The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-11-20
a LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

The Tammauy braves are now toms.
hawking one another.
Gold winter is predicted from the way
bees are conducting themselves
The News claims that the watermelon
| receipts in Augusta, Ga, gre worth to that
city Sl00,000s year.
Msnv of the people Of Afghan are as
fair as Engiishmsn. The boys are noted
as being particularly handsome.
New Orleans is oonsiderio: thorough
system OF sewerage, which will cost, &C
cording to the plans, 81, 100000.
The Gar has recently granted religious
liberty to the Bsptists, who are put on an
equal footing with his orthodox suojscts.
Ten Thousand salmon Try from San Fran.
cisco have been put iuto the Mouse q,
Blorick, Holland, and twenty thousand
more are expected.
DIR. Wilhelm Sckmoele, a professor at
Bonn university, says he has discovered
that human life can be vastly prolonged by
eating lemons.
Ia Russia, over twen:y-oHe million ro,I.
bles are appropriated every yesr for pen.
| sions and subsidies to retired officers, AID 70
| tie families Of deceased officers.
An embarrassed actor bounded OF the
stage OF San Francisco theatre, in a scene
depicting a robbery in holel Office, sud
shouted: "Gsg The sale, while l blow oper
the night clerk"
A canal hss just been completed in
Hawaii for the irrigation OF the sugar
plantations in the centre of the island
which crosses twenty-eight gorges in the
mountains, and ia thirty miles in lerg;h.
The number of foreign firms engaged in
commerce in China il Sol, and the total
foreign population 1914. The American
residents number 420.
Cetewayo says there were only ten Of his
men present when the Prince Imperial was
killed. A bold stand would have saved his
life, If the Zllu king is to be believed, and
the faie of an empire nigh; have been
changed.
The bell-punch tells the story that in
October the people OF Fort Worth. Tex. =,
consumed 1871 alcoholic and 80 ,5IS malt
drinks; and that during The same time
Houston got awsy with 20,6S0 alcoholic
and IS, 533 malt drinks.
Lgntteu Oh the Stdtes nave CIVIL damage
liquor laws. Their provisions are substsn
italy the same, making dealers responsible
pecuniarily for all harm resulting from the
sale OF alcoholic beverages. New York,
Maine, Massachusetts, and Illinois have
statutes precisely alike.
Nearly all the negroes in and resr Dsr-
lington, ). C., now own horses and COVE,
and many OF them own land, which they
are able to work with their own money
There is less stealing than formerly,
churches are numerous ard we'll supported,
and newspapers are in demand.
The Cincinnati Esqairer thinks It SMELL
q Hayes movement down South, and pre-
diets that the Republicans will have to
choose betxee Hayes and Grant.
The Indianapolis Journal believes that if
the National Republican Convention vii!
be held in ths; city in 1850 that Indiana
will pull into line as a Republican State.
General Butler says to a Boston Herald
reporter that be is in pocket $50 600 by his
defeat 1t IS "a blessing in disguise" and
50 we'll disguised that few will believe the
General sees it. He says: 81 will take
the field sgain next year." Heretofore
ssthe field has taken the General.