The Arizona champion., 1886-09-18
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fitted up a number of cars with baths.
 Ottum%a Ia, boasts of the smallest mature woman in thls country, in the person of Lnella Lyman, who is 20 years of age, remarkably intelligent and has never reached the size of an .verage four-year.old.
 The Mackay Postal Telegraph Line Is being extended eastward from San Francisco to their eastern system, and connection will be mlde by Jan'y Ist, which will ensure mnch cheaper rates for the Pacific Coast.
 The treasurer's books show as the total assessed value of property in Apache County for the present fiscal year $a,S71I54I3. Or this amount about SI.75o, ,ooo Is railroad property, the taxation of which Is now the sub ject of litigation.
 There is little lunch table in the Western Union building, New York, which at one o'clock every davis sad to accommodatey3oO, 900, oooat once. It Is surrounded by Jay Could. .iSidney Dillon, Russell Sage and Alonzo B. Cornell.
 Russiln military men have been cx- perimenting with new explosive in- tended to supplant the ordinary gun powder. The substance, whose com. position IS as yet secret, is said to have an explosive power greater than that of black dynamite, and to gen crate neither smoke nor heat.
 A prominent physician of Pailad.l phla IS furnishing the money for d dlv- ing expedition off Cap. Henlopen, where the English sloop of war Le. brook was sunk on Jine B, I73S, wi:h SIo, 900 ,ooo in treasure on board. The vessel lies in seventy feet of water. Ten per cent of the treasure saved will g. to the government.
 A new invention, called "Marine Brakes,' has been successfully tried in New York harbor. Wings are attach cd to the sides of the vessel which lie hlt alongside when not in use, but when It is desired to stop the vessel, 'he wings are thrown out at righ, angles. and the boat is brought to a stand,till in less than her own length.
 Paris. Sept. S,h.-.A man named Blanc was recently released from pri- son, where he had been confined fol an attempt to murder his mistress. 10 day Blanc forced his way 10 the wo,nan's room and cut off her head which he fastened with the long hai, to one of the shutters in front of the house to the horror of passers.by. He then committed suicide with a reyol, yer.
 Miss Mamie Martus, of Savannah, Ga., daughter of a retired army off. Ger, was rendered dumb by an attack of meningitis in 1865, when she Wa, about five years old. During her ex- eitement at the first shock of the re- cent earthquake, she tried to call heI brother, and was overioyed to find that she could whisper his name. Her voice was low and her throat sore for three days, but she has since gradu ally regained the powers of speech. The physicians say her recovery was due to intense mental excitement.
 While the train between Harrisburg and Reading WIS speeding along, on Sept. 10th, young man named Lew N. Brobst, who with his bride were on their wedding tour, suddenly became crazy, and exclalming, Good bye, Gus,ie," rushed to the door of the car and jumped from the train. When the train was backed np, his mangleo body was found at the foot of a steep blnk of rocks. His wallet, contain ing $500, was not found on his body, and IS supposed to have been los, when he jumped. His brides name was Gussic Sefferts, and they had been married only three days before at West Point, Neb.