The herald., 1894-10-08
PERSONS AND THINGS.
J.J. Corbet. has gone go far as to ca

J.J. Corbett has gone go far as to call
his rival mls6tzsimmons.
Milo Davis, OF Candy, Neb., recently
drew 1000 head OF cattle in rattle.
In the broom-corn sections of Illinois
the price has gone up to $l05 ton and
10 still rising.
A trolley road from Philadelphia tc
Reading is among the possibilities o.
the near future.
The damage to property in Florida by
the recent West India hurricane is esti'
mated at $1,0O0,OO0.
At Governor Stones prompting st.
Joseph, Mo-, police commissioners have
closed every local gambling house.
Threatening letters swell the mail Of
Rev. W. @. Clarke, who ia leading the
crusade against Chicago gamblers.
Sarah Bernhardt has added The Sec
ond Mrs. Tanqueray to her repertoire.
Isn't Sarah getting rather reckless?
Having lost $50, 600 in stock speoula-
ton, ex-Deputy County Clerk L. e..
Mathews, of Milwaukee, took poison.
Computed in tons. the Belgian blocks
used in repsving Philadelphia streets
used by trolley lines, will overrun
100000.
Colonel Breckinridge has finally de-
cided to comfort himself with Matthew
Arnold's proposition that the minority
is always right.
A bust of Tennvson in Carrara marble
executed for Queen Victoria By Mr.. +.
Williamson is TO be placed in Windsor
castle or in Osborne.
The Bell Telephone company at Gin
cinnati has mounted thirty inspectors on
bicycles, thereby displacing thirty horses
and as many buggiss.
A New York syndicate has bought for
$500,000 the cream OF the land in the
residence portion of Windsor, Ont, on
the other side OF the river from Detroit.
Congressman Peel of Arkansas be-
comes general attorney for the Chicka-
saws at Washington at 1925, 900 year
salary and 10 per cent OF all claims re-
covered.
A 40-ton electric locomotive has been
built by the General Electric company
at Lynn, thus surprising the 30-ton en-
gine made by the company for the
worlds fair.
The Philadelphia North American
celebrated its 1l0th birthday last week.
1t is the oldest American daily, frstap-
pearing as the Pennsylvania Packet and
American Daily Advertiser.
Congressman Mercer of Omaha pro.
poses to introduce bill at the next ses-
sion for q magnificent medal for En-
gneer Root, in recognition of his hero
ism during the forest fires in Minnesota.
A mysterious individual is engaged in
a crusade at Chicago against the woman
in bloomers. When he sees her coming
he leaps from his hiding place, lashes
her calves with rawhide and disap-
pears in time to escape arrest.
Philadelphia Record The substantial
reduction of ell steerage passenger rates
from the United States TO Mediterranean
seaports from $32 to SIS will doubtless
tend to still further promote the out
ward movement OF travel which began
last spring.
The Marquette (Republican) club will
have big banquet at Chicago on Octo-
Der 9th, the anniversary of the great
fire. Arrangements are being made to
entertain 750 guests, and the largest
dining nall st the Grand Pacific hotel
has been engaged.
Mrs. Katherine Roberts of Topeka,
Ksn.. celebrated the ono hundredth an
niversity OF her birth on September
30th. Sharp Neighbor, aged 80, and
Mrs. Celinds Powelson, aged 81, brother
and sister of Mrs. Roberts. both resi-
dents OF New Philadelphia, O., were
present on the day of the celebration.