Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-10-14
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 Complaint is made of the scarcity of beef in Union county, Oregon.
 Scientific men say that perfumes ex- ert healthful influence on the atmos- phere, converting its oxygen into ozone.
 The University of Mississippi at Ox- ford has been opened in each of its de- partments to the admission of females.
 A curious freak of nature to be seen in Owensboro, Ky, is catalpa branch growing out of the side of large To- cust tree.
 There is tree known by the name of macaya on the coast of Vera Cruz from which excellent starch is said to be made.
 The product of bullion from the quartz mines of Idaho will this year ex- ceed by one-haf the product of any former year.
 It is reported that a mountain of ochre, of rich dark-vellow color and very soft, has been discovered short distance from Prince Arthur's landing, Lake Superior. It can be easily mined.
 A Scotch woman residing in Salem, Mass, not yet quite 40 years of age. has borne sixteen children in sixteen years, in no case twins. Thirteen are still liv- ing.
 Virginia drinks up her entire wheat crop annually. and it is stated that the liquor drank in Louisiana costs $47,- GOO, ,000-$2, ,000,0 ,000 more than its com bined cotton, sugar and rice crop.
 The Pail Mall Gazette sums up the evidence, and concludes that electricity is dearer than gas, and will always be, so long as gas can be furnished for three shlllings thousand feet.
 Charles Bradlaugh. the English infi- del, who has been unsuccessfully trying to get into parliament, says that he has just declined an offer of $1O,0OO in ad- vance for series of lectures in this country.
 It is neither safe, respectable, nor wise to bring any youth to manhood without regular calling. Industry, like idleness, is matter of habit. No idle boy will make an active and indus trious and useful man.
 The lumber business of the Pacific | coast has increased from single small saw-mill in 1S46, situated near Bodega, Sonoma county, to over $50 mills at the present time, with a cutting capacity of nearly 1000. .O00, ,000 feet an- nually.
 A bald eagle, with wings six feet from | tip to tip, was captured in an open field | by Luther Stewart of Union Springs, N. Y. one day last week. The eagle was watching for prey when Stewart saw it, and, approaching from behind, captur- ed the bird.
 It has been humorously suggested that some of the icebergs might be caught and lowed to the nearest harbol and practically utilized in various ways The idea does not seem so eXtravagant when we learn that one was seen only thirteen miles from Boston.
 The whole town of Mineral Ridge Mahoning county, O.. is caving in iron three to five feet in consequence of thu removal of the coal. The New York or three feet near the depot few day. ago. and the hole had to be filled witt cinders.
 It is believed that there are five thous and elk ranging on the headwaters O the streams and tributaries heading III in the Olympic range, Washington ter ritory, and putting into Gray's harbor Fish, both salt and fresh water, ar abundant. It is simply a paradise fo sportsmen.
 Vaccination properly conducted i now unquestionably the best proven tive of smallpox epidemics. But must be remembered that impure lympl may charge the body with disease which make life a prolonged misery, t
 which death itself is preferable. If phy sicians could he held to stricter ac
 countability, there would be little trcut
 le in making the practice of vaccina
 tion more general.
 ''Why do they call him brakeman? asked the child, after that excellent O ficial had looked in at the car door an
 ''hollered" one of the lamps out. '.Wh: does he break?'' '.He breaks the S lence." said the father; and the trai rolled on, laden with truth. At dinner-party clumsy footma l tiN NOlllCuto VI U SduCC-UOstI ONt the dress of one of the guests. .'Ho clumsy! What pity" says the lady
 the house. "How could you do such ! thing? As likely as not there won't b sauce enough to go round nowr' Miss Brown. who is no longer young l was chiding Miss Moire for her foolisl
 ness in carrying 8 parasol, which Mi. Brown said was useless, and piece a affectation. "I never carry parasol, - she said. ''No," replied Miss Moir' 9 people on the shady side of life hay , no use for them"
 Murder? Your honor, it wasn't murder, it was suicide. You see wanted to kill himself, and hadn't th l courage to. so he asked me, and su l cided him." But, why did you the
 take his watch and pocket book? "Why? Because he had no further us : for them-thats whyr' : "Johnny, here you are at the breal B fast table and your face is unwashed,
 said his mother, with a sharp look.
 know it, ma. saw the animalcules pas microscope last night, and I ain going to have those things crawling a
 over my face with their funny lit
 legs"