The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-29


Mr.. Gladstone says be hes neze
lost q nights sleep on account OF DO
litical excitement
They still want $4,000 10 finish fh.
pedestal FOR the BEthoidi Statue % CD,
New York harbor.
Don Carlos says he row has greater
hopes than ever before Of soon re
turning 10 Madrid in Triumph.
In some parts Of Mexico precious
woods are 90 plentiful that the natives
build pig styes OfrOseWOOd logs.
Mr.. Blaine has sent check Of SlOC
% Mr.. Patrick Ford for the fund fOl
the relief Of the famine-stFieken pe0-
pie on the coast Of Ireland.
The two richest men In the House
are disgusted with Congressional life.
| These are FELTON,, Of California, and
Scott, Of Pennsylvania
The girl who isn't pretty dOsen'l
figure IN the elopement scandals ex-
tensively, bat she is pretty import
ant factor IN the social problem Of
how homes are made happy.
The richest silver ore IN large bodies
ever discovered in the United States
was struck 10 the Iron Hill mine,
near DeadWOOd. last week. Much Of
Il assayed Si5. 900 to the ton.
An English magazine writer makes
bold to say that table manners are
best disclosed" by observing how
one eats asparagus, oranges, afti-
ehOkes and grapes.
Some horses ct San Francisco be-
came frightened a few days ago and
jumped into the bay, One Of them
landed on q beach Ave miles away
after swimming for twelve hours.
Messrs. J. ID. Rockefeller, Of New
York City, aud J. B. HOyt, Of Con-
necticut, have each subscribed $50, 600
toward paying of the Baptist Home
Missionary SOeiety's debt Of 5 10000.
Mr.. Enoeh Pratt, who gave Balti-
more its fine free library, is thought
10 be worth six or seven millions, all
self-made. He IL past seventy under
sized and very thin, though he is still
hale and agile.
tits proposed to change the street
nomenclature Of Washington, 50 bsti-
tuting for the letters Of the alphabet,
which now mark many streets, the
names OfhistOrieal persons, Adams,
Benton, Clay, Van Buren, and others.
Senator Stanford, Of California. says
that he came very near being q news !
paper man instead Of q millionaire. |
He wanted to start q paper at Fort
Washington, Wis, but could not get !
his outfit this side Of Pennsylvania |
then and gave up the enterprise.
The carat used for Weighing dia- |
mOnds is a fixed weight equal to 1-6
troy grains. The name Is taken from |
that Of the seeds Of the cOral-tree of
Abyssinia, which were formerly used |
to weigh precious stones. The mar
ket value Of diamonds varies with cir |
eumstanees.
London proper Is seven miles wide
by a little more than eleven miles |
long, and covers an area Of l22 square /
miles. But what Is known as Greater /
London, including all the outlying
has a much greater extent, |
and covers over $50 square miles Of
ground.
The Lieutenant Generals of the 4
United States army have been as fol-
lows: General Washington, July 3,
lT9S, to his death, December IA, 1893
General Scott (5y brevet only March
lS47, to November. 1861 ; General
Grant, March u, 1864, to July p. 1865;
General Sherman, July p, 1866, to
March 4, 1869 ; Gen. Sheridan, since
March 4, 1853.
The golden age Of Grecian history
was from 500 B. &. to 400 B. O. In
that era lived the noted statesmen
ThemistOeles, Pericles and
many others; among poets, the great ,
trio, Ksehylus, Euripides, and SOph-
Dcies; the historians HerOdOtus and
and the philosophers
socrates and Plato. The golden age
Of Rome was later, during the last
century preceding the Christian era
Then lived the great generals Narius,
POmpey, and the Caesars; the poets
Virgil, Horace, and Ovid the histO-
rams Sallust and Livy, and the great
orator Cicero. u