Glimpses Of America

North Carolina gold mines will be worked. A woman was struck by a locoraotive at Orange, N. J., and hurled twenty feet, but was uninjured. An expert oculist has been appointed to test the eyesigrht of all conductors, engineers and brakemen on the Canadian Pacific lines. At St. Gabriel's church, Douglassville, Pa., John Kurst, the organ blower, was overeóme by coal gas and the congregation, without music, was dismissed. The passion for abbreviation flnds an extreme illustration in the Boston Adverttser, which says that certain prominent persons "have been in Wash. Tor several days." In 1894 Connecticut took out one patent for every 993 of its inhabitants, and Massachusetts one for every 1,335. These were the most inventive states. South Carolina, with one patent for every 25,581 inhabitants, was least so. One of the largest enterprises in the planting of fruit orchards now in progress in California has just begun within three miles of Pomona, Cal., by Henry M. Loud, a millionaire of Detroit, Mich., who owns about 600 acres of fine fruit land in this valley.