Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-12-11
oE GENERAL INTEREST.

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king County. Washington Terri, !
tory. has one oma Justice of the
Peace and one woman Constable.
-Deroe, the weather prophet, saws
that if a potato is left in the ground
after the vines are dry it will lose its
favor.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has three thousand, eight
hundred and forty-nine stockholders
h. l. Sun.
In no other city in the country do
as a women make their living bv
keeping boarders as in Washington
Washington Star.
A horse at Cleburne. Tex, got into
his masters poultry-yard and devoured
thirteen young chickens, which he
found in a box there, feathers and all.
If You have any oyster plates in
the house throw them into the alley at
once. They are no longer in fashion.
You must eat your oyster soup from q
bowl.-Detrott Post.
Idaho claims a population OF
lightweight thousand and shows an
assessment roll of nine million dollars
as an evidence that she is able t MAIN
tain a state Government.
Mr. Thomas Meehan. who has been
visiting the Alaska glaciers, reports Il
torrent a hundred feet wide and three
or four feet deep flowing winter and
summer from under the Muir Glacier
there.
A lady in Nashville, Tenn, keeps
five cats, two dogs. two canaries, a
monkey and q swearing parrot. and
vet she is very indignant at her neigh
bors because they think that this do
mestic menagerie is n nuisance.
Captain Chetwynd, of the British
NAVY. who has been pouring oil on
troubled waters, concludes that al
though it may be of great use to ships in
an open sea, it is of no practical advan-
tage to lifeboats having to pass through
large breakers.
The advertisements of furnished
] houses to let in a Washington paper in
dictate that the lowest price a desirable
house can be procured for Is seventy
/ five dollars i month and the highest
three thousand. seven hundred and
thirty-three dollars.
There are now about one million
! and two hundred thousand domestic
servants in this country, who annually
earn about two hundred and sixteen
million dollars. In England the SAINT
number of servants would earn only
ninety million dollars.
The interesting fact has been
demonstrated by Mr.. Arthur Searle
that the Milky Way is about two
magnitudes brighter than the meal
brightness of the sky, and a square de-
gree of the Milky Way must give be-
tween five and six times as much light
as an average square degree of the rest
of the ~sky.-BOston Budget.
One scarcely thinks of coral as
growing under the ice-swept and foggy
seas Of the Newfoundland banks. Yet
on the eastern slope of Banquereau is
an area of bottom, several miles in ex.
tent, so covered with a growth OF
coral that travis set upon it are rarely
recovered. The fishermen call it the
.'stone fence" and avoid it as far as
possible.
| A boy was caught stealing u
rants, and was locked up in a darb
closet by the grocer. The boy com
| menced begging most pathetically tt
be released, and after much persuasion
suggested: Now, if YOU will let MT
out and send for my father, he'll pay
you for the currantS and lick me be
sides" The grocer could not with
stand this appeal.-O Chicago Herald.
The body Of the elephant is nearl,
naked, but the mammoth. an extine
species, had a covering of long, WOOL.
hair. Elephants live in large herds
and subsist on foliage and grass. Their
arr but two living species, the Asiatic
with long head, concave forehead
small ears and short tusks; and tn
African, with round head, convex fore
head. large ears and long tusks.
DR.. Marcy. of Paris. has sulcceedeo
in measuring the motive power of tn
human body as developed in ever
movement. As one of the results c
his studies he shows that something
gained in the power of walking b
q~uickening the pace from forty to seN
entE-tive steps per minute. But tn
latter number is the extreme limit; wit
n Trfater number of stems mower X 10;