The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-06-21
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Tacks are made at the rate of ,1O
u minute.
The average value Of cut flowers
sold in London is FL 100.
1t is estimated that over sOJ Ameri.
cans are studying art in PIris.
Professional beauties in England
and America are way below social
par.
The present total production Of the
oil regions Is about 81 ,'n>0 barrels q
day.
Judge Lswrenson, of the P0stofIice
Department, entered the postal service
in lSls.
An entire suite Of bedroom furni-
ture made Of glass il the freak of a
Spanish grandee.
Fruit growers all along the Hudson
are predicting enormous yields Of all
kinds Of fruit.
The German Army pension bill for
The current year appropriafes $5.i74,-
mo for pensions.
In Hudson, Columbia county, n, Y.
Is the largest apple orchard i'm the
world-50. OOo trees on 360 acres.
About Is per cent Of the land Of the
United States, nearly lOO,U0O ,OO in all,
remains unsurveyed.
The Massachusetts, Senate has
passed u bill paying one dollar ton
bounty on beets raised for sugar max
ing.
The United States branch mint in
New Orleans Is preparing TO coin -
U1, O0b standard silver dollars this
year.
There are ,3O0 churches west Of the
Mississippi river without churches or
regular preaching of any kind
Italy produces more silk than China
and the two nations furnish nearly
three quarters Of the worlds supply.
There were $50 patents granted iu
Germany between May and October,
for inventions connected with cleo
tricity.
English mines yielded l56, 500, 600
tons Of coal in 1885,. and employed sol, :.
90 men. France produced %, 25l ,5Sl
tons In 1852.
Philadelphia's City Hall has already
cost ~, 100. II il estimated that
S,Nn,uo will he needed to complete it,
The insurance statisticans now saw
that men live two years longer than
they did thirty years ago, and women
three years and four months longer.
II is said that during the last three
or four months over a hundred girls
have been graduated into welded life
from the Treasury Department at
Washington.
Since the war twenty-seven homi.
cides have been committed in Rabun
county, Georgia, and not single con-
viction for any grade of crime has
been had.
The ofiicial report Of q committee Of |
Aldermen In New York relates that
$40 persons have been killed within /
the limits Of that city by steam cans
since 1865.
0ainsborOugh straw hats, lined with
white velvet and trimmed with white
plumes, are the acme Of ELEGANCE and
style for park riding" says an ex-
change.
An amateur artist, son OF . wealthy
Boston merchant, has taken twelve
instantaneous photographs Of yachts
In motion, and they are said 10 be ex-
quisite works.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
adopted . resolution recognising "the
ability, services, and integrity Of
Oakes Ames and asking Congress TO
lake similar action. -.
Whenever . lady narries o mewber
Df the imperial family Of Russia, she
has TO renOuuce her religion, Tit II
not Of the Greek church, and accept
that Of her husband.
There ore q 500 membeFsof the bar
d kugiand Is Pei cent. ofohem are
ID PfaCetce abroad 81 per ceut. IN prac-
ice 1t home, and 50 per cent. do not
appear TO practice Ct all.
II = eeainaAeds that ~ nansn
Cath0lle chuRcA ln 0sn6e NSifnan-hae
'rebled its churches and increased its
membership two and one-half fold In
he last forty years.
According 70 Official slnlistics the
OeAl number - Geeman iseuhieV<nts
Turing the twelve years from 1871 to
$50 Wa 81, 366. OF theop ISL ,7Ol
wsnt TO the United States. |