The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-02-20
DIAMOND DRILL CORES.


w. e. MASON United states senator
elect from Illinois, is poet.
Mrs AsroR is said TO be preparing TO
give a ball that will eclipse the Bradley
Martin affair
TURKEY may have an idea that she is
nonkeying. with goose Greece, but even
SO, she must admit that she has a very
slippery Zoe.
TIE upper peninsula pays twice as
much state tax rs its state institutions
receive in the way OF appropriations.
II the balance OF the state did as well
there would be 40 kicking over ap-
propriations. Ore.
REpREsENTATIy e CHAMBERLAIN intro
duced bill in the legislature Monday,
for the relief OF the Ontonagon fire suffer
ers. It calls for an appropriation Of
$40. to bedisbursed by the common
council under the supervision OF the
governor.
REPREsENTATNE SAVAGE would like to
see the department Of geological survey,
at present in charge OF Lucius l.. Hub
bard, OF Houghton, abolished. IL costs
the state IS, 900 year. and Mr.. Savage
believes it has out grown its usefulness.
ARTHUR DUFSlRow the millionaire
murderer OF st. Louis, was hung at I'm
ion, Mo, Tuesday Duestrow murdered
his wife and child in February, 1891,
and though his crime was cold-bloodcd,
brutal and unprovoked, it took two
years to convict him.
SENATOR BARNARD, Of Grand Rapids,
wants the law providing for the appoint
ment OF the commissioner OF mineral
statistics 10y the governor wiped out.
The senator will also introduce bin for
the repeal OF the law for the collection Of
social statistics relative To the insane,
deaf and dumb aud the blind.
REPREsENrATIt &c FooTE, ofKalamnzuo,
wants division Of youthful militia in
the public schools throughout the state,
the same to be inspected by the inspector
general OF the state troops. II found Go
be properly organized, upon report to
The governor, the school board OF the
locality where the company is organized
is TO provide uniforms and other equip
ments, but the cost must not - more
than $50 for companies OF less than
thirty, $40 for companies Of more than
thirty and less than forty, and 500 n
year for companies OF forty or more.
The recent decision OF the Supreme
court in regard to the tax titles has
brought TO light the fact that citizen
OF Mnnistique owns the land upon which
the Scul ChoiX lighthouse, on the north
ern shore Of Lake Michigan, near Mnuis-
tiquc, is built. When the government
purchased the site IL overlooked the fact
that the state taxes had not been paid
upon il, and went ahead aud erected the
lighthouse and fog signal station. The
Aforesaid Manistique citizen bad pur-
chased the land when il was sold for
taxes once by the state and the recent
decision confirms his title. Mcnomincc
Democrat.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer has hit upon
n novel device for saving the eycsight
II proposes that all reading matter be
set so that 1t may be read from left to
right and from right to left BY this
means the reader does not have to jump
his eyes from one side Of the column TO
the other, hut merely drops them ~ he
reads. The following lines Illustrates
the Enquircr's meaning
"Dr. Brewer, in his Dictionary Of
following the tells Fable and Phrase
stery: IL is said that Spurgeon used to
extemporc ia students his practice
preaching from text only disclosed IN
young his Of one that and, pulpit tho
men on reaching the desk and opening
the read text his containing notn the
single word 'Zacchous' He thought
delivered then and two or minute - for
himself thus. .Iacchoua was "A little
haste madel Zacchcus Z. / am so, man
and came down, SO did r. lie suited
word the Go nCtiOn the
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Excursion Rates to the Mardl Crns
and Winter Resorts.
On account OF the Mardi Gras at New
Orleans and Mobile. the North. Western
viii, February 22d TO 2Sth. inclusive.