The sea coast echo., 1897-07-31
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

- Portland, Me-, claims n cat ablo
say ''papa" and '.mamma."
y Two bites into apple picked up
= store cost resident of Portlan,
Me-, three front teeth.
. AT Sebago, Me-. is a collection
z4o cents, bearing date from 1900 /
1909, which.a resident found buri e
t on his farm many years ago.
An Auburn (Me. man has devise
COOK stove on trucks and has laid
track on which to move it between th,
summer and winter kitchens.
William Moore OF Snow Hill. Md.
on wager of five cents, attempted tc
KISS a possum, and is now mourning
she loss OF part of his nose.
Pennsylvania was the first state in
'ne Union to restrict the sale Of pas.
senger tickets to the regularly accred-
lied agents of railroad companies.
Godalming, Surrey, has remarha.
Die black and white cat, which. after
Deing taken to Leeds by railroad, re-
turned to its former home on foot
taking six weeks to make the journey
OF 200 niles
inLexington, KY, there Is club the
youngest member Of which is eighty.
nine years old. All the others are
over ninety. The club meets reou.
iariy Tor purposes of mutual improve.
ment and social pleasure.
10 prevent q person from "acciden.
taiiy' taking the wrong hat and coat
upon leaving a public place New
Iork man has invented cont and hat
nook which looks the articles fast, the
owner only being able to release them.
The largest sum ever offered or
asked Tor a single diamond was s2, 15o-
ooo' winch the nizam of Hyderabad
agreed to give Mr.. Jacobs, the famous
Ieweier OF Simla. for the imperial dia-
mond' considered the finest stone in ,
Ihe world.
VI The ten graves in the cemeterv 4
'iassorest City, South Dakota. nine ara t
.Rs p,s.st ne occupied by the remains Of e
- .a.eepedc.sEith their boots on. Z
y - " ssn,shes~'ssa was murdered e
On 'na' aied WI. keersss one cot in c
We were drowned. ony To 40 gov IN /,
o killed themselves, andg ~ so"e "
Q way of bullet intendednd .Dyssssss,llsAf
10 else. y NEg Hi
A very large Ceylon sapphire weigh ~
8 63S carats, Of dark milky blue
lor, perfectly transparent and flaw :,
's, is on exhibition in London. 1t is M
star sapphire, displaying beautiful -
alescent star OF six rays, the apex -
which varies according to the
anges in its position. ~
No disgrace attaches to suicide 30,
long the Japanese. The result is 90,
at an average of 1000 men and 5000 do
'men kill themselves every year. fre
angling is the fayorite method, next IN,
that is drowning, with the use OF do
ives or swords as good third. July siv
the favorite month for hari-kari. ~
Mrs. Lorana X. Hinkley of Pea Gel
we, Me-, at the age of ninety-four fet
able to read and write without ou
asses. She is American all the way ma
rough. Her grandfather fought in ho
0 Revolution, her father and her ch
sband in the War of 1912, and four "
ms. four sons-in-law, and six nephews WI
the rebellion. I'm
The exact height OF Joan of Arc has str
en- determined. BY mere chance du
Q famous suit of armor presented to Oh
o Maid of Orleans by Charles VII, tn,
d which would exactly fit girl of th'
Q feet four inches, has been found gr
the galleries of chateau in Aisne, en-
lere it was placed many years ago by 90
0 celebrated collector OF the late ar,
arquis de Courval. as