Middletown transcript., 1893-05-13
HERE AND THERE.

Little Items of Interest Condenced for
Ready Reading.
The Austrian railways are blocked by
snow
Edwin Booths condition is practically
unchanged.
AT the equator the limit of perpetual
snow is IA, 400 feet.
The first currency used in this country
was the Indian wampum.
-Ex-Minister Robert Lincoln sal ed Sat
urday from Southampton.
St. Peters Church. at Rome, was begun
in 145O and finished in 1926
One half the population. of Minnesota
and the Dakotas is foreign born.
The striking dock laborers at Bristol,
England, have returned to work.
The first American fire insurance
company began business at Philadelphia in
1874.
1t is stated that but 16 of the 134
scholars attending Amherst College use to-
bacco.
Exports of grain this year include ,S47 :
$40 bushels of corn and 1850, 289 bushels of
wheat.
-Hnlf dozen persons were killed by
lightning in and around Liberty, Indiana,
Friday last.
Exports of petroleum this year amount
to 92,547,113 gallons against 71,197,73O gal
Ions last year.
Pretty girls on the street Sunday we're
as thick as hnckleberries on Jersey farm
in August.
The fleshet on the Merrimac is on Il .
increase, and the water is now sixteen feet
above the summer flow.
1t is said that one of our young society
men wears night cap SO his hair will not
be mussed while he sleeps.
Washington Council, No. 1, Jr. o. O. A.
", Of Germantown, will celebrate its
fortieth anniversary on May II.
"A movement is on foot to have the
Spanish Government make the Duke Of
Veragua, Ambassador to the United States
-Postmaster-General Bissell has ap-
pointed August W. Aachen. of Toledo.
assistant superintendent of the Free Deliv-
cry system, vice William Helm, resigned.
The postponement of the Monetary Con-
ference is looked on as affording another
indication of the Presidents purpose to
call Congress in extra session in the early
fall.
Among the fowls belonging to the val-
uable hennery of Philip A. Ricord, of Elk
Neck, is hen said TO lay three eggs day.
She deposits them in hole in the trunk of
an apple tree, which she reaches by way of
ladder.
We are printing large quantities Of
strawberry checks. The board We use this
season is of superior quality. The checks
are printed, cut and put in neat packages
ready for use. Send US your orders by
mail or leave them IN person.
The British feet has lost over 20 men
by desertion s,nce Its arrival in American
waters. They look at the difference be-
tween the wages paid in the American and
British navies, and are anxious to enlist
under the American flag.
There is gnn In the British navy, Q
22-ton Armstrong, which hqrls solid shot
distance of IL miles. the highest point in
the arc described by the shot being 1900
feet above the earth's surface. The dis
charge of the gun cannot be heard at the
place where the ball strikes.
- piece of genuine Japanese lacquer
costs the native artist almost lifetime to
perfect, and is produced by hundreds of
thin coats Of lacquer laid on at considerable
intervals of time, the value consisting
rather in the labor bestowed than in the
quality Of the material used. First-class
lacquer work can scarcely be scratched by
needle.
The woman that took part in late
marriage at Newcastle, England, had a
mathematical formula to guide her, At 16
she married man Of 32 at 80 she married
again and chose man of so. To conclude
the series, she nov, st A, marries man Of
"a, Her first husband was Quaker, the
second Catholic and the present one a
profestanf