The record-union., 1897-04-03
RANDOM COMMENT.


| A two-year-old child of William
| Priest Of Windsor, Mo-, was scared to
Death by a little neighbor girl appear
| ing in the house with a hideous mask
on. The child cried for eighteen hours
successfully and finally died.
The taxable wealth of the negro pop
ulation Of the United States is over
! $500, 100000 There are %, 462 negro
| church bodies, with church property
valued at over S26,000000 There are
over 1,000 college trained colored min
| listers.
| Ignace Pelotte who died on Mack
| inaiw Island recently at the age of 93
was the last survivor of the American
Fur Company He had an indistinct
| recollection of John Jacob Astor, the
principal owner of the company, and a
memory of events of interest in the
West during the first half of the CEN
tury.
Tennyson, just after finishing the
manuscript of In Memoriam," had
trouble with his landlady and gave up
his lodgings. His friend, Coventry
Patmore, who was with him, returned
to the lodgings, forced his way in, and
found the poem. already thrown care
lessly into a drawer of rubbish
There are forty State colleges in the
United States, some States having
more than one, and the number of stu
dents in 1896 was $4,000. Minnesota
educates the largest number, 3,O14, at
| State expense, Michigan being next
with 2.515, then California with 2.400,
followed by Wisconsin with 1900, Ne
braska with 1,506, Iowa with 1900 and
Illinois with LOO.
| A curious plan for catching fish is
used on the Columbia River, Oregon.
A number of wheels are set up in the
middle of the stream, which, as they
turn round, catch up the fish and cast
them into troughs by the river banks.
The salmon are then timed and sent
all over the world. AS much as five
tons weight of fish a day has thus been
| taken.
There is said to be no art in the So
called lion tanning but the art of ter
rorisrn, and no rule but that of keeping
the lions stomachs full and their minds
| cOwed. There never has been and
there never will be an appeal made to
the lions intelligence, because the linn
tied amount of that quality which he
Possesses is entirely dominated by his
ferocity.
| There are several species of fish, rep
tiles and insects which never sleep.
Among fish it is now positively known
that pike, salmon and gold fish never
sleep at all. Also that there are sew
eral others Of the fish family that never
/ c han mir foS
month. There are dozens of species of
! flies which never indulge in slumber,
and from three to five species of SER
pents which the naturalists have never
yst been able to catch mapping.
The Count Saint Germain, who ap-
peared in Paris IN the reign Of Lollis
XIV, and pretended to be possessed of
the elixir of life, had a valet who was
almost as great as his master in the
art Of lying. Once when the Count
was describing at a dinner party a
court Of his friend King Richard /.
of England" he appealed to his valet
for the confirmation of his story, who,
with the greatest composure, replied:
You forget sir, I have been only 500
years in your service. True" said
his master, musingly, 'it was little
before your time"
A curious row over the divorce ques-
ton has arisen in a village of Brittany,
the most strongly Catholic part of
France The Mayor, whose duty it is
to perform the civil marriage ceremony,
refused to marry a couple because the
man had been divorced, and sent in his
resignation. The Assistant Mayor and
four principal Councillors We're asked in
turn to perform the ceremony, and ra-
ther than comply resigned one after the
other. The Subprefect Of the district
refuses to accept the designations, the
disappointed bridegroom has sued the
recalcitrant officials for 10000 francs
damages and six francs for every day
he remains unmarried and the District
Attorney threatens to prosecute them
| in behalf of the State.