Salt River herald., 1878-07-13
PEN AND SCISSORS.


 The Free Labor Exchange at San FranciccO, found places last week for S4 men and l5 women.
 John O'Shea, an old resident of Lake county, was drowned while bathing in Soda bay in that county.
 At Mansfield, Ohio, latley mob of 10000 persons broke into the jail-yad to witness a hanging.
 If your foot is asleep do not be alarmed; the poet tells us that the sole Is not dead that slumbers.
 There is no thorn without its rose. If you break your leg, the neighbor women come in and tell you the gossip.
 Wonderfully accurate counter feits of the new silver dollar arc eztant, it being extremely difficult to detect them even by the use of acid.
 A Galveston lady has made a face of butter after the " Iolanthe' of Mrs, Brooks. It is time for an oleomargarine to rise up and sculp.
 The American who thinks he knows French has only to reach Paris to find out that he doesn't speak good English.
 Over S27,OOO worth of grain was destroyed by fire at Williams, Colusa county, California, last week. It started from an engine.
 Monstrous seals and sea lions are being caught in fishing nets near the mouth of the Columbia river.
 Nine members of a gang of counterfeiters, having their head quarters near Baxter Springs, have been arrested.
 In and about Lyons, 100000 women and girls work from II to l3 hours a day for an average of | 40 cents.
 A company will soon commence building d narrow gauge railroad from the town of Sonoma to deep water on the creek. A young lady of Sacramento, is dangerously i'll from the effects of using q chemical preparation to bleach her hair.
 Higinio Gina, real estate agent in San Francisco fired three bullets into his head last Monday, causing fatal injuries.
 The Russians have 52,O0O sick in the Balkan Peninsula, and of the recruits raised in 1877 for the Ar menia campaign, 9 per cent. are dead.
 The Bear River Ditch Company, of Placer county, offer free water for five years for the irrigation of orange or lemon plantations.
 A mammoth bark is being built on Puget Sound for the san Fran cisco lumber trade. Her carrying capacity is to be 100000 feet of lumber.
 Del NOrte county bids fair to become the great butter country of the State. This county shipped, during the last season, S5O,OOO worth of butter.
 Madam Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who is about 96 years old, is in the enjoyment of fair health, having re. gently recovered from a severe at tack of illness.
 " The decline in rents at New York this year, makes a difference of S1,OOO a day in the income of the Astor property and of about $1OO,- 900 d year on the Stewart proper ty.
 Ninety-six pounds of ice per man is daily consumed in the lower lev els of the Consolidated Virginia and California mines in cooling the drinking water for the miners.
 President MacMahon, upon the recommendation of his Ministers, has decided to pardon 500 communists on the ocasion of the national festi- ival, on the 3Oth, in honor of the exhibition.
 DesideriO Poderca, second in command at San Elizario. who com. manded the firing party in Dccem Der last that executed Howard, Atkinson and Mcbride, was arrest ed on the 16th by State troops. A terrible rain fell in southwest. ern Kansas last week, 25 inches failing in one afternoon. Great