Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-09-14
GLEANINGs.

iyn Bridge.
The Fall trade of New York COM
menced more than a fortnight earlier
than last year.
Since those whom the gods love die
young, Puck thinks that the gods al
not love Spring chickens.
The present population Of Russia Is
las, 100000, having increased rapidly
since 1870, when it was about So, 500, 600.
Mark Twain remarks that all we need
to possess the finest navy In the world
is ships-for we have plenty of water.
1t will require several years yet to
complete the Washington monument.
The entire cost is estimated at $780,
600. 4
1t is proposed to erect an equestrian
statue Of General Harrison, the hero of
Tippecanoe, at one of the gates of Cir
Gle Park, Indianapolis. /
Turkish wheat, which was introduced
into Kansas two years ago, is in great
demand for milling at Minneapolis,
whittier shipments are being made.
For the first time in its history no
liquor is sold in Louisville, the old cap
ital Of Georgia, or in the county Of jeff
erson.
A veteran of Waterloo, who was one
of the party that fired over the grave of
Sir John Moore, has Just died q pauper
in q London workhouse.
There are at present $1,000 Pennsyl-
vanians living in Kansas. 107, 900 Suck
ers, 1900 Hoosiers, and $4,000 Buck
eyes. |
An English authority on good a
ners says: at is inadmissible to speak
of lunch-a person of any p%retensions
to good breeding would call it lunch
con-"
1t is stated that Levy, the cornetist,
gets more salary than an editor. He
does, and it isn't fair. We know lots
of editors who are bigger blowers than
Levy.-Lynn Bee.
Lady Habberton's now celebrated di-
vided skirt, introduced into London last
season, is worn in 1.-THE English mountain
regions by the most fearless lady climb
ers.
An obituary notice in a Mormon pa
per in Salt Lake city closes touchingly:
HE leaves nine widows and thirty
eight children to mourn his irreparable
loss"
A philosopher says: 1.-THE man who
laughs is the sympathetic man." 1t is |
astonishing how many sympathizers a
man has when he sits down and hurts
himself.
Josh Billings two springs in the
White Mountains are in excellent con-
dition, and over the cup of the one near
Emerald Pool is the legend, TAX a
drink, mi friend, but don't tax the cup. |
Rnrc UithOnf a Sfry1npfo -Insh Rilipr r., ~
The spring water sold in Boston is |
from little mineral springs in the sub
urbs. Many little establishments have
sprang up in Boston for its sale. The
water is first aerated and then sold at 2
cents a glass.
The Church of England is said to re-
ceive rents from more public houses
than any brewers firm in the country. |
On the premises Of the Archbishop Of
Canterbury himself is a public house
whose revenue from the sale OF liquor
are 100000 a year.
The British Museum has acquired 1888
volumes Of Oriental manuscripts dating
from $50 to 1045. They consist Of
Arabic commentaries on the Bible,
written by Karaite Jews; of Karaite and
Rabbinic liturgies and hymns, and of
various polemic and other treatises.
The Hon. Trenor W. Park, of North
Bennington, VT, has bought a mansion
and extensive grounds In that town
which he proposes to convert into q
home for destitute children and infirm
women. He will endow the institution
with half a million dollars. The Boston
Herald says that this act will do much
to soften some of the hard things which
have been said about Mr.. Park in the
past in connection with politics and
railroads.
A member of the Quebec Legislature
receives $500 q year for his services.
The reduction of this salary to $500 is
being agitated by some of the Canadian
newspapers. A New York legislator
receives 1880 per annum. and fire.
quently manages to double that amount
before the session is over.
A letter from Montana says: "Hel-
ena has developed into q lawful and
quiet city. 1t has one of the shoot
ing and hurrahs Of olden times, and
which characterize the younger towns
of the Territory. The variety theatre,
which is literally supported in newer
towns, will not subsist here"
Tradition says that beer was FIRST
made at Potassium on the Nile, 400 B.
c.; but nowadays only q crude kind of
barley beer is made by the natives in
Egypt. There is, however, a brewery
In Cairo, owned by 8 Geneva c-mpany,
and worked on the German system,
which can turn out 400 barrels a week.
At the meeting Of the Free Thinkers
Association at Watkins. N. Y, Court
land Palmer, of Pennsylvania. delivered
. lecture in which he urged the adop-
ton Of . new calendar, to date from
1,600 A. D., ut which time Bruno was
burned by the inquisition at Rome for
declaring that there were other worlds
than ours.
According to q native Japanese pa
per, the picturesque old junks which
have so often figured in stories and
pictures Of maratime life in the far East
are rapidly disappearing, at least as far
as Japan is concerned. Shipbuilding in
Japanese style is 80 far giving place to
foreign construction that by and by
there will be no such thing as q junk
except in paintings.
The sins of chinatown" San Fran
cisco, are summed up in one months
record of arrests, to-wit: Visitors to
tan games, IS; keeping lottery agencies,
IA; visitors to lottery places, II; having
lottery tickets in possession, 10; keep
ing opium places, B.; visitors to opium
places, 26; battery, 2; obstructing side
walk, /; total, 161. OF these, Al were
sent to the County Jail and 2 to the
House of Correction. Cash received
from fines. 81, 279.
The farmers of the Deerfield valley
region. Massachusetts,, to the number
of about 1900, climbed to the summit
Of Mt. Pocumtuck recently, to shake
hands with Governor Long, who then
for the first time visited that part of
the State. That mountain was named
twenty-seven years ago by . party Of
students from Amherst and Williams
Colleges, among whom was James A.
Garfield.
In Merchantville, N. j., q magistrate
fined q boy 81 for swearing. This fur
nishes . basis for calculation to a
brother Of Colonel Sellers, who lives in
Camden. He reckons that in Camden
County there are TO- 900 people, half OF
whom swear. That would be $35, 900
for an oath apiece. Eachfellow swears
fifty times q day. That makes 81, $780,
600 daily, income, $12, $50, 900 per week,
and. counting twenty-six good working
dava IN tho month 001Q Sn0 0fn ooof