Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-10-26

'draWng cdrS over tne New 1Ufx bruUks
!, |TId FIJI itraag ii 6iNs Nsxs REEQ Scon,se i
menced more than q fortnight earlier
ttIan last year Y1rfy N
II Since those whom the. gods love die
young. Puck thinks thas tho gods cam
not love Spring chickens --------- ,---
The sRresqnt population Of Russia il /
45.006,OO0. hating Increased rapidly
since 1870. when it was shout IS, SOC. 600.
~ Mark Twain remarks that an Ne need
to possess the finest navy in the world
Is ships we have plenty Of water.
=. it win require several years yet to
complete the Washington monument
The entire cost is estimated at SS.000.-
~ il is proposed to erect an equestrian
st&tue of General Harrison, the hero Of
Tippecanoe, atone of the gates Of Cir.
Gle Park indianapolis. - s'i'.s, ass,i
Turkish wheat, which was introduced
into Kahsas two years ago, is in great
demand for milling 1T Minneapolis.
whithss shipments are being made. -.
= For the first time in It's history no
liquor Is sold n Louisville, the old cap
ital of Georgia. or in-she county Of jeff
erson.
"A veteran of Waterloo, who was one
of the party that fired over the grave Of
Sir John. Moore. has inst died q pauper
in a London workhouse. -. =,
There are at present $1,000 Pennsyl-
vanians living IN Kansas, -fe7 700 Suck
ers, 77.000s Hoosiers and O., 600 Buck
eyes. .i x.n;-, riw s..l, ....,..,5,.
An English authority on good man.
ners says: at Is inadnissible- to speak
of lunch--'aperson of any pretensions
to good breeding would call it lunch
eon.n
It is stated that Levy, the cornetist,
gets more salary than an editor. He
does, and it isn't fair. We know lots
of editors who are bigger blowers than
Levy.-Lynn Bee. 'ssl7T q p A'1Asiasi' &
Lady Habberton's now celebrated di-
yiied skirt, introduced into London last
season. is worn in the English mountain
regions by the most fearless lady climb
ers. ~ 81 4fgif 8f'sf.4 sdi CT Z &
''a An obituary notice in q Mormon pa
per in Salt Lake city closes touchingly:
''He leaves nine widows and thirty
eight children 10 mourn his irreparabie
loss" ..f. ..,g ,;..,s... -.
A philosopher says: "The man who
laughs is the sympathetic man" It is
astonishing how many symrhthizers
man has when he sits down and hurts
himself.
josh Billings two springs in the
White Mountains are In excellent con-
dition. and over the cup of the one near
Emerald Pool is the legend, TAX a
drink, mi friend, but don't tax the cup
Yurs, without q struggle, josh Billings."
a The spring water sold in Boston is
from little mineral springs in the sub
urbs. Many little establishments hare
sprang up in Boston for its sale. The
water is first aerated and then. sold at 2
cents q glass. ~" y s''f'Fi ''i'' p
+ The Church Of England is said to re-
ceiye rents from more public houses
than any brewers firm, in the country.
On the premises II the Archbishop OF
> Canterbury himself is a public house
whose revenues from the sale of liquor
are 10000 year.
The British Museum has acquired 13S
volumes of Oriental manuscripts dating
from $50 !, TO ,1045, They consist of
Arabic commentaries on the Bible,
written by Knraite Jews; of Karaite and
-...oviaicq litMgies and hymns, and of
-,.Jas Dolernic and other treat;sas
A member OF the Quebec Legislature
receives SHU0 year for his scrviees.l
The reduction OF this salary TO $500 is
being agitated by some of the Canadian
newspapers A New York legislator
receives $1,000 per annun. and fire.
quently manages to dopble that amount
before the session is over.
Aletter from Montana says: "Hel-
ena has developed into n lawful and
quiet city,; II has none of the shcot-
ing and hurrahs of oldcn times, and
which charaeterize the younger towns
. of the Territory. The variety theatre,
which is literally supported in newer
towns, will not subsst here" - a"t's7A
Tradition says that beer was first
made at Potassium ON the Nile, 400 B.
C.; but nowadays only crude kind of
barley beer Is made by the natives in
. 'Egypts There is,, however, a brewery
2 Vi Cairo. owned by 9, Geneva c, lnpany,
= and worked on the German system,
2
+ At the meeting of the Free Thinkers
Association at Watkins, n. Y, Court
land Palmer, of Pennsylvania, delivered
q lecture in which he urged the adop-
tion Of new. calendar, TO date from
1900 A. D., at which time Bruno was
burned by the inquisition at Rome for
declaring that there were other worlds
tuhH OUTS. stAua..t,.fty.-.t. =, E.-....
According to a native Japanese pa
per, the picturesque old junks which
have 80 often figured in stories and
pictures of maratime life in the far East
are rapidly disappearing, at least rs far
as Japan is concerned. ShipbuildIng in
Japanese style il SO far giving place TO
foreign construction that by and by
there will be no such thing as a Junk
except In paintings.
The sins of chinatown" San Fran
cisco, are summed up In one months
record OF arrests, to-wit: Visitors to
tan games. 30; keeping lottery agencies.
IA; visitors TO lottery places, IL; having
lottery tickets in possession, 13; keep
ing opium places, 3; visitors TO opium
places, 26; battery, 2; obstructing side
walk, /; total, 16l. Of thass, al r.,o
sent to the County Jail and 2 TO the
House Of Correction. Cash received
from fines, $2,279. .a.,......- i.
The farmers Of the Dcerfeld valley
region. Massachusetts, to the number
OF about l.A0,. climbed to the summit
Of Mt Pocumtuck recently, 10 shake
hands with Governor Long. who then
Tor the drst time visited that part of
the State. That mountain was named
twentysseyen years ago by a party of
students from Amherst and Williams
Colleges. among whom was James A..
Garfield, ,s.......r +.ye &C.,. a..
In Merchantville, N. j., a magistrate
fined boy 81 for swearing. This FUR
nishes a basis for calculation TO a
brother Of Colonel Sellers, who lives In
Camden. He reekons that In Camden
County there ara 20, 600 people, half Of
| whom swear. That would be S3J. 600
for an oath apiece. Each fellow swears
fifty times day. That makes sl $780,
oo0 daily, income. S12, $50, 900 per week,
shd, counting twcpty-six good working
\ days to- the month $500, 600 each
month.ita Ilt3 tefs tss Yi. ~ pa
Perhaps Victor Hugo does 10 more
kissing than any other old gentleman.
but IL seems that way because lie Il moi
able 70 kiss without the world knowing
I It He has been kissing the female dry.
| goods clerks from Boston who are max
Ing European trip for their sumnse.
| vacation. The correspondent writes
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