The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-06-11
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Philadelphia has 5000 liquor sf-
looms, or one for every twenty-five
voters
The railroads OF Nebraska have
fixed their passenger fares at 3 cents
per mile.
The Hon. John Kelly ls enjoying
much improved health aud Is sOlnurn-
ing at Clifton Springs, n. Y.
The famous Partisan buTying-grOund
now has over so, 900 tOmbs, ,mausOleuns
and memorial stones within its limits.
There was found among the rubbish
q fine and somewhat famous portrait
in oil Of General Robert +. Lee.
A lady residing ct Nunda n. Y.
has given birth 10 twenty-seven chill
dren, including five pair Of twins
during her married life.
A Norwegian named Johnson has
started from Queenstown in = small
boat with q canvas deck aud expects
10 ia time reach America.
There are said to upward Of sixty
families In Washington in which
either the husband or the wife Is q
negro aud the other partner white.
Hugh s. Nigh, Of PittstOwn, Pa,
who Is riding q bicycle from hi 8
home tO the Pacific coast, reached
Burlington. Iowa, Thursday, having
ridden I 900 miles.
The people Of Clarksville, Tenn,
will celebrate the centennial anniver-
saTy Of the place next, Tuesday. It
was June 9, 1855, the hrst tree was
felied on the ground where now
stands that beautiful little city.
The three oldest reigning European
mOnArchs are the Emperor of Ger
many, who is IS years Of age; the
King Of the Netherlands, GS years,
and the KingOf Denmark, 81 years.
Queen Victoria Is 90 years Old.
General Robert TOOmbs, who Is
now totally blind, Is living At his
home, Ia Washington, Ga, from
whence he IL fond of sending out 10
his friends occasional religious tracts
which happen 10 suit his fancy.
A Cleveland Democrat wants the
Secretary OF the Treasury tO remove
the deposits Of public money In that
city from the Mercantile Bank be-
eauae the directors are Republicans
and it Is an offensive partisan"
Mrs. Frank Leslie has gone to Eu-
rope She will return 10 this cOuutry
in August, when she expects To begin
the publication Of spanish edition Of
Fronk Lesife's Illustrated Paper for
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South America.
The Springfield Republican the ap-
pOlntment Of Richard Henry StOdd-
ard, the poet, % some foreign mission,
on the ground that the Democratic
party has not many 6rst.rate men OF
letters and ought % hasten 70 honor
such ~ they have.
The corporation OF London will
present eX-President AFthuFnWith an
address and gold easket upon his
expected visit 10 London, and the
Lord Mayor will give him n banquet.
The easket will resemble that given to
Grant when he was q
visitor In the same city.
&c. Whitaker, the cadet whose
treatment by West Point ruffians |
AE8lc MN AAA1C04t IN lNaa DgGn i
admitted 10 ths bar at COlumbia,S. @. |
He is . good public speaker, is pOpu-
lar In Charleston and other South /
Carolina cities, and viii probably /
make q successful lawyer.
ALTON, III, June 6.-YOung grass-
hOppeFB immense numbers are be-
to appear on the Missouri at
! point opposite 10 this city. They
sem 10 be coming out Of the earth.
Of them hy into the lakes
md rivers and are drowned.
A farmer as Lake Como, Pa. says
hat this spring . pair Of robins
lelected ~ q place 10 build their nest
J spot on the running gear Of his
lumber wagon. Although the wagon
Fns ln constant uss the birds followed
L ali about the farm, REGARDLESS OF
he pFesencs Of the persons working
With the wagon, and not only con-
lieted the nest, but the female de-
SOsited her eggs in it and began 10
match them.
Fllz Hugh Lee ls one Of the board
lf visitors appointed By the President
10 attend the examination exercises
e the United States military academy
West Point, n. Y. Filz Hugh Lee q
! graduate, and deserted the army, or
eft q, 60 take up arms against the
,onntry that educated him. It n
lardly . WhOlssoms example 10 the
ladels of the academy 10 honor such
= FilE HUgh Lee by an appointment
= viaitOr.-k0nsos Oty 1tmes.