The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-01-07

PRISONS AND THINGS.
Th-fv are more cil ezs.- 90 Ohio.
tiim a. Franre and Uefn ny essn
b,n,.t.
Pee Countess Miralore, the NOR
,aItic wife Of the late King Of Italy,
T. dead.
Mary Anderson Is accused Of hav-
ing learned 70 drink beer while
abroad.
Professor Timothy Dwight Is
thought 20 be highest In favor fOF the
Yale presidency.
Mrs. Talnlage, wife Of the Brooklyn
preacher. lectures every Sunday 10 q
class OF 800 women aud men.
The senior class Of Columbia Col
lege is trying to raise 100000 with
which 10 build q gymnasium.
The Pope has a dread that he viii
not pass his 10Th year. It was pre-
dicted by q gypsy that he would Be
in peril ~ that date.
A Georgia man swallowed his
tongue, and came near strangllng be
fore q doctor could get il back into po-
siliOn.
An admirer Of ex-senator Conk-
ling has sent that gentleman s barrel
Of chewing gum, believing u will cure
his dyspepsia
Ca tile National HOnse II Repre-
sentatives there are ~ Johns. p
Jauieses. 40 Williams, q CharlesCs, II
ThOmases and 10 Georges.
Paul F. Cooper, son Of the novelist,
has heen appointed 10 complete the
work begun IN the New York State
Library by the late vice chancellor,
Geo. W. Clinton.
Baron Rothschild, OF Paris, has sub
icribed 50 900 toward fund for pur-
chasing six genuine "Old Masters"
for presentation TO the gallery OF the
Louvre.
SIR. +. Martinez, consul Of Guate-
mala, who l. representing Ecuador at
the New Orleans Exposition, has been
sent a hat from sGuayaquil which IL
worth 500.
a law suit 10 New York which cost
over 500 was all about a safety pin
the nurse bad lost. She was dis
charged and refused pay for full time
but the court has decided In her favor.
Nine, Barrios, widow Of the late
President Of Guatemala, is spending
the winter in New Orleans. she has
a fortune Of s. .OOO, 900, and IL said 70
be very handsome.
Al Oakland, Cal, lives Mrs. &. A.
Bryant, now aged, once belle, whom
Geo. ~ once kissed and 70 whom
Napoleon is said 10 have offered his
heart, hand aud empire.
Mr. William Henry Parker. princi
pal Of the Philadelphia grammar
school. claims to have coined the
word telegram" rs long ago az 1851.
two years before its use by tue news
papers.
A Philadelphia dime museum has
on exhibition q human volcano"
whose breath Is OF such = high tenn
perature that Il sets fire 70 a piece Of
paper held up before It. The fellow
came from Kentucky.
Harry Brown, a oOlOred man e5
years old, still living at Texas, n. Y,
was once the slave Of Governor De
Witt Clinton, and obtained his free
dom under the State manumissiOn set
July 4. lS21.
Henry WattersOn elects himself q
special deputy 10 look after the Presi
dent and ms Cabinet, and pull them
dOWn1when they get too big for their
breeches. He ought TO begin on Man
ming al once.
A Chinese syndicate recently Of
fered s. 900. 900 for the Palace Hotel
Ia san Francisco, and were prepared
TO pay 81 $40 900 but finally cOnelud-
ed that the investment would be al
unwise one al the present time.
NJ. Pasteur has his theory Of happi-
ness. True happiness, he says,
"appears TO me Ia the form Of man
Of science devOting his days and
nights % penetrate the secrets OF ma
ture and discovering new truths.
A bell weighing seventy-five lbs.
and In appearance very similar TO the
old Liberty Bell, was 'scOOped" out
Of chesapeake Bay by AN oyster
dredge last saturday. IL has the fol-
lowing inscription: "FHbius, PhIla-
delphia, 1915"
A rigid mother in Bath, Me-, had
her daughters beHu arrested for stay
ing too late when he called. The
Young man was released on cOndi-
ton that he leave town. Bath girls
don't amount to much, or this one
would have left with her banished
lover.
Cincinnati was 81 years old Mon
day. IL was on Dec. >, l7SS, that Is
Tael Ludlow and abOut twenty Others,
landed Go the present site Of the city,
and concluded "a settle there. In
l7s9 Fort Washington was erected,
and in 1892 the city Of Cincinnati was
Incorporated.
Colonel Fred Grant, In accordance
with the special request made by bis
father, sent presentation copy OF the
"Memoirs Of u. ). Grant" 10 eX-Sec-
rotary aud eX Governor Geo. 5. Bout
we'll, who was General Grants per-
sonal aud political friend aud his
latest public eulogjst in Boston.