The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-19
MisceIlaneous News.


A 100000 lace factory has been
burned near Nottingham, England
Arthur Sullivan, the play wright, has
gore crazy over his late production.
According to the Hebrew way of
counting this is the year 5644.
Rye grass is being experimental
with by Gilroy, CAL, farmers.
Brownsville, Tenn, has eighty Sid-
ows and not single old maid.
Mrs. Shoddy says she has bought
new African for her baby.
The polecat is supposed to be the
original s'little one for scent"
George Washington is in Jail at Don
aldsonville, La, on charge of petit
larceny.
Shakespeare disliked dogs. That is
the reason he made so much fun Of
puppies.
England imported 100000 head of
cattle during the nine months ending
October first.
Society is very queer. The people
most sought after, are those who de not
paw their debts.
A Detroit man furnished an Office
and set himself up rs lawyer at a to-
tai cost of sll. 60
Five cents will buy a boy all the
mouth organ that is required in neigh
borhood for year.
At Missoula there are 1900 China
men thrown out of employment, and
they can't get away
1t is a fact that the American people
are all push Look at the labels on the
bar-room doors.
"Every cloud has its silver lining
| The boy who has tho mumps can stay
away from school.
The s'Sweet Singer of Michigan" has
bought flour MILL We may expect ar
occasional grist of poems.
| A writer in the Washington Gazette
speaks of Secretary Frelinghuysen as a
"senteel New Jersey nobody"
The dictionary IS not as big as the
postotfice, but 1T contains more letters
to the square inch.
| Look not upon the wine to-day when
| it gives color in the cup. Nor yellow
beer, which is mockery
In the bright lexicon of the business
firm that buys .trictly for cash there's
no such word as 'sfail."
Gen. Hancock is in Little Rock
He is receiving ovations down in
Dixie.
Edward Koppc, New York clerk,
has been arrested for embezzing the
sum of $65, 1000.
William Henry Harrison Learned
has been confirmed postmaster at Port
Townsend.
Eads is in London hunting capita
with which to build ship canal across
Tehauntepec.
Theatrical employees of New Yorl
have organized an association for mu-
tual protection and benefit.
Terrific snow and rain storms pre-
vailed ON the 9th IN the Atlantic
border States doing great damage.
Lieut. J. J. A.gur, .. S. A, es-
capped from the lunatic asylum a
B!oomington, n Y, and was frozen t,
death on the 9th.
Alfred S. Acuff, Of New York, VIII,
forged his sister name for $4,000, ha
) been tined $500 and costs and ten day
E in prison.
The habits of all great men are mel
: cilessly assailed It is now charge
s that the Hon. Bartholomew Binns, th
: new English hangman, takes too niue
gin.
The century plant, wbichs takes 10
years to ripen in the north, takes bu
J. twelve years to mature In Californi
.e and takes only five years in Mexico
The whiskey men threaten to mal
the finest brands Of Kentucky as chea
as beer unless their bonded scheme
adopted.
The new and lovely little theat,
Z bonnets of black velvet and white tkll
Il embroidered with pearls, are wo
$ without strings
4 The smallest pony in the world
10 the pet of the Baroness Burdett-Coutt
Bartlett. He is FIVE years of age a
stands thirteen inches high.
10 TT tho a,otorny os so,,,o ,,ao,>lo -.