The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-12-10

WI. Florence. the actor. is 81
years old.
LAST year there were 23O,OOO, 600
gallons OF wine sold in Paris.
The use Of petroleum a. q fuel on
Russian railroad lines is most gen
eral.
ArchdeacOn Farrar believes In high
license a. a corrective Oi the liquor
traffic.
IT. Spring drove from san Fran
eisco to Omaha In n wagon Ia one
month.
It Is said that four OF the maids Of
honor % Queen of Italy are beautiful
American women.
Arrangements are making TO estab-
lish In California colony OF 40 FAM
lilies from Alsace.
Only twenty five Of the 5000 In
dian children In this country are re-
eeiving any education.
General LOngstreet spends most Of
his time In literary work al his home
in Gainsville, Ga.
The Sacramento Bee says the Chi
nese take SIS. .OO0,O ,OO q year out Of
California and send Il home.
The opinion in New Haven Is that
Professor Timothy Dwight will be
the next President Of Yale College.
American societies have established
GOO schools in the Turkish Empire,
which are attended by 5000 pupils.
The only Chinese paper published
IN New York has suspended publiea-
ton. The general public were not
not educated up TO It.
African cats eyes set In silver and
Vienna crOcOdil e skin Of the color Of
old ivory make the most fashionable
umbrella handles In London.
About Is, 900 letters from mannfac-
tures have been sent to the Secretary
Of the Treasury protesting against a
reduction Of the tariff.
Old names for girls, as Gladys, FL
frida, Wilfreda. Enid, Ethel, Clarice.
ROsabel, Christabel, and Claribel, are
again becoming popular.
Dr. Shaw, OF Water Gap, cures
snake bites by administering whisky
internally aud applying externally "A
pOultiee Of onions, aud he writes tO
the Medical Times that he has great
success.
The Buffalo Express says that Presi-
dent Cleveland has never been farther
West than Dunkirk, n. Y. That's
the reason he keeps Villas In the Cabi-
net. He don't know the West.
NJ. Cambrier, Chief Road Master Of
the French Government rail WAYS,
has decided after ten years expert
enee, that the best plant yet discover
ed for consolidation, by tine interlac-
ing OF its roots, the loose soil Of new
ly made embankment Is the double
poppy.
Francis COppee, the poet Of the
poor, lately received into the French
Academy, Is shy and retiring Of life.
He makes his home in a little cottage
with an unmarried sister and mingles
seldom in fashionable society. The
place is Overrun with cats, Of which
he is very fond.
The death Is announced In England
at the age Of 6S, Of Wellington Guer-
sey, war correspondent, engineer, ,ufii
Ger, librettist, and composer Of''Al-
ice, Where art Thou" which though
refused by several publishers for the
sum Of 8. eventually realized q ru-
Ill OF 1000 or 5000.
Within the limits Of Washington
Territory are p, 1000, 900 acres of land
yet unsurveyed, OF which at least l6,-
900, 900 acres are excellent agricultur-
al lands, well tinbered. The tern
tory has population Of about $50 900
and "A valuation o. over, ST., ,ODO. .OJO.
Premier Brisson, Of France, is de-
scribed as a grandson OF COlignv,
amended by VOltaire' He can benl
but not sacrifice He l. reserved,
cold, and simple in manner. and it Is
said cannot win men tO him. In do
mestic life he is a model, and the acme
OF his happiness Is 10 be al home. He
Is a good writer and a fair orator.
A complimentary dinner TO Robert
Garrett and the other officers Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will be
given at the Pavilion Hotel, New
Brighton. Dec. 10, by ETastus Wiman
and the officers of the Staten Island
Transit Company. There will be one
hundred and fifty guests present and
an address delivered by George Will
liam Curtis.