The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-07-09
PEOPLE AND IHIRas.

Cavaleades OF gipsies are roaming
through Dakota.
The New York World last Sunday
ran Special train 10 Boston in five
hours.
Mr.. Mlllais is painting Little Nell
and Her Grandfather" from 1.-The
Old Curiosity Shop"
The violin is beginning to super
cede the piano as 3 fashiOnabls instTu-
ment for ladies in Paris.
There have been nearly 1900, 200
barrels Of oil produced in one year at
Thorn Greek oil field, Pa.
In the last twenty-five years the
MethOdists increased the value of their
church property about $50, 0,OOO,O ,OOO'
The largest pension paid to a SOL
dier Of the late war Is 500 per month,
and it Is paid to General Black, the
commissioner OF Pensions, who was
represented at the time to be q physi-
ical wreck.
The ex-Empress Eugenie wrote the
following pathetic sentence in q pri-
vate letter to MOnsignor Goddard at
Chiselhurst: "I am left alone, the sole
remnant Of q shipwreck, which proves
how fragile and vain are the grandeurs
Of this world"
After deducting expenses, the Bis
marek fund amounted to q sum
which admitted Of S375, 900 being paid
for SchOnhausen, and the balance, q
little over $4,000, being placed on
the Premier's credit.
The ushers who acted at q wedding
held in Baltimore two years ago were
the pall-bearers ct the funeral of the
bride last week, and invitations to st
tend the funeral were sent out TO Rll
who had been invited TO the wedding.
Three sons and two daughters OF
General Lee survive. His sons are
farmers In Virginia, and the daugh-
ters are both great travellers, the elder
having explored Australia, Japan,
China, India and Egypt, In addition
tOsthe European circuit Of sights.
Queen VictOrla detasts smokers,
and keeps up I'm her palace the stand
ing order, Positively no smoking
here" The Queen Is noted also for
three other things-ridieulOus dress
ing, stinginess, and fOndness for Ger
mans and ScOtchmen.
Sam, the bathing master at the
West End Hotel beach at Long
Branch, has been on duty there since
1852, before the present hotel was
built. He has, it Is estimated, bathed
at least p 600 ladies in that time. He
says he has never had less than 1000,
even during his worst seasons.
In Paris it Is now an easy matter to |
discern an engaged man and one who |
Is not, a. il Is 10 tell by the solitaire |
diamond ring that girl wears on her |
finger that she has |
been espOused. The way Il is done |
in Paris is for the man TO wear n small /
pearl heart hanging loose from his
vest buttOnhOle by a delicate Nene-
tian chain.
SAN Francisco, CAL, July g.
John Russell Young, eX-United States
minister to China, arrived here yes
ierday on the steamer Oceanica from
Y fokOhOmO. Speaking regarding the
restriction act, he said that it
merely offended Chinese pride, as
that government was opposed to the
Of its subjects. In diplO-
macy the fast that the Americans
had Disseminated against China, had
lften been used ~ foil when Amer
Ca sought any advantage in China,
% when q treaty Of revision had been
suggested. The Chinese emIgrated
rom Hong Kong, An English port,
lot from = Chinese city. The British
governor Of Hong Kong could enforce
he United States restriction treaty II
be were required TO do so by his gov
,rnment. The Chinese government
lad done all IN their power to prevent
he emigration Of the Chinese 20 the
Juited States, but there were no re-
tFictiOns 20 their going from Hong
Kong to completely carry out the re-
friction act. The United States
hOuld negotiate q treaty with Eng
aud by which COOLIES from Hong
Kong would he prevented from sail
ng 10 this country.
Fe people. perhaps, who have
cad WbTief telegraphic reports OF the
.hOlera in Spain, have a conception
( the extent Of the ravages OF the
errible scOurge, or the widespread
error and utter business demOraliz-
tiOn which has been Occasloned
hereby. A merchant arrived at Z
lOndOn from Murcia says it Is utterly ,
to describe the panic, loss
{ reason and absolute frenzy which
as taken possession Of people. The Z
Ktent to which the disease has adj &
anced, compared with its progress
q France last year, is simply apalL
lg. The deaths have been at iesst
lur to one, and In some provinces at
he present time more than half who q
re attacked die, and its malignity
nd fatality are on the increase. The
lct that 80 out Of every 100 cases. Of
tack are found among the lower
lasses, In localities where cleanliness
unknown, teaches q sanitary lesson
'hich should not 90 unheeded In our Z
titles and towns.
WAEHINOTON, July AIN conse- !
uence OF age and constant handling,
ome Of the earlier executive dOcn-
lents Of the Senate are in q very {
condition. 70 preserve I
aese as long a. possible the Secretary
{ the Senate has had them carefully
Heightened out and fitted 70 paFeh-
lent backs and bound in durable