The Winslow mail., 1897-01-09
costliest kind, and is stated to be worth
as much as 100000.

as much as 100000.
A letter has been discovered in the
| British museum which gives the origin
of the game of billiards. It was in,
vented by a London wnbroker, whose
name was VIM Kew.
Some English painters have left great
fortunes, notably Turner and Landseer.
Turner left 100000, while the value of
Sir Edwin Landseer's personality was
$8oo,000.
A Kentucky woman had a man ar
rested the othsr day on the charge of
kissing her, and Pennsylvania woman
is suing for divorce because her hus-
band never kisses her.
| The Red Cross society has made it's
way into the Transyaal--the Thirty
ninth power that has welcomed this So
ciety, which is working SO earnestly to
mitigate the horrors Of war.
The heredity of genius is illustrated
by the Harvard senior class elections,
in which the son of Carl Schurz was
chosen as ivy orator and the son of Jo-
seph H. Choate as class poet.
There will be held next year in honor
of the sixtieth year of the reign of the
queen an exhibition Of 200 selected pic
lures illustrating Victoria s epoch. The
artists are to be Englishmen.
One of the most prosperous farms III
Kansas is owned and operated solely by
women. It is located in Butler county
and is owned by Mrs. Ogden. She and
her daughter perform all the work.
Recent supposed supernatural and
ghostly phenomena have been explain
ed in a very commonplace way. In In
dianapolis it was an old cracked gas
pipe. In New York it was an old can
non in the navy yard.
The bushmen, or iow grade Hottan-
tots, on the plains of South Africa,
have language which has been proved
to be close approximation to that of
the higher apes. It consists of Kissing,
clicking and grunting sounds.
An eminent medical authority as
serts that getting up early tends to ex-
haust the physical power and to short
en- lifo, while the so-called invigorating
early hours are apt TO produce lassi-
tude, and are positively dangerous to
some constitutions.
Chitwood, Oregon, has rooster which
came there in the pilot of railroad
engine, and since his arrival has be-
haved properly; but before his advent
there had made two prolonged stops in
his progress along the line of the rail
road, and had run with flock of sheep
and then with herd of cattle.
The value Of resident property in
London is exemplified By the award of
$1,300,000 given Lord Portman for IA
acres Of ground required by the new
Manchester and Sheffield railroad for
site upon which TO build station and
hotel. The property adjoins 46 acres
of the Eyre estate, for which the same
railroad was compelled to pay over ST.
100000.
The present royal crown Of Great
Britain was made especially for the cor
onation of Queen Victoria, who sue
ceeded to the throne June 20, 1887, and
was c1owned at Westminster June %,
1883. To manufacture the present
crown number Of old crowns belong
ing to the preceding sovereigns we're
broken up and the gems extracted for
use in the queens crown.
Quite in contrast with the material
istiu temper ofthe age was that remark
once made by Prof. Agassiz, when Of
fered higher salary if he would re-
move to another position than the one
he was so laboriously and faithfully
filling: II can not afford to waste my
tlme making money.
Ever since the assassination of the
Gear Alexander II, the young emperor
of Russia, it is said, has carried about
with him a small revolver which was
given to him by his mother, the dowa
ger en- press of Russia, who exacted the
promise that whenever be Was away
from the royal palace he would carry
it with him
Wild animals, such as bears, wild
cats and lynxes, are said to be unusu-
ally plentiful in northern Wisconsin
this year. In the more remote portions
Of the state they are said to be so num-
erous and ferocious that it is really un-
safe for person to be il the forests
unarmed after nightfall.
Recently some ingenious surgeons
were reported to have successfully
transplanted section of a dogs nerve
into a human subject, and now they
have removed the diseased pancreas
from a Ssn Francisco man, who was
dying of diabetes, and replaced the Or
gan with healthy one from canine.
At this rate the doctors will by and by
be building up composite anatomy