The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-11-09
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Minister hatniln Will Spenu tue
winter in this country.
Harper Bros. are to erect q branch
house in Cincinnati.
The Catholic Review says there are
lO,OOO,OO0 Catholics In the United
States.
Lieutenant Thackary, General Sher.
mans son-in-law, has resigned from
the navy.
Daniel Seals. Of CleavelaIld, Is said
to be the wealthiest cOlored man In
America
Table covers Of coarse netting over
light colored silk are the latest thing
in decorative art.
The Chinese are progressing in civ
ilization. A San Francisco heather
has forged note.
There were more people killed and
wounded ON British railroads last year
than all the British casualties In the
Egyptian war.
Bismarck Is easily offended. A Ber-
lin butcher named one Of his products
1.-The Bismarck sausage" and for 30
small thing was arrested.
A north-country nshwife went TO
Luy q dress. "None Of your gaudy
coiOrs for me-" she said nj once TO the
man ut the counter; 'give me plain
red and yellar."
Richard Coughlin, Of Paterson. aged
seventy-one years, was the first con-
ductor on the Paterson and Hudson
River Railroad, and Is said to be the
oldest conductor In the world.
A man over sixty years Of age IL re-
ported by the Brifish Medical Journal
TO have made l56 miles i'm twenty four
hours on q tricycle.. A younger rival
lid lS0 miles In the same time.
When a man kuIns to me for advice,
find out the kind of advice he wants,
aud give IL to him this satisfys him
that he and are two NJ smart men NJ
there il living Josh Billings.
The oldest printer actively engaged
I'm his profession In Grandpa Prescott,
Of Iowa, who ut the age of ninety
years sets type every working day In
the composing room Of the Corning
Gd-cffe.
A religious editor, or rather the edi-
tor of = religious paper. wrote Q rebuke
to Q New York belle on account of her
''trousseau worth Sl25, Co.," but the
cOmpositor got Il trousers, and the
good man swOre for the first time I'm
his life.
Consul Stevens writes from China
that the chain pumps, which were
sold largely In this country not many
years ago. have been in use i'm China
over 2.OOO yean. Double-headed tarks
too. have been used there for many
centuries.
The London academy Is authority
Tor the statement that the revisers Of
the Old Testament have made such
progress In their work that they will
have the revision completed in few
months, and ready for publication by
the close Of next year.
A few miles away from Philadelphia
are living . family Of triplets, two
men and . woman, who are sixty
years Of age, They are the children
Of an old Lutheran clergyman named
Rollers, and are all bale and hearty.
These triplets have always lived to-
rether. fhe brothers are married,
but the sister has remained spinster.
An item was recently published
. family at Logan, Kas-,
which has Loot i've servant girls In sue.
cessioa by marriage. The Kansas
state Commissioner Of Agriculture
has been overwhelmed by letters froin
Eastern girls asking the name of the
family and the nearest route to II.
A North Carolina correspondent of
the Atlanta Constellation writes: II
suppose Morehesd city IL the only city
in the world without . wheel In II.
I do not think there IL wagon or n
buggy horse 10 town and very few In
the country. Everything is done in
boats There 10 not . house in the
that boat cannot get within
. mile Of. Not . doctor or . lawyer In
the country owns . horse they pfac-
lice In boats The people 20 to funer-
ale in boats. and when they arrest .
man they carry him to jail In boat. T"
An exchange refers to him - "pris-
matte spirited Wattefson." The sun.
beam that thus enhuss him II the re-
dected radiance Of Democratic success
- he esteems u.
Vineyards pay just ten times -
Il h estimated that 5000, 900 gallons
n wine will Be made there this year.
Jay Gould h not large. but it h safs
10 say no nailroad train will run over
him. II h the other fellows who are
generally In danger.
Buekwheas cakes ere pearly ripe. II
b noticed that Pe0nsylvanla hes .
sFD0 thin vonP AZ N 00 hs,ahD2n n
buckwheat.
There arc now $50 Indian children
u the Carlisle school.
Davis. Of Wet Virginia, b assured
u his reelection to The United States
3enste.