Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-08-07
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Two hlnd legs are PROVIDED Win Circular
stairways, which lead to the rooms OF the
body OF this colossus, of which there are
thirty-four The tusks are thirty-six feet
long.
Great Britain and Ireland contain 3d.,
600, coo head of Laultry. and Great Britain's
annual egg Til amounts to S3l, $50, GOO.
That is not chicken apiece for the people.
Grant was cruelty robbed and died, but
one of the thieves, ex-banker James d.
Fish, is now known as convict / ,654.
A painful of dirt taken from under side
walk at Santa Rosa, Cal, last week washed
out $50 worth OF gold dust. Some jolly
old miner in the pioneer days dropped his
purse about that SPOT as he was going
home, after time with the boys,
The total receipts of the New Orleans
Exposition have been estimated at $533, :
36l.9S, or but little over one-fourth of the
cost of the exhibition.
June 90 next, Queen Victoria's semi
centennial as reigning sovereign will be
celebrated. She will not complete her
half century's reign until June, 1887 but
the precedents are all in favor of the cele-
bration being held at the beginning and not
at the end of the fftieth year.
The New York Times having made care
full examination. reports that at the water
ing places i'll the East hundreds of Young
women pine on the breezy verandas for
hundreds of young men who swelter in the
heat of the city, being quite unable to go
out of town, owing to the unexpected
course of the stock market
The Prince of Wales keeps at Sandrino-
ham book in which the arrivals and de-
rartures of guests. their usual habits
special requirements, ETC., are entered with
the scrupulous exactitude of a merchants
ledger. Noting this, the Buffalo Adver-
tizer observes that 'ta good hotel keeper was
poi!ed wien this man was born III the pur-
pie of royalty"
The Panama canal, which was to have
been completed in 1883 at a cost of Sl2O,
100000, would not be finished in ten years,
even If the present rate of excavation was
maintained. More than 500, 600, 900 have
been already expended, and the probabilities
are that if the canal is ever finished it will
be after an outlay of $3.50, 00O, 900. The
prediction is freely made abroad that when
NJ. de Lesseps dies the whole scheme vii
collapse.
President Cleveland sent subscription of
$3.50 to the fund for rebuilding Music Hail
at Buffalo, destroyed by fire March last.
The committee to inquire into the charges
OF the Pail Mall Gazette, make report
which state that the charges were found to
be true.
The ,l.olera has broken out on the French
frontier.
Advices from the country near London,
Ontario, report an invasion of grasshoppe 8
nearly as bad as that heard of in Kansas.
Crops are suffering severely.
The German Government has decided to
make an exhaustive inquiry into the sabiect
of Sunday labor.
SeYentytive Of the tenants of the Queens s
property in the gardens of Kew palace 5eg
relief from their intolerable poverty.
A six rom glove contest has been ar
ranged between Paddy Ryan and Sullivan,
to take place on the Chester race-course
Cincinnati, August 18th, under the MarquI
of On eensberry rules. with ordinary sized
gloves.
President Greyy received the Chinese am
bassador with military honors.
Thousands Of colliers are idle in Wales on
account of depression in the trade.
There is a report circulated in Mexico
that revolutionary movement is on foot at
Tuxpan.
The Presidents proclamation declaring
Indian Territory Grazing lands null and
void aud ordering cattle men out of the Ter.
ritory creates considerable excitement.
There is over $25, 900, 900 of st. Louis capi-
tai invested in cattle and it is impossible tt
remove the vast herds within the time
specified.
Half million dollars were expended ii
behalf of the library of the British museum
ill 1884, while the Bibliotheque Natio male in
Paris spent 100000.
Sir Francis Drake, who discovered Cali
farnia in 1877, called the country New
Albion. The word California first appear.
in the writings of Nunez, one of the follow
ers of Cortcz.
A check for $4,000 drawn by the
Treasurer of the United States, and payabl,
to the sub Treasurer at ST. Louis, has beer
lost. The person finding 1T is requested moi
to draw the cash on it, but to return it t,
| the owner.
A child was recently attacked while a
play near Mattoon, Illinois, by a swarm of
bees end stung so that it died in fv
minutes
Thirty two years ago-in lS53-during tn
months of June July aud August Genera
Grant was young lieutenant on duty at For
| Vancouver w t. This circumstance is nov
called vividly to mind by the announcement
of his death. In August of that year he wa
promoted to the rank ofcaptain, and soon at
ter was assigned to the command of For
| Humbolt, on the coast of California.
| s.Thn military fame of General Gran