The Columbus journal., 1884-12-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Germany has 100000 tramps.

in the Baltic.
There are $50 signal service sta
tons in the country.
/ There are 352 miles of street rail-
way in Philadelphia.
Ten thousand women voted in
Washington territory.
A ton of starch can be made from
$50 bushels of potatoes.
Bob. Burdette las, it is said, left
the Burlington Ha,ckeye.
The payment of pensions s" far this
month amounts to $S,3OO,OO0.
The con of Boston's mayor has been
fined $l25 for pounding his tailor.
The issue of silver dollars for the
week ending Dec. 9th WAS 1926, $50.
Mrs. Southworth is sixty-five years
old and has written sixt, five books.
Seventy years ago on the 29th nit ,
the first newspaper WAS printed by
steam.
1t is said that there is much SNUG
Cling from Mexico into the United
States.
In Paris there are $50 tradesmcn
who deal in nothing but old postage
stamps.
Cushions are prohibited in the
New York horse cars by the Board
of Health.
A rainbow about twenty-five min
utes after sunset was recently wit
messed in Ireland.
If you want 10 spend a cool sum-
mer 60 TO the table lands OF Thibet.
1t freezes there in July.
An oyster "measuring two feet in
diameter" Qocal papers say was re-
Gently sold in Paris for $l.5O.
1t is reported that Lapland and
Northern Sweden are soon to be
opened up By line of railway.
A report fr"m Kansas City says
that the Burlington has Withdrawn
it's cut on passenger rates to st. Louis.
The London Economist says that
the loss Of British farmers in selling
wheat at the present prices is $40 an
acre.
1t costs more to maintain the city cf
Boston, in proportion to population,
than any other city in the United
States.
More than 6,OOO people were turned
out of doors iu Ireland tor non-pay-
ment of rent during the quarter
ending Sept. 30.
Hundreds of people are said to be
actually starving in the North of
England, with many thousand more
hungry and destitute.
The property committee of the city
of Philadelphis has decided thar the
Independence bell may be taken to
the New Orleans exposition.
A society belle in New York is said
to. have recently paid $500 tor pair
of shoes. They were Of white satin
and embroidered with pearls.
Jenny Lind is a teacher in the col
lege OF music at Albert Hall, London,
and said to be one OF the most jealous
and hard working of them ALL.
Recently a steamer supposed to be
the Alliance, OF Cardiff, Houndered
of Boscas,le, and all hands were lost.
Boscastle is small seaport OF the
county Cornwall, England.
Walter Young, a Scutchman, and
totally blind, works daily digging
coal in mine near Pitisburg. He
fought in the battle of Balakava, and
witnessed the charge of the six
Hundred.
DR.. uirschmsnn, of Norway,
Michigan IMAM, has devised stove
pipe with Il patent juin;ing process,
which will probably do away with
the venerable stovepipe joke ani 4
great deal OF ill-tempcr and many bad
words.
The old Independence bell will be
sent TO the New Orleans Exposition,
as the request has been made BY the
city council of New Orleans, to give
citizens from all parts of the Union
an opportunity to hesr the sound of
that memorable and sacred old bell
of freedom.
Sad reports of the epidemic in
West Virginia, especially in Wise,
Lee, Dickinson and Buchanan coun-
ties are described as heartrending.
On Quests river, within q radius of
four miles, there are thirty cases of
the disease. In one instance the IA
ther, mother and six children died.
Many persons die for want of
attention.
Some OF the wise politicians of the
north can doubtless explain why the
solid democratic south is anxious TO
circulate the news and keep up the
impression that the south is moving
ahead on the temperance question, by
items like the following:
"Loca' prohibition Of the sale OF in
toxicants makes steady progress in
the SOUTH"
Joseph c. Mackin, secretary of the
Cook county democratic central COM
mittee, was arrested on the evening
of the Sth inst. on complaint of A. M. |