| Show NOTES AT south bend ind a few days ago a drug clerk gave a customer morphine instead of quinine with re suite which may prove fatal eternal vigilance is the price of life if you are obliged to dose yourself with medicine A POOL FOOL and a barrel have made the trip through the niagara rapid sand neither were materially injured as the barrel was on the outside and took all the hard knocks the only danger attending these experiments is that the barrel is sometimes lost THE providence journal remarks with much inhumanity and in the spirit of rigid economy john mcclellan of indiana is said to be dying from a mosquito bite the rude uncultivated hoosier mosquitoes appear to have entered into competition with dr brown sequard ONE of the pastimes in new yerk is fishing for eels in the sewers one man caught thirty at the corner of barclay and west streets through the manhole man hole to the sewer when the tide reached flood the other day this is not given with a view of encouraging the eel industry here when the salt lake sewers are in running order neither is it tendered for the purpose of diminishing the popularity of eel pies SAYS a paris correspondent edison is an undoubted sensation ion and there is good reason why it should be so edison is well advertised even apart from his exhibit his portrait is a familiar sight and the bookstores along the boulevards all have on sale the popular edition of edison sa vie et ses eutres CEu 1 but the phonograph is his trump card there are crowds about it always sometimes sixty people will be waiting for a chance to test the instrument IN france when a patient is under chloroform on the slightest symptom appearing of failure of the heart they turn him nearly upside down that is with his head downward and his heels inthe in the air this they say always restores him and such is their faith in the efficacy of this method that the operating tables in the paris hospitals are made so that in an instant they can be elevated with one end in the air so as to bring the patient into a position resembling that of standing on his head lord Lorti salisbury a correspondent says the premier dresses plainly is of medium height is inclined to be stout and has hair and beard plentifully sprinkled with gray in repose his face lacks expression arr e sioni but not power and when ta talking king there here is not that play of the facial muscles and that lighting up of the countenance so distinctive of great orators his gestures are but few and he never attempts any an of 0 f those oratorical flourishes ikic which h captivate the imagination rather than convince the judgment he talks promptly and without hesitancy is invariably forcible and perspicuous and never at a low loss for a word THE denver den verneas newa says the sewer system of that city has the strongest claims upon the board of public works the health of the city is of paramount importance and the conditions of some localities cannot last long with safety the health department is apparently in confusion and complaints of poison emitting cesspools ces spools and other offensive nuisances receive little or no attention while such wretched substitutes for a proper sanitary outlet exist they should at least be circumscribed in their mischief by reasonable 11 and d prompt attention this will A onty be done by a systematic authorized visitation and its neglect w ill prove costly econ omy IN future ages the present will be noted as the epoch of conspiracies and secret destructive plots that was a nice little job that was prematurely nipped in the bud in the michigan state prison at jackson the other day irving lattimer the matricide was in communication with outside parties and in co connivance nn ivance with prison pers and in that way secured a rot lot of explosives by which he and ther other 0 prisoners intended to blow up u the penitentiary if the game had has not been een discovered in time to prevent it convicts would have been turned loose this would not have greatly improved the social and moral status of that part of the republic AN exchange informs us that the czar of russia going to be deterred from traveling by the fondness of his loving subjects for blowing up his train the new imperial train just completed for his accommodation mo dation may be said to be bomb proof the saloons are covered with iron outside and then come eight inches of cork instead of the steel plates with which the carriages of the old train were krotec ed aalthe all the saloons communicate by a covered passage and are the same bana e lu in autv outward vard appearance so that no outsider may be able to discover in which carriage the czar is traveling in this way the czar hopes to be able to travel about his domin ion with almost the same degree of comfort as is no by his humble subjects ay iy THE towering genius of sir edward watkins proposes to go one taller than the biffel structure he associated with other british worthies intends erect erecting hug a tower 2000 feet high in london thus modern babylon proposes to imitate ancient babel the ancients however proposed to climb until they could peep into the heavens while in this day the tower builders merely design to afford a more comprehensive birdseye birds eye view of the earth to which they are fixedly wedded unless some sort of an elevator can be constructed in connection with the proposed london structure it will involve a tremendous getting up stairs 1 consequently only the more robust would undertake the ascent unless intermediate camping places were provided for the more feeble folks A CASE similar in many respects to that of mrs maybrick has developed in kansas on thursday lat last governor Hump humphrey brey pardoned mrs henrietta cook who has been confined in the penitentiary for thirteen years for poisoning her husband it has transpired that mr cook was in the habit of taking arsenic and an investigation convinced gov humphrey that mrs cook was innocent if mrs maybrick killed her husband she should have been hanged if she did ast net she should be now basking in the warm sunlight of freedom the fact that she is now held in durance vile for the inane reason that perhaps she did and perhaps she illustrates the puerility of the law of circumstantial evidence in cases of capital crimes why not furnish the jury with a dice box THAT farming land in england still hasa has a marketable value and even a very high one was demonstrated at a recent sale of farms situated between Blackb pun u uan preston in lancashire herease here are the prices brought by different parcels of land one lot of thirty acres of g grass ra ss land sold for or at the rate of per acre another lot of thirty six acres of grass land and with a farmhouse a ani i a cottage b brought u ht acre A third thir farm of sixty four acres sold for or per acre A fourth farm containing acres of arable and grass land with three cottages changed change d owners at or per acre altogether seven farms comprising exactly acres were disposed of for an average of per acre these prices would seem to show a vc very ry prosperous condition of agriculture in lancashire A GENTLEMAN who was on the south park passenger train which was wrecked up the platte canyon jol col a few days ago relates an amusing incident which occurred in connection with the accident he had observed upon the train a dudish looking fellow with a light alight suit of clothes out cut in the latest fashion fashio n an and I 1 a cane and other accessories of and similar paraphernalia 0 odthe I 1 the most moat fashionable guild after crawling out of the overturned car he found himself with a slight cut on the back of his head which bled somewhat and spotted his light suit he immediately sought his carpet bag and took to the brush and when he emerged he was gorgeously arrayed in another immaculate emmat suit clean collar and necktie to match returning to the train he began a hasty and vigorous search for his cane but whether he found it or not or what he would have done in case his carpet bag had been lost is not recorded ACCORDING to published reports the money lenders of bou roumania mania are just now experiencing what may be termed a profitable time thousands of Roum anians have even it appears mortgaged their real estate while many of the women have placed their jewels in the hands hand s of their avuncular nicular relatives in order to visit paris there seems in tact fact to be quite a general exodus from roumania bosnia besnia servia and bulgaria JULIAN HAWTHORNE gives this picture of a lodging house for poor workingmen in manchester rugland england after seeing the homes of vice and crime we visited a lodging house for poor or workingmen owned by a ricko rich manchester merchant and managed by a tall athletic englishman an ex police man it contained beds let at e yace a night this price including 79 all the use of the house for twenty four hours there was a kitchen where the lodgers cooked their own food after buying it at the store in the building at cost price the average price of a hearty meal prepared in this way was A corps of men was kept to do the work of keeping the place clean and vt viry ry clean it was the linen on the beds is changed twice a week the cost per day of running the house is ya 5 the receipts showing a small daily profit I 1 wish it were possible to relate a tenth part of the curl curious af 3 and interesting sights that we saw on this stroll about the city but it would take a month to describe what may be seen in an hour heur |
