AMERICAN ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 711, 3 December 1875, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

—o—- “ Pay Up” is the title of a new settlement in Oregon. Mr Sharpless, the well-known chemist, states that by the use of flour mankind loses from two-thirds to four-fifth's of the elements that go to make up teeth and bony structures. James Dunn, aCatholio.Jand Rod. Coulter, a Protestant, had a heated religious discussion in Columbus, Ohio, lately, which resulted in Dunn being fatally shot by Coulter, who afterwards escaped. A duel took place at Waco, Texas, Aug. 29th, in the dark between Charles Garrick and John M. Turner. Distance 4 feet; weapons, six-shooters. Three shots were fired, and Turner was killed. The quarrel arose from a trivial matter. Tho daughter of General Sohenck is said to be engaged to Mr Roderick Duggan, a rich Scotchman residing in Glasgow. It is a newspaper axiom that when the times'are dull, that is the time to advertise. If business lags, the true rule for the merchant is to go after it and summon it to new life. This is more surely done by liberal advertising, as some of the dealers have found out, and as more will discover if they adopt the spec! lie which al was sharpens the edge of dullness.—Brooklyn Argus.

In July a diver in submarine armor, working at a wreck on the coast of Normandy, was seized by a devil-fish, which held fast to a neighboring rock. His comrade came to his assistance and was seized also. It was only with great difficulty that they could give the signal that they needed help. Others went down. Cutlasses were brought, and the monsters arms were hewn off. An Illinois judge has lately decided that teachers and directors ennnot expel a pupil fram the public schools on account of absence, on the ground that a child does not become the creature or slave of teachers by being enrolled, the parents having the right to sen'! their children to school only as they can spare them from home. According to the astronomers there is a rain cycle every twenty-eight years, caused by the conjunction of two of the planets nearest the earth. Neptune and Mars are now in conjunction, exciting electricity to an unusual extent. This results in the condensation of the vapor of the atmosphere surronn ling the earth, producing the copious rains which have fallen this summer.

The other day, at Hopkinson, twenty miles from Boston, a hoy named Morris Ryan, aged sixteen years, started down stairs with a loaded gun to shoot a cat, when bis sister Mary, aged fifteen, caught her brother by the shoulder to pull In'm hack. At the same moment two other younger sisters came to the head of the stairs, and in the scuffle between Morris and Mary the gun went off, killing Mary and one of the other sisters. The third sister wounded in the arm, and Morris was wounded in the leg. The other day as a resident of Howardstreet had reached the side-walk on his way down town, his wife appeared at the gate and called ; “ Charles ! Charles ! I want money to buy a pair of shoe-strings.” “ Haven’t got it,” he replied, as he turned about. “ But I must have two or three cents,” she protested. “Two or three cents.” he echoed, as he started off; “do yon think I am going to the hank and fool around, and sign a chcqne for two or threo cents ? You’ll have to wait till next week !” Detroit Free Press.

Major Jolm N. Edwards, one of th» editors of the St. Lotus Times, and Colonel E. S Foster, editor of the evening Journal, left here the other night for Winnelia-’o county to fight a duel The affair grew out of an editorial in the Times, on the action of the people of Winnehago county in refusing to allow Jeff Davis to speak at their fair, and a rejoinder by Foster in the Journal next clay in which he cast very severe strictures upon the writer of the Times’ article. Nothing has been heard from the parties, and it is thought a hos:ilo meeting has been prevented. Mr William H. Mundv, of Seneca Fa’ls, N. Y., recently played at that place twentyfour games of chess at one time against twenty four different players, without sight of men nr hoards. The games were p’aved at the residence of Judge .Tosiah T. Millc -, the player meanwhile sitting on the stoop, chatting and answering qnestions about the games. This is eleven more games than were ever attemnted at one time before. A dispute arose about the position of the p’aces in two of the games, and Mr Mundy stood up before the guests and called off all the moves that had been ma 1c in the games and the position of the pieces on the hoards. He had previously played six games at once in Hudson. N. Y., and again in Geneva, N. Y. When fourteen years old ho beat some of the best players then living, hut has played little since. Mr Mundy is at present in this city.—New York Evening Post