Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-11-20
REVIEW
YIRIETIES.

keeps away from.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has just eel
ebrated bis 10Th birthday.
There are 10000 more Mcthodists
than Bap'ists in the United States.
Maid and kitchen girls at Butte,
NJ. T., are in demand at twenty dollars
week.
Ira D. sankey is building public
library at New Castle, Pa, as a gift t.
his native town.
In the last twenty-five years the
Methodists increased the value of their
church property about 100000
The mother Of tie late Gen. McCIe!-
Ian still survives. Her home is in
Philadelphia, and she is 81 years Of age.
There is not the slightest doubt
about it, if William Ewart Gladstone
lived in this country he would be called |
loss.
Be careful in making laws: be in
hexibly firm in enforcing them. This
is the only path to good order and pub
lie afety.-Fitzgerald.
The Father of his Country could not
tell lie, but the children of his coun
try have been industliously making up
for it ever since. coil City Derrick"
The cotton king of the world is Mr..
Richardson of Mississippi. His annu-
alcrop is greater than that of all Egypt,
and his plantations are worth twelve
millions.
A story is going the rounds that a
woman In car gave Booth the actor.
$50 for kiss. Determined not to be-
undersold, our price hereafter will be
only s40.-Philadelphia Call.
Home is very much what we make
it. People talk of heaven and hell.
Why, you may have heaven and hell
In the same street, in the same court.
God help u.s. We make our own heav-
en- and hell.-John Page Hopps.
Lieutenant Greely says it cost him
more than $40 to deliver recent lee
ture in Massachusetts, at an agricultur-
al fair None Of his expenses were
paid. He found that day colder day
than1he ever experienced in the Arctic
regions
The most southerly town in the world
inhabited by civilized man is Punto
renas, Patagonia. It has about 60e
inhabitants. It is winter there all the
year around, for the latitude cores
ponds with that of Labrador, on tht
tip end Of Greenland
The term ''six-penny, sten-ponny,
applied to nails, comes from the Eng
hshman's abbreviation of "pounds" t
,,pun,n nails being made in size accord
ing to the weight Of 1000, six-penn
nails having |, 600 to six pounds, ter
penny, 1000 to ten pounds, etc.
BY falling from wagon, Chinma
in California, whose life was insure
for a large amount, was seriously Rsss
There was some doubts as TO his eve
getting better; and at length one of HI
friends wrote to the insurance compan,
Charley half dead; likee half none.
In China when bank suspends the
Immediately suspend the cashier an
FIRE the directors-thc former from
tree, the latter from mortar against
brick wall. The last bank suspensic
in China took place in the sixteent
year Of the Emperor Min Of the Til
dynasty, B. g. 1754.
Enough polygamists have been co
yicted and punished since Preside
Cleveland's accession to Office to pro
that the law can be enforced VIII
there is u determined Executive ba'
Of it. Three more offenders we
found guilty on Saturday. Bctwe'
disfranehisemcnt, fines and im9riso
ment, the twin relic is in a fair way
50.
The Indians of Alaska are said to
fine silversmiths, and their silver brat
lets, in particular, are in great deman
A lame workman has an extensi
reputation, and sells dozens of bra,
lets upon the arrival of each steam
et SO per pair. Some specimens
gets $25 pair for. The lame Indi
artifcer is a very rapid workman, a
will from piece Of coin make be-
tifuily chased ring III a couple OF ho'
with his rude tools. The heads of a
mails and Indian characters are inc
ded in his designs.
Whatever idea the young girls v
practice street flirting may enterti
~ Of their seemingly innocent pastiI
it may be set down as a certainty t
when a respectable young soan des
the acquaintance Of one who may Sc
day become his wife, he doesn't go
the street and seek for acquainta
through Irritation. But, on the OF
hand, the flint Of the street, no ma
how innocent and fair her intent
may be, is the last person he We
seek as his life's companion. lie
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