Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-28
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The United Hebrew Charities SO
ciety of New York gave work To 33,-
600 persons during the past year.
The New Orleans Picayune devoted
| two columns TO an effort to l-:Ove that
we were in no danger from earth
quaLes.
Thirty-One knots were made by the
forban. the latest French sea- going
torpedo boat, in her trial trip Il; IIay-e
recently.
| \ proposal has been made that = ma
! tional exposition be held in Washington
| in 1900 To celebrate the centennial Of
| the Capital City.
Six hundred crates of celery We're
shipped from Muskegon. Mich. 20 Chi
cago the other day. The weight of it
was 5000 pounds.
There are coIored twins in Putnam
County, Connecticut. / years old, with
red hair. Bailey. the circus man, has
sought in vain to get them.
The Pccton, the largest tank ell
steamer ever built, has just been com
pleted at West Hartlepool. She Is 3>S
feet long by Is broad and 31la deep.
Ten steamers for the China trade. az
gregating 10000 tons, were turned out
by one Greenock firm in nine months
recently. This is Il record for quick
work.
The headlights from the locomotive
| engines on Maine railroads attract the
deer from the forest. and numbers OF
the animals are being killed by the
| engines.
The first colOrcd man to work on Il
| street car III Detroit was recently ap-
pointed motorman on one Of the trolley
ears running on the principal route in
that city.
According To Il Paris paper the crown
of the King OF Portugal, which Was re-
rently repaired by a jeweler, is the most
costly in the world, being valued at
S6.000,000.
Africa is to be triangulated from the
Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. DR.. Gill,
astronomer royal at Cape Town. has
repaired the plans and Cecil Rhodes Is
backing him up.
| Seven hundred Berlin Journalists are
to have their pictures printed in vol
] ume which Gustav Dahns has writ
ten and Which is to give IN inside view
of modern German journalism.
Large coal deposits have been found
in Suderoe. one OF the Farce islands.
| 4 81 s. TO
them. having obtained a concession
from the Danish Government.
Russia is going to send astronomical
expeditions to the mouth of the Amoor
river and to Nova Zembia To observe
| the total eclipse of the sun that VIII
take place on July % of next year.
In imitation OF the electric lighting
of Gedney's channel. it is proposed to
establish electric light buOys in the
Thames up to the London docks. so as
TO enable vessels to pass up by night.
| Frescoes representing the salutati0n
of the Virgin and the nativity, earlier
than The reformation. have been found
under the plaster of the parish church
at Ashaufstead, near Reading, Eng
land.
Salmon packers on the Pacific coast
are worried over the report that the
/ Russians are arranging for the estab-
| liShment of several large salmon and
! herring cannerieS along the Siberian
| coast.
| AS many as o5S students are entered
for the course in Modern Novels"
which has been introduced into the
curriculum of Yale university. The
course is more popular than any other
in Yale.
| Those who know and love the Words
worth country will learn with regret
that the old reCtory at Grasmere. where
in the poet prepared The Excursion
for the press, has been RACED to the
ground.
The Car of Russia has issued de-
cree warning duelists that they will
iEcur severe punishment if they con
tlnue the practice. The royal displeas-
IRE will extend also 20 those who en-
| courage dueling.
| Russian scientific men have aScer-
Gained that out of J9I trees struck by
lightning in the forests near Moscow
3O2 were white popular. They advise
farmers to plant pOplars as natural
lightning conductors.
Indian forest flies are terrible pests
/ Some horses are driven mad by rhe
presence of n single fly, and in driving
along not unfrequcntly start kickin.
most violently. frequently running
away with the carriage.
Fred Harris, who was accidentally
shot at Ironton, Ohio. has just died.
An autopsy showed that the bullet went
through his brain. struck the opposite
side of the wall and rebounded, being
imbcdded in the center brain.
DR.. c. +. Scott, State veterinarian of
| Wisconsin. has declared war on the
flower called golden rod. He says that
| horses that eat it contract Il peculiar
disease resembling consumption, which
is incurable and causes speedy death.
BY the issue of the ApOcryphal books
early in November the publication Of