The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-08-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The Married Womans Disabilitiea
bill for the District of Columbia has be-
come law. Married women may now
sue and be sued, possess their own
earnings and inheritance, make notes
and conduct business.
The original autograph commission
OF Capt. Nathan Hale, of Connecticut,
the martyr spy of the revolution, was
sold for S1,775 at recent auction in
New London. The state of Connecticut
sent bid of $3.50, but it was bought by
firm of autograph dealers, who now
hold it at s5,OoO
The brass cubing used for gas fxt
ures is fashioned into the various COM
plicated ornamental shapes required for
such purposes by placing the tube be-
tween two steel molds which are henv-
lily clamped, and then the tube is ex-
panded by hydraulic pressure reaching
as high as 10000 pounds to the square
inch.
The Ammen ram now on the stocks
at Bath, Me-, is jealously guarded by
the naval officers on duty there, who
keep constant watch to prevent all for
eigners and possible enemies of the
United States from entering the yard,
as the ram embodies some new ideas
that it is desired to keep secret. Any
Yankee can get by the sentinel easy
enough, but several foreign suspects
have been elected from the premises.
Jacob Kearns, of West Virginia,
ha IL
he is ninety years old. He recently
walked over to his daughters house,
seven miles away in the country, and
with her examined the family bible to
see If the names of his thirteen children,
eighty grandchildren, one hundred and
twenty-seven great-grandchildre and
seven great-great-grandch had
been properly entered upon the regis
ter.
The "Jibboom club" of New Lon
don, Conn, is planning to man small
schooner, such as Connecticut has en-
ployed for many years in the West
India trade, run it to the Bahamas and
load it with collection of sea shells,
which in great variety, size and beauty
are found strewn upon the shores of
those islands. The crew will then sail
the craft to Chicago by way of the st.
Lawrence and will sell the shells from
the deck of the vessel. The members
of the club believe they can make
enough to pay the expense of the trip
and also of their own entertainment at
Chicago
An interesting relic of Lord Byron
has just come to light. A member of a
family which originally came from
Missolonghi has died at Magnesia, near
Smyrna, and has bequeathed to friend
a seal which belonged to the poet. It
is octagon in shape, and has on each
side separate device and motto. On
one side is bust of the poet, with the
words Lord Byron" On another is
flower, with the words "Forget me
not.' A third bears the representa-
tion of a dog, with the word 'Faith-
full" On the fourth there is ship and
the legend ''Such is life" On the other
sides the emblems are an open hand, an
! eye, cock, and a horse, but the words
in each case are illegible.
One of the most pitiful sights ever
witnessed in the streets of Portland,
Me-, was presented the other day by
two French Canadian boys who had
begged their way from St. Francis, on
the northern boundary of Aroostook.
The younger, aged II, had lost his left
arm and all except the thumb of his
right hand by an accident in sawmill
while the elder, aged about "a, was to-
tally blind. They had come to Port
land in the hope that oculists would be
able to restore the sight of the unfort-
unate boy, but the doctors were obliged
to tell them that there was no hope.
They had a letter from their parish
priest, on the strength of which they
managed to get enough money to take
them back to their Aroostook home.
The old whaling bark, Progress,
which New Bedford, Mass, will exhibit
at the fair, will begin her journey to
Chicago some time in June, it is an
nounced. She has been fully rugged
and spared. Her water line has been
painted brick red, and her deckhouse,
boathouse and davits white. The
cabin and state rooms have been
grained in oak and carpets have been
laid in them. In the saloon will be ex-
hibited collection of articles used and
obtained by whalemen, for example:
Whalebones taken by captain who
perished in the terrible disaster of 1871,
when thirty-three ships were aban-
doned, with great loss of life, in the
Arctic regions; polar bear skins, pict-
ures of whaling experiences, harpoons,
knives, tackle, clothing, boats, etc.
Two Faithful Dogs.
A strange but true snake story comes
from Sierra Madre. A little girl whose
mother resides at that place saw large
snake while playing near the house,