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Show CLIPPED AND CONDEMSED. On the occasion of the recent fete at the country seat of a wealthy woman all the cows on the estate wore necklaces of wide, yellow satin ribbon and had their horns tied with narrower ribbon of the same color. Higgs, Crossley & Wearring have started work on the Silver Chief under their lease. Thirty pack animals took up their supplies on Monday, and wo hardly expect to see the boys again until un-til they have worked through to the vein. A sad spectacle was witnessed in Santiago, Chili, recently, when hundreds hun-dreds of Italian immigrants, just arrived from Tttlcahuano, implored passers-by for alms, some of the men offering their coats and shirts for sale in order to procure something to eat. A recently formed union of sandwich-men sandwich-men in London is calling for the sympathy sym-pathy of those who think that the picturesque pic-turesque figures seen between boards aro living a hard life. If tho union would parade in line of its 300 strong it would make a novel show. Three years ago a lake in the Moose-jaw Moose-jaw district, near Ottawa. Canada, which was more than a mile in circumference, circum-ference, disappeared entirely from some cause. A farmer purchased the lake bottom and has this year raised a magnificent mag-nificent crop of wheat upon it. "The great lace manufacturing concern con-cern of Wooten & Mosely, of Nottingham, Notting-ham, England, is to bo removed to Seranton, Pa., whore six acres of html have been given for a location. The plant will bo as extensive as that at Nottingham, which employs 3,000 persons. per-sons. Mrs. Livermore says that her husband hus-band is a republican, while she is a pro hibitionist; he is a protectionist, while she is a free trader; he has a pew in one church and she in another; lie has one doctor, she another; and yet they are happy and harmonious and never dream of quarreling. It has been computed, as an illustration illustra-tion of the great cheapening of ocean freights which has taken place m recent re-cent years, that half a sheet of note paper will develop sufficient power, when burned in connection with the triple expansion engine, to carry a ton a miles in an Atlantic steamer. A remarkable occurrence happened in Lewistown Me. A little fifteen-year-old boy was in swimming near tho falls while tho Cowan mill was shut down. He started for shore just as it started up. The extra How of water threw him toward the falls. Before he could recover re-cover he was swept over. He was not, strange to say, injured to any extent. ex-tent. He swam to tho bar and was rescued res-cued by a boy. A desperate horse thief in Maiuc, who escaped from jail, has been cap-turod cap-turod by boy, .Discovering him, they gave chase and' cornered him iu a deserted de-serted house, where ono of tho I oys drew a toy pistol and fired several blank-cartridges at him. The fellow then gave himself up. A carriage was obtained and he was returned to jail oy the triumphant youngsters. |