The St. Johns herald., 1885-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Geo. Wilkes, founder of Wilkes Spirit Of the Times, is dead.

Goldsmith Maid, the famous
 trotting mare, died last week in New
 York City.
 Methodist ministers preach to 15,- 100000 people in the United States every Sabbath.
 The independence of Mexico was celebrated throughout that Repub-
 lie on the 16th ultimo.
 The jury in the Marquis de Mores murder trial at Bismarck, Dakota, returned a verdict of not guilty.
 It costs $5.70 for each convert to Christianity in heathendom and $26.60 for each convert to Chris tianity in enlightened America.
 In the small towns and cities of Kansas and Missouri the average price of unskilled labor is $1.20 per day, mechanics $2, with no demand for either.
 The Denver police recently ar rested a man named G. w. Smith while in the act of placing a dyna- mite cartridge on the Denver and Rio Grande track.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has called for the resignation of Martin L. Noerr as chief of the Division of Captured and Abandoned Prop erty and Lands.
 In Garfield county, Col, there are 737 unmarried men and only sixty-eight unmarried women. The Glenwood Echo says: eve are 669 girls short here, and we want all the girls to know it"
 The report of the South African Postmaster General for the year 1884, shows that the weight of dia-~ monds which passed through the post office during that year was 1911 pounds, eight ounces.
 Prof. Josef Korosi, the statisti- elan, has the figures to show that wealth is conducive to long life. The rich class average 52 years, the middle class 46 and the poor fl years and seven months.
 Epicures object to Spring chick ems matched in incubators and raised by hand. It is alleged that on artificial diet they lack the fla vor of chicks who can pick nice juicy worms and delicately organ ized bugs, out of the dirt which the hen scratches over in the barnyard.
 The office of Chief of the Post Office Inspectors has been rendered by the Postmaster General to Wm. A. West, of Mississippi, a prosper ous farmer living near Oxford, Mis- sissippi, and formerly successful in St. Louis and New Or leans, and president of a bank in Oxford.
 The boundary between Massachu- setts and New Hampshire has been in dispute 100 years. No strictly legal line exists. In TAI the king of England directed representatives of both provinces to jointly make 8 map in accord with some general directions, but Massachusetts did not obey, and New Hampshire did the work alone. A strip of the Merrimac Valley is the doubtful ground.
 The Changers of Kansas at one of their agricultural expositions erected unique monument to the memory of Gen. Grant. It consists of an obelisk of corn, rising to night of forty-seven feet. The ped estal, seven feet high, is covered with cornstalks, arranged in an ar tistic fashion, and having on each of it's sides a picture of Grant set in wreathes of popcorn with red pepper intertwined. The shaft is composed of ears of yellow corn, and on it's four faces worked in red ears, are the inscriptions Peace" 1" Plenty" "Union" and "Liberty." On each corner of the pedestal is a pumpkin, while giant ,ornstalks, stacked like arms, stand around the monument.