Middletown transcript., 1893-06-03
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Daniel Lambert, the fattest man ever
knnwn, weighed 739 pounds.
Three hundred thousand earth globes
could be stored inside the sun
-of 1900 deaths in Europe, l6 are by vio-
lenee: in the United States IL.
1t is hinted around St. Petersburg that
the Gar is suffering from cancer.
The greatest university lis Oxford. It
has twenly -one colleges and five halls.
-Gnod players Of the harp are said to be
the .carccstof all musical performers.
The Cars throne is said to be worth
four times as much as Queen Victoria's.
The bet Wall Brushes for the least
cash at G. e. HUKrLL's.
Traces of a prehistoric city have been
discovered not far from Zanzibar, in
Africa.
The total visible supply Of cotton for
the world is 3,577, ,859 bales, of which
1924 $50 are American
Frost prevailed Thursday night
throughout Tolland county, Conn, and ice
formed in many places
Painless extraction Of teeth by Hypo-
dermic Injection.
DR.. T. Fl. GILpIN.
-Four men-of-war of the Russian Baltic
squadron will go TO Brest to attend Presi-
dent Carnot's reception.
In order to collect a pound of clover
honey 3,750,000 bees must deprive $1,000
clover blossoms of their nectar.
\ The Kaiser will start on June 20 for a
n. kf,nr ra rso1
yacht Hohenzollern to the north of Scot
land
The New York Mutual Life Insurance
Company has assumed control as trustee of
al of Mayor ID. G. Robinson's> enterprises
in e mira.
The Railroad Telegraphers have elected
D. G. Ramsey Grand Telegrapher and H.
Errhardt. of Manch Chunk, Pa, Assistant
Grand Chief Operator.
Another bald but unsuccessful attempt
at train robbery was made Friday night by
the Sterr gang. lat Ponca, o. T. The train
was Santa Fe passenger.
The reports regarding the crop of win
ter wheat in European Russia show that in
124 districts it is excellent, in 303 districts
good, and in 10 districts bad.
Owing to the reductions made by the
last Congress in the appropriations for the
general land Office for the next fiscal year, a
large reduction i'll the clerical force will be
necessary.
The Russian Imperial Council has un-
der consideration proposal by Count
VOrontzoh Dashkoff to make the Russian
peasantry- direct owners of the land which
they now till for the commune.
1t is. reported Judge John Jackson,
United States District Judge for, West Vir-
ginia, will soon retire on account of his ad-
vanced age, and that President Cleye-
land will appoint Senator Faulkner in his
place.
Reports made to John S. Miller. Commits
siorer of Internal Revenue, Treasury De-
partment, show that for the first ten months
of the present fiscal year the collections
from internal revenue sources aggregated
$122, 49,, 156.
The Symphony Society of Philadelphia,
gave its first public rehearsal at Musical Fund
! Hall last night The hall was crowded to
the doors, and an enthusiastic appreciation
was evinced for all of the numbers on the
programme.
Among the saloon passengers on the
Canard Line steamer Umbria which sailed
| from New York, May 13, for Liverpool, was
Walter P Bouvers. no yesterday morn
ing, just as the vessel was entering the
Queenstown harbor, died from heart
failure.
The name of Veragua appears for the
| first time in history in Columbus letter
| from Jamaica, July Z 1903, to Ferdinand
| and Isabella Columbus took the name
| from the natives, who applied it to the
country east of admirals Bay; but in the
early part of the sixteenth century the
name of Veragua was given to the whole
coast of Central America