The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-11-17

A Kentucky court recently deliberated
three days, at a cost OF $500, upon the
ownership OF 81 worth OF scrub pine
land.
The piles OF old London bridge, driven
500 years before, were found TO be in
good condition when the new bridge
was erected In 1859.
A Kings Daughters Circle In San
Francisco is composed Of eight Chinese
women, two japanese, two Syrians and
two Americans.
The hygienic congress at Buda-P esth
brought out the fact that there are
four times as many men who stammer
as there are women so afflicted.
Behanzin's crown, from Dahomey, has
just been placed in the anthropological
collection in the Louvre. 1t lis Of bur-
nished copper. garnished with precious
stones, and is Of colossal size.
A bust Of lIerod the Great, believed
to be authentic, was recsntlv discovered
at Jerusalem, IL was bought by the
Russian government for the Hermitage
Museum at 81. Petersburg.
WHAT promises to be an exceedingly
rich goid-beariug reef has been discov-
cred at Sudest. British New Guinea.
Coal deposits have also been recently
found, and the island promises TO de-
velop great wealth
Three raspberry canes In the gardens
Of the London horticultural Society
were grown from seeds found In the
stomach OF man whose skeleton was
dug up from one OF the old burial
mounds of North Britain.
Andy Palmer, OF Maine, has built his
new home on the dividing line OF York
aud Cumberland COUNTIES SO exactly
that when he is at one end of his dining
table in York he is helped TO soup by
his fair yis-a-vis in Cun1crlaud.
The lines OF no human hands are ex-
actly alike. When traveller to China
desires "a passport the palm OF the hand
is covered with fine OIL paint, and an
impression is taken on thin. damp
paper. This paper, officially signed. is
his passport.
With every year that passes American
men road less of what is called litter
ature," while American women read
more. Already the success or failure
of novel depends upon ths women, and
they make it or mar IL In absolute dis.
regard Of the opinions Of the critics.
Probably the meanest thief ever
ctught is Louis Bourgard, Of Paris, who
recently, while riding ia cab, ripped
open the cushions, tied the horsehair in.
to a parcel, sold IL while the cab waited
for him aud with the money procured
from selling his ''plunder" paid the cab
nan his fare.
The most wonderful cliff dwellings, In
the United States are those of the Man
cos, in u southern Colorado canon. Some
OF these caves are 500 to 900 feet from
the bottom Of the perpendicular sides OF
the canon wall, and how their occu-
pants gained ingress is mystery.
Raphael Madonnas and other Great
Pictures" is the name Of work which
is now in preparation in Londen. This
is the first attempt to give reproduc.
tions OF the whole series Of Madonnas by
and it will be deliberately got
ten up,and should make most interest
ing volume.
John Drew Fisher, the actor, who
died at Brooklyn, y. Twas another ex.
ample OF how coincident fatality may
pursue u family. He was the fifth OF
the Fishers who died ut a. III. on
aud two sist all having died on that
fateful day at exactly the same hour IN
t 10 morning.
The most costly OF all metals, save
only gallium, which is worth $4,000 an
ounce. is germa MUM, which is quoted
at 81. 1925 an ounce. Rhodinm Is worth
sll2.50 an ounce; rathenium. 800 an
ounce; iridium. $3.50 an ounce; osmi.
um, $40 an ounce, and palladium S25 All
ounce. Tho last is about equal in value
to gold.
There are enormous profits on type
whiting machines. 1t costs about Sl5 10
manu- facture most machines that sell
for 500. Now that all the essential
patents have expired on the standard
and anyone can manufacture
a writing machine there Is u fortune
awaiting the man who will put on the
market a good typewriter to be sold at
$50.
The largest baby at time OF birth OF
which the medicos OF the world have
any record first saw the liQht OF day at
Macon. Ga, during the summer Of 1890
The child was the offspring OF the
Lemons, It's father, VIII Lennon, being
4 well-known painter Of that burg.
When the child vas "a hours old
weighed hut ;one and one-ha ounces
less than forty pounds.