OCR Text |
Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. One of the highest students at Cambridge Cam-bridge is blind. Christy, the London hatter, died leaving leav-ing assets of nearly $1,500,000. Pialtimoro hackmen have raised the price for attendance upon Sunday funerals, fun-erals, which they wish to discourage. The city of Hamburg has a surplus of 92,250,000. Of this amount $1,500,000 was from last year's receipts. Scotch capitalists are ready to invest $3,000,000 at Glasgow, Va., if their geological expert gives afavorale report. re-port. Congregation at Oxford has decided to include the examination for the degree de-gree of bachelorof medicine iu examinations examin-ations for women. A new stylo of mourning paper drops the band of black all around the sheet, and has it drawn diagonally across the left-hand corner only. The decline of English beauty is asserted, as-serted, of course, with serious regret. Bad teeth, short sight, and round shoulders are the increasing faults. Andrew Erickson fell thirty-five feet headforemost into a stone quarry at Rockford, 111., the other day. and though he landed on his head was not seriously hurt. A new and popular development of electrical science is the electrical hair curler. It is said to be equal to the most exacting demands of the feminine coiffure, and the beard or mustache can be curled in any style in two minutes. Two preachers, named Pershall and Cntcliiield, have been tried in Sprague, Wash., for settling a dispute about land by gunning. The latter was severely wounded, when he pulled a knife and attacked Pershall,- who took to his heels. , Among the seven prisoners recently received at the Walla Walla Penitentiary Penitenti-ary was McCoul;the robber of the Seattle Seat-tle relief fund. He was so far that the tailor was put to work at once to rig him in a suit of bed-ticking cloth. He is in for seven years. Tho loug distance telephone is making mak-ing its way rapidly everywhere in Europe. London and Paris are shortly to be united by telephone, and Prague and Buda-Pesth are already united, Brussels and Paris have long been in telephonic correspondence. An immense double watermelon attracted at-tracted attention in a George grocery. Double watermelons are exceedingly rare, and all who saw this, including a southern darky, who has seen many a melon patch declared it the first they had ever seen. A Southern Carolina darky recently hitched his mule, with a bale of hay on its back, near a neighbor's bee hive which he knew was about to swarm. As he supposed, the swarm settled on the bale ot hav, after which he led the mule home and hived the swarm. There is a real floating island in Norway Nor-way Lake, Me. It has an area of one and one-eigth acres, formed of a quag- mire made up of a mass of roots, weeds and fibers and a growth of small trees. It has for years been a breeding place for hens, ducks and other birds. A jpung lady of Altoona observed by the roadside a' wild rose, upon one of the branches of which was growing a small bunch of burrs, healthy and perfectly' per-fectly' in every particular, as was also the rose branch to which they were singularly attached, a freak of nature which is uncxplainable.. There is a very curious stone about which very littlo is ever heard. It is called the Alexandrite, in honor of Alexander Al-exander of Russia, who was very fond of them. In the daytime they resemble an emerald, except that they are somewhat some-what darker, but at night they are a deeper purplish red. Mr. Murry, of the Pittsburg mine, near Grass Valley, split open a large log. He found a muzzle-loading shotgun shot-gun that appeared to be all right, but when he tried to pull it from tho hole the stocked crumbled to pieces The barrels are of lino make aud the gun was evidently stolon and hidden many years ago. |