The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-07-02
nrnpie Avn THINGS

Inc Prince OF wales - D Ieet auu
inches In height.
Americans have SI25, 600, 900 invest
ed ia Mexican railways.
Petri fed mummies' eyes are the
latest craze for watch eharms.
An Indiana farmer has . twelve
pound colt, which is perfectly formed
and doing well.
The highest prize at the New Or
leans Exposition for oranges was won
by Massachusetts, men.
Twenty-eight States In the Union
have adopted laws restricting the
practice Of medicine % educated per
sons.
Alta recent flower fete and kermesse
held In the BOis at Paris, shout $40, 900
was taken ct the gates Ia one day.
II Is now proposed 10 make Mr.. Geo.
NJ Pullman, President, and Mr.. A. T.
Goshen, Director General OF the re-
vived New Orleans Exposition.
Queen Margaret. Of Italy, at the
Feast OF the Statute on the first Sun
day in June, wore q dress Of ivory silk
covered with lace and adorned with
bows Of mOss-green.
Lille Devereux Blake, the WOmen's
rights woman, has compromised with
herself and will be married in New
York. The groom Is John Beverly
Robinson.
Some almsnacs Z, 200 years old have
been discovered In LONDON. As they
contain only calendars and meteOrO-
logical reports the rhapsOdies upon
patent medicines are sadly missed.
The elegant soft hat Of the Spaniards
has remained the same from the ear
liest period % the present day, while
among all other civilized nations
transformation has taken place In that
article.
The Immigration Department Of
the santa Fe road was closed perm q
nently on Tuesday night. The clerks
Of the department have not ell Sc
cured places yet, and some OF them
will probably not find situations In
the building.
One Of the two free circulating IL
braries in Philadelphia, that OF the
Friends I'm Germantown, has no work
Of fiction upon its shelves, yet IL gives
out nearly Il, 900 volumes q year, and
about % 900 people come annually 20
read in Its rooms.
The pedestal fund prOeured through
the untiring work of the New York
World now amounts to SS7, ,726 40. IL
caDnOt be doubted but that the World
will raise the entire $lOO,OOO required
In a few days. It shows what one
newspaper can do when il sets hon
estly 30 work.
Hannibal Hamlin insisted in march
ing ia the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie procession at Portland last week,
with flag in his hand, almost a. spry
as he was when he carried q torch in
"Wide-awake" procession In the
political campaign OF 1860, when he
was elected Vice President Of the
United States.
It Is said that the Obelisk in Central
Park, New York, is rapidly disinte-
grating. IL was brought from a warm
dry country 10 our cold and variable
climate and has not yet got acelima-
ted and will not until 10 Is gone unless
there Is a remedy. Its mate on the
bank Of the Thames i'm London was
i'm the same condition, and was
treated To a coat OF silica which
stopped the decomposition.
Colonel Frank Burr, Of the PhilR-
delphia Times, who IL writing a book
ON General Grant, proposes to have
the leading chapter written by Chas.
A Dana, the concluding chapter by |
Col. A. Mcclure, q Confederate estinl- |
ate OF the old hero by General Joseph |
+. Johnston, q notable chapter on |
Grants social life by the Hon. +. B. |
WAshburne, and q fervid utterauce |
from Roscoe COnkling.
Cleveland sold off the old carriages |
and horses upon assuming office, and |
the people chuckled over the reform. |
He has now a victoria and a landau |
which cost 81 1862. Horses and silver
mounted harness as fine as have been /
seen for many q year about the White /
House stables have been purchased.
And he has a right TO his carriage
aud horses, and II he had said he had /
sold off the old stock because IL was
too shabby for "a reform administra-
ton" everybody would have under
stood it.
Boston, June 2T.-The old United L
States steamer, Niagara, WAS uOund
TO Apple Island yesterday 10 be
burned for her metal, aud will prob
ably light up the harbOr for several
nights to come. She has had an
eventful history: She was built be-
fore the war helped te lay the first
Atlantic cable; conveyed Minister
AnsOn BuFlingame 10 China pursued
the Alabama, aud was otherwise SER
viceahle during the war. She was
originally Of 5000 tons burden, but
was cut down. AT one time she WAS
the swiftes' steamer ia the
United States navy.