The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-07-29
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tor; but the patient is expected to do the |
dying.
A thirteen-year-ol girl in Louisiana
has heavy beard two inches long. This |
sounds like the talk of an advance agent |
for circus.
a Dutch judge in Nebraska on convic-
ton of a cu1prit for having four wives.
decided: He hash punishment plenty;
Ifs NIT oner'
Give young man good clothes and .
good character and he is fixed. He can
not do much with either one alone or
both without energy.
Electricity and pneumatic Tubes are
taking the place of cash-boys in various
cities. They don't talk back nor hide un-
der counters to escape calls.
A careful perusal of the Philadelphia
Ledger brings to light the startling in
formation that a man has recently died
in that city. Maps furnished upon ap
plication, to newspaper men. Outsiders
need not apply.
An exchange says that sharks on the
Atlantic coast are unusually stupid this
year, because they grab at an old suit
stuffed with hay when schoolma am Is
kicking the water two rods off. In JUS
tice to the shark let it be remembered
that although he is not strictly gramniv-
orous nor herbbiyerous, he prefers hay
to sawdust and cotton batting.
The price of land in the heart of the
city of London has recently been estab-
lIshed by the sale of building site at
the corner of st. Thomas Apostle and
| Queen streets, Cheapside, short dis.
tance east of ST. Paul's. The plat con-
tanned 1860 square feet and was sold in
1873 for e49U0, equal to $23, ,755. Lately
it was bought back for e10, 200, equal to
| $48, 500.
! Two of the brokers were watching
lady who was sitting in the gallery yes
terday, and wondering who she was,
when they noticed another broker
walk up and speak to her. Nov I know
who she is,' said one of the brokers;
.she's Jacks WIFE" "How do you
know?" because he neither took off
his hat nor shook hands when he spoke
to her." That settled it. Oil City
Derrick.
Alvah Clarke & Sons, of Cambridge,
are constructing the largest telescope in
the world for the Lick Observatory in
California. It will have thirty six
inch object glass, and will cost $50, 900
with the mounting. To test this instru-
ment the firm is constructing tower of
| brick supporting an immense iron cylin-
der with the necessary gearing. The in
strument will be finished within about
two years.
In this country, with a population of
50,000,0 900, there are 4,204, 1862 persons
above the age of Il years who cannot
write. OF this number 2,056, ,463 are
white, 1,747 900 negroes, about 800, 900
Indians and 100, 900 Asiatics. It is esti-
mated that in almost every State in the
union, and in the country as whole, the
balance of political power, so far as
numbers, is or can be in the hands of the
illiterate voters.
A countryman visiting Cleveland took
ride in horse car. When he desired
to stop the vehicle he pulled vigorously
at one of the hand straps dangling from
the rod above him. Then he sat down.
After repeating this operation three times
he was noticed by the conductor,
who gave the proper signal and stopped
the car. AS the countryman dismounted
in confusion he was heard to remark:
$50 many fxins on the goldarned thing
nd mix anybody
A company has been recently organ.
lied in Paris, with capital of 1000, ,000
francs, for the purpose of establishing in
New York museum modelled closely on
the Musee Grevin, situated on the boule
varde Montmatre The place will be
: known as Eden Musee Grevin, of New
J York, and will be situated somewhere
between Union and Madison squares, ,and
not far from, if off Broadway. The mu.
} scum, it is thought, will be ready early
: In 1888.
Pennsylvania may fairly claim to have
the stupidest man in the country. He is
farm hand near Lebanon and was hired
to plow ten-acre field. His boss, wish
ing him to pillow straight furrow direct
ed his attention to COW grazing in an
adjoining field and told him to drive di-
rectly toward her. On his return, half
an hour later, he found the COW had left
her place and was walking about, while
the hired man, in pursuit of her, was
driving zigzag furrow all over the
field
A San Francisco paper that has so
long opposed Chinese immigration that
it feels nothing but enmity for all for
eigners, says savagely: twenty-five
thousand greasy and unkempt 1mmi-
grants are the daily average now land
ing at Castle Garden for distribution
throughout our country. The land and
government that can digest the ignor-
ance, crime, squalor, disease and dirt
that is embraced in an annual million OF
immigrants must have the stomach of an
ostrich.
Mr.. Lambart of Beau Pare, Ireland,
one of whose daughters is Maid of Honor
to Queen Victoria, has had nine daugh-
ters, of whom eight survive. Lord AL
fred Paget, Clerk Marshall to the Queen,
has eight daughters all unmarried. There
is prevailing feeling in England to-day
that Protestant nunneries must soon
come into vogue. The Queen, mean
while, shows her sympathy as best she
can towards these quiversful, but Maids
of Honor rarely marry.