Chips And Shavings

It is claimed that the Grand falls on the Hamilton river In Labrador hav a drop of 300 feet. The Chicago pólice have a modere "Fagin" who paid boys 50 cents foi stolen gold watches As vast as Alaska is, and as incalculable as is its wealth, we paid Russia for it less than half a cent an acre. A white-headed vulture captured in the year 1708 and taken to the aviary at Schoenbrunn castie, Vienna, lived until 1826-118 years. It is believed by botanists that wheat, rye and barley were all developed from the same species of grass, by variations in climate or in the mode of cultivatiCTi At the Jeddo tuiln?' in Pennsylvania all the drilling was don by means of compresi-ed air, conveyed some 10,000 feet through a 7%-inch pipe with very little loss. After twenty years' litigation, John and Robert J. Gray won a suit in New York's Supreme court against the Jersey Central raüroad for breach of contract, getting $7,232 damages. There are at least two cases on record of five chiidren at a liirth - viz., a woman of Koenigsberg, Eept. 3, 1784, and the wife of Nelson, a tailor, in Ox'ord Market in October, 1800.