The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

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THERE are about two and half
million acres of coral forest in AL
geria.
THERE are always three and half
million of people on tho seas of the
world
PEOPLE eat 30 per cent. more bread
when the weather is cold than when it
Is mild.
CARPETS of elephant skin have re-
Gently come into use, and are said to
never wear out.
SPAIN has expended thus far s145.-
600, 900 in her futile efforts to suppress
the Cuban instruction.
JAMES PAYN recently declared that
Carlyle was free from affection of
any kind; he had not even manners"
RUSSELL SAGE celebrated his cigh-
tieth birthday recently by going down
to his office and doing full days
work. ....
IT is estimated that two years are re-
quired for the Gulf stream water TO
travel from Florida to the coast of
Norway.
VIM d. Phillips, of New Madrid,
MI. 10 CiCultSu WIN tOLdl vi l,OOO
squirrels in three days hunting on
Little river.
CALIFORNIA has shipped 10, 900 tons of
wheat to India at good prices, and this
is believed to be but the beginning OF a
large and profitable trade in the same
dirccotin. ...
WHEN n railway line runs north and
south, on the track on which the trains
run from the south the eastern rail will
wear out first, and on the other line
the western.
LADY SPENCER has collected $4,000
toward the $4,000 required for the
memorial to Nelson, which will soon
be erected at Burnham-I horpe, near
Norfolk, England.
RECENT insurance statistics show
that if the wife dies first the husband
on an average survives nine years;
while if the husband dies first the wife
survives eleven years .,
In Paris a hand organ competition
has been started by some wags; every
grinder gets five francs for entering,
whilst there are several prizes, one of
which is the score of the "Gotterdam-
mcrung."
The government has contracted for
100000 pounds of dried apples and 6s,-
900 pounds Of dried peaches for the
Indian schools. 1t Is thus that the
products of the enlightened east go to
swell the population OF the benightcd
west.
THOMAS Edison receives many anus
ing letters. Not long ago he was
startled by an epistle from young
lady asking if he could not invent an
electrical continuance that would en-
able her to see the face of her future
husband.
ANEW life insurance company, called
the British Life Office, has been formed
in London. 1t will receive monthly
premiums and loan policy holders
money for building purposes to the ex-
tent of $500 for each five shillings of
premium.
Mrs. SKEATs, an old lady living in
London, has six sons on the police
force, all of whom have over "a years
service to their credit. Mrs. Skeats
has but one daughter, and she has
evinced the family trait by marrying
a London policeman.
The camels foot is a soft cushion,
peculiarly we'll adapted to the stones
and gravel over which it is constantly
walking. During n single journey
through the Sahara, horses have worn
out three sets of shoes, while the cam
els feet are not even sore.
Nor only are the Astors going heav-
lily into the tearing down of their old
fashioned houses in New York and
erecting hotels and business buildings
in their stead, but they are now launch
ing out into the romodeling of others
of these old-fashioned houses for bus
mess purposes.
A PLUNGE of so feet 81 inches was
made in / minute SO seconds in the con.
test for the English plunging cham.
pionship by Mr. w. Allason. This
beats the record by over 5 feet. There
is time limit of minute, however, n
the championship competition, which
Mr. Allason won, his plunge of 70 feet
four inches in that time being also q
record.
AFTER smoking tobacco so years Oh
more, Mrs. Hannah Chard, a Gloucester
county, New Jersey centenarian, ha.
thrown away her pipe with the deter
mination never to use 1t again. The
old lady became convinced recently
that smoking was shortening her life
Aunt" Hannah still enjoys gooc
health and is looking forwerd-to the
celebration of her 10sth birthday.
MEN are now living who heard the
eminent scientist, Prot Silliman, de
clare in n lecture at Yale college, after
careful mathematical calculation
that no boat could contain sufficient
amount of coal to propel 1t across tn,
Atlantic ocean. II is not likely tina
he ever dreamed that ships would b,
constructed which could contain anc
consume nearly 1000 tons on q singl,
voyage.
A MAN arrested in London on /,
charge of attempting to commit sui
eide said he had no intention of killing
himself, but had had a dream in which
he thought he was cutting his throat
and woke up to find that no was real
ly hacking his neck with m IN rvins