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Show ALL KOKTS. The ice crop of Maine this season amounts to 2,200,000 tons. The ground on which Helena, Mont., is built yielded $150,000,000 in gold when it was mined. Joseph Sutherland, a centenarian, who served as a "powder monkey" in (lie British fleet under Nelson, has died at Sittingbourne. An educated, accomplished young lady at Petosky, Mich., has split twenty cords of wood' with her own hands and lias it piled neatly to season for summer sum-mer use. The Italian faster, Succi, who is said to have abstained from food for over one hundred and sixty days, is the attraction at-traction to the medical authorities in London now. I Moses Wasser. of Schweuksville, Pa ate forty-two oranges and a half pound of sugar, drank two tumblers of water and smoked three cigars in about two hours. Paris is rejoicing because the Kiffel Tower has just been reopened for the spring and summer trade. Every visitor to the French capital is expected to patronize pa-tronize the great curiosity. On. February 12 James Barton, of Spriiigport, Jackson county, Pa., died, leaving a widow and seven children. Satimlay the administrator, while looking look-ing through Barton's safe, found $W00 in moldy bills, which had been secreted years ago. The bills arc good and will go. Detroit is to hold its second annual floral and musical charity festival April 22,2"). Twenty-three charities will be represented, each by a booth built in the architecture of the country in has chosen, and !f()0 ladies of the' highest social standing in Detroit will take charge of these booths. |