The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-06-04

i BOYS as pages are now very DOpu-
lar features at Eastern weddings.
There are six branches Of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States.
Yale professors own over $3.50, ,OoO
worth Ofreal estate in New Haven.
New Mexicn spent Sf5,OOO for
churches and 81, ,4S5, ,OO9 for liquor
last year.
There are 100 Chinese scholars In
twenty-nine New York Sunday
Sc hOOls.
The inventor OF Barbs on fence
wire receives n royalty Of $l2O.OOO n
year.
AlphOnsO Dandet does no literary
work now owing 90 his wreiched
health.
Sarah BeFnharit considers her
Theodore the best Of all her many
conceptions.
BELL Boyd, ex Confederate spy, Is
teaching eiOcutiOn at Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Justice Miller, Of the United States
Supreme Court, l. going to Block
Island for the summer.
Thus far this season over fifty per
sOns have committed suicide over
gaining losses at Monte Carlo.
Senator Logan will seek q much.
needed resi- this summer ia the shad-
ed quiet Of the Shenandoah Valley.
Up to last Saturday 62,SSS people
had contributed 10 the New York
Worlds BarihOldi pedestal fund.
Mr. and Mrs. Langtry have been
I fraasffsssn lao fN.n In aNN
state ball at Windsor Palace.
Edgar COwan, ex-United States
Senator. Is dying Of cancer at Greens
burgh, Pa. He has lost his eyesight.
10 rumOred in Pittsburgh that
Francis Murphy, the Temperance
apostle, will soon marry again.
A Boston man has applied for a
divorce because his wife bOils the |
beefsteak and shakes up the coffee.
Dan Maee's stable outfit was sold In |
New York Thursday, six Of the |
twenty horses bringing SS,4Q5.
Some indians recently exeaVaieSl In |
Calistiahupa, stale pf Mexico, q gold |
idol weighing thirty two and half |
pounds,
4 bridge Ia Cecil County, Maryland
bears the following sign. Motifs. IL |
you go over this bridge Faster than
Walk VOW VII lee find fiv dOlers-"
Senator EvArts in the uOyt will |
contest said death may be, for all |
we know, mans most ratinnal |
state"
The Toronto Week asserts that |
members OF the English royal family |
have n weakness for spiritualistie |
seHnces.
Miss Kate Field has contributed |
specially To Boston Traveller q draw
ing-TOOIn drama en- titled, Forty to |
Twenty
The Republican POstmistress at Ma
pOleOn, Mich, has married the Demo.
erat whom she expected TO be appOin-
ted her successor.
The Boston preachers who violated
a city ordinance by holding services |
on the sacred old Boston Common
last Sunday were fined $50 each.
Mrs. Parnell's property at Iron.
sides, y. J., comprises $50 acres great /
~ improved, is valued at S6O,O and |
is to be sold under mortgage for IS,
900.
The Little Sisters OF the Poor have /
now DO houses in France, Belgium,
spain, Switzerland. England, Ire
land, Scotland, Italy, America, Afri-
ga, and Asia.
DIR. Moran, Of Baltimore, who at
tended Edgar Allan Poe ON his death
bed, denies the story that the poet
died from the effects Of drunken
debauch.
IL is estimated that only 20 per
cent Df ihe graduates from law schools
ever secure living practice, and the
others, after brief struggle, give up
the business.
a statue Of the pOet-painier, Steph-
en- Dalet, is 10 he erected in Paris on
the spot where he WAS burned at the
stake August 3 1916. for doubling the
Immortality Of the soul.
A Georgia young man who promised
his wife before they were married
that if he ever got too poor 10 have
her washing done he would do il
himself, and is now fulfilling his
promise.
Governor HOadly predicts the
denomination and reelection OF Presi-
dent Cleveland la lSSS. Governor
Hoadly is the man rho fired 100 guns
over Growers nomination, hut no Que
ever heard them.
j. COmyns Carr, the English editor
OF L'Arf, who is now In this country,
says journalism j. the hardest worked
aud poorest paid in England or
merica.
Thirty-fye thousand dollars Is said
to have been the price paid by the
English publishers for the copyright
of General GOrdOn's diary. IL will !
not iill more than one ordinary vol
nme.
DIR. Zingraif, Of Bonn, has taken a
with him 10 Africa. He
intends to bring home phOnOgTams !
" the savage dialects which he will
hire the natives to speak into the ma
riine.
The Utica Herald says that Miss d
Cleveland IL a poet and ten years ago /,
was a regular contributor Of verses 20
hat paper The Herald should be .
more POnsiderate Of the Presidents u
lister anh not advertise her age to the I
v
So far the Masonic Token can tell, 4.
he really oldest Mason is John !,
nressideT, Of Falmouth, England,
Who was initiated In 1905, on the 9Th
( August. The oldest in America
till APPEARS so be Captain Sylvsnus
latch Of Fort Lavacca, Texas, initia- 10
ed i'm 1909. n,
In bowling match in New York ei
'riday bottles Of champagne were a,
sed Instead Of wooden pieces, and q =,
lIrsty crowd watched the sparkling VI
lampagne shoot into the air as ST
ach bottle was smashed. Even the d,
owlers grew nervous over the waste. h,
Miss May King (Kin Yamei) grad
ated at the WOman's Medical Col
.ge Of the New York Infirmary Fri
ly. She il the first Chinese woman
7er granted a degree Of NJ. ID. in this Sc
,untry. She Is the adopted daugh- 10
r Of DR. King, who was for many a.
Ears n missionary i'm China. =
One-seventh Of the land surface OF a.
le earth, and One-tgenty-eight part "
its whole area constitutes the do IN
Union Of the Gar Of ali the Russias. N
.Ore than 100 600, 900 people call him m
ther, and are under his absolute
'vernment. In Russia q child Is
'rn on an average every eight sec III
hi throughout the year, and a death an
curs every eleventh second. At PI
e present rate ofincrease the pOpu- ~
tiOn will double IN about sixty "
ans. But Russia IL FAR behind most ael