Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-17
GLEANINGS.

India raises 81, l,0O0,0O0 pounds moro
OF tea than ten years ago.
The newest canes for gentlemen have
hammered copper heads.
Georgia has $500 fish ponds stocked
with carp.
The electric light at Atlantic City
costs $3.50 for sixty nights.
"A marble query has been discovered
near Alpasco, state of Mexico.
The little toy murderer. commonly
called pistol, is chiefly manufactured at
Bridgeport, Conn.
"Make yourself q good man." said
Carlyle, land then you'll be sure there's
one rascal less in the world"
In east Texas walnut lumber sells at
800 to $3.50 per 1000 feet, or 10 cents
per foot.
1t is asserted that large amount of
counterfeit small silver coin is now be-
ing circulated in Mexico.
An Easton, Pa, mule grieved so at
the death of its working mate that it re-
fused to eat and starved TO death.
In Tom Green county, Texas. a Mr..
Reed found large centipede in his her,
house. It had killed three hens.
Texas yet has $4,000. 900 acres of un-
sold school lands. This will soon give
her the grandest school fund of any
country on the globe.
The school directors of Monongahela
City. Pa, require every lady teacher
employed to sign contract not TO mar
ry during the school year.
A Toledo patrolman, detailed to shoot
dogs. leaned his gun against the wall to
talk TO man. The gun fell down and was
discharged seriously wounding two
boys.
This queer item appears in New
London Comm paper: A camers-hair
shawl was found on Bank street side
walk Tuesday morning. The owner
! won't dare to claim it.
The burned district of Haverhill.
Mass, is being rapidly rebuilt, and it is
| predicted that the shoe manufacturers
will all be back in new buildings on
their old sites by the 1st of September.
The Arkansaw Traeeler's aged col
ored person says: "My idea OBJ de bet
ter worl is war dar is election goin' on
all de time, case den de white folks is
alters perlight."
j. II. Plummer, of West Brattlebor-
ough, VT, says there is rose bush in
his pasture which is more than ninety
/ years old, and he furthermore AYERS
that two bushels of buds have been
picked from it the present season.
During the first half of the present
year there were fourteen fatal colliery
explosions in different parts of Great
Britain. The loss of lives amounted to
Al. III 4 4
the entire year of 1881.
| One of the most instructive phases OF
the Egyptian imbroglio is the evident
disposition of the sphynx to rest his
head on the shoulder of the American
eagle and let the old bird put his arm
around him.-Sprinqfeld Republican.
Judge Tilden. of Cleveland, has given
long decision to the effect that steal
ing dogs is larceny under the laws of
the State of Ohio He fortified his po-
sition by quoting similar decisions in
this State, Kansas and New Hamp-
shire.
The Rochester Democrat says that
Captain Paul Boyton sounded the wa
ter below the upper Genesee Falls, and
found it over seventy feet in depth. He
made q search under the falls for Sam
Patch's bones, but failed to find even
Q vestige.
II didn't order that hisk-broom,r
| growled man in a Nassau street res
taurant, yesterday, pointing TO plate
the waiter had just brought. ''Why,
that is not a broom, sirr' What is il,
thenp" demanded the guest. ''Aspar-
ergrass," was the reply.
The Committee of the British ROYAL
Humane Society has Just had under in
vestigation large number of cases Of
saving, or attempting to save, life from
various parts Of the world, and has
made awards, six Of the recipients be-
ing boys ranging in age from 16 down
to ~ years.
The Rochester Post Express saws that
the apple crop in Monroe county will
not average one-quarter the usual
amount. One grower who usually picks
three thousand bushels will not have
fifteen this year. Those that are saved
will be of poor quality. The failure is
due to the louise and the cold rains.
Jack Slater and Philip Mann, sailors
on Lake Erie. leaped from their vessels
at the same time ut Erie to make fast
the hawsers. They were brought face
to face. and exchange of greetings took
place after n separation of thirty years.
They are Englshmen, and were sepa-
rated during the Sepoy war
Magnificent are the presents sent by
King Alfonso to the members of the
commission that took the order of the
Garter to Madrid Inst year. The prince
OF Wales received tapestries worth more
than S30,000. To the others are sent
some superb specimens of Toledo arms.
srichly encrusted with gold.
A deadly enemy has attacked the tel
egraph cables in the Indian ocean 1t
Is slender, flcsh-colored worm. from
Il to u inches in length, and provided
with curved cutting tools, that speedily
eats Its way through the hemp, sheet
Ing, and gutta-pcrcha, and penetrates
the copper wire. causing a "dcad. earth"
fault,
Mrs. Kate Chase has succeeded in n
suit for division of certain property
on Pearl street, Cincinnati. o.. once
owned by Chief Justice Chase, and in
which she has an undivided half inter-
est, and commission has been appoint
cd by the court to partition the proper
ty, or, in the event that il can not be
Justly divided. to value the same.
The khedive's wife. the vice auecp.
as she is called, is daughter Of III Ha-
mid Pasha, and granddaughter Of tho
famous Abbas Pasha. She Is "A heauti-
fnl and cultivated woman, who tender
ly loves hor husband and her four chill
area, and takes an active part in the
education Of the latter. The eldest boy
Abbas, and his brother are taught by n
swiss pedagogue, and the little girls are
under the care Of an English nusse.
Adam Forcpaugh writes to the Gin.
oinnati Commercial that his biz ele.
phant Bolivar is still growing, and as
elephants are said 10 increase in size un.
I'll 100 years old, 1t will be impossible
Tor him 10 travel Bolivar by railroad
next season, as his car is already up to
the height limited by railroads. lie has
therefore decided at the end of this sea-
son To present the animal to the qrccn
, of England. To take the place of Jumbo
In the Royal Geological garden.
, Giovanni Dominica, a wood-chpppcr
, at Antelope valley. Nevada, having
: drank considerably, cut a corn. which
/ was troubling him, so deeply as To- sever
small artery. He then walked TO hi,
. cabin. about fifteen miles distant, in hi,
bare feet, and went to bed. His part
l ner found q pool Of blood at the foot %
the bed in the morning, and awakened