There are many aged great grand
i mothers, but the San Francisco Chronicle
j says the youngest great-grandmother in
I the Cnited States ires near Pom .na. Cal.
I Her name is Francesca Cordelia. and her
*6® is but 50 years. She is a Spanish wo
i man. She was married when 15 years old.
i 'Did her eldest daughter was married when
1 she was a little over 17 years old. Mrs.
Cordelia was but 33 years old when she
was a grandmother. Her eldest grand
daughter was married last April at the
•'.ge of 10 years, and now that a great
grand-daughter has been born into the
family there is great rejoicing among the
t ordollas and their Spanish relatives.
Mrs. Cordelia is in superb health, and she
says that if the record of the family keeps
up she will have the felicity of holding her
great-great-grand child upon her knee be
fore the biblical allotted time for her on
earth is measured out.
SOME RUi HHIIH.ES.
Engineering Feats That the Ancients Would
Have Thought Impossible.
San Francisco Chronicle.
1 he inventors of phrases have much exer
cised their ingenuity of late in coining a
proper title for the present age. and to the
;st of labels already made there may sure
ly be added that of the Age of Big Bridges.
The Brooklyn bridge led the wav, then
that across the Firth of Forth, next the
project to join the shore of the English
channel, and now congress has been asked
to grant a company of engineers and
capitalists the right to span the Hudson
from New A'ork to New Jersey.
