The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-03-07
HOME ANDFOREIGN GOSSIP.

<cTIuOnt are divorced.
The population of the world is esti
mated at 1880. 100000
A HARTFORD couple over so years old
were lately paralyzed on the same day
BEsIKA BAY, where the British Med.
fterranean fleet has long been stationed,
is off the west coast of the plains of an.
'cient Troy, in Asia Minor.
A SERVANT while hunting in a cotton
brokers' drawer in Savannah for a pis.
tol to commit suicide, discovered a roll
Of Sl27, took 1t and got on big drunk
A wAGoS-LOAD of misery recently
passed CROUCH Carson, New. 1t con-
tatri". sick mother, tired-oct father,
e"o children dying with diphtheria, and
the dead body If an infant.
One of the results of the /" Congress
of Beauty and Culture" in New York
ispwof of the fact that there is no wom-
Al In this world so homely as not 70 con-
slider herself handsome.
A 55-FOoT petition, signed by 1900
Farmers, was presented last week to the
Ohio Legislature, asking for a law to
protect quails from shooting for term
of years in that State.
A YOUNG Belfast (Me.) girl has per-
feet passion for killing cats, her hands
bearing the marks of many battles.
She catches her victim by the hind legs,
and then with a sudden swing dashes
its brains out.
SAN FRANCISCO is TO be supplied with
pure water from the Blue Lakes, l25
miles distant, at a cost of 10000, 600,
and MIR. George ii. Norman, of New
port, K. L., is the civil engineer who has
the contract for the work.
A CHURCH festival was held at Mem
ory' Taylor Coanty, Iowa, last week,
ana among tie mills for grinding out
tne cents vas vote for the prettiest
glri IN me crowd, which ended in a
pgnt' Ists and knives being freely used.
iHE old theory that hot weather pro-
Juices madness in dogs has been ex-
ploded. During the past few months,
says the Atlanta GA COnstitutionaiist,
more mad dogs have been killed in this
city and vicinity than during any equal
period of hot weather.
A SACRAMENTO woman accused her
husband of attempting to kill her, and
he was sent to prison for two years.
Then she begged to be sentenced for the
same term, because she could not bear
to be parted from him, and the Judge
refusing she went away and tried to
hang herself.
THE Paris Figaro discusses the ques-
ton as TO whether men should offer the
right or the left arm to ladies at balls
and dinner parties. II decides in favor
of the right, at least when offered by
married men, and considers that the
left, being nearest the herr, should be
given only to their wives.
NEAR Berlin, Germany, is a church
building, circular within and octagon
without, and capable of seating l 900
persons, whose relfefs outside and stat
ues within, roof, ceiling, and Corinthian
capitals are papier-mache, rendered wa
rerproof by saturation in viiriol, lime
water, whey, and white of eggs.
JOHN ATKINSON, respectable farm
~er of Sayville, n Y, has become so in
tensely interested in the conflict between
Russia and Turkey that he is now par
tally insane and imagines that he is con-
'tinually engaged i'm fighting the Rus
slams, and his wife has become so affect
ed by his condition that she is seriously
sick
TuEpr Is great distress AMONG the
$4,000 coal and iron miners of South
Wales, who are thrown ont of employ
ment by the suspension of the works.
Many families are absolutely destitute,
while a number of persons have actually
starved TO death. Measures of relief are
being taken.
RocursrEH IN w NEGRO awoke
the other dav IN the fact thai the alice
tions of his spouse had been stolen away
nv n certain duskv Io,bario. but. in
stead of committing carnage. as a mat
ter-of-fact man MIGHT have done. turned
her completely over to his rival in con-
sideration of $35.
THE father of Charlie Ross said tn a
reporter. "Tbis makes 375 bows | have
been called on to see. or have been writ
ten about. and my hundreds of failures
TO identify each waif as nv own have
tanobt meto entertain no sanpu;ne hone.
snnnose I shall continue coinp TO see
bows ill die. but I don't espec, to find
Charlie in any of them"
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at least ooo letters day makihs ih4ui'
mes IN regard 10 II, ana asking I1I te.,-
plants. Inc CommiSsioner airedy naS
lOo,ooo tea plants started, ana tne ue-