The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-10-28

San Francisco contains iOl be and
she miliionaires.
More than 100000 veterans have
visited Gettysburg during the last
three yeaFs.
Fogty-twO new ice factories have
been started In the South during the
past nine months.
The black measles, said to be as
latAl ~ smallpox, is raging among
the Canadian Indians.
A HOmlng pigeon. released at
Wichita. Kan. Saturday morning.
reached Wheeling, w. Va. Monday
lance Of 200 miles in IS hours ~
minutes. It is estimated that the
bird must have travelled fifty miles
PR hour while on the wing.
ANY insurance company that will
insure Dan FiOWeresis Montana cat
lie range and secure him against al loss
this winter can have S25o, 900. This
D ElOWeree's standing offer.
a Yienna writing-master has writ
ten foFty French words on g grain Of
wheal that are said % be easily legible
Coz good eyes. It has been placed in
q E,es8 case and presented 30 the
french Academy Of Sciences.
The strength Of arm and wrist nee
ezary 30 the professional prestidigit-
olof VS. illustrated by Hermann the
ether day. He took Q new pack Of
ordinary hnen.baCk cards and broke
8 Ia two, then broke one Of the halves
into Quarters.
Iti reported that the shareholders
81 the Inman Steamship Company %
q Eecsnt meeting In Liverpool resOly-
I'd % wind 10 the Affairs OF the COM
pany, and that Messrs- Peter Wright
q Sons, Of Philadelphia, have BUR
chased the business for ESQ. 900.
Ethas been supposed that the name
esC,olumbia" Was INST used In AmeFioa
Ca f716; but Colonel Albert III. HOyt
has found &c 10 3 volume Of poems
o9mposed in 1851, mostly By Harvard
Graduates, in honor OF George III.
II eommemoration Of George II.
GeoERe MackroW, naval architect Of
the Thames Shipbullding Company,
Londo1, has plans for war ships OF
Zoo ton, n. 00g horse power, capable
q twenty knots an hour, and carry
ing coal for 5000 miles, and with
frame which can support four 25-t ton
gGns.
The death is recorded Of James
Kennedy, once manaEer Of George
Stephenson's works 81 NsWCastle-on-
Tyne. he planned the fret three
lcsomosives on the Siocton and Oar.
ilnzton Railroad IN lS25, and built the
Liverpool, The nrst locomotive with
ScFfooufal cylinders applied directly
% the crank shaft OF axle.
TIE French Legation at Washing
ton 8 IN q state Of mind over the COM
ina visit Of Prince Louis Napoleon.
- Of siPion. PIon.p The young man
win Be the guest Of his cousin. Col
oeel Jerome BonapaFte, and doubtless
Wfli Be much noticed ia French
society. Ii viii be very awkward for
the Legation alone b ignore him; and
pei II Il does otherwise there viii be a
EoH when the home government
heaFs oft.
A arm % Berlin jewelers. have Just
fniahed q diamond diadem aud neck
lace worth several hundred thousand
MARKS FOR the Empress Of Japan. 1t
has not hitherto been the custom for
JapaneBe ladies 20 wear diamonds, but
the Empress 90 sanctioning the sdoD-
ton Of European dress has also avail.
Cd herself Of the opportunity to intro
duce the use Of diamond ornaments
and jewels.
A woman "a Atlanta has q Rcard 4
Sect elk inches long. IL Be- chapel ike
. hase bali bat, but would doubtless
Be shattered IL Il struck q hard, swift
ball However, q viii serve e. az ex-
Ceiieal ''gfoWlefn nos that the ''fanni-
81 sntra1csn in prohibition Atlanta
has been reopenei, and beer can be
eeid in bclk 70 private houses.
The fata 81. Alph0uso Brizari, Of
Paris. len bsque5t 10 the academy %
lhe Fac Arta Dor en- annual prize Of
&c flEaea. % be awarded young
f1nea artlsIB under q years 81 ace
l1f h8 teel Oh painting reeeiVsd "a
he lcn. aa EulIeot s. lanfrcnpe
Hb Ct Hilhoat aFllee 8 precgiled
60 ihs llEzt veaE, and marine pipes ~