The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-01

for tho use OF the poor supply
eight quarts Of heated water for
one cent.
At Norwich, England, a thir-
ty-tive ton weight stone has
been quarried. 1t is tho largest
on record.
A gigantic tortoise, two cen
turtles old, can be seen in a court
of the artillery barracks at Port
Louis, France,
Two Confederate stamps re-
Gently carried q package from
CRANKY, Mass, to Boston with
out being detected.
The Queen of Henry ~. Of
France on one great occasion
wore a dross sewn with 1000
pearls and 5000 diamonds.
Madame Christine Nilsson
has given $1,000 toward foun-
ding a hospital in France for
the cure OF throat diseases.
A Census of the Hungarian
gypsies, taken in January Of
this year, shows the total num-
Der of that people in Hungary
to be ls5, 900.
tits estimated that in the
United States and Canada six
out of every ten young men
who have reached the age Of 80
years are unmarried.
1t is reported that a wild
woman has been discovered in
Tennessee. She was seen by
several persons, who say that
she has her home in the thick
woods, and can run like a deer.
The Marshall county, Ken.
lucky, plague has a variety of
colors sufficient to please all
tastes. There is the red-spotted
the black-spotted and the blue
spotted grippe. ...-. 49,. .....
| A Louisiana girl was locked
in a room for three days BY her
mother for resurrecting an old
Iheopskirt and wearing it on the
street. She wanted to antici-
pate the coming crinoline.
4 fortuns-tsller who lived al
Roselle, n. J., died ressntly
leaving an estate valued at over
$40, 600 nearly all of which she
had acquired in the course Of
her business.
l A West Virginia hunter re-
Gently had q desperate encoun-
ter with three bears that attack
ed him in the woods. He sue
cesded IN killing one and woun
ding the Others, but sustaineC
almost fatal injuries in tn;
fight.
Il Joseph Hilliday, q youth o.
seventeen, was convicted Of ar
son and sentenced to servo il
the Mississippi psnitentiary foI
one day. This sentence de
prives him of his citizenship
which can only be restored b,
an act of the legislature.
MISS ANNA DICKERsoN want
, 1925, 900 for having been kept il
an insane asylum five weeks
: and las brought suit for tina
! amount against those who pu
/, her there. There are ssyera
. people around here who woul,
be willing to remain in al
asylum for an indefinite period
, at s25, 900 a week.
} CAN you tell me what kim
Of weather ne may. have mex
, month";" wrote q farmer to tn
/, editor Of his home paper. II
replied: at is my belief tina
weather next month will b
= like your subscription BILL Tn
I farmer wondered for an hou
, what the editor was driving at
when he happened TO think o
the word unsettled" He sen
u postal note.
Mckinley had faith enougl
: i'm his bill 20 indorsS the pape
: Of an Ohio manufactures VIII
| has now failed in spite OF bsini
heavily protected 1t is fearel
that the great believer in tn
theory that heavy taxation ere
ates wealth has lost everything
3 but his theory.-St Louis Re
, public.
4 A young woman in a PenRsyl
vania village, says the "NeE
York Tribune" asked the posi-
lmastsr for some stampi
) (Which kind!" he inquired
4. "The ones with the whiskefB
she replied; and he at once sol
ker ssne two-cent stamps, d
which Columbus is picture,
: with Il few hours growth O
beard.
For Greatly elegant" English
, il would he hard TO boat Oh
. following example from III
r "gifted pen" Of q reporter .
the Providence Journal. IA
, the cioRs of the speech the com
i, pany emphasized their apprecis
lion eli the sentiments by resOf
J TO manual and pedal agitation.
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