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y Butte jury has decided that vi1ri'i
throwing Is no crime.
Its said in New England that Bath'
Maine. has more smokers than any
other town OF similar size in that coun-
uy.
The members OF the Pennsylvania
Legislature have been lending Their
railroad passes 10 Others. and as re-
suit the passes are being taken UP.
4 barrel OF cider was stolen in Rip
ton. Vt last January. and out OF it
have grown four criminal prosecutions,
two men have been confined in jail ten
days each and S5I mas been paid in
fines
The power OF the Lebel rife was eX-
hibited at Bercy. in France, recently,
where soldier was called on TO shoot
an escaping puil. The bullet from the
rife penetrated the animals skull and
left the body near the tail.
An AIbino deer is on exhibition in
Augusta. Ne, The deer is practically
white all over and perfect beauty. 1t
was shot by Ernest G. Lyons. OF Cen
ter Sidney. in the fall OF 1895. ON Bald
Mountain The animal is about years
of age.
Experiments which have recently
been made az the Hygienic Institute OF
the University OF Berlin would seem to
overthrow the theory that bacteria are
Indispensable TO the existence OF ami
nal life, which theory was put forward
by Pasteur.
The increasing wealth Of American
colleges enables No less than ten Of
them TO publish daily newspapers. This
luxury is INDUCED in by Yale, Cornell,
Princeton, Brown, Stanford. Tulane
and the Universities OF Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
The health department Of Baltimore
has been called upon 10 look into the
condition OF a number OF bakeries re-
ported TO be in a filthy state. Nine
hundred and seventy-eight inspections
were made last year, resulting in a de-
cided improvement in cleanliness.
There are hard times in johannes
burg just now. The gold in the Rand is
still there, but the political disturb
ances have depressed trade and the
streets are full Of outcasts who sleep in
caves in the hills and descend into the
city TO pick up garbage IN the market
for food
Professor Thomas D. Seymour, chair
man Of the American school al Athens,
announces that this year, on account Of
the ''troublous times" all the arch
geological excavations in Greece which
have been hitherto conducted under the
auspices of the school will be discon-
tinued.
The police and courts Of Paris are
making determined effort TO rid the
city OF the scandal Of criminal medical
practice, and two physicians We're re-
Gently sentenced to five years imprson-
menr. which is regarded in France as
an unusually severe punishment for the
crime
The following from a disappointed
office seeker in Washington is extreme
" pathetic: John. old boy, I've seen
the President. He is in good health
and doing well. Please send me a rail
road ticket home, but if you can't do
that, just send me pair of stout shoes.
warranted TO walk Well"
South Africa is anxious to have a
real university of its own. The Cane
university is simply an examining BODY
like the London university and it is
proposed to change it into a teaching
university. The beers of the Cane
Colony wish the examination to be held
in Dutch as well as in English.
Woman's capacity as a wage Garner
can be measured by the fact that the
report Of the Massachusetts savings
bank commissioners showed that in the
year 1894 out of total Of 1 ,O44, GAG de-
positors 4SO,s35 We're women, and ont
of S74,946,570 deposits that year $685.
469,o23 had been deposited by women.
One Of the largest paintings in the
world, o2123 feet, with a frame weigh
ing over ton, was moved in Paris the
other DAY by seventeen men, and con-
Veyed through the streets on a double
chariot to another gallery, where it ar
a
eminent picture, commemoratine the
hrst holiday of the present republic.
The antitrust law just enacted in
Georgia is very comprehensive and
thorough one. 1t is based upon the
theory that free competition in all
forms Of business is a personal right
and a public advantage, and that q
wrong is done whenever it is SUD-
pressed or obstructed There seems 10
be no room left for the escape of any
combination designed TO control prices
or to interfere with the general laws of !
trade.
Misfortune has overtaken William,
Byers, who owned 6OO-acre crabannla
farm of 10000 trees near Leavenworth
Kan, and his place has been seized nv
creditors. 1t was supposed to be the
largest crabapple orchard in the world
IN the early prohibition times. Ryors
planted all the trees he could get and
coined money out of cider which ha
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