The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-02-18

horse % = rocking enair ana took 3
sleigh ride
The Rev. R. r. Meredith, Of Bos.
ton, boldly defends smOking-When
the cigars are good.
Maurice, the son Of Nine. Sarah
BerBhardt. Il reported TO be serious ly
10 with consumption.
JohBs Young Is again spoken
Of a. the coming managing editor Of
the New York Herald.
A copy Of the first book or Arith
metie, u which only two copies ex-
ia. was sold In London recently for
S3jO.
Only 32s,4 immigrants entered
the United states last year, q decrease
Of IS per cent.
One field Of ice that passed down
the PenObseot River last week Is said
70 have contained upward OF 100 acres.
Louise Mitchell will devote the pro-
eeeds Of the sale Of her Memories"
entirely to rehabilitating fallen wO-
men.
Tue Rev DR. Talmage rises at
o'clock sunday mornings aud thinks
out his sermon while be PAGES his
study hOOr-
Hannibal Hamlin, now IS. said to q
friend the other day: Il never felt
better in my life"
The Singer Sewing Machine FactO-
~ was started thirty.six years ago in
Boston garrett
A vein Of silver quartz IL alleged to
have been discovered on q farm In
Lattsville, Ross county, Ohio.
Ventilation ia the MOnnt Gents
tunnel is 80 defective that trainsmen
occasionally fall insenslble during
trips.
Att recent London bOOk-sale two
volumes, IN magnificent binding
which was their chief merit, brought
81 SIS and 81. 800 respectively.
Sam Jones says "frOm & governor
down 70 deg pelter, he would not
vote for q man that touched, handled,
or tasted whisky 70 save his life"
A lady living near HsrtWell, Ga,
had her teeth freeze and burst during
the recent cold spell. She sent them
20 the dentist TO be reset.
The new Guild of WOrkingwOmen
Of Philadelpbia advertises % do patch
ing, daFning, and all mendIng for
bachelors and other unfOrtunates.
The Modern Crsmdtist Is the some
what odd name of q new monthly
magazine published at Lancaster,
Penn, Ia the interests Of cremation.
IL Lyon county, Nevads, they
claim to have found fish covered
with hair instead Of scales. There Is
something suggestive In the name Of
that county.
In Zululand q wife can be bought
for ten good COWS, but the market is
rising aud quotations are few. A
poor quality OF a wife can be bought
| FOR three heifers and 8 bull calf.
George r. B0rtls and James Vale
mis- travelled from Los Angeles, Cal,
TO New York on q hand car. They
left Los Angeles Oct l, aud arrived IN
New York yesterday.
Colonel IngersOll says that "clvil-
service reform Is lie, and offensive
partisanship a clumsy fraud" He
| further says President Cleveland Il
prying Republicans out OF Office by
means Of levers called lies.
William Gallaghan OF Fall River
Mass. offers to let JOhu l. Sullivan to
/ strike him five times With q club four
| inches in diameter and three feet six
long. Gallaghan claims to be insen-
sible to pain aud offers this public test.
ben Hogan, the muscular evangel-
list who formerly dealt telling blows
i'm the prize ring, ls pow holding re-
vival meeting in Kearney, Neb., and
knocking out sinners by the score.
Thomas Kay urges that bottles cou-
! tanning citrate OF silver be slowed
away in life.bOsts. Seven ounces Of
citrate will turn enough sea water
into drinking water to supply a man
for a week.
Oscar J. Graham, a tramp who fell
from a Niekel-plate train on which he
was stealing ride and had his foot
cut of, sued the railroad company for
$50, 900 damages aud secnred a verdict
for $1,000. He Is not satisfied and
will appeal.
There a number OF total abstainers
ia the present English Parliament,
aud the friends Of temperance are 90
delighted with, the circumstance that
they held a public meeting a few days
ago ia the Westminster Town Hall
to welcome them.
The Grand Army Post Of Table
Rock, Neb has been presented with
a gavel. the handle Of which has
been made from the spOkes Of the
buggy In which Jefferson Davis rode
out OF Richmond when he vacated
the city.
Speaker Carlisle has his meals
served IN the Speakers room. He Is
a dainty eater, and while he consumes
but little Is fond Of large variety Of
dishes. These are usually washed
with some rare old wine.
The Hon. Frank Jones, the million
aire brewer and Democratic leader In
New Hampshire, ordered his big
brewery teams out 10 help q temper
ance revivalist move his tent from
Dover to the next town, dozen miles
distant, free Of charge. Mr.. Jones iE
evidently not afraid the reyivalist will
hurt his business.
A GLASGOW chemist has found that
at about So degrees centigrade the
flesh Of animals. such a. mutton. be-
comes 90 exceedingly hard that it
rings like porcelain when struck with
an iron Instrument Anueeu crueneS
by the blow ola hammer into q fine
powder. In which muscle, fat and
bone are intermingled-
Thomas NJ. Jones. city editor Of the
Harrisburg Pa. Telegraph, claims that
he Il personally aguainted with every
man, woman. and child within q rad,
ius Of ten miles OF the State capital.
On a wager last week he walked along
Third street, from the DOstofiies to
Market street, and was recognized by
every one be met-67 men, IA won
en-, and . children.