The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-01-26
THE ADyoRTE.
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Y ~ tSittS fttctiCAh uOTlSts
sQld $iAS,326 worth Of flowers last
year.
~ lfing tho last year 19s persons
4 We arrested in New York city for
ttempting suicide.
A mechanical letter stamper worked
by electricity is being tested at the
postofice in Washington.
There ars reported to be 10000
Canadians who are drawing pensions
from the United States Government.
The population of the world, ac-
cording to the recent calculations of
N. Vernon, is estimated at 1,4O0,
100000.
A line of steamships is about to
enter into a contract to carry the mails
between England and Canada in five
days.
One widow of revolutionary
soldier and seventeen survivors of the
war of 1919 draw pensions at the
Detroit Office.
1t is encouraging to know that the
aumber of marriages in Boston during
the past year show an excess Of the
preceding year. .9 . ..#
An English social economist de-
ciares that old age is more important
element among the the causes of
pauperism than either thriftlessness
o. drink. @ #-. ......
~, Japanese gentleman puts a box
outside his door on New Years Day,
with this inscription: "To visitors--I
am out. wieh you happy New
year. N. B.-Please put your pres
ehts into the box"
#. Hcpkiuson Smith, the artist,
author md engineer, is man of fifty
three years, somewhat above the Or
diuary height, with iron-gray hair
and the mustache of q military man.
His eyes are dark and piercing and
leok out from under thick, dark
brows.
1t is rather startling to learn that
Chiswick House, where Fox and Can
|@ing died, is soon to be converted into
funatic asylum. In later years the
ansion was the scene Of the splendid
Entegseinntcnt given by fhe fifth Duke
of Devonshire, Including his famous
party for the Emperor Nicholas.
Matthew Arnold called "history"
the "great Mississippi of fiction"
UHquestionably the meteorological
statistician Of the future will be
tempted to believe ticticious the rec
ord of January, 1892, that the Mi>sis-
sippj was frozen over az st. Louis,
. while the Penobsco1 was Howing at a
Summer volume in Maine.
There is hardly more popular
author in tho country. certainly NOT III
the South, than ThCmGs Nelson Pare.
who!l the H0rpers have chosen to
succeed Charles Dudley Warner as
editor Of the 'D?aWcr" in their
monthly magazine. Mi Page is slijl
young man, lawyer in good prac-
tice in Virginia and man Of inter
csting personality. 1t has been said
Of him THAI he resembles the type of
old Virginia gentlemen that he loves
to portray, though that description
would hardly seem to ft with the
sandy hair and elaborate sandy mus
taehe that mark his features.
The most rustic in appearance of all
the Alliance Congressman is Clover.
Of Kansas, who looks and dresses like
q farmer and talks as if he were en-
gagged in controversy with a moving
machine. But he is q man of many
original ideas and was smart enough
TO beat Bishop w. Perkins, the new
kansas Senator, in the race for Con-
gress. In, fact his constituents thiuk
that Mr.. Clover will make a fine arti-
Gle of hay when he gets an opportu-
nifty to spread out in Congress.
\ The "tomb house" in St. Georges
Chapel, at Windsor Castle, where the
late Duke of Clarence was buried,
Il lighted only by two oil lamps. Most
az the collins lie on shelves, and what
q picture William Blake could have
r,ade Of the distinguished company of
the dead there! Edward ", the
cruel. and his queen are there; Henry