, 1892-11-08
DREDGED UP.

The women employees of the Chicago tel
ephone companies are to be attired in black
uniforms.
The new Mormon Temple at Salt Lake
City, Utah, will be dedicated on April G.,
next year.
A woman sanitary engineer has been
chosen to represent the English women at
the congress of hygiene.
Dennis F. Hanks died at Peoria, ILL.,, on
Friday, aged SO years. He was the early
tutor Of Abraham Lincoln.
A number of the houses in Berlin are
numbered with luminous figures, which
can be easily observed at night.
A hotel with 6124 rooms is reported to be
the latest creation among Chicagos enter
prises auxiliary to the worlds fair
Charles Vining has brought suit against
Chiffon county, Ala, for the loss of
thumb while prisoner in the county Jail.
Electricity, theoretical and applied is
hCihg taught in the evening classes at sew
eral scholastic and similar institutions in
Boston.
A restaurant mutton chop never looks
half so sheepish as the waiter who serves
the microscopic object, says the New York
Herald.
A prisoner in Bohemian reformatory has
finished a perfect-running straw watch
WAlASh 10 bAellllDQ W NC III Il6Ol 1hel4 a
button"
A 72-year-old resident of Seymour, Ind,
"has been hiccOughing continuously for
nine days, and physicians cannot relieve
him."
Dubuque, Ia, is reported to have the
first case of lumpy jaw in human being
ever recorded in the state. The victim is
six-year-old girl.
John Currion, who lives near Cottage
Grove, Ore, claims to have discovered on
his farm an apparently inexhaustible ledge
Of rich cinnabar.
The Rev. William J. Potter, who recent
ly resigned the pastorate of the Unitarian
church, Of New Bedford, Mass. had been
pastor for 33 years.
man who lived near LeaVenworth
Kan. is claimed to have gulped down 21
glasses of whisky in rapid succession few
days ago, and died within a quarter of an
hour.
At recent New York reception the
wedding cake of the brides mother was
served. 1t had been kept for that purpose,
wrapped in branded paper in tin box.
A footpad was captured in a Hungarian
town short time ago, and with him bear,
that he had tanned and taught to grapple
with pedestrians whom he desired to rob.
According to an English scientist, the
red in flowers Is a single pigment, soluble
in water and decolorized by alcohol, but
capable of being restored by the addition
of acids.
A cutlery factory at Meriden, Conn.,, re-
Gently completed a. wonderful tOy-a per-
feet pocket knife, with thirty blades, pin
GERS, shears, avis etc., which is said to
weigh but One-eight of an ounce.
A piece of frogs skin not larger in diam
eter than the rubber tip on lead pencil has
more pores in it, claims the Cincinnati
Times-Star, than there are meshes in the |
mosquito netting on a screen door.
Thomas G. Yeager, of Danville, KY, |
while out hunting on Friday, was fatally |
wounded by the accidental discharge of his |
gun. His dog jumped upon it; striking the |
trigger, causing the charge to explode.
A Georgia editor announces that he will |
take real estate on subscription, but adds
LANDS where chills and fever prevail must
be provided with frst-class physician and |
an undertaken who knows his business"
"Where are you goin', Johnny2"
Don't bother me. Pm a relief eXpedi-
ton, l am."
"Are ye playin' North Pole2"
NAV. Pm goin' to the drug store for
paregoric. Washington Star.
James f. Donahue and Paul Fieldes,
both of Brooklyn, have been awarded the
gold medals, given yearly by the Long
Island Life Saving association to the two
persons who in the meantime have shown
the greatest herOism in the saving of hu
man life.