Arizona republican., 1897-09-22
ODDS AND ENDS OF NEWS.

Tramps who find themselves stalled in New Brunswick, N J., will, on es-
 caping, probably give that a city a
 wide berth in future, for the authOri-
 ties compel vagabonds to clean the
 streets there, each tramp being letter ed with ball and chain to prevent his running away.
 Rich men in America are not as greedy as demagogues depict them. During 1893 they gave for colleges and benevolent purposes round $29,-
 OOO,OOO During 1894 they increased it to $S52, 600 100. In 1895 they gave $32, ,S00,OOO, and notwithstanding the
 hard times of 1896, the gifts amount
 ed to $27,OOO,OOO.
 Adirondack camps" are not as primative as the name would imply, some of them, on the contrary, being
 as costly and elegant as Newport cot tages. H. Nick. Twomby owns one
 in the St. Regis region, which is said to have cost not, less than 90,OO0. Collis F. Huntington fitted up camp in the same region a few years ago
 which cost about $35, ,00O, and White law Reid has camp constructed on the same expensive scale.
 Moonshiners have made things so
 uncomfortable, not to say dangerous, fer J. P. Wooten, a constable in Breatlutt county, Ky, that he has re-
 cently equipped himself with an ab- solutely bullet proof steel shirt The accounts do not explain the apparent immunity of the rest of his body from
 the guns of the illicit distillers.
 Portraits of Washington. Lafayette. Franklin and other Masons painted
 on the walls of Boston's old Masonic
 temple have been deftly removed and will adorn the new structure when it is completed. With the greatest care a strip of plastering extending entire ly around the painting was first cut
 away, leaving bare the laths. These
 were cautiously sawed, and later larg-
 CT openings were made, enabling the
 workmen to get behind the walls. No
 crack GIT injury of any kind resulted. There is lonely island in the south Atlantic known as Tristan d'Acuncha,
 and on it lives as head of its popula- tion one Peter Green, who, during six
 ty years residence, has saved many lives from shipwreck. In recognition
 of his services to humamty and par ticularly British subjects, the queen
 has sent him framed portrait of her
 self, with suitable inscription
 A certain class of theatrical wo- men are fertile in advertising dodges. One recently landed in Liverpool hay ing worked her passage in the dis
 guise of cattleman on the steamship Templemore. She did her work with the rest of the crew. She explains
 her adventure by saying that after her engagement in some music halls in New York she was in a destitute con- i dition and wanted to rejoin her rel
 atives in Sheffield.
 When the sexton of St. James's
 cemetery, Bristol, Pa., opened an old vault that had been closed since 1793
 large hop+toad was discovered in
 side, jumping merri7y about. The vault was practically air tight, and
 the toad must be at least 104 years
 old, having lived that time alone in the vault with the dead.
 Barbers and hair dressers in Paris
 are now compelled by stringent po-
 lice regulations to take sanitary meas ures in carrying on their business.
 lney are obliged to use a nickel-plat- ed comb, to substitute pulverizers for powder puffs, to cover the hair cut
 on with sawdust and have it removed at once, to wash their hands before | tackl1ng customer and to place all metallic instruments, razors, shears. combs, cutting machines, etc, in a
 solution of soap and boiling water for
 ten minutes before they are used.