The herald., 1897-03-28
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Next to Gibraltar, Malta is the stron-
Gest fortress in the world.
A Philadelphia husband forbade his
wife to eat pie, and she has sued for die
vorce on this ground.
Full dress Is common at the Partisan
theaters only on first nights, at the op-
era and national theaters. No return
coupons are given.
A new industry has sprung up in Col
crado within the past few weeks, that OF
hunting jack-rabbits for their pelts.
which find ready sale to hat manufactur-
ers in the east.
Many of the streets of Paris are lined
with trees; If tree dies another OF tha
same kind age and size, is brought from
the state forests and put in its place;
the cost is tremendous
Jersey City landlord woke tenant
UP at 12:45 am on the morning of March
/ to demand the rent due that day, and
was thrown down his own stairs for his
early bird business.
Argentina's new census gives total
population of about 100000, of whom
GAG, 900 live in cities. The leading CITY,
Buenos Ayres, has population OF $685.
S54, making it the largest In South
America.
An engineer and a fireman on a freight
train hauled by two engines, which got
stalled in the kings mountain tunnel in
Kentucky, were overcome by the smoke
and fell into the ditch beside the track.
One Missouri mother has hit upon Q
successful plan to get her three daugh-
ters home at satisfactory hours from
their various social diversions. She re-
quires the last one in to arise first and
prepare breakfast.
A meadow at Biddeford, Me-, is known
as the hoodoo lawn, for the reason that
rain follows every time it is moved, be-
fore the grass can be cured. 1t is
said that this occurred for twenty-fiv
consecutive years
Travelling through Osceola, Mo-, on
his way to fairer country, with his
possessions in a big wagon, disgruu-
tied citizen displayed on the sides of the
van this device: I'm God We Trusted:
in Missouri We Busted"
There were seventy-five postmasters
in this country, and the expenses of the
department were but $4,000 year In
Washington's administration. and there
are now over 10000 postmasters and the
service costs s92,0O0,000 year.
Palouse Wash, is short of wood, an
Unprecedented affliction, and carloads of
timber are being shipped in from neigh
boring places. What never before has
been known there, coal is being fed to
the fires in the city's pumping station.
In quarrel over a matter of business
at Columbia, S. c., a lumber dealer shot
at a wood merchant, and the bullet
punctured the skin over his heart after
passing through check book and bum
die of papers. The retailer then shot
and killed his assailant
The British army can scarcely be said
to be a particularly healthy one, for, ac-
cording to the official report of the medi-
cal division of the war department,
which has just been submitted to par.
lament, the admissions into hospitals
during the last twelve months were over
993 per 1000.
John Corbctt of Indian Fields, KY,
put out a fire in railroad trestle and
tagged a passenger train in time, and
received as reward a thirty-day pass
over the line. He rode around, carry
| farm produce to neighboring towns,
| where he sold 1t for cash, and realized
nice little sum.
The walters of New York city have
banded in society. and are agitating
the question Of home for old and dis
| abled walters. They say that after a
man has done that work until he is 50,
his legs give out and he loses his job be-
cause he cannot move fast enough and
wait on a sufficient number of eustom-
| eTs.
| In the pocket of Superintendent Nor
| riSon, who was recently killed at Cyg-
net. Ohio, in nitro-glycerine explosion,
there was found silver dollar, In the
face of which 10-cent piece had been
| imbedded by the force of the explosion.
| On the other side of the dollar Is the
plain imprint of another dollar.
| The teacher of a Virginia district
school recently asked one of her little
pupils to go to the blackboard and
write a sentence containing the word
delight" George Washington Jackson
went pompously to the front Of the room
and wrote, in a large, scrawling hand:
de wind blowed so hard dat 1t put out
de light"
The problem of the night lunch wagon
has come before the Hartford city gov-
ernment, and the principal contention
is over two points-namely, whether the
city has a right to authorize the use Of
| public streets for business purposes, and
| If it has, then whether license fee shall
| be charged to offset the rent paid by
competitors In the night restaurants.
The culture of olives in California has
| increased SO rapidly that the state now
has a monopoly of the market of this
| country The crop last year netted $780,
| 600 to the growers but this year 1t is
estimated the output will yield So, 600, 900.
| The reason for the expected great in
crease is that great number of orchards
bear this year for the first time. 1t takes
seven years to bring an orchard to pro-
ductive bearing. Properly tended, tho
trees continue to produce for centuries.