The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-27
Odds and Ends.


The original "Bucket Shop" was cooper
shop.
Dudes are now called "slims" That's too
thin.
Bancroft the historian, celebrated his SD
birthday October 10th.
Guiteau's skeleton is in the Army Medical
Museum at Washington.
Robert j. Bnrdette has recovered from his
recent injuries and is lecturing again.
Queen Victoria is spending much money
on the monument to Brown.
The King of Greece and the Emperor of
Russia are each 38 years old.
1t is darkly limited that DIR. Mary Walker
pants for the Presidency.
What is the use of government architect!
Let al the architects have chance.
Mount Jefferson Davis is the highest peak
in Nevada. Its altitude is 1905 feet.
Colorado has new fever for boring oil
wells. ''Oil well that nds,wells," is their
motto.
Kentucky's original "Boone companions
were the brother hunters of the great Daniel.
Jules Verne is SO years old. His hair and
beard are turning white, and he is growing
very fat.
John Kelly, the Tammany chief, sees fit to
deny the rumor that he is to retire from pol
itics soon.
The Marquis of Lorne is to be made a
Knight of the Garter upon his arrival in
England
The rebellion was not such bad thing for
jeff Davis after all. He made over 500, 900
out of his history of that conflict.
A Montana miner sent note to the store
with orders for 't6ve cent wurt shouing taw-
back"
The widow Of Carey, the informer, gets a
pension frem the English government of S25
a week.
The turnpike toll-gate near Washington,
Pennsylvania, has been stolen by some one
VINO OBJECTED TO paying toll.
The total outflow of all the mineral waters
of France is estimated at TO- 334 gallons per
minute.
The man who wears long hair may look
villainous, but he cannot be accused of being
an escaped convict.
After steam boiler becomes dangerously
thin, its owner. becomes criminal and should
be arrested.
Dining cars are now run over the entire
length of the Northern Pacific railroad,
much to tho satisfaction of the ordinary trav-
eler
The President has taken up his residence
at the Soldiers Home, and will remain there
until the repairs of the White House are
completed.
Mr.. Blaine is said by the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago News, to have
made up his mind to write history of the
war of 1912.
Paper is now made in Sweden from the
WOSS6S
that lived centuries ago, and now found in
enormous quantities.
Rosa Bonheur is 81 years old, but is still
full of energy and in excellent health She
has recently developed D great fancy for
painting zebras.
It is stated that the poisoning of the ele-
phant at the Imperial n.enagerie OF Schon-
brunn was effected by the use of $50 grains
of prussic acid. He died in about eight
minutes.
One of the st. Louis schools has estab-
lished class in OSCILLATION, SO that the dam
sells can give General Sherman proper re-
ception when he takes up his residence there.
The country consumes about ,226, 900
tons of sugar and molasses year, and of
this amount Louisiana contributes about
225, 900 tons and foreign countries, chiefly
Cuba, l,0o0,0O0.
While drawing water from well Robert
Handy, of Goliad, Texas, drew up snake
coiled around the bucket and rope. The
snake bit his cheek and held on so firmly Mr..
Handy had to pull it off.
VIM. Berlin tends the draw bridge at Red
Bank, n. j. He was to marry Widow Lane
but could not get substitute to take hi:
place. The marriage took place on the
bridge.
Colonel James Tullis, special government
land agent, who has been investigating lane
fraudA.n the territories, says he has discov
cred more crookedness and rascality in lane
entries than the most imaginative mind coult
conceive Of.
c. P Huntington, the great railway mag
nate, was poor boy and hard working
man. He did not begin to accumulate hi
immense fortune until he was past forty
when he staked all his savings on the schem
of the Pacific railroad.
The modern garden of Eden has been dis
covered in Texas. It is located in delight
full valley in Kimble county, where resid
twenty-six families. The soil is fertile an
milk and honey flow in abundance. Peae
reigns, simple pleasures obtain, and VI
troubled quiet exists. For fourteen years
magistrate has lived in this wonderful plae
and has not had one suit, civil or crimina
to demand his official attention Texas
about the last place in this world to look fe
: an Eden of the variety described; bat it
: there.
No shoddy or ''Cheap John p goods at
F. Floods.