The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-15
CURRENT ConnENT

were largely attended.
Cripple Greeks output of gold is now
| $1.OOO,OO0 a month. That of all Alaska
last year was $3,O0O,OOO.
A Durham, Me-, man found number of
silver coins in his field the other day.
Most of them were over 100 years old.
There were 1877 divorces granted in
Vermont for the fiscal year. which is one
to every eighteen married for the year.
In the superior court at Augusta, Ca,
recently there were eleven white men and
one negro on the jury. The white men
made the negro foreman.
Both soft and hard coal were discovered
a few days ago on farm near Saco, Me-,
and the people of that region are expecting
great developments.
With a national campaign due next year
it is little difficult to account for the de-
pressing gloom of the professional fat-fry-
ers.-Detroit Free Press.
President James MadIson's Princeton di-
ploma, comforting upon him the degree OF
doctor of laws. and dated 1857, has just
been given to the college library.
mammoth white moose was shot in
Grafton, Me-. the other day. When
dressed it weighed 65I pounds. 1t was the
first OF the color ever known to exist in
Maine.
1t is said that book on the virgin writ
| W ORO LOU Ai1kss WueL ITO Was Suioi-
nal Fecci, was placed on the Index En-
pur0atorius by Plus IN, and that 1t is
there yet.
/ Robinson Crusoe's musket is offered for
sale in collection of curiosities in Edin.
burRh that includes 100 instruments OF
| torture, chiefly Spanish, and relics Of Gus
tavus Adolphus Of Sweden.
Victor Hugo's statue for the Place Vic
tor Hugo will not be ready before 1900.
The pedestal will be a rock roughly hewn
out in the form Of the isle of Guernsey.
| The poet will stand on the highest point
facing southwest and resembling vaguely
the headland of Jerbourg
Berlin proposes to have an immense
| Cairo street" at her exhibition next year.
as was given at the Chicago exhibition,
and besides reproductions of Egyptian
scenery and monuments there will be a
harem hidden among the shops.
A picture hangs in the hall of the Hotel
Page, Washington, of Edwin Forrest. the
actor, and is one of three oil paintings
made by the late artist, Peter Rothermal,
1t was painted in 1850 for Wormtey, and
when brought forward at auction Mr.. Page
bid it in at SIS.
Twin babies were born in prison in Mon
roe county, Mich, recently to Mrs. Enos
Larkins, who has since been convicted of
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| the state prison for life, and the state
prison authorities have notified the county
| officials that they will not receive the
babies with the mother.
| There is project to place q monument
in st. Saviour's, Southwark. one Of the old
London churches, to Philip Massinger, one
of the great Elizabethan dramatists, VINO
lies buried there with nothing to comment
crate him save the entry in the parish reg
lister: "March 20, 1639-4O, buried Philip
Massinger, stranger
The Russian workman spends very little
! for food, lodging and dress, rs compared
with the foreign artisan. Coming from the
village, he is very modest in his demands.
His food is simple, but is abundant and
answers to his taste. In Moscow, for ex-
ample, the board of a workman amounts
to not more than 10 shillings per month.
While digging we'll recently for Charles
A. Stewart, south of Leroy. N. Y, Jacob
Helms found the well-preserved branches
of tree 81 feet underground. The wood
on. Although not petrided, it was greatly
hardened, and how it happened to be 30 FIR
underground is mystery.
| The jasper vase made by order of the
late car as a present for the city of Paris
| is to be placed in the gallery of the Cary
atides at the Hotel do Vile. 1t was made
out of the most perfect block of jasper
When erected it will be over eight feet
high The words "Cronstadt," "Toulon'
and Paris" figure on the stem.
| Potassiumorthodinitr is the
name at q new antiseptic discovered in
| Germany, but as it 10 intended to be used
generally, it is also called antinounin. One
| part of the substance in from 1900 to
| 1000 parts of soapsuds is destructive to
all the common parasites injurious to
plants. Yeast used in brewing remains
| fresh for a long time whom treated with it;
| it destroys all bacteria, and yeast can en-
dure solution as strong as five per cent
of the substance. IL is odorless and very
cheap.
| One of the largest vessels ever placed in
| the cotton trade between this country and
Europe is the American, recently launched
| in Belfast and now en- route to New Or
leans. Her total cubic capacity is 5S7,-
22O feet, making her easily the biggest
ship ever coming to New Orleans. She Is
$500 tons gross tonnage, 475 feet long be-
tween perpendicular, ffty-flve feet beam
and depth of hole thirty-nine feet six
! inches. There are nine engines on her, and
she ia loaded through six matches, Her
water ballast is 1900 tons. She can carry
| "a, 900 bales of cotton.
A young woman went to sing at a Cath
Ole fair in New York, accompanied by her
mother. The girl went into the academy
| the middle of a song she burst into tears
| and remarked that she felt as if something
| dreadful had happened. At that very mo-
ment the young woman's mother was dying
| q few feet away, and separated from her
| daughter by only brick wall.
There is great excitement at Reynolds
burg, o., over the discovery in the craws of
| ducks brought to market from a neighbour
| ing farm of fine gold nuggets. 1t is sup
| posed that the ducks scooped them up in
the bottom of a small stream near by.
The people are doing placer mining there
| in small way now, but SO far without
| success.
Among the Shakers there is singular
| and very ingenious medicinal custom. If
member of the fraternity has taken cold
her companions seriously set themselves to
work to make her angry. They make dis
agreeable personal remarks about her until
| she bushes with Indignation. Then her
blood is heated and, the theory is, she will
be able to throw off the chill from which
she has been suffering.
The estate upon which Mr.. George w.
Vanderbilt's Ashville mansion will stand
| comprises 10000 acres. The house itself
stands on o spot once occupied by a
mountain peak. Mr.. Vanderbilt had The
peak cut off ana carried away. In order
to expedite the construction of his castle
| a plant was put up that turned out
10000 bricks and 2O0O flower pots a
day, the latter to be used in a sew
enty-five acre plot set aside fol-
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