Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-12-07
GLEAHIHas

tnefe are Two POUNDS Oh Seeu
The Beers. like the Irish. do mot con-
ceal their hatred Of the English.
Gherkins in glass jars are largely
sent to Texas and Central America.
Thirty thousand horses q year are
needed to supply New York city's
demands.
The post-office department holds
more than one million dollars in un-
claimed money orders
'.Cedar Croft" Bayard Taylor's
home. nesr Kennett square. Philadel-
phia. has been sold at auction for
e14, ,o50.
The aggregate disbursements for PEN
sions since 1861 have amounted to
$500, 641, 234 The claimants have num-
bercd 472,776.
The finding Of the 500 Spanish doub-
looms under stump at Raleigh, N. G..
set all the idlers Of the town at work
sea-ching for the mythical treasures OF
Captain Kidd.
The arctic experience of the jean
nette survivors has proved that the
most comfortable footwear in winter
consists Of cotton and woolen socks
worn together.
John w. Fleming, the cattle-kipg of
Silver City, New Mexico. has sold his
White House ranch to an English com-
pany for 800, 900. The cattle range is
forty miles square.
Rams of choice breed fetch from
one thousand to two thousand dollars
in Australia, while first-class mutton
sells in Adelaide and Sydney for 81
cents the stone-fourteen pounds.
Twenty years ago it required Eve tons
of coal to make ton of iron rails. Now
ton Of steel rails may be produced
from the ore with half the amount OF
coal.
Every twenty-four hours LAO trains
pass the signal tower Of the Pennsylva-
mia railroad, on Filbert street, Phila-
delphia-a record that can be equaled
by no other point on the globe.
The wife of the Chinese Minister at
Washington is seventeen years OF age.
She does not receive visitors, OF course,
but with an attendant she drives out.
She is studying the English language.
Stanley, the African explorer, has so
won the confidence of the natives that
| the white men at the posts established
by him are no longer under the neces-
sity of carrying weapons. '
The two houses which w. II. Van
derbilt is going to construct on the cor
| ner of 54th street and 9th avenue, New
York. for his two married daughters,
will cost nearly a million dollars.
| Engravers are finding it difficult to
| procure good lockwood. The best for
ests of Turkey, upon which the bulk Of
! the supply depends. are being waste
! fully cut, and few new trees are being
planted.
Bartholdi's Liberty Enlightening
the World" which IL to be placed In
New York harbor. will weigh l50 tons.
| The height from heal to foot will be
ITO feet, and from the top of the torch
140 feet. 1t will be finished next year
at a cost of about Sl50,000.
America is responsible for having In
troduced the vice of chewing gum into
England. One American port ships
$4,000 pieces of spruce gum each week,
thus supplying 10000 moderate chew
ers with days allowance. Ten thou.
sand women chewing gum and only
one port heard from.
A prudent citizen of Vermont town
went and plugged the lock on the hand
engine house, SO that the next time
| there was fire in the town it took the
, firemen SO long to get the engine out.
that they didn't arrive at the scene OF
the conflagration in time to do any
damage.
Mrs. Bloomer, whose name will be
; handed down to posterity through the
medium of the bifurcated garmenture
for the gentler sex, is still living. She
is said to be "a quiet, sweet-faced old
lady," dressed without any Of the
trouseric foolishness of her younger
days.
A new way of making boys toe the
J mark comes to light in the Maine re
, form-school investigation. A boy testi
fies that whenever he used a ''swear
, wcrd'' the officers put red pepper in his
. mouth. Supt Harrington says thatsht
, adopted this kind Of punishment on &C
count of its novelty.
A recent visitor to Winnipeg. on th'
,, Red river. discovered the ruins Of thu
fort which belonged to n colony found
: ed in 1911 by Lord Selkirk, Scotcl
philanthropist. He came over witt
eighty families, but disheartened by ad
|, verses In 1925. he returned TO Scotland
some of the people accompanying him
and the rest scattering Throughout
! Canada.
: A curious problem has suggested Il
a self in Winnipeg. There are about 60
: cows in it and around the city, an
!, these produce 1000 gallons of milk pe
, day. Yet 1900 gallons OF milk are solt
. The question Is, how do the milkme
4 perform the miracle of selling 1900 ga
: Ions Of milk out Of the 1000 they q
v from the eowsp The answer is said ,
\ be, .'chalk, lime, salt and Red riv,
n water"
? The London Truth, discussing Il
- question of fees to serving people, tel
s this story in illus tration Of the poll
o that tips are seldom calculated on
}, proper basis: II remember once comir
o up in the train from Brighton with Il
Il late Mr.. Peabody. He had bag. .whi'
. porter carried for him, and he ga
o the porter a penny and half-pcnn
4 have estimated observed the pl
!anthropist, the value of that man
time over and above his salary. al
g what have given him is rather mo
r. than he ought to have The port.
"a however, did not smile"
N The Phrenotogicai journal calls
3 tention to the fact that women have q
u yet secured the right TO whistle.
q. thinks that they onght to have this RIG
~ ~ on several grounds. The practice
oI whistling tends to promote eheerfuln'
~ In the whistler. and also 10 strength
rs r. the lungs. Women need cheerfulne
'.' and good lungs just as much as men
:. and therefore the question Is, as
a- Journal says. why should not won
~ whistle ''as they rock the cradle or p
n9 form their household dutiesv'
,;s Mrs. Caudle was not . creature
az Jerrolds imagination. II seems. TIN
MI recently appeared ut court in Fl
"a "a land, one Candle. seeking for justice
a. his wife. He swore that she was alw,
"a hectoring and lecturing him. that |
nj locked him out. denied him food, q
an had even attacked him with kn
,,a For lack OF sureties Mrs. Caudle v
On committed to prison. "a cataslroph
Cd said the local reporter, 'that is aim
m. sufficient to make Jcrrold turn in
m grave"
est There In no profession in whicha n
hat stands more supremely on his me
than in that Of journalism. In mi
others, promotion is more question
nm influence, Of good fortune, or OF Iii
,Lo than of actual working capacity.