The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-09-25
BREvITIES.

BREvlTIES.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the brilliant Zulu
war correspondent, takes the field again
tho lecture field-and will come to
America in February, to talk about
@Royal people I have known" That
includes Cetywayo.
Mr.. TALMAGE says it is easier to
serve God when the wind blows from
the southwest than from the northeast !;
that Christians often attribute to their
own deprsvity what is due to the
weather, and that the devil never rides
on the west wind.
A RARE and enormous orang -outang, q
widower, is the most interesting recent
arrival at Paris. His wife died soon af-
ter they were caught in Borneo, and all
his affection is now concentrated on
their son. The father is described as
the personifcation of melancholy.
THREE million bushels of oysters will
be taken from Virginia waters this year,
and more than one-tbird of these will
be handled by the packers of Norfolk
and Portsmouth. The average value Of
the oysters is thirty-five cents bushel,
making the oyster trade of Norfolk
something like s35O,OOO a year. The
business hes been built up since the
war, and is steadily increasing.
TENNYsoN's elder brother changed his
name to Charles Turner in order to in
herit an estate in Lincolnshire known
as Grasby hall, yielding some $4,000 q
year. He has died without issue, and
the estate is at Alfred Tennyson's dis
posal on the same terms, but he refuses
to accept the property on condition of
giving up his name, and it will 60 to
some other member of the family.
Nor long since q peasant in France
was crossing q field at night when q
flaming meteor fell kissing to the ground
before him. He picked it up, after
perhaps waiting for it to coel of, and
conveying it to the Issoudon museum,
sold it for $50 francs. The owner of
the land learning of the circumstance at
once sued the finder for 10000 francs
damages, or the return of the erolite
on the ground that his property in the
land extended indefinitely upward as
well Is downward. The case is still in
court.
Mr.. VAN HoUTTE, the great horticult-
urist, and known as the prince of rose
growers, has recently had a monument
erected to his memory by those who
believe that his effort to make the world
more beautiful is quite as worthy of
commemoration as the deeds of those
who acquire fame by killing thousands.
A wreath was sent by his former en-
ployes, which was composed of 500
blooms of the lovely rose, Louis Van
Houtte. The monument, which is by
De Vigue, represents Flora placing
wreath ON the head Of Mr.. Van Houtte.
The Boston Globe theatre gets an
amount of attention in the newspapers
that would be incidentally valuable as
advertising if the peculiar circumstances
did not keep the establishment closed.
1t is owned in sections. John Stetson,
the manager, holds lease ON the main
entrance and lobby. A. c. Baldwin
holds the auditorium, and will not let
Mr.. Stetson have it at the price offered.
A part of the stage belongs to A. A.
Rand, and has been cut off by brick
wall. It is said that the theatre will be
rebuilt on Mr.. Baldwin's ground on a
smaller scale.
The statue of Liberty, by Bartholdi.
is progressing toward completion,
though two years longer is the time
required for finishing it. The colossal
head is now being mounted behind the
Palias de rIndustrie. It is intended to
allow persons to ascend inside the head.
The success of the @Loterie Franco
Americana" has rendered certain the
receipt of funds necessary for the COM
pletion of this great work. The statue |
one will measure forty-tvo meters
from the feet to the extremity of the |
uplifted hand. This is almost the
height of the Column Vendome.
The poll tax was lately abolished in
Russia, and committee was appointed
to find some new source of income that
should cover the deficit created by its
abolition. The committee worked for
over six months, but in vain. Then
another committee was appointed to
find out what State expense might be
reduced, or otherwise abolished, but
was equally unsuccessful Now the
Russian government is perple1ed with
with the question where to get that
!, 900 600 of roubles which in any event
could not have been collected, whether
the poll tax were maintained or abol-
ished.
A NOVEL use for glass has been recent
" found, and 80 far it answers we'll
viz, Is sleepers for tramway lines. Soon