The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-01-14
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ace than ever this year.
A. G.. swinburne's monograph on
"VictOr Hugo" will be ready this
week.
The German Government hiss order
ed q census 0f trhmps Ia that country.
Chauncey Depew says that Mr.
Vanderbilt was often ia need OF small
change.
The latest critic Of Shakespeare
thinks Hamlet was meant 20 be fat
man.
A Michigan girl committed suicide
when she found out that 1886 was not
a leap year.
About 1900 dogs were sheltered
last year in the London Home for
Lost Dogs.
Mr.. Haweis says that President
Cleveland reminds him Of Lord
BrOUghman in good humOr.
Miss Sue Conan, Of Wheeling, w.
Va, l. said Co he the handsOmest
postal clerk in the service.
AlgernOn SartOris and his wbe
(once Nellie Grant, are living in
south kensingtOn, London.
Henry Willard il still In Berlin and
his friends say he does not intend to
return 90 this country now.
A copy % the Presidents message.
finely bound T. the most highly priced
Of Miss Cleveland's CHRISTMAS pres
ents.
New Zealand with 3 population Of
about 60, 900 has q debt 81 nearly e3l =
OH, WO, or over $50 for each inhaoit-
ant.
Mr.. TennysOn has caused 10 be an
nounced in the London Times that
lac can not answer his "innumerable
letters" that reach him.
The GcaiO lHsdicO- QHdragioO re-
cords the fact that q woman %! Nalla-
dOid recently gave birth 10 seven
children in two days.
A Southern critic likens a certain
literary lady's bOnnets 10 "the silvery
texture Of q cObWeb endowed with the
durability Of a pearl"
Victor Hugo sat for HE prOtrait just
before his death 10 Bretzel. This has
been bought by the French Govern
nent for the Luxembourg gallery.
4 party OF travellers recently made
the tourney from Sanfrancisco to
London, via, New York and Liver
pool. in a triie less than fourteen
days.
A girl ~ wears old was married to =
man of 80 in Suwanee county, Florida,
recently The marriage ceremony
was performed hyher father, who
Is q minister.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Matthew
ATnOld's recently expressed opinion,
was the finest writer this country
ever produced. A good many more
people entertain the same opinion.
William r. Walker, OF Evansville.
Ind, IS years old, has a head thirty
three inches in circumference, and
thirty-five inches from chin to crown.
The Democrats will nominate him for
President In 1855.
The women Of France are said to
regard the moonlight rs more injuri-
Gus 10 the complexion than sunlight,
aud that silk and velvet goods will
fade more rapidly in the moons rays
than In the brightest sunshine.
The Buck stone, a well known dru-
Ideal stone ia the Wye Valley; Eng
land, which WAS OverthTOwn last June
has been replaced 90 its former pos
ition by SUBSCRIBERS 10 fund for that
purpose, the expense amounting 10
$3.50.
The Galveston Neirs calls attention
20 the fact that while tributes TO the
memory Of Bob ToOmbs have pien-
tifully come from all parts Of the
country, none ha se been dated from
BeauvOir. Miss, the home Of Jeffer-
son Davis.
There is an eX-Nice President alive,
Il seems, whom every body has forgot
ten for many years-Davld r. Atchi-
son, OF Missouri, who In 1853 was chO-
sen by the Senate TO I'LL the place OF
Wee President VIM. r. King.
Professor A. S. BickmOre, superin-
iendent OF the American Museum OF
Natural History, Is spoken Of as the
probable successor q Professor John
&. Draper, in the chair Of Natural
History OF the College Of the City OF
New York.
DIR. Chas. g. Weld, Charles Long.
fellow aud DR.. Edward p. Elliot have
returned 10 Boston from their cruise
In the yacht LOitereT, after japanese
curiOs. by the wreck Of the yacht
in the inland seas Of Japan, q small
portion OF their collection was lost.
The grinding Of the crown glass
disk Of the immense lens for Lick OBJ
servatOry, California, Is well under
way &C Cambridge, Mass. yet 3 whole
years work remains 10 be done before
Il can be finished.
Heretofore ships have been per-
mitted TO pass through the SueZ Canal
only in daylight: but now war ships
aud steamers provided with electric
lights Of sufficient power to illUmin-
ate the canal, 200 yards ahead may
20 In at night.
An English company has perfected
its arrangements for providing sick
chambers with telephones. The OBJ
jet Is 10 give persons suffering with
contagious diseases a chance 10 talk
with their friends. Speaking tubes
are inadmissable on account of the
infectious nature Of the breath.
DR.. HaTtwell, OF Johns Hopkins
University, says that q German sol
dier can scale tWenty-foOt wall with
his arms and accOutrements, or
jump an irOn-spiked fence without
getting caught, and he attributes this
90 the fact that gymnastics are com
pulsOry ia the German schools.
Mrs. Bancroft, the wife Of the his
tOrian, Is said 20 be preparing q vol
ume OF her "reminiscences and eX-
periences, and az she was q belle In
Washington sixty years ago, and has
seen the best people and places at
home and abroad, she cannot fail 10
favor the public with an uncommOnly
interesting book.
President Cleveland was lately
asked 10 contribute his autograph TO
the attractions OF Catholic Church
fair 90 Phillipsburg, n. J He re-
spOnded BY sending q beautiful steel
plate engraving Of the White House,
beneath which is the Presidents sig
nature. Accompanying this was q
substantial sum Of money.
Leopold Won Ranke, now more
than 80. presents the anomoly OF
man who hiss never taken any exeF-
else aud yet IL In perfect physical
health. The great German historian
has almost lived Ia his library, work
ing ifteen hours a day, aud he has
laid out more work which he hopes
70 complete before his Tooth birthday.
William Henry Brown, q PittsbuFE
colOred man, has been left q 5henan-
dOah Valley farm Of $50 acres by q
Nirginian named James spangleF,