Warren sheaf., 1894-03-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho marriages with the decealed
wife's sister or husbands brother mum.
bered In France, in 1885, s55 per 100, ,O0l
marriages.
One of the most disagreeable duties
OF the Hawaiian police is the examina.
tion and arrest of persons suspected OF
having leprosy.
Philadelphia has 1000 miles Of reg
ularly laid out streets and 800 miles o1
street car lines. 1t produces every year
$500, ,000, 900 of goods.
Some men are known by their
words and works; others by the color
of their neckties and the cut of their
clothes. Young Mans Era.
Buffalo has city hall which cost
81, ,35O, 600. Over 10000, 600 bushels OF
grain have passed through Buffalo
going east in a single season.
-Bobbie-'I got awful tootha che .
Jimmie-''Been eatin' candy?'' Bobbie
No" What made it then?' Look
in at the coal that's to be carried in. .
Inter Ocean.
-Goldsmith's improvidence caused
him great annoyance. He was more
than once compelled to dodge his cred
itors and on at least one occasion was
locked up for debt.
--Gluck's life was made burden by
musical squabbles. He was peace
able man, but it was his misfortune to
be constantly mixed up in the broils OF
his admirers and their opponents.
From Arizona for three years past
has come the earliest car load OF
American raisins shipped east. The
season there is ahead of that of south
ern California and the atmosphere is
peculiarly suited to the curing of rails
ms.
GPn. Booth, in opening the Saliva.
tion Army congress in New York No
vember IA, said that during the past
year more than 15,O0O,O 900 persons had
attended the meetings in the halls OF
the army and 10, 900 children had been
cared for while their mothers were at
work.
Henry Harrington, aged 65, of st.
Paul, Minn.. has arrived at Hazelton,
Pa, having walked the entire 1,5OG
miles in quest Of work. He left st.
Paul September 80 and arrived al
Wellsboro, Tioga county, December 9,
covering the distance in eleven weeks,
making an average of 191 miles per
day.
Cicero was the greatest book col.
lector of antiquity. One of his letters
is extant in which he urges Atticus, a
learned friend, who was compelled
from poverty to sell his library at auc.
ton, not to dispose of the books al
public sale, but to keep them until the
writer is able to purchase them, Cicero
adding that he is saving all his rents
for that purpose.
Cato learned Greek at so; Plutarch
Latin at 72; DR.. Johnson, a few months
before his death, began to study Dutch;
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were fin.
ished when he was 81; Monaldesco
wrote his memoirs at 115; Cellina his
autobiography at IS; Dryden began
his translation of the 'Iliad" at 6s:
Franklin began the study of natural
philosophy at 50.
Tom bstone, Ariz, owes It's name to
IN attempted witticism. When Schief.
ferlin. the discoverer of the mines in
that locality, was starting on his most
successful prospecting tour he told a
frierd he was going to discover a
mine this time sure" The friend re,
piled: "You'l Il discover tom bstone. .
In recollection of the rejoinder, Schief
ferlin named the mines he found the
Tombstone.
New Zealand has twenty-five es.
tablishments in which mutton is
frozen for the British market. The
output is some two million fat sheep a
year. The sheep used for this purpose
are chiefly crosses of Merino and
Down, long-wooled breeds. Shrop.
shire Downs and Lincolns are in much
favor for rich, level pastures, while in
hilly and broken situations Border
Leicesters have proved quite success.
full for crossing on Merino ewes
Birmingham, Ala, is called the
Magic City of the South" on account
of its phenomenal growth. Within
easy reach of it is Red Mountain, with
millions upon millions of tons of hem
attic ore and inexhaustible supplies oi
limestone and coal. Krupp once said
''Should fate drive me from Germany
I would go to Birmingham, Ala" The
London Times once prophesied that il
would become the greatest metal
working city in America.
Literary men and philosophers
have often been subjected to persecu
tion. Aristotle was so harassed by his
enemies that he swallowed poison
Gerbert, Royce, Bacon were deemed
magicians. Calico passed most of his
life under the ban Of the church; Cor.
nelius Asrippi was driven from his
native cosntry for making few chem
ical experiments; Carbon was arrested
as magician; Petrarch was always il
terror of the clerical denunciations
Descartes saved himself from being
burned at the stake by a hasty flight
from Holland.
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sssIH MISSOURI RIVER GOING.
Reports of Engineers Showing That Thf.
Great Stream Is Sinking Out Of Sight
The recent survey of the Missouri
river under the direction of the United
States geographical engineering de
partment resulted in discovery that
the stream is undergoing a peculiar
Transformation. During the survey
measurements were made of the vol
ume of water passing between the
banks at various points from Great
Falls, Mont, to Sioux City. It was
found that the volume at Great Ealls