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Show I iklic;s. .):iun rt port i'd tu Lu: cupjiuj llm llu- I'riW'iau uiiiitary y-um. A ujiurral which 'r!irrun all ill, dutie?- of oap, and lixs an arotuaiit odor, has been discovered iu ituiuerji quantities near Iowa City. The Cuban telegniph cable has dt' veloped a new l'oe. '1 urtles are said u gnaw itjthu.s several tiuieii iuterrupiirjj comuiuuication. I A San Francisco doctor advertised for a "good otiice cat." He hai al (ready received '2i'S felines, with the : southern counties yet to hear Iroui. j Mr. 11. D. Kolph, uf Stamford, Conn., has given money aud lauds tt the value ot $y0,0uu iu aid of the uew I Methodist tieminary to be established j in that place. J Ninety thousand iiuuiigrauu c&nu into the United States laH year fronj British America- Mauy of these wen .Europeans, but the majority were : Canadians. A western paper, alter counting them up, asserts that there are no lest than 3o0 candidates for the position ol Congressman at large in the State ol : Iiliueis. It is said that chiffuous, plaitd auii curls eau be aud have been spuu ol glass, which, for cleanliness and othci reasons, are preferable to human hair, goats' hair or jute, the materials thai have hitherto been used lor that pur ! pose. A gtiutleujuu said to uii old ludy whe had brought up a family of children near the Merrimack river, "I should think you would have lived in constant fear that some of them would have goi drowned." "Oh, no," responded the old lady," we only lost three or lour ;that way," Tho legislature of New Hampshire has passed an act compelling every parent or guardian to send his child tc school for twelve weeks each year. For six weeks at least the schooling must be continuous. The first violation ol this act is punished by a hue of $10; the subsequent violation by a fine ol jiliO. It is said that a cure has been discovered dis-covered for leprosy. A surgeon in Khundwa, India, reports the case of a wretched man who came to him from Bombay, having been abandoned by his friends because of this terrible disease. He was treated with soap and water, and then with carbolic acid and oil, and was completely cured- At all times of the day a number ol boys from ten to sixteen years of age can be found bathing near the Niagara whirlpool. Often some of the more daring jump on tho logs which are always found making the circuit and float clear round the pool, jumping of when they are brought near the oove on the Canada side. The Wilmington (Dol.) Journal says: "There is a man living in this city who is a consistent member of a Christian congregation. He expects to go to heaven, and it is well that such is the fhet, for ha is bo unconscionably uncon-scionably mean and close-fisted that ii he should go to the lower regions he would economize fuel to such a degree that he would have Hades cold in about ihrec months." It is now proposed to improve the condition of the north branch of the Chicago river by constructing a 500-foot apron at an angle of fifteen degrees, sloping from the lake, by which the water would be forced upward by the action of the wind and waves into a converging basin, and thence into the river through a ten-foot diameter sewer. By such arrangement it is claimed that about 00,000,000 gallons of water could be forced into the river every twenty-four hours. The cost is estimated at $50,000. |