Shoe leather has been made from
sturgeon skins at Green Bay.
An apple-dry. ng establishment of
Memphis employs nearly one hundred
persons., , .m.,mwm.
Dynamite resembles brown sugar.
Strike it with a spoon.
Four Chinamen were baptized at
North Adams, Mass., on Sunday a week.
Julian Kennedy, Yale's crack oars
man, has gone to 1 oungstown, Ohio,
where he takes charge of large iron
works.
The school children in the city of
Pittsburg are to be taken to the Cen
tennial on tbe I5lh inst
Tbe English Farw now secures to any
wile her own earnings in any occupa
tion which she carries ou separately
from her husband.
Jean Baptiste Monro, a French
man, who bad been sent to tbe galleys
for murder and arson in I77C, is 116
years old, and still refuses to be dis
charged, though the authorities have
offered to pardon him several times.
The attempt by CVruese merchants
to establish a line of steamers between
Shanghai and Japanese ports has failed,
and the enterprise has bezn abandoned.
$28,430 bave been contributed in
New York for the yellcw fever sufferers
at Savannah and Brunswick.
There is a grasshopper invasion in
Northern Texas, and wheat-sowing is
delayed until it is known whether tbey
will remain long enough to deposit
their eggs.
Tbe largest fish ever eaught in Lake
Ontario was taken at Sackett's Harbor
on Monday a week in a seine. It was
a sturgeon nine feet inlength and weigh
ing two hundred pounds.
Governor Hartranft has promised to
address tbe Pittsburg school children at
Independence Hall on tbe occasion of
their visit to the Centennial.
