, 1880-10-04
Intelligence Items.

Intelligence Items.
The population Of Oregon was co.
600 in 1870. In 1880 it is 10000.
The law OF New Jersey allows no
Governor to serve for two successive
terms.
The population of Kansas is now
over a million. In 1870 it was only
1854, 800.
The real and personal property of
Philadelphia. subject to taxation, is
listed at s543, ,669. 129.
General Grant has refused. the
presidency of the Las Vegas Mining
Company, of New Mexico.
An effort is being made to direct
German emigration from the United
States to European Turkey.
The Chicago Railsoay Age says that
railway is fast becoming as much
an American word as is railroad"
No one of the distinguished people
who officially took part in Queen Vic
toria's coronation forty-two years ago is
alive excepting herself.
Fifty cents per word will hereafter
be the charge for ocean cable kilograms
between New York and England and
France.
Out of the HOOP children in the
Milwaukee public schools, 1914 are
studying German. The population Of
the city is largely German.
An Ohio thief used wagon with
crooked wheel to draw away stolen
wool, and the constables caught him by
following the eccentric track.
During last month 5000 emigrants
sailed from Liverpool for the United
States, being 5000 more than during
the same month last year.
The public lands held by the gov
ernment in the respective States and
Territories for military reservations,
amount to nearly 5000. 900 acres.
The construction force engaged on
the extension of the Northern Pacific
Railroad west of the Missouri will COM
plete the grading to the Yellowstone
early in October.
The Atlantic steamers in the last four
months took 10000 cabin passengers to
England. At an average expenditure
of $3.50 apiece, low average, this
makes $15,O00,000 spent abroad by
tourists.
Mr.. James Card, tho English au-
thority on breadstuffs, says Great
Britain can no longer compete with
American grain growers, and he ad-
vises English farmers to turn their at
tention to some other crop.
The latest news in the electric field is
the reported invention of a method of
applying electricity as motive power
on elevated railways. It is claimed
that it will entirely Danish all noise,
smoke, dripping coal-oil, flying cinders
the disaereeable attendants of the
present arrangement.
The highest mountain on earth, SO
far as known, is no longer Mount Ever
est in the Himalaya, measuring rs, ,OO2
feet, but Mount Hercules, in the CEN
ter of New Guinea, which measures
80, ,76S feet. It was discovered by Cap
tain J. A. Lawson, who mounted it to
height of %, 314 feet, when he had to
return. the air being too rare.
The brilliancy of the planet Jupiter
will be greater in October than it has
been for many years past. The large
red spot on his disk which made its ap-
pearance in 1878, and which is puzzle
to astronomers, is still visible, and
host of telescopes throughout the coun-
try are directed to this object Of inter-
A man and his wife, located near one
Of the New York ferries, sells at retail
from seventy-fve to eighty watermel-
ons day, slicing them in eighths and
selling each slice for Eve cents. They
seem to have happily struck on the idea
that everybody likes to eat watermel-
ons, but that very few persons will buy
q whole one and lug it off. The melons
cost about ten cents each, and are sold
for forty cents.
Some of the cigarettes which are
smoked to so large an extent are said to
be dangerous articles. One of them,
being analyzed, was found to be strong
ly impregnated with opium, while the
so-called rice-paper in which it was
wrapped was ordinary paper whitened
with arsenic. These poisons create in
the smoker the habit of using opium
without being aware of it, and it's
craving can only be satisfied by an in
cessant use of cigarettes.
A SQUARE TRADE.-Sitting on
piazza overlooking Buzzards Bay, the
other afternoon, the landlord told us
the following story of Yankee cuteness.
" When I kept country store" said
mine host, "an old farmer came in one
day to make butter trade. He had a
lot of fresh butter and asked him how
much he wanted a pound for it. Four
teen cents, he anewered. Well, I'll
take it just as it stands was the reply,
and he put it down cellar without fur
ther comment. He th l ordered a lot