The river press., 1882-03-29
INTERESTING.

not fall short Of 10000 900 pounds.
A sofa which once belonged to Washing
ton, and which for many years has been the
property of the Uaion league of Philadelphia
has been presented to the city and will be
placed in Independence hall.
1t may be gratifying to the public sentl-
ment to know that petitions to President
Arthur for the pardon of Sergeant Mason
are being numerously signed 10 Cincinnati
and Washington. Petitions will be plentiful
and they may not be in vain.
A California man is said to have devised
an application of weights and clock work as
a'mo,ive power for working a pump. 1t is
claimed that the machine will not cost one
third as much as wind mill, is noiseless,
more durable and Away under control.
DR.. Mary Walker, clad in the garb which
has given her distinction among her sex,
made an early cali upon Mr.. Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury New, and assured him
that correct and proper thing to do would
be to place DR.. Mary Walker on the pay roll.
Two Illinois girls OF eighteen and nineteen
started early last fall to make tour OF the
West on bicycles, followed by man servant
with baggage. They have been spending
the winter in Texas and will soon start over
land for Florida From Florida they will
come North along the coast.
When Daniel Webster died, fund OF
$50 900 was raised in Boston for the support
of his widow. Ali these years it has done
its benz ficent work, and nothing much has
been said about it. Under the conditions Of
the donation, the principal sum is now to be
returned to the original subscribers or their
heirs
Tourists are clamorously beset by hotel
runners ut jacksonville, Fla. A consump.
tive traveller, being surrounded by an unusu-
ally turbulent throng of these people on his
arrival, drew revolver and drove the
crowd out of the railroad station. He was
then allowed to 60 undisturbed to the hotel
of his own selection.
The auroche, or wild oxen, which survive
only in the imperial forests of Lithuania and
Poland, threatened few years ago to be-
come extinct, and strict orders were issued
for their preservation. Under imperial pro-
lection they have~mulliplied to about six
hundred head, and hunt was recently per-
mitted. Two aurochs were killed and sent
to st. Petersburg.
The largest excess of males over females
in ou: population is in Montana, where it is
158 per cent. and the smallest excess is in
Mississippi. the per centage being four-tenths.
Kentucky's male population is only two per
cent. larger than her female population. In
Arizona it is 130 per cent larger. Ia Nevada
1873 per cent. larger. Girls are needed badly
in all the Western territories.
Beneath most of the villages in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania are caverns made
by the process of mining. ''Sooner or late1," !"
the Philadelphia Times predicts, "some Of
these towns will suffer from caving in. The
mines depend upon artificial and in some
cases exceedingly flimsy con'rivances to keep
them open and hold the surface in pl ce.
As the timbers decay or become displaced it
will follow"
The conversion of Gen. Abe Buford,
during the recent religious revival IN Louis
vile, KY, caused great deal of surprise
throughout that region. Another notable
convert was Warren Wiley. Between Buford
and Wiley there had long been bitter feud,
and they never met without arousing expec-
tations of bloodshed. They came together a
few days ago. The spectators felt that a
severe test of their professions of change
of heart was to be made. The two men
shook hands cordially and took drink to-
gether.
The usual predictions of short peach
crop have somehow been forgotten this year.
There were such prophecies last November
or December, but they were palpably prema-
ture. A Delaware paper even declares that
in that State and on the Peninsula the
chances are of an abundant supply, adding
that most of the risks are past. No doubt
there is time yet to ruin these fine anticipa-
tions, but this years peach crop will proba.
bly, far surpass last years, which was very
small, though it may not equal the extraor,
dinary one of 1880.
The Post Office is good business baron.
eter One of Mr.. Howe's subordinates hai
taken the trouble to tell US what eleven of the
principal Offices of the country are doing ir
the 'sprofts department, which is the offic
ial title of that branch of the service which