Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-11-03
Items of Interest.

OdlliOrnla, on which several hundred
 oranges are growing. One of these IS
 five inches in diameter, and the tree
 presents an unusually fine and prolific l appearance. It was raised by MT.
 Schram from a seeding planted by
 himself some ten years ago.
 Nature says that a fish ten inches long, with 6 beak shaped something
 like hatche:, Jumped over small boat,
 at Alden, Tn which some English officers
 were rowing, and striking the hat of one
 of them, knocked it overheard. When the hat was recovered a slit was found
 cut in the hard felt four inches in
 length.
 Jonathan Davis was a bachelor of 65,
 md Elizabeth Elyett maiden of 60.
 They had Lived in the same county in
 GeOrgia all these years, but they met for the first tune at an evening pa. y
 last week. It was a case of first love at
 first sight on both sides. Jonathan | proposed, and they were married then
 and there.
 There IS a saloon just outside the penitentiary walls, ;n Columbus, Ohio, with a sign which Is a curiosity in itself.
 Approaching thegate, the unfortunate culprii reads: Last place to get schooner beer" Coming from the | prison, the liberated convict has staring
 him in the face the words, First place
 to get schooner beer"
 The widely-circulated story that 1 Lockport, New York, lady had several inches of a gold watch chain forced into her side by a stroke of lighting thirty years ago, and that the cham had just appeared nnder the skin of her shoulder,
 was exploded recently. Physicians
 lanced her arm and removed the pro- tuberances thereon, but found no signs of the cham.
 South Carolinas railroad commission has reduced fares to such a point that the railroad companies cannot afford to make second-class rate, and hence the negroes, the Charleston News says, insist upon crOwding into first-class cars with the whites" The News pro- poses reserved seat cars" which the chivalry may use by paying an extra dollar or two.
 4 Brandenburg peasant not long ago found large eagle eating the carcass of a dog. He shot the bird, which was black, with white shoulders. On its left foot was a gold ring, on which were cut the letters, still visible, "H. Ks. O. K" underneath which was the word "Esperjes." and on the other side the date, "lc, 9, 1S27." Esperjes is a town in upper Hungary.
 The first cotton factory Tn California is 10 be erected in Alameda county The company's capital is $6OO,0OO. Most of the cotton IS to be transported from Tex as. but ultimately southern California will, 1t IS expected, supply all the cot ton needed. The widow of Col. Strong, | the first cotton raiser in California, has | grown l90 bales on her ranch this year.
 The business of smuggling Chinamen | from British Columbia into the UUited | States has developed into profitable | one. The rates are from 8 to Sl0 a l man, and the easy passage of canoe | among the uuinhabited islands in Puget | sound renders the work comparatively | safe. Once landed, no one can tell tbe | cOntrabGnd Chinaman from one who is | entitled Co residence within our Eor- ders.
 It Is said that glass is gradually be- | ginning to take the place of wood and | iron in the construction of bridses in | England. The inventor makes blocks of | glass which he hRrdens by a special pro- cess. In sOliiity it is said to leave | nothing to be desired. The experiments | already made have gwen surprising re- | suits, and the cost is below that of | bridges of wood or iron. Moreover, the | glass cannot be injured by insects like | wood, nor rusted like iron.
 Baton Rouge, La, has an old negro who claims to be over 100 years old. In | early life he was a slave and servant of | Don Carlos de Granpre, the Spanish | governor of West Floride, and accom- panied the Spanish troops as a body ser want of his young master, to and fro | between Pensacola and Mobile and the forl at Baton Rouge. He was in the ser vice of of Don Louis de Granpre, son | of the governor, and commander of the Spanish forces, at the time Of the cap- ture of Baton Rouge fort by the filibus- ters under Gen. Philemon Thomas, at | which time his young master was killed. The old mans name IS Noel Perry. lie | is very active and has a very good mem- ory.
 There are two families living near Gainesville, Ga, the members of which are so much alike that many Bmusings | mistakes take place. The heads of the res pectiye households are John and | Lane Pasco. They are twins and look and dress exactly alike. Two or three years ago they married twin sisters who looked and dressed exactly alike. The boys built two cottages that looked ex- actly alike. Each lady has child about the same age who look exactly alike. All are in excellent health, and recently | the whole party drove to town behind span of mules that were nearly exact matches.
 4 white haired old lady knocked at the door of the Cleveland, Ohio, infirm- ary, the other night, and asked for pass that would take her to her sons home in Delaware. She said her name was Eliz- abeth Pierce, and that she was 77 years of age. She recently walked from Hol- | ton, Maine. to Erie Pennsylvania, q dis tance of nearly eleven hundred miles. It took her elght weeks to make the journey, and, when asked why she chose to walk, she said she knew of no other way of going until she reached Erie, where a person took her to the infirmary and obtained for her a pass to Cleveland. She had with her basket, in which she | carried, among other things, a bible. She says she gained strength and con- fort on the journey by reading the bible. Superlntendent Melon, of the infirmary, supplied her with money and got pass for her to Delaware.
 The Frank Leslie has a picture well | how the business of inter viewing" IS overcome in that metropolis. | An ocean steamer IS approaching the | wharf. Five tugs, labeled "press boats,' containing thirty.aiX renorters are seek