Salt River herald., 1878-08-24
PEN AND SCISSORS.

of the per ceut, bonds were sold.
 On August 2d Capt. Weeb swan 22 miles in the Thames, without rest.
 Beaconsfeld and Salisbury were feted by the city of London on Au- gust 3d.
 On August 1st a tornado swept through eastern Indiana, damaging crops, trees, and buildings.
 It is estimated that the salmon catch on the Columbia river, this season, will aggregate 3SO,ooO cases.
 The number of deaths in San Francisco during the year 1S77-7S was 4,977 against 6,17o the previ- Ous year.
 A parasite called the "scale- louse' is spreading destruction among the orchards of Santa Clara valley, California.
 A syndicate of English capital ists has been formed to open the Cariboo quartz reefs. where pros pecting is progressing satisfactorily.
 Nine vessels arc reported lost, and six ashore in a storm on the southwestern coast of Cuba, on the night of July 30th.
 The will of Whiting Street, of Northampton, Mass. who was worth half a million dollars, leaves about S25, 1000 for charitable purposes
 Manuel Brin has discovered q ledge eight feet wide, averaging Sl7 in gold, and SEQ in silver, Is miles north of Pyramid lake, Nevada.
 With a view to extensive distribu- tions of the tea plant in the South ern States, 300 pounds of the sned have been lately sown at Washing ton.
 John Burns has instituted suit against the Southern Pacific railroad to recover S51,12O, damages sus- tained from one of the company's locomotives.
 On August 4th, lightning struck a Sunday school tent in Philadel- phia. One scholar was instantly killed three others were fatally injured; all were knocked down.
 During the past year, the Ex- perimental Department of Agricul- ture at Washington, distributed over 10000 tea plants, grown in the green houses of the Department.
 The worst injury in the North west to wheat, from the excessive heat this year, has been in northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota. The yield will not be greater than ten bushels per acre.
 There will be as much business for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in every article of grain, except wheat, as there was last year. The damage to the crops has been considerably over-cstimated.
 Dr. James $. Myer. of Virginia City Nevada, claims to have discov- cred the secret, by means of which the ancients were able to make tools and weapons of bronze and copper of a temper superior to that of the best steel.
 G. H. Palmer has discovered a hot sulphur spring seven miles west of the Panamint range, on the east slope of Saline valley. Altitude, 800 feet above salt beds width, 30 feet; depth, great water very clear and intensely hot. Good, when cooled for drinking.
 The Kansas Rolling Mills, nea Kansas City. Mo-, have found nat ural gas at their works from q small shaft sunk to the depth of about 300 feet. The gas is sufficient for lighting the mill for any purpose of night work, but the intention is to utilize it for heating purposes.
 Two heavy rain storms accompa- nied by thunder and lightning swept over Philadelphia on August I st, doing considerable damage to the exhibition building and goods there in. Cellars were flooded level with the streets in many places, doing immense damage to goods stored in them. Culverts were checked, trees blown down, and roofs demolished
 Washington is the most beauti. fully laid out city in the world, remarked an ex-cOntractOr to q Dis trict of Columbia taxpayer. "Ies, replied the htier:" it was only a question of endurance whether Washington should lay out Bos, Shepherd, or Boss Shepherd lay out Washington
 The Chinese Ambassador, Chur Ian Pin, and suite, together witt the Consular corps, left San Fran cisco. August 2d, on a special Car via the Rock Island and Lake ShorC