Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-01-06
MISSING LINKS.

1uc hiIiS Ol DanOney naS o,0UU WlVeS The missionaries are after him.
 An English silver penny of modern date is worth 50 cents.
 The new Washington mansion o1 Colonel John Hay has cost him $1OO,. 900.
 Anthracite coal mined in Pennsyl. vania sells for S25 ton in the City oi Mexico.
 A new town in Russia has been named New York in honor of the American metropolis.
 An iron pier 3,166 feet in length is being built at Boston. It will be the longest in the world
 A Cleveland paper gives prominence to the report that Mrs. Garfield is writ ing biography of her husband.
 In popular American cyclopedia, in the section devoted to important rivers, no mention is made of the Ohio.
 Recent experiments have shown that the first choice among colors of all children under seven years of age is yellow.
 Mir. John Henry Grimes, a native of Nova Scotia, resident of San Francisco, has four perfectly developed and ser viceable ears.
 A subtcrranean outlet to the Great Salt Lake of Utah has recently been found. The lake was discovered bv Colonel John c. Fremont in 1846.
 Mrs. Livermore thinks the future of New England is behind her, and that the hope of progress now lies in the Western States settled from New En. gland stock.
 In 1883 an American farm was estab- lished in Corea, whereon nothing was to be grown but American vegetables. A recent report says the enterprise has proved an entire success.
 A Chinese banker, Han Qua, of Can ton, is said to be the wealthiest man in the world. He pays taxes upon an es- tate of $450, ,O00, ,000, and is estimated to be worth Sl, 400, 100000.
 Some one wrote Gen. Sherman a let ter requesting lock of his hair and an autograph. In reply the general said: "l regret to state that. as my orderly is bald, and as the man who formerly wrote my autographs has been dis missed. 1 cannot comply with your re- quest" This was mailed without his signature.
 At the recent meeting of philosophi- cal association in New York, the presi- dent. Mir Latimer, read paper on the Migration of Races" in which he maintained that the Anglo-Saxons are the remains of the lost tribes of Israel, though he acknowledged the proof of the statement to be little difficult of comprehension to the ordinary mind.
 The French government would like to give the army the privilege of wearing boards, but feels the necessity of first consulting several high military author ities, as the opinions on the subject are contradictory. Meanwhile the press falls back on history, and finds that the conquerors of all ages were about equally divided between the shorn and unshorn.
 The great Mexican volcano Popocate- petl has just been remeasured and found to be 17.800 feet above the sea. The crater, which is completely obscured within by sulphurous vapor, is about two and one-half miles in circuit and l ,OOO feet deep. The entire center of the top of the mountain seems to be solid sulphur, which is deposited at the rate of ton a day.
 Stirrups of solid silver, silver pommel and ornaments worth thousands of dol lars may be seen on the saddle of the gaucho the most picturesque character in the two Americas. Some saddles of the sort weigh as much as the riders, about whose belts rows of silver jingle. The gaucho always carries tobacco. paper, Hint and steel, and he rolls his cigarette at full 9alloe-