Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-11-25
GLEANINGS.

The south will make seven million gallons of cotton-seed oil this year.
 Edgar Allan Poe's house in Rich mond, Va, is to be used for a hotel.
 A lot of mountain trout have been placed in the Nermillion river at Hast ings.
 Mrs. John Jacob Astor gives more money to the poor than any lady in the country.
 Bootblacks are licensed at Jackson, Tenn, and assigned to stands through out the city.
 There are about 220,O telephones in use in the country, and the number is increasing at the rate of over 800 month.
 The most astonishing thing about the disappearance of q man from Cleveland is that he had paid in advance his board for full week
 Mrs. Garfield has no intention of abandoning the Mentor homestead, her removal to Cleveland being but tenn porary, to continue while her younger children are at school there.
 A factory for the manufacture of im- itation sealskin is to be established at Holyoke, Mass, by men from Bradford, England. It is stated that S100,0e0 will be invested, and that one hundred men will be employed in the business.
 During the past year several thousand acres of foot-hill land around Union, in eastern Oregon, has been fenced for pasturage. Those who have tried it pronounce q hill pasture as good for winter stock as stock of hay.
 John Most, who was sent to prison by a London jury sixteen months ago for publishing seditious matter in his news paper, the Freiheit, will pay visit to this country upon his release, and will speak in the principal cities.
 A North Carolina clergyman has been living for the past eleven years on a salary of s per week, but now an- nounces that he must have raise of $1 or ten shillings. or be compelled to ac- cept a call to do cooper work.
 Nj. Saint-Paul has offered the French Academy of Medicine a sum of 25,000 francs to found prize for the discove- " of cure for diphtheria. The com petition is open to all the world, and not confined to the medical profession
 When hear it said of man whose body is being conveyed to its last rest ing-place that he had not an enemy in the world" 1 feel like attaching this epitaph to his tomb: Here lies buried flint that never struck firer'-Henry Hard Bcecher.
 The devious ingenuity of deviltry has been illustrated in New Orleans, where some petty counterfeiters have been making bogus saloon drink cheeks to such an extent that several of the rum shops are threatened with financial ruin.
 It has been found that lime juice of itself will not produce scurvy at sea, and that too much reliance is placed upon it to the neglect of other food. Lime juice, however, in connection with fresh or preserved meat and vegetables, may prevent scurvy.
 Probably the largest and best paid army in the world is that composed by the railroad employees in this country, they numbering about 100000, with 100000 at work on railroad construc- one-eighth of the working force of the country, reckoning only adult males.
 Senator Lamar is alleged to have ex- pressed a willingness to pass the re- mainder of his days as a professor in the university of Georgia. He could have the chancellorship if he desired it, but prefers the less responsible position, which, in all probability will be ten dered him.
 4 Buffalo gentleman waiting for a train at Aylmer, Ont. saw q woman slip upon something and nearly fall. He hurried to assist her and helped her to rise, and as he did so she dropped a valise which proved to be his own, which he had left in the depot few minutes before, and which she was at tempting to steal.
 Dr. R. G. Alexander, writing in an English medical paper, says that neu- ralgia is a disease arising from debility; that it is increased by disease, mental or bodily, but is relieved by food, and sometimes by stimulants. Pure air, night and day, and perfect cleanliness 1 are advised.
 A stranger called at house in Bur 1 lington, Iowa. and borrowed hatchet. 1 Then he went out to the front gate and, using one of the posts for 8 chop l ping block, deliberately chopped off one of his fingers. He departed leaving the 1 finger on the gate post, the hatchet on the ground, and the entire population lost in wonder and surprise.
 The depth and strength of Nevada dust is shown in the case of the man who had kept his seat on the top of a stage so long that he was crusted all over to the depth of an inch with lava dust, and was unable to get down or even move hand or foot until the crust was removed with hammer and chisel It was like cutting the scale of 8 set oi boiler tubes.
 ''Nine tailors do not make man. and, it seems, never did. The original word was ''taler," meaning the tally ol tale of strokes upon the bells tolling fol the dead. One stroke was for an in fant three for girl nine for a man. So passers-by would say: ''Nine taller: make q man, which, considering that it was the unmaking of the man, was 2 curious thing to say.
 Some interesting relics were exhibit ed at the bi-centennial celebration O Bucks County, Penn. Among them were the original bill of sale of Easterr Pennsylvania by the Six Nations tC William Penn; a powder-horn present ed by Uncas, the last of the Delawares |