The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


tits estimated that the average cost
to the people is five thousand dollars
for each bill passed by Congress.
Thirst and starvation have caused
| the recent death of two thousand head
of cattle in one drove at Coahuila,
| Mexico.
The aqueduet of Washington, D.
| c., furnishes the city twenty-five mil
lion gallons of water every twenty-four
| hours.
| AT late fashionable wedding in
England the BRIDES bouquet. composed
of white lilies, was large enough to fill
a big wheelbarrow.
Rural Congressman will be allowed
two million bushels of seeds to dis
tribute among their constituents this
year. Chicago Times.
"A patient in the Nevada Insane
Asylum grasped his Windpipe SO fiercely,
under the impression that frog was in
his throat, the other day, that it re-
quired some hours to resuscitate him.
-Cryolite, a mineed which is of great
value in the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone
Park. Heretofore it has been obtained
only in Greenland. Francisco Call.
-Parrot-dealers of the East are max
ing money by teaching their parrots to
oroak kiss me, darling" Ladies are
very fond of the feathered tribe when
they can speak so lovingly.-C Chicago
Times.
| I'm an English criminal trial there
are no exceptions. after verdict of
guilty, no matter how erroneous the
law has been laid down or how illegal
the conviction, there follows no appeal
except for mercy at the Home Office,
which is rarely granted.
Out of the twenty-five Boston ladies
counted on the piazza of an Isle of
Shoals hotel, eighteen wore eyeglasses
or spectacles, and ten had scientific
books in their hands. The intellectual
ity of the place is consequently most
pronounced Y. Mail.
The first corn crop of Mexico has
proved disastrous failure, and as the
weather has been too dry to plant the
second, the farmers have given up hope
of a corn harvest until next June. This
will necessitate great demand for corn
raised in the United States.-C Chicago
NeUS.
Curious wedding cards appeared at
Guadalaiara, Mexico, recently. They
read: 1.-THE rector of the Catholic Sa-
grario, Rev. DR.. Barbosa, acting under
J authority of the Archbishop, has refused
to marry me to Irene Moreno. | have
married her according to the civil code,
! and now have the honor to offer you an
!, invitation to our house on Gale Car
men, No. 81. Gregorio Saavedra.''
Writing to German newspaper, a
victim of Daltonianism, or color blind
ness, protests against the tendency to
the exclusion of the so-called color
blind from lives of activity in which the
recognition of color is an element. He
declares that, although the sensations
are different, persons afflicted with Dal-
tonianism possess distinct recognition
of the different bands of the spectrum,
] and are consequently as capable of dis
tinguishing color signals from each
l other as persons with normal vision.
While Washington was President
the Congress Springs, at Saratoga, was
:; discovered by member of Congress
from New York, who was cunning on
the site. There are now fifteen to
thirty springs in the vicinity, not very
different in character. The Congress
Spring is still the most celebrated. The
Hathorn Spring, discovered about thir-
teen years ago, has become its princi-
pal competitor. For nearly hundred
years Saratoga has been celebrated, and
9 continues to be the most remarkable col
; lection of mineral springs in the United
States.-N. Y Tribune.
. 1t is astonishing how much trash
and how many things of one kind and
:, another can get into well. The public
:. !. well on the court house square wa:
!. 'cleaned OUT on Monday, and, accord
= ing to Jake Davis memoranda, the fol
: lowing is list of the articles take1
/, from it: Tin cups, tin cans, old shoes
ak handles, pop guns, bricks, bones
!, match boxes, part of chain pump. OLE
a hat, states, beer bottles, whisky TASKS
J, base ball, skull of COW, three wei
!. buckets, we'll whirl, buggy shaft, yes
= buckles and stone GrecaaS6or
(Ga. Herald.
Q The principal feature about China
/. mans costume is the fact that nothin.
:. ever fits but his stockings. His clothin!
g consists really of three or four shirts o
+. garments made after the fashion of
e shirt, each opening in front and havin;
/, five buttons, sacred number. Thes
d buttons are never in straight row. bu
in sort of semi-circle half round tn
body. The outer garments have sleeve
foot longer than the arm, fact whicl
|. affords abundant opportunities for theft
:. A Chinaman's jackets are his thermom
; eter. He will say: To-day is thre
y jackets cold, and if it increases at thi
= rate tomorrow will be four or five jack
: cts cold. - Chicago Herald.
!, We think of Wyoming Territory a
Is desert and of Cheyenne as frontie
q camp, but a New Yorker lately re
u turned from that Rocky Mountain sci
ia tlement says that he found there a ger
l. tlemen's club as complete as any i
le New York. The members are prime
@ pally rich cattle owners, many of ther
le Englishmen. The club house is illr
r. minated by the incandescent electri
Is light, and chef from Delmonico' look
le after the cuisine. Turkish rugs, marbl
ct statuary, a fine library, rich chandt
10 liers, tropical plants, ETC., adorn th
D. interior. He also says that as elegar
ID equipages are to be seen every day
0. the streets of Cheyenne as in New Yorl
Ii IN. Y. Herald.
~ -Johai tells story of gypsy whic
D. illustrates the happy freedom from a
o the ordinary restraints of civilizatio
which eharacterizeS the raca TIL