The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1884-05-15
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Brooklyn patrol wagons are 20 ear
~ stomach pumps for Suicides.
Cigarette smoking Il dying out, and
Il, 900, 90 less cigarettes were sold In
1883 than In 1852. ~. 49, Il -....'.
President AFthgr II good singer.
and often joins in the singing of
hymns when he attends church.
Ten years hgo there vas but one
woman employed aE stenogfzphef.
Nov there are nearlya thoEsand.
George Ell0t's novel sfAdem Bptie'i
Is 70 be drnmalized, shd Wi be pro.
dueed IN this country next season.
Rev. Henry Ward Beeehef has i,e-
gun his thirty -seventh yeaf Of his
pasiOrate over Plymouth Church.
Carefully cainplied statistics show
that there Is marked increase IN
deaths from cancer In this county.
The brokers OF Marx Lane, I5nGon,
say that people want 20 per cent more
bread when the weather is cold than
when it is mild and muggy.
The police Of the City Of Mexleo re-
Gently arrested q servant carrying an
unstamped bottle Of wine, and the
person selling II was fined $50.
A resident Of Las Vegas, N. NJ,
went to tell a tenderfoOt about the
beautiful climate" when be got to
coughing and died in ten minutes.
The estimates OF the Army ADpro-
pFiatlOn bill for the ensuing year were
81, $50, ,l03. The amount aDprOpri-
ated by the bill as reported 70 Con-
gress Is S24, ,259, $50
Mr.. Irving and his cOmpany faced
q brilliant audience at their closing
performances In New York. Mr..
Irving's lS2 performances have
yielded S405. .66O.25.
When the Washington monument
is completed great American eagle
is to be perehed in dlgnlhed security
five hundred feet In the air, and on q
chimney Weighing more than seven
ty-hve thousand tons and costing
$500, 600.
The average farmer, wisely says an
exchange, does too much work. This
may sound strange and you may
doubt it, yet II is none the less true.
Less work and more planning will
make him richer, healthier, and hap
pier.
Illinois has 81. .4O5 square miles Of
territory, aud Iowa 55,O45. The
peninsula OF Italy has 9e.O67 square
miles, ene-half OF which Is as noun
tainOus as Colorado, 30 that it has no
more fertile acres than Illinois or
Iowa, and yet Italy has 5000. 900 in.
habitants.
The suit In New York TO determine
the ownership Of baby has brought
TO light some peculler features in the
disposition Of the dead in that city,
In searching for the grave ofa child
that had died Il was found that there
were forty-f0ur other small cOfiins in
the same grave.
Henry Watterson is q poet as well
as tariff reformer A correspondent
" no asks the COtgferJoHTslul how
Field and Flower win do for q ticket,
receives the following reply
Fields that are fertile and FIsEea ihat
Hiil make the old thinssEss up snd hnn.
There is a craze for gambling In
New York at present. which has lot
been equaled before In the history Of
the city, and ''socialn poker playing,
especially, is an epidemic. No dinner
party nowadays Is considered com
plete unless a little draw follows
1t, and even every boarding house in
town has its cOterie Of players.
In japan everybody takes a real
hot bath once q day. The rich battle
before dinner and at night. The
whole hOusehould dip In the same
water. Precedence Is given 10 Wis
itors, then the elders, followed by the
yOnng people according to age, and
then the servants. On getting out OF
the caldrOn, each bather gargIes
mouth and throat with cold aroma
tized water. They then fan each
other until they are dry
A mother seal followed q schooner
which had captured her baby along
the coast OF California for eighty
miles. After the vessel had reached
the wharf al Santa Barbara the young
seal was tied up 10 iute sack and
let loose on the deck. Soon after
coming TO anchor the seal responded
to its mothers calls by casting itself
overheard, all tied up e. Il was In the
sack. The mother seized the sack
and with her sharp teeth tore it open,
and the reunited pair swan on to-
gether.-Tdlss Of fhe Pacific.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE famOus ex-
French-pFiest, ,Pere Hyacinthe, preach
ed at Trinity Episcopal church In this
city today. His address, which was
in French, dealt with the subject Of
the resurrection Of the body. He and
his wife arrived from Madison, Wis,
yesterday, and are guests Of Hon. p
b. Washbufne, ex-minister to Paris.
He leaves for New YORK tomorrow
and will Et once sail for France, being
recalled BY formal notice Of decree
by President Grevy legalizing his
church in France, which O. expected
70 give that reformation q new and
powerful impulse. -- @
Amer the battle Of salamis and the
rout Of the PeFslans hosts under Xer-
xes, the commanders met st the
temple Of Neptune 10 decide to whom
belonged the prizes Of merit. The
story goes that each general voted that
the hrst prize besaWardodst0 hiE1self,
but all voted the second prize 70 The
mlstoeles. The Greeks ct once inferred
from this that the iirst prize was real
~ merited BY Themistoeles. This
story has something Of parAilel IN |
the present situation. It has been re-
told on many OCCASIONS and the ques-
ton is asked, Why, since everyone !
thinks Robert Lincoln the best fitted /
for the second place on the ticket, and !
% few seem 10 think any one else fitted /
for the hrst place, Il not Robert Lin
coin the best man for the FIRST place,
Ike Themistocles, the second choice
Of the generals, but the most honorod
by tine peOple.-AePhsrson Reptsblt-
can.
AMERICAN SHIPS.
Mr.. Plumb ridieulsd the idea that