Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-14
CURIOUS CONGREGATIONS.
Plttsburg Dispatch.

EfttsburE Dispatch.
Torchon lace, Of any pattern can now be made
Vienna ~
For 80 years London had its lord mayors
vember 9Th In 1751.
Hair is alleged to be restored to the bald and
plumage to naked birds by the waters Of Cas-
Berlin statsticians have found that only 5s7
Christian names are employed for the 1000
children born there each year
"Snuf' Is the local name of a mysterious
malady which has already caused the deaths Of
many sheep In Cardianshire, Wales.
On motion for urgency speech lasting
seven hours was made recently by one Of the
deputies in the Austrian reichsrath.
Another huge old anchor, much encrusted
with barnacles and seaweed, has been dredged
up of Cromer 1t weighs nearly a ton.
Its neck broken by a passing train, a fine
dog otter weighing 81 pounds was picked up re-
Gently at Gaigate. near Leicester, England.
Cremation has become. so popular in Paris
that the municipal council has decided to great
ly increase the number OF the citys cremato-
Devonport England Public Library has been
presented with the flag OF a pirate junk cap
tured in Chinese waters by H. NJ. S. PlOver
A contract for the building Of a sugar mill
by the state Of Arkansas has been signed and
ratified by the state penitentiary board and the
governor
A monster mushroom has been gathered in
field at Northwood. 1t weighs 81 pounds 2
ounces, measures 80 inches in circumference
and grew in three days.
When free from ice the Yukon river is navi-
gable for large steamers 1855 miles. distance
more than twice as great as that from Chicago
to New Orleans.
In Berlin student who wrote for the news
papers has been fined heavily for publishing the
substance Of a professors lectures In his arti-
Giles without permission.
Christians seek not yet repose." was the
midnight chime from the church steeple which
announced the conclusion of peace in an out
of-the-way Perthshire (Scotland) village.
An unmarried woman's estate Of $685.. 70 was
diana among 80 heirs. The largest amount any
one received was $74 which went to surviving
brothers and sisters. The smallest amount
49, the portion grandnephews and grandnieces
received,
BY new law in Montreal, Quebec, all bread
must be sold by weight after September LIST
next except fancy bread under one pound The
council passed the law after bitter contest
lasting for months past between the races the
English bakers opposing II ana the French bak-
lection for the poor, who, they claimed, have
been frequently defrauded.
1t is the opinion of the Springfield CMass.)
Republican that Amherst was the first Of Amer
lean Protestant colleges to give an honorary de-
gree to Roman Catholic. 1t bestowed the de-
gree of doctor OF divinity on Augustine Francis
Hewitt the noted Paulist father, in 1871 He was
a graduate of the college in the Of 80.
Seven years later the pope bestowed the same
degree upon DR.. Hewitt.
Miss Mary s. Anthony has paid to City Treas
urer Samuel B. Williams, Of Rochester, N. Y,
S71.e7 as city tax on her property with a pro-
10000 other taxpaying women OF the city Of Ro-
chester, who are deemed by the lawmakers full
ly capable, intellectually, morally and physi-
cally, of earning money and contributing their
full share toward the expenses of the govern
ment, but totally incapable Of deciding as to
the proper expenditure Of said money" u
The most interesting of the new departures
made at the English war office is the appoint
ment OF a lady on the stan. This is the first
time a lady has had local habitation in the
building. The lady In question served at the
front as q nurse, and, having recently returned,
has been appointed to a position at the war
office. She has a private office and a separate
little sub-department of her own. She is to have
charge within the war office Of the affairs Of
the army nursing department.