The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

POOtcet.
Think nothing in conduct unimpostant
or indigerent.
Teams loaded with wheat fll the streets
OF Walla, W. 7. daily.
The Montana Territorial Far has .
capital stock Of Is, 900.
A railroad tunnel through Ration Noun
tain, Arizona, is finished.
Of late Wild beasts have appeared In
unusual numbers in Russia.
Eight million dollars is the amount Of
North Cardinals State debt.
The New Haven manufacturers cannot
get hands enough to do their work.
The Harvard College woman's ''anneI"
starts of with very favorable prospects.
Cigar manufacturing is becoming one
of the leading industries Of Springfield.
The expenditure of the London School
Board this year II estimated at tS,OOO,-
900.
A man on Upper Lynx creek Arizona,
one day last week picked up $50 mug
get.
Eight thousand Eve hundred railroad
ties are being brought into Arizona
daily.
A New Jersey veteran committed sui
eide with $500 arrears Of pension In his
pocket.
A valuable discovery Of gypeum has
been found in Squak valley, Washington
Territory.
Two Thousand and twenty-fou~ persons
patronized the public baths Of Brooklyn
last week.
| A London hansome cab made it, ap-
pearance in Victors, British Columbia
last week.
| The town Of Prescott, A. T.. has adopt
notifications.
| The rindeipest is ravaging Russian
Poland. and Germany Is taking precau-
tons against 1t.
| Nero. Pompey and Caesar are common
names for dogs, but wouldn't Agrippa be
more appropriated
A national conference Of men interested
in the negro exodus has been called TO
meet in Philadelphia
II is estimat ed that American travellers
have expended in foreign travel the past
Summer $l7, 000, 600.
Good miners experience no trouble in
procuring work in Utah. Wages are
$3.50 per day, and board 81 per day.
In the cotton States negroes are paid
from 80 TO $l2 month. with rations Of
four pounds Of bacon and peck Of meal
per week.
A firm of linen manufacturers from
Guilford. Ireland, has purchased the linen
mills at Greenwich, Washington county.
New York.
In the opinion of the Alta California
the general expenses of bushes are nearly
as high now in San Francisco rs they
were in 1854.
Shippers of goods TO Canada complain
that the customs authorities there are in
terpreting the new tariff with unneces-
sary harshness.
At Cincinnati the manufacturers say
that they are employing extra hands and
running their machinery 10 its full capacl-
ty, and are still unable to meet all their
orders.
1t is announced that capitalists in st.
Louis are preparing to build railroad
from San Antonio, Tex, TO Lerado, on
the border Of Mexico, thence to the City
of Mexico.
The worse case of seltshness on record
is that of a youth who complained be-
cause his mother put a larger mustard
plaster on his younger brother than she
did on him.
A precocious youth, prompted by an
unpleasant recollection Of the last term,
says that school-teachers are like dogs,
because "they lick your hand" This car
ries of the palm.
Visitors to the woods will find very soon
Al 4 81 l.. l., Ia
aspen, the dogwood and the witch hazel,
which blossoms in the fall and makes its
presence known IN the thickest woods by
its perfume.
Down on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore road, just below Ridley
Park, and standing isolated in field, is .
dark green. shapely cedar. One half OF
the tree is green but the other half. by al
most exact division. glow, with Virginia
creeper-like red sunset. IL Is curiosity.
Little Billy has been taken to see his
old uncle, who is so deaf that be cannot
hear a single word without recourse 10
his ear.trumpet. Billy watched the move
ment Of this instrument Tor some time
with great interest, and then e1claims:
Mamma, what does uncle try all the
time TO play the horn with his ear for,
when he can't make IT gof'
Ethel, very little girl. is sent 10 one Of
the schools where words and their mean
ings are taught by descriptions Of common
objects and by the application OF terms TO
things which the pupils may Gee. When
she came home the first day she examined
her baby brother critically as he lay in his
cradle, and said. Mother, Fred's oblong
and horizontal. amt bef"
Here il a recipe said 10 be good FOR pre-
serving tinted leaves: Spread the fresh
leaves and press them into a suitable dish
with alternate layers Of fine sand, which
is thoroughly dry and A. hot a. the hand
can bear. When the sand has cooled they
may be removed, smoothed under n hot
iron, dipped for a moment into French
spirit yarnish, and allowed 10 dry in the
air.
Who would fancy that men made money
through the sale OF butterflies Such 10
the case, for one day last week Adolph
Conradi, OF Bethlehem. in Penn. ship
ped 20 Alfred Gutenberg, Of Herrphut.
saIony, three hundred beautiful speci-
mems Of North American butterflies and
moths. Moreover, soon Mr.. Conrad Will
ifi an order for one thousand specimens
For Heinrich Ribbe. Of Dresden.
Virginia oreep~r 10 no. IN It's glory.
Within the last two weeks II has been
transferred into pillar Of sre-oonstAnsiy
burning, unoonsgmed. When sesn al
morning through the miss. . 10 sugRest-
We Of FIRE altar In the WOODS. 10 burns
dong the hillsides IN clear sight. . mile
" more away. A one near u the brIl
fancy departs somewhat. and II one
houid search for a perfect Leaf there
rould BE trouble IN finding H. LATHE
,losches are not SEEN from q distance.
Tn. j, a vry interesting paras,aph