The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-09-08
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lea, is paid $5p9 2 week wee By BY shefr '' re
ayers.
The last literaryp4work of YJoipe
Russell lowell WIS thswrfting saN
preface % an English eaiti@ " n
writings of his friend, Sarah Orn
Jewett. TtTC
III. r. Osmond, Of Lppg, Sutton
Lincous6ire3 Eng, WHO Lis ID year
old, is a phenoinenal ridES s,af OF th'
bicycle. He has made his mifc ii
2;16, and has covered % miles, l,2Gl
yards, in one hour. He covered 2
miles in hour and 40 seconds.
The jelly fish hasn't any teeth, bii
uses himself just as ifihe were9s piect
of paper when he is hungry, Settttipns
his food and then Wrapping himself
about it. The star fish on theCoen'
trary, turns himself inside out and
wraps his food around HIM and stays
that way until he has had enough. IN
H.LtD.JG - 10 ''''t''
Steel ships of peculiar construction
called "whalebacks, arc built al
Duluth. Which make the "Trip from the
head OF lake navigation 10 liverpool
with carsoes of $4,000 bushels OF
wheat. They are of Il feet draft, and
require a crew of 26 meps ~ G, -
A novel method of Cheating" the
Postoflice Department has been de-
tccted at Los Angles, Cal. A young
mai rcntcd4a box, taking two keys,
ond of which he gave toalady friend,
and they Exchanged 1etters Though
the,hcx. The letters, haze Beer held
for postage and one key has been
taken up.
A member of the Prussian Diet has
written a letter in which he recoin-l
mends the cession of Alsace7Lorraiqe
to France, on condition that France
Joins tho triple alliance. If this pro-
gramme could be, carried out ths
member who suggests it thinks thp
Russia could then be compelled to
agree to- general disarming. |
At glass works in White Mills.
Wayne county, Pa, there is on exhi-
ton what is regarded as the finest SO
of cut glass ever turned out in tie
country. II consists OF 800 SEPARATE
pieces, and has been ordered Iby MI
United States Government for = tht
White House. On each pieee-Of ht
set, from the mammoth ceIltrePied
and punch-bowl TO the tiny salt
cellars, is engraved the coat-bf-abnA
of the United States. Tlfisi worn
alone has occupied months of time.
The total cost will be in the nggAhuAo
hood Of $4,000. ~ I'd er,,
Experiments by Thomas HarringC
ton, of PittsbuFg, into the lGcperheI
and uses OF nickel, steel and mangita
nese bronze have resulted in the diiaii
covcry of new metal. The. ciict
characteristics of the metal are that I
obtains very high tensile strength
is indestructible by corrosion, beipt
impervious to acids, and that it car
be wrought into spikes, nails. etc.
while either hot or cold. H. =
There is confederation Of thi'
story Of the insanity of Kaiser ,Wib
liam. A man who went to schoo
with him relate, that in wrestlin'.
match youag William was thrown b.
his oppouet, and, striking heavily. OF
his hea3, was rendered insensibe
The subsequent effects were Il tempo
rary insanity, which broke but al III;
tervals and necessitated his remove
from school. Germany is in a, la,
way if its ruler is subject to fits q
madness. hH'N.tm"'
A Georgia woman WHO asks ioiti
divorce has grievance if ever ,
woman had. She says that when
before her marriage, she told heI
sweetheart she was willing te-shar,
his poverty and live on, bread anc
water, he pledged his sacred homo
that if she would furnish the breadth,
would hustle ardashdf and get "a,
water. And so they were married
but hardly was the honeymoon ,endet
before the collector came arouud Sant
cut off the street pipe for non-pay
mont of the water rate. A.
~. M 4 M y e IN
A writer Z in Forest and Stream
shows how impossible it would be 70
a beaver to suck the air out of a 10