The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-10-01

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The Grant Monument Eund iu New
YORK has reacned nesriy S8S.00O.
Benjamin w. Gould, the emminent
astronomer, was s. years old last Sun
day.
Lady TennysOn is IN q state Of i'll
health that causes her friends great
anxiety.
The Mills Building on Brnad street,
New York, gives Oliiee room 10 $500
pers0nH.
Mrs. Van Crit has more magnetic
power than any other lady preacher
in the country.
Cola Stone. the champion long dis
lance Wheelmau OF the world, has
just died in Sc. Louis.
Five Of the seven candidates on the
Republican ticket In New York were
Union soldiers.
The Hon. Hannibal HamIin will
wear an overcOat again this winter
for the third season In his life.
The Baltimore grand jury reports
that the Introduction Of the whipping
post 10 punish wife-beaters has had
saluiary effect.
Professor Nichols, editor Of BOstOn
Journal Of Chemistry, has declared
that alcOhal Is no lOngere \ necessity
In any Of the arts OF sciences.
A negro In Jackson county, GeOr-
gia, II reported 10 have butttsd q steer
10 death, the owner having promised
him the carcass on that condition.
-Four German generals-TrrskOw,
Cranach, StOseh, and SchOthelm-
have celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary Of their entering the army.
AT Sulpher Well, Ky. there Is a Gu
riosity In the shape Ofa healthy baby
8 months old that weighs only four
pounds.
The Santa Barbara (Call Pres says
there are orders In that country TO
supply $1,000 pounds Of dried peaches
70 be shipped 70 Philadelphia direct.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart will entertain
in her marble palace Ia New YORK
the coming winter for the first time
since the death Of her husband.
Senator Anthony beqaeathed to
Brown University the only known
copy Of the original edition OF "The
New England Primer"
There is q great dael of red tape in
the French army. Il took q French
soldier, who was reported 10 be dead,
five years 70 prove that he was alive.
Canadian canoes are establishing
themselves on the Thames, and PROM
ise 10 share with the more capaeiOus
steam launch the hOnors of popular
favOritisn.
Illegitimate births are steadily on
the Increase In France, the figures be =
/ ing 6S, ,227 In 1850, 70,0T9 In 1881, IL
sos in 1882, "A, ,2l3 In 1888, and 1884
/ in 1884.
The London Home for Lost Dogs
gives shelter 20 5000 homeless and
starving dogs CANNES annually, vet
there has never been a case Of rabies
since its foundation, twenty years
ago.
The cake ordered for an October
wedding in New York Is to be sur
mounted by a tower OF candy, I'm
which will be live birds. The bride
/ is TO break the artificial cage with q
tiny hammer and liberate the birds.
Mrs. George Dawson Coleman, Of
i Lebanon, Pa, owns q portrait PAL mt
ed on a cObWeb. The cOlOrs are beau
/ tifully laid on, and simply perfect a.
to harmony. It is said &c have cost
! 5000.
An officer writing from Suakim
says the ground burns the feet through
the stOutest boots, the thermometer
/ in the coolies room marks lO4. and
/ even the backs of books curl from
the heat.
Less than four out Of each hundred
/ Americans lived in cities in 1870.
! The city population had increased In
/ 1910 20 s per cent, and Is now %
/ There are only seventeen States with
more people than New York City.
DR.. H. s. Lucas. Of Chester. the
diseOverer Of the emery mines there
and the cOrundum mines In the Blue
Ridge mountains OF North Carolina
and Georgia, has been searching for
more than forty years.
Miss Cleveland was graduated from
1 HOughtOn's Seminary, Clinton, n.
/ Y, In 1865, and she delivered her es-
say on Reciprocity" there last year.
This essay Is second IN her bOOk re-
Gently published
Miss Clara Barton, the heroine OF
/ three wars aud President OF the Red
| Cross International Association, one
/ OF the most practical and influential
women In the world, has recently de-
clared for woman suffrage.
Nineteen-tWentieths Of the brewer
les OF the Union are owned and Oper-
ated by Germans, and as q rule, the
cities which show the largest proper
ton Of this foreign element exhibit
also the greatest beer-prOdueing inter
est.
DressmakeF Worth says that the
stories about high-prieed dresses are
all myths. "HOu hear, he says, "Of
dresses that cost 81 800 and $1,000. I
venture to say that not four dress
makers In Paris ever made any at
such prices"
It Is estimaaed, taking the report OF
1850 rs q basis, that there are now
10000 practising physicians in the
United States. It Il Is also estimated
that IS percent Of them carry aud dis
pense, in whole or in part, their own
remedies.
Selma Siebert, who died recently
on his return from Europe 10 this |
country at the age Of rs years, was
one Of the foremost map engravers Of |
the present day. The best maps Of the
Prussian general staff were engraved |
by him.
The Queen OF Italy Is having a |
magnificent fan painted for her by an |
italian artist. It Is painted on kid |
leather, aud represents the Queen |
surrounded by the Graees and other |
allegOrieal figures. with the genius |
Italy in act OF erOWning her.
In order 10 gain a coveted prize a
young couple residing near Syracuse, /
n. Y, were recently married upon |
the OnOndagO FaiI grounds, with 80 /
900 people 20 witness the ceremony. 4
Nearly every exhibitor upon the
ground gave them present.
The finest Opals are now found in
Hungarian mines. When first ex-
tracted the gems are son, friable aud
easily broken; 50 it Is necessary to
expose them to the air and light for a
few days that they may become hard,
and then their cOlOrs begin to ap-
pear.
The Lancaster Examiner has dEscov-
cred two Bibles dating back to the
middle Of the fifteenth century, bat
Il IL surpassed by the Harrisburg Ca0.
which has found ia the possession OF
Mr.. Joseph Miller, Of Baskerville a
cOpy Of Luther's translation OF Script
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