Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-12-26
SOLID FACTS.
Current Neas That Is Novel and
 Interesting
And Much Valuable Information Worth Remembering During the Hard Times.

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 And Much Valuable Information Wortl
 Remembering During the Hard Times.
 Fashion fans herself with feather now.
 Spelling bees are being revived II Georgia
 New York city has a club called th' lady grumblers.
 It is said the word Dakota is Sioul for "cut-thrOat."
 There are 25.OOO more women than men in Philadelphia.
 Sixty vessels hGvs been lost on the great lakes this year | Dr. EdsOn, of New York, says red stockings are poisonous.
 Hold-the-Fort is the name of post | oflic in kin gmau county, Kan.
 There are 15OOOOCO tons of coal vast piled up iu the anthracite regions.
 A session of Congress generally cost | about S3,0O0u uo0 III direct expenses. ! Nebraska now has lU0,UU0l acres O. trees. oil of which were planted by set | tiers.
 | The ChicaSo coroner held 1,O96 in quests during the year ending November 3Jih.
 Denver thinks it ought to be encir- cIed by nice little group of suburban villages.
 New York has goo miles of fire alarm wire and Q complete separate system fer the police.
 Pennsylvania claims to have wild grapevine 514 feet in circumference SIX feet from the ground.
 The pay of ladies in waiting to the Queen of England is S3.5OO year; that Of lords in waiting S5I6OO.
 Over thirty men have thus far been killed at different times in the new Rque- duct for New York city.
 A statistician ayers that the average man spends S19 year more Tor dress than the average woman,
 Kentucky negroes are making solid progress. They now pay taxes on S4,UOO, GOO worth of property.
 Not everybody knows that on the day following burial half-masted flags should be run up to full height.
 Sixty million people speak the Ger man language, 1t IS stated, 40,OOO,OUO, the French and 1O0OO0,OO0 the English.
 Most of the explosions of natural gas in Plitsburg and the neighboring towns are directly traceable to bad plumb mig.
 There are loo eolored men m the sin gle city of Washington who figure on the aSsesment-rolls for more than S2O, 0OO each.
 New York city contains 6O,OO0 He breWs, and not one of them, II Is said, IS engaged ID the saloon business
 In Mexico they do not allow ladies to attend funerals. They are, however, grsciously permitted at weddings.
 Not single death has been reported within year from climatic causes in Saliia, Col, with a population of 3,OOO.
 There are eighty Federal buildings in course of construction, involving expen- dItures to the amount of SS,5ll,OOO.
 Mrs. Dahlgreu, the novelist, is a Zaneeville, Ohio, girl. She IS wealthy, and she owns several houses in Wash ingtOn.
 The number 40 rules in Halifax. The population number 10000, and there gre forty policemen and forty churches.
 Mme. Sophie Menter, the famous pianist. is now enjoying the possession oi a fortune of S3,OOO,OOO left her by Q Russian admirer.
 The papers used in the famous tria ot Aaron Burr for treason have been de posted m the new government build ing at Cincinnati.
 Gen. Warren of Wyoming Territory in his annual report states that the pop ulation of the Territory is about 65,0UO and IS increasing.
 The police force of Laramie. Wy. T. is provided with blsck-sDHke whips to use on all boys found On the streets nf- ter 10 o'clock at night.
 Steamed potatoes, according to Prof. P. Wagner. who publishes analyses ID support of this theory, are much more nutritive than those that are boiled.
 Grab bags at charity fairs are prOhib- tied m Washington by the police. This is the only kind of grabbing that IS not permitted at the national capital.
 A lady offers the following cure for warts. Rub the warts with lemon juice three or four times day and you will not have a single wart left within a month.
 The London Spectator describes the United States as a nation winch owns a small planet with all climates, and can not be starved out even by a blockade