The record-union., 1894-10-09
PEOPLE AND EVENTS

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Iowa College. at Grinnen. has fallen
heir to 50, coo. left it by the late William
Relckotf, Of Orange City, who died re-
Gently.
Miss BalfOur, sister of the English
Conservative leader, is now travelling i'm
Africa, and at last accounts was the guest
OF Cecil Rhodes ut Cape Town.
Livery passenger landed in a French
port from steam vessel coming from
European port, by decree just ISSUED, is
TO pay TAX of tiiLy centiines zen cents;
from any other part OF the world he pays
Il irauc.
The first edition of NJ. du Maurier's
1rlIby" Is announced us having COM
prised $4,000 copies. 80 good was the de-
mana That many booksellers were
Obliged 10 tako lever than half as many
copies as they had oruered.
y magistrate III Missouri fined a man
SIO Iof noisy shouting anu disorderiy con-
uucJ III the street, OH the testimony oil a
poucehl&n. len nnnuteS later IL was dis
IoNeIeu IAaC the prisoner WAS deaf and
uuinp: and the line was renitted.
he following advertisement appeared
ili Iho Il @StFGtd5td1t OF recent date: III
hupert Lynott. nay husband, does not
IetuIn ana support me within three
HuhthS from lhls date, | intend To re-
marry. Florence Emile Lyuutt.5
hrastuS Wiman, since he gave bail and
came OuL OF The IomDs, has been l,nnI
busy attending to his many enlerprlses.
ne 10 just as active and energetic as Tor
merry, anu his friends say that he will
yet WORK out OF all his financial trouble.
Apropos of the eightieth birthday Of
Professor Ernst CurtIus, a Berlin D.nar
states lhaL the eminent Greek historian
ana scnolar has among the documents OF
his scuooiboy days one in wiIitn ne IL
censureu Tor being rather backward in
his Greek.
Mrs. hammond. the widow of the late
Dr. W. u. hammond, Chancellor of Lhe
o. Louis Law School, has given the ex-
tenSIVe private law library OF her bus-
band TO the Law department OF tho state
university OF Iowa. 1t contains A larre
number OF valuable legal and distorted
works.
Professor BOuX Of Paris at a recent bv-
glenlc congress at Buda-Pest assarIsd
That IN the Paris hospitals 10 per cent. of
The chlIuren lnoculated with BEHRING'S
antldlphtheritine (serum taken rom
horses were saved, while OF those NOT
lhoculateo oO per cent. died and only 40
per cent. survived.
France proposes to have a general e-.
hllltlon OF sports in connection with the
exposition OF 1899. The Bois de Vim
cennes will be set aside for them. Tne
Minister OF Commerce has appointed a
commission to draw up a general pro-
graln!ne' which IS to include 1encIng,
ShOotlng, military exercises. boating
alhietlcs, cycling and balioonIng,
Ohio newspapers announced that pep-
sion had been granted to Ciottlieb kstt.
Ter OF wooster, and this led TO the dis.
coNery OF 1Our sisters whom he han nor
seen since he lett the talherland. tiftv
years ago. one sister lives in Baltimore,
another in York, one in Portage. Wis.
ana the Iourth, VINO had preceded MIN to
thls country by year, in Clinton, La.
AS the result of the stranding of q rir-
Gus, with the side show of which he was
travelling, John Hanson Craig, who
weighs 200 pounds, 200 pounds less than
his top notch, Is thrown upon the charity
OF the people of Muncie, Ind. He is ac-
compauied by his wife and daughter. and
IS suffering from dropsy. While he lives
the people there will tenderly care for
him.
Mrs. NJ. French-Sheldon has sailed for
London. She is bent on ESTABLISHING
colonies in East Africa, in Gnsha and
Sumau lands, about 900 miles north of
Zanzibar. IhiS country is located either
side the Juba river, along whose banks
live about 4O,OOO industrious blacks. The
natives are all runaway slaves who have
received from the British East Africa
NOlil ldhJ LbSII ulduuullSSlOn DNDGrS.
Ouida is in pitiable condition. Her
house and all her property in Italy have
been sold TO pay her debts and she is
almost destitute of money. Her eccen-
tIicltleS have become more and more
pronounced, and it is said that the peoDie
who are brought into contact with her
IND 1t almost impossible to retain their
composure under the sharp and biting
comments which she makes upon them
DR.. Johann Antal, a Hungarian chem
1st, says he has discovered a new chem
ical compound, The nitrate of cobalt.
which, he says, is most efficacious anti
dote to poisoning by cyanide OF potassium
or prusslc aciu. He tried the antidoce
first on animals, and atterward on forty
living persons who had been accident.
ally poisoned with prussic acid. In not
a single case did the antitode prove a
failure.
A unique innovation of the postal card
system Will soon be adopted in France
Instead of the cards being separate, as
they now are, they VIII be issued in the
form OF check-books with stubs. A
memoranda OF the substance OF the con-
tents Of the card can be entered on the
stub, aud the sender can have this
stamped at the postotiice before the card
is detached, SO that verified record OF
the correspondence can be kept.
The swimming pool is among the ats
tractive features of George Vanderbill's
estate at Bar Harbor. Trees from his
magnificent country home in North Car
olln2 have been transported to Bar Har-
Dor, and natural and beautiful screen
of impenetrable foliage inc!oses the
swimming pool. The bathing houses are
picturesque. They all have a wirwam
effect on the outside, but are daintily
and completely appointed within.-New
York Telegram.
A new anthropometric test of sensitive-
ness has been designed. by Dr. Cation.
y band of color, showing all the sixty
five shades of blue, is slowly passed be-
fore the eyes, and the subject makes a
dot for every shade detected. As FAR as
experiments have proceeded only about
twenty shades are generally discovered.
In one case, however, a dyer detected
about forty. Some curious light will be
thrown on different colored eyes, and per-
haps on the relative sensitiveness of the
sexes, by these novel experimentation
don Public Opinion.