found, where to-day
thirteen would be large herd. An
AFRICAN chieftain, however, Khama,
has taken the giraffe under his pro-
lection, and preserves it, just as the
Gear of Russia has preserved in
forest of Lithuani the European bison
from extinction.
One of the signs of returning pros
perity at the West is the payment Of
mortgage Indebtedness in immense
amounts. 1t is estimated by finan-
ciers that within the coming year the
capitalists, the savings banks, and the
insurance companies of New England
and the Middle States will receive at
least $20000O,0O0 in liquidation of
Western mortgages.
Mr.. G. Allard, wealthy rancher in
the Flathead country, Montana, has a
herd of Al fine buffaloes. There are
| Az COWS and one large bull, all mag
nificent, full-blooded bisons. They
are kept with the domestic cattle, and
are herded with little trouble. 1t is
not generally known that such a fine
private herd of buffaloes is in exist
ence. The superintendent of the Vel
lowstone Park said the other day that
there are from 200 to 500 bufIaloes in
the park now, and they are increasing
in number.