Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-11-13
ROSEBURG REVIEW
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1855.
Y.IRIETIES.

British government. That is hot
strange: it is only your small men that
mover err
She sung, 81 want to be an angel,
and he declared that she was one al
ready. To this she blushingly de-
INJURED. Then he married her De-
murrer sustained
An exchange states that if castor
oil plsnt is kept growing in room,
mosquitoes, flies, and Others pests will
not enter, or if they should they are
soon found dead beneath the leaves.
Tho fast trains are arranging to run
50 that Il Congressman may sleep in
New York City this winter and yet
miss no session of the Houses. Wash
ington is already too near the great
city.
The fairest flower III the garden of
creation is young mind, offering and
unfolding itself to the influence Of
divine wisdom, as the helitro2e turns
its sweet blossoms to the sun.-Sir
j. E. Smith.
Stock teacher to "A boy in grammar
class. "John correct the following
sentence; 4 are very cold " John,
as he wipes the perspiration from his
forehead with his shilt sleeve: at are
powerful hot"
Health was the first question con-
sidered by the ancient Greeks. It is
about the last considered by the mod
ern Americans. The Greeks took ex-
ercise to preserve their bodies. The
Americans take pills.
The mormons are no longer success
full i'll Europe; they utterly failed in
India, and the courts are enforcing the
law against them in Utah. If that
caustlc does not avail, the surgeon s
knife will surely follow
An author whose book has Just been
published in England states that the
subject of kissing is mentioned no fewer
than fifty times in the Bible, and sets
himself to prove that kissing, to be
scriptural, must be between members
of the same sex.
A burglar, who attempted to enter
house in Sacramento was caught fast in
the window, and the woman armed
herself with potato.masher, drew up
a chair, and sat there and tapped his
head for half an hour before calling
the police. She said she had always
just ached to pound a man all she
wanted to.
At the close Of the American wal
with Mexico, a rrize was offered by an
institute in one Of the rising settlements
in the far West for an essay on the
war The successful essayis. certainly
deserves praise for the breyity of hi:
production which was as follows
4Chaptcr /. Cause of the war: Texas.
"Chapter IL Result of the war; Texas.
One great popularity of travelling il
Sweden is the extreme quiet and laef
of furry. The Swedes are taciturr
and noiseless people. They do mucl
by signs, and never shout; a Swedish
crowd makes singularly little sound
Sweucs even of the lowest class, never
push or jostle. It is the custom to dc
SO much bowling and hat-lifting thai
one is obliged to move more slowly
than in England to give time for al
this courtesy.
The ancient Hindoo faith has me
with severe shock. 1t is an article
of faith with the .Hindoos that the
sacred city of Benares cannot be shaker
by an earthquake, because it does not
rest upon the earth at all, but upol
the back of tortoise. The earth
quake which recently visited Hindo
stan gave Benares good shaking VI
and many rickety buildings came
tumbling to the ground. Thereupol
the Mohammedans laughed and th'
Hindoos were wroth, as the learned
Brahmans openly derided the notion
that the city would be disturbed
Hindooism itself has received a tellin'
blow.
No one can possibly sink if the he az
is thrust entirely under water, and il
this position novice can swim a
easily as walk, and get to shore read
lily by lifting the head at intervals 70
breath.
Miss Agnes Beckwith is one of tn
most remarkable of lady swimmers
Many will remember her great swim
from Sandy Hook to Rockaway Inle
in heavy sea about two years ago, o
which occasion she swan sixteen mile
in Alb. SO min. 10 sec. Her long swir
of 100 hour in the Westminster Aqua
rum in 1880 was also remarkabl
feat. When but fourteen years old,
in 1875, Miss Beckwith aceomplishe
the unprecedented feat by woman {
swimming FIVE miles in the Thamt
River in 1h. 9min., and year later 81
swain twenty miles in Oh. 25 mil
One of the most remarkable swinlmin