The herald., 1897-04-01

ciety the Hale endowment lunu ui s-o,Wsv'
Both societies originated with DR.. Hale.
A number of papers of interest 10 Meth
odism have been discovered In two boxes
al the wesleyan conference office IN Lon
don. Among them are forty-Iour letters
of John Wesley to his brother Tnaries, nnu li,'
the founder of the sect known as tne
Countess Of Huntingdons Connecuoh
written to Charles Wesley.
Railway bridges are nowadays replaced
in q very short time, but !, ls staeHH S '.it, .he
The Great Eastern of England holds she
record. as the servants OF that COMPANY
removed an old bridge over the Lea SOUL ~
of Tottenham, and put up the new onS ~, ~
nine hours i'm spite OF the snowstorm whicn
nccurred during the work. The new brldSe
weighed 100 tons.
Near Phoenix, Ariz.. James Boyce found
a steel lance point that appears TO GATE n
long way back. some Oh ,ne e, iSore Soronado a,ii,
< few inches of wood. much decayeu, re-
main attached to It,. The grain SHOWS SINE ,ne
wood to be live oak. which is not iou,o ,a.,
nearer Phoenix than MEXICO put was pay"
tiful in Spain.
At the Tenth Ward Democratic, clup,
Philadelphia, during sparring match, Eu. s,.
ward Gibbons was struck over the heau ps
Samuel s. Perry; Win %nom S hacame n1 @au uncon con
scious and was taken to the Hannemann
hospitai. where he died. This blow was
similar to the one that knocked out Soi
The present department store system
originated about forty years ago Win ne
great dry goods firm of Todd, Burns y 40; ,.o;
of Dublin. When A. T. Stewart revisiteu
Ireland about 1861; he eXamineud d,ce ,ne snme
of the features in his New YORK store, ~ ~
was John Wanamaker who frst eiaporaleo
them on an extensive scale
The curious way word Is manuiac..,urs" 81, n,s,'
is found in the history of the word dem
icled'" AS a Yorkshireman will say
'Them taters Is demicked." He means the
potatoes are suffering from some disease
of the plant "Demick' comes from epi-
iemic. When the first potato blight came
called an epidemic" Thus new words are
coined.
Among the American manufactures .i INA,
are exported are barber chairs. we send
barber chairs to Mexico and Central amer
lea. the West Indies and South America,
and American barber chairs are sent also
10 The continent of Europe and to England
Barber chairs in limited numbers nave
heen sent to Europe for conslueraDle
time. but the demand for them from that
quarter is increasing
A break in a six-inch water main in salt
Lake City. Utah, was found on digging up
the pipe to have been caused by eiectroiysls.
the iron in the main at the pfeak haNlils
been made so soft by the action OF the eiec-
tric current that 1t could be readily whit
tied with knife. The condition of the ia
miles of piping in the city is about 10 ne
tested and q report made by the city en-
gineer.
Parts of the skeleton of a prehistoric
animal were found on the farm of Alexan-
der Graham of Liberty township lnolana,
the fragments indicating that the ahimaL : :
jaw was probably four feet long. part Oh
the law is in good condition. as are some
of the teeth, which are about a foot long.
hut most of the bones were so FAR decom-
posed when uncovered that they crumbled.
An old Russian lady. who was believed TO
af
Corsica Nothing of value. however. could
be found among her luggage nelther
money nor jewels. and two days later she
was accordingly buried like pauper az me y,
public expense. The landlord subsequently
found behind the door OF her room, IN a
small dirty linen bag. 100000 francs (s2VV,-
000) in notes and gold.
Joseph Murdock of Scott county, Vir-
einia who was supposed to have been MUIR
dered twenty-five years ago, and for which
crime Bud" Lindsay served twenty-one
years in the Virginia .pentitentiary, has
returned to his former home. Lindsay re-
Gently died.
A Georgian who brought a suit for. $50, 900
damages against the Southern railway. al
legin gthat he was hit and severely injured
by passenger train while standing on the
station platform at Austell, Ga; mas ac-
cepted $50 in cash in full satisfaction of his
claim.
Iiouifed air can now be ordered by the
dozen bottles in Munich. But Just what !,
can be used fer in a general way Is IN uOuDt.
1t is so cold that it blisters the skin at a
touch. but its excess of oxygen Is valu-
able feature. At present chemists are the
only customers for 1t.
Norway and Sweden have adopted new
method of raising money. Commercial
travellers from other countries are required
TO pay tax OF 10J kroners tS26S0 for each
calendar month that they remain In the
country. AS might be expected. the Ger
man and French newspapers are making
strong protests.
The San Francisco public library re-
ioices in the possession of about two years
files of the first newspaper published on
the Pacific coast, 1t being the Oregon Spec
tator. which was begun at Oregon CITY,
Ore Thursday. February g. 1916. The first
California publication was the Californian.
which appeared ct Monterey August 10, 1876
The widow of q stage driver who was
killed by a tree falling upon him while
driving by in South Vancouver British
Columbia. sued the town for $1,000 dam
ages. and a sympathizing jury, after a
three days trial. has awarded her $1,000,
the claim being that the tree was known To
be dangerous and should have been cut
down.
Some interesting facts have been publish
ed respecting the teetotal colliery village
of Roe Green. in Lancashire, England
Twenty-Five years ago the houses of the
village belonged almost exclusively to the
Bridgewater trustees, who employ most
one are inhabited by their owners. The
Rechabite Tent has a membership of go;
the Band of Hope, 2S5.
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