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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED. A Held of wild oats near Santa Maria, CaL, stands six feet two inches high.. A young woman at Madison, Ind., being frightened, screamed loudly and dislocated her jaw. A surveying party has discovered that one of the Hudson's Bay Company's Com-pany's stations is on American territory. terri-tory. Some enterprising southern men propose pro-pose to give an exposition of Southern products in some northern city. A hungry horse tied in front of a dry goods store at Norristown, Pa., devoured de-voured part of a box of cheap straw bats. Tons of soft coal have beon washed ashore at St. Simons, Ga. It is the general gen-eral belief that a vessel went down near the island. It is said that fair hair is rapidly disappearing dis-appearing in tho British Isles and that the darkening of hair is more marked in males than females. The Portugese nation is one of the most illiterate in Europe, the illiterate inhabitants being officially stated at 82 per cent of the whole. A swarm of butterflies halted near Placerville, Cal., the other day, and for a time they were, so thick about the springs and most places that teamsters couldn't see their lenders. A traveler in Japan writes that the Japanese pay more attention to personal cleanliness than any other people in the world. High aud low bathe all over at least once a day and sometimes oftener. . Photographs - of seventy-eight old couples aud the same number of pictures of brothers and sisters of a similar age are said to show that the former are more like one another in appearance than the brothers and sisters. Three convicts in the county jail at Leesburg, Ga., under sentence of the criminal cpurt, burned holes through the floor of the jail and dug under the sido walls. They made good their escape, es-cape, and at last' accounts were still at large. Owing to the capitalists from the North there has set iu era of house restoration in Virginia. Old southern mansions, reduced to a mass of ruins arc propped up, repainted and thoroughly restored and surrounded by elaborate pleasure grounds. A Virginia woman who has had thir-ty-seveu children has been found by the census man, say an exchange. Her name is Martha Gray, and her record is thus given: Six "triplets, eighteen; six twins, twelve; seven singles, seven; total, thirty-seven children. A bridal couple in Springfield, Mass., were so anxious to avoid the curious glances of the neighbors on the house that they climbed over the back yard fence, and, passing through the adjoining adjoin-ing yard, entered the carriage, which was waiting on the next street. A tramp whose intellectual caliber was far above his profession was recently re-cently found at Bangor, Me. His only baggage was a small but choice collection collec-tion of books, including. "The Confessions Con-fessions of Jean Jacques Rouseau," the works of Balzac,; Ihimas, a copy of Shakespeare and the Iliad. |