| Show I 1 EDITORIAL NOTES hotes the oldest preacher in massachusetts the bev rey geo allen alien of worcester who has just completed his i ninety alist year ls la the only survivor of the yale class of 1813 gif lif if we the legislature abolishes the office of chaplain EB bal s the tombstone arl epitaph epitaphs bome some of the members will lose an opportunity of hearing a minister of the gospel for the first farat time eight thousand packages of tea were refused a landing in england under the adulteration act during 1881 and 1882 1832 and it is bald baid much ot or it found its way into the tea stores of the united states A ch in germany has intro dacej laced a new system of preserving butter by covering it with a layer an inch in thickness of a strong so lution of sulphate of lime which he also uses to vre Fre preserve serve cider good authorities on the care of the insa insane are insisting more strongly than ever on the necessity of finding employment for the patients as an essential condition of the cure or alleviation lev levia levla lation tion of their diseases idleness Is ia a great drawback to bodily he health alth aith and so BO called mental diseases are the product of physical ailments A washington territory official says that there are four pursuits which a man can follow in the northwest with more show ot of success than elsewhere viz wheat raising mining lumbering and niah fiah ing the wheat belt extending frem boise noise idaho to W T contains acres of land the iron age in building in new york city Is declared by an architect to have the return is to brick and stone stones to first principles as it were or of the two classes of material stone artificial as bricks and iron it is stated that brick will under alunder a rational order of things Is survive for centuries while iron wili wiil will give way in the first hundred years A well known presby Fresby presbyterian terian terlan clr cin cir chr ga man of one of the lower Da delaware laware counties countless somewhat famous as a wit was waa approached by a baptist clergyman manewith with the question well brother weere celere going to have anew a new bell for our church what sort would you recommend there wag was a twinkle behind the presbyterian parsons clasma blaase i and he answer answered eJ promptly by all means a diving bell lumber Is ia now being manufactured from straw the standard size being thirty two inches in width twelve feet in length lengths and the thickness the bamo samo as the average of surfaced boards one ton of any kind of straw will yield 1000 feet of boards that may way be handled bandied as ordinary na ones this lumber can be pio pro pi c deuced and sold in competition with wide walnut at about one half the price of the latter the fleetest olee flee pest artes artea artesian lari iari well ever a gunk tink is located in the village of some twenty miles milea distant from berlin prussia which has been drilled for the purpose of obtaining a cupply of salt bait salt was reached at a depth of feet but boring was continued until a depth feet was attained the salt de posit having a thickness of not less than feet five years yeara were occupied in this thia wo k A member of the california lg leg Is liture was asleep when the vote began to be taken on an important bill and half aroused by the call of his name he be gave an inarticulate which the clerk understood and recorded as yea bealum he slumbered on and when he finally awoke the news had gone over the wires to his constituents that he had turned traitor to the cause which he he had been elected to champion A vigorous war against drunken drunk rn nebs nees has hab been begun at copenhagen the public houses are to be reduced 1350 to sales bales to min minors 0 ra or to intoxicated persons are forbidden and there is a unique provision in the law which directs that a drunken person shall be conveyed to his hla own dwelling in a covered carriage at the expense of the landlord at whose house he ha drank the last glass in lon don has reach ed such a point that one of the police magistrates describes it as a civil war the tho judges seem to be at last arousing to the peril to which law abiding people are exposed by the organized bandi bandtl of rowdies who haunt the streets and of one gang of ten lately captured five were sentenced to five years servitude and twenty lallies with the cats cat eats cat eat s beware of the folly of practical joking at a playing party at findlay ohio jeese taylor was invited to sit down between two lades ladles who bat sat on chairs quite close dose together just as he was in the act of taking the proffered seat they moved away causing him to sit down so that he broke his neck which broke up the party now one of the girla girls is so crazy that it is feared she will have hate to be taken to the insane asylum |