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Personal And Impersonal

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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- An oíd wooden statue of Oeorge Washington, txtllj ten feet lii-li, luis come to lighi in .Nnw York. It is dis; covered that it nsod to stand in Battery park. - Israel L. Landis, of Lancaster, Pa., an inventor of some note, has been honored uith a corresponding' lionorary membership in the Inventors' Academy of Paris. - Some men have done really hard mental work while asleep. Condoreet finished a train of calculations in his sleep which had much puzzled him durIng the day. - The coffin in which the late of Holland is buried is twice Ihe size required to the undertaker fusing the new üut(-h metru and the old in his measurement. which rnistake was discovered too late to be retnedied. - Hrigham Young did not possess the fabulous wealth that was credited to him. He left just 81,200,000 when he died, and this sum was divided according to the strictest laws of equity among eighteen wives and their children. - A New Vork letter says: "Certain New York firms have been trying-goodlooking- women as bill collectors, öo far the scheme has been unsuccessful. Three of the women married inside a week, and four more are engaged, while the balance sympathize with the poor fellows who have run into debt and have not collected a cent." - "It is calculated." says one of the New York Telegramas exchanges, "that a man walking day and night could make a journey round the earth in 428 days.'' This is the sort of infortnation the people pine for, although it may be months before we can find a man capable of walking continuallv for 428 days and nig-hts. A somnambulist might sueceed if he eould otrly be hypnotized ', into going in the right direction while asleep. -The original "Annie í.aurie" was one of the four daughters of Sir Robert Laurie, first baronet of Maxwelton, by his second wife, who was a daughter of Riddell, of Minto. The was written by a Mr. Douglas, of Finland, about the end of the seventecnth or the beginning of the eighteenth century; but it is a sad fact that the poetical lover did not obtain the bonnie Annie for his wife. She was married to a Mr. Furguson, of CraigdarRock.- N. Y. Ledger. - Frank Moore, compiler of "The Rebellion Record," aud also an enthusiastic collector of antiquities and curiosities of the revolutionary period, has cured what he is eonfident is a genuine TXrtrait of General Georg-e Washington, engaged in smoking a pipe. It is by a Southern arlist and was found among the property of an oíd Virginia family. He will shortly reproduce it for public printing. He says it will not detract in the least from the generally prevailing idea of the great personal dignity of Washington. - There used tobea piece of advice given by old-time lecturers on health that in cold weather, and especially in a dusty atmosphere, people should keep their mouths shut when out of doors and breathe through the nose. The air is better warmed in its passage to the lungs if taken thus than if taken otherwise. The partióles of dust, also, are less likely to get into the lower air passages by way of the nose than by ivay of the mouth. There was good sense in the adrice of the old-time turers on this

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