, 1882-09-29
CLIPPINGS.

NOW q SOU,Uo' OO"'''o"'" 10 '"'"0' We
ooo hundred acres Of potatoes brought
Snmner county. Tenn, farmer $4,000.
He had planted the second crop.
There is a clock in Nantucket that
sbows the movement of the tides F"d
nlanets. one wheel OF the clock reqCir-
imr 100 years to complete single revolu-
ton
The Indignation mentioned hy one OF
our MON NJ contemporaries among ire
n,o, L. ui ,his county in consequence of
tbe defpa, Of Mr. jacobs, doesn't seem
70 b. o, a wides pr,ad character IN 'act
". bavnt noticed any outside OF lie
Post Building Seattle NerW'd
How many lenses are 'herc?" asked
ihe teachei Of ihe boy. 'SeveI. ;pswcr-
ed thc boy, the present. the perfect. The
;mpe ,"c. tbe pluperfect, The first fnnre,
ibeserond future, and he Oscar Wilde
Why asked she, what tense is he?'
or repliel the boy he's intense
John Riddle, sen elced TO one wears
com nement in the cOln,y Jail of Naila
Walla count. in Nov. 1851, for horse
stealinr, has been pardoued out BY the
royerlo". Riddles health was failing.
The ploaccrt rg attorney signed the pc
i3ioi rep,iave. Had he been n Texas
he would have been Ridd.al with bullet,
A PARTY of CO families are now on TIE
wpy f,om Mon ana via the Mullen road
Lonnd ior Cr2b creek county, in tie
l.. Lend. Tv enty-six Wagons arrive /
IN .Spokan last Monday, and the balar zee
arc expected in about two weeks. This
il but o Instance of the rapid manner
in which the Big Bend county is filling
up.
During 1881 there were IN Alexandria
SC75 deaths, being SO per l,C00 Of popu-
la,ios. Amorg the resident foreigners
the rate YVES 1876 per 100 Both rates
are very high. WFs 'Pst coasus showed
the whole population 10 be 2i2.E3i, OF
whom G!,71S vece Egyp,ifns "1d 1876
foreigners. hH rep)r5 for tri3 yea:
will probably Slow slight increase.
The quiet cisy of Des Moincs, in iowa,
has become 50 infested with g'rro'ers
that the citizens talk Of orga ni2ng a
vigilance commi tee and making an ex.
ample of the rutlians. There is nothing
so elfcctual in dealirg with gentry %
this class as lynching party; hut the
next best thing is Judge who will sou
tenc every one convicted TO term Of
twenty years. The latter method discour-
aged carroting il this city, AMI we bave
no doubt would work equally well in
Iywa.-S. L. Chronicle,
NJ. owev raSis'a o. he land Office
he's Just bcel gr1nicl al allowanc, for a
clerk, waicl las been needed ia tlat
Office for yeas, it being physical i'm
r1ss:bi ity for one mar 60 do TIE VIZ. of
the Office. Nh g.. S..issler has .u.o.ved
the appOntneL q, nd will he a. excel
large cle.i2al and dep. rtment.! e1pei-
ence, and Las also become fam" with
the Office uur,nG NJ. Conveys rlce.t uy-
we're il.Icss. COnriCr
Gold9ndale hat population of 600
and - so!ool in i. Tue Crs. titles
short time sil'a p'Cced the lch2J9 a.
$500 n veir. ILis ,.oount wr9,tc leG
zoo e"Crb''GpJ, 20 y. C"e IN rctdi' aGe
wepJ Gu Of bra 4, 81. Thus Colileudale
may be set l. !, s.T5 Cousida"cd the
most tempecL.; al ii WaslGn., Dl
Territory. ElN reDuI C ~ of K'cii
tat county haya r'c,d hisl j, MS
plank in thel, atom and are TAI sing
on thai i5saa.
LANE CoUV Y, Oregon.w,ll haze about
Sl25C00 worth of hops tLi5 &c r. - anu
several other ralts Of the state vii! Lave
ccnsdi -al,e quantities, and il il c 'i2ia-
ted thcS Oregon ard Washin ton viii
have Gnout hpl' million dollars from
this one Frti1,e, alone, this year. The
cauGe OF lie IRE advance in the price o.
p, i, ib.,k hnr nlI
stocks on rand j n Germany or England,
nor anywhere OF. the globe, and the crop
isa complete failure in nearly every place
excepJ on tie Pacific slope. In some
plac,s the vines have gone into the black
bliSl,, an irr ,parable ruic. The iestruc-
tion Of V -Gylrds in France and Germany
has Gimos. stopped the production Of
wine in these cOuntrioj.
81 ,',E PHENoNENoN.-The Portland
Stordr,H savs that at poiut in the
WlllcW ., river, about nine miles below
Salem, il =; ripple show pg shrilnw water
from Lr. 10 lluk. and Gt this stage con
easily % oriel by a lnai on horseback.
Lest SatGrJ?y afternoon a6ouv : O'Clock.
wlthou, any ulusus u' ,jutbance, be
river stcplce running irst above tne
flpnleS, tue Gnter disappearing mo TIC
ePr,h, loav'ug the enti;e bed Of the river
from siofe to shore 'orc :ot distanc,
OF abou, '0l Feet. Below ne bare ground
the r,ver s4l lowed on as ttanquilly as
eye,. On examination IL showed that
the be- OF ,re river above the rapids had
broken through, and That there was a
subtsrraraau passage 90. tbe wPter. This
remark, Die phenomenon lasted about
'nree h0urs wiel tue river resumed itS
n,tdial conditol.
Soon alter the great Edmund Burke
mad been making one OF his powerful
speeches i'll Parliment, his brother Rich
ard was found sitting silent in reverie;
and Whel asked by friend what he was
thin- luy about he replied: 81 have been
wondering how Ned hls contrived 10
monopollle all the talents OF our family.
but then | remember that when We
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