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Show ODDITIES FROM ABROAD. ' An Innkeeper of Wllhoimberg, who turns the renlo at 602 pounds, is the heavlclt man In Germany. The undertakers of Malaga, Spain, went on itri! e lately, because they considered con-sidered themtehli esceuhelj tsicd. Twenty-four men dined Inside of a huge tun recently made for a wine dealer deal-er In Strauburg. It holds 1,000 hectoliters. hecto-liters. The taortallty curves In London rlso In proportion to the density of the fcg and. consequent exclusion of tumitht, which Is the deadly foo of Clteote germs. Fresh operations agalcit the ror-poises, ror-poises, which are (polling the sardine fishery on the coast ft Brittany, aro to be undertaken by tho French torpedo boat No. 80. Having thrown buckets of cold water over his consumptive chief, a Maori medicine man at Olsborne, In New Zei-land, Zei-land, was charged with manslaughter and fined )60. An eccentric Shropshire (England) cexton, who has Just died at an advanced ase, had been for over CI jesrsronrect-ed jesrsronrect-ed with Wellington parish church as f ra-edlgger acd sexton. The man had had never ridden In a train or any other hind, of.vehlcle. Buda-esth has lost one of its best-known best-known cranks, a man who alwayB wont barefoot and bareheaded. His favorite occupation was to offer medical advice to famous perions who were ill. This being, rejected, ho wrote long diatribes against human folly and printed them. M. Fremlet, tho French sculptor, has received a commission fcr a monument, to be erected In Paris, In memory of the pigeons which carried met safes during the slcgo. At Its commencement the institution in-stitution of the pigeon post was of marked service, and thousands of letters let-ters and dltpatches ware sent out from Paris by this means. |