The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
NOTES oE The DAY.

who. In counting a pile of bank notes,
moistened his fingers with his lips.
A Maine physician prescrlbes for
nervous exhaustion tomcOd chowder,
and the patient must capture his own
cod.
Atlanta, Ga, Is the only city In the
| United States that has a house con
structed wholly of paper from founda-
tion to chimney.
A petrifed frog found In an Elmlrn,
n. Y, stone quarry In 1856 was two
feet and eight inches In length and
weighed over 100 pounds.
Tin Is said TO have been discovered
In Huerfano County, Colorado. In bet
ter paying quantities than any other
place I'm the United States.
II. II. Freeman, OF Toomsboro, Ga,
once kept Il moccasn snake, tightly
sealed up I'm a bottle, for two years
without food or water, yet it lived and
grew fat"
In 1892 the cost Of the election in En-
gland was f05S,522, nn average of
little over shillings n vote. In 1871
each vote cost II to 10 shillings, and In
! 1850 over II.
The amount Of New England rum
sent from Boston to Africa has decreas
cd In the last two years from 1,025,22d
gallons to 5Gl ,2O5. The cause of this
decrease is not given.
The very largest "standpipe" In the
United States Is at the corner of Sew
epteenth and Crocker streets, Dcs
Moines, Iowa. It Is 135 feet high ana
twenty odd feet in diameter.
The French Government has pur.
chased for the Luxembourg gallery
landscape, summer" by Maurice Cul'
len, Il native of St Johns, Ncwfound.
land. 1t was exhibited mt the Champ
de Mars salon.
The Louvre has recently become the
possessor of n valuable Greek lnscrip
tlon found I'm the neighborhood of Djer.
ach, in Syria. 1t contains portions of
an ancient law concerning vineyards
and their protection against thieves.
The Italian Naval Committee is said
to have examined and reported favor.
ably upon a new type of armor-clad of
the first class. The plans, by Slgnor
Brin, are said to be entirely different
from any existing, either in Italy or
abroad. The chief characteristics are
very high speed and the submerslon of
very nearly the whole body of the yes.
sell
The cleaning of mems straw hats,
says the New York Mail and Express,
by means of a whirling wheel, soap,
water, brushes and hot irons, is spread
ing to all parts of the city, and where
there We're only few places down.
town early In the summer they can
now be found on most of the busy bust.
ness avenues and streets rs far north
as 125th street.
An item of Rubinstelns will set aside
a sum of money the interest of which,
after accumulating five years, was to
form a prize for the best piano con.
certo, n condition of the bequest being
that 1t should he performed for the first
time i'm public by the composer himself.
The first of these competitions will take
place in Berlin .,,is lex, the next In
Vienna in 1900, and the third in Paris
in 1905.
The Secretary to the Austro- Hunga.
rlan Chamber of Commerce has in.
formed the world at large that a great
exhibition will be held at Buda-Pesth
next year In commemoration of the
foundation of the Hungarian kingdom
under Arpad. 1000 years ago. The eX.
hibitlon will be on n scale of great mag.
nificence, organized under the auspices
of Francis Joseph, apostolic king OF
Hungary.
Waterford is almost the only town
In Connecticut that, after calling a
meeting to vote on taking advantage
of the law for improving highways,
has decided against going on with the
work The meeting was held Wednes.
day and several speeches in favor %
road building We're made, but the sentl.
ment of the meeting was the other way
and the proposition was voted down
by an overwhelming majority.
John Norton. who is 93 years old, has
lived all his life in his house near Com.
pounce Lake, Connecticut, and, al.
though he has been in sight of both the
Northampton Division of the Consoll.
dated and of the New England Rail.
road, never rode in car OF any kind
until recently. The old gentleman Is
hale and hearty, with all of his facul.
ties keen and alert, and has a good
prospect Of living to be 100. He seemed
to enjoy his ride very much.
A mortgage was put on record against
the First Baptist Church of Cincinnati.
II is in favor of Rev. G. Lockwood,
who is about to retire from the paste
rate, and his wife. The church owes
Mr.. Lockwood $1,000 salary, and Mrs
Lockwood the same amount, as money
borrowed for some church improve.
ments. The mortgage Is to secure these
amounts. This church is the Oldest
one of the denomination in Cincinnati
The agricultural ants" of Sonora,
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