The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
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 Ten thousand barrels of apples, shipped from New York, were sold in Liverpool at profit of s2O,000.-N r Sun.
 A Japanese missionary says children are better cared for there than in any other country. He calls it the children's g paradise.
 l A New York railroad company has paid S1, 800 as damages to the owner of a violin, which was damaged on one of the company's trains.
 The indications of the coming log crop on the several rivers of the Lake Superior region point to 6,000,000 feet more than was cut last winter.
 In a Western town a handsome young man was discovered to be wom- an, and local paper heads an item in reference to it "A Good Man Gone
 A town named Ball Ground'' in Georgia was so called because it was once the place where thousands of In- dians met yearly for athletic contests.
 A woman at Sutton, Neb., has ob- tained verdict of $2, 800 against a sa- loon-keeper for causing the death of her husband by selling him intoxicating liquor.
 -Anaconda, in Montana, is one of the wonders of the West. Two years ago there was nothing there. Now they have a city numbering 4,000 inhabitants. Chicago Herald.
 -Surgeon-General Cornish, in the Iiadian Medical Gazette, urges the pro- priety of using condemned criminals for the purpose of testing certain mooted points in the pathology of cholera.
 All doctors agree that to enjoy good health the mind must be kept in cheer ful condition; but no doctor can give man points that will make him joyous when his collar don't fit.-OH City Der rick.
 A poet says: ''There is always sum- rise somewhere. This is comforting. To one who is just going to bed there comes the happy consolation that some body has to get up and go to work American HebreoO.
 MT. J. D. Caton writes to the Amer. icGn Naturalist that at Santa Clara Col lege, in the San Jose Valley, a 170-foot artesian well is flowing, from which are discharged sightless fishes from one to two inches in length.
 About 75,OOO,O00 eggs were ex. ported from Ancona, Italy, to England last year. To carry them 520 railway trucks of ten tons each were em- ployed. The price varied from f1 los to 9S 16s per 1000.
 A Japanese court has established dangerous precedent by lining an editor twenty-seven yen for neglecting to ac- knowledge the source of extracts culled from contemporaries. Such rule in this country would bankrupt scores of papers.-N F. Post.
 Luminous paint is now used ih some railway coaches in England. The interior is lined with glass, the back of which is treated with the paint. The result is, that the tunnels on the roads over which these cars travel have lost much of their charm. Chicago Current.
 Since one of the Lowell (Mass.) corporations made it optional with theil employees to receive their pay weekly or monthly, the number asking for weekly payments has been only a small propor- ton of the list of workers, and has steadily diminished since.-Boston Jour- nal.
 A boy in Cleveland fell from a tree and dislocated his neck. A surgeon was sent for, who replaced the disjoint- ed vertebr@ so skillfully that the boy re- covered, and is to-day as well as ever. This operation has been frequently at- tempted, but very seldom with success. -CgeUeldad Leader.
 Just now the ingenuity of mechani. cal engineers all over the world seems to be occupied, to great extent at least, in trying to devise something to take the place of the steam engine. Electricity is looked upon as the most promising agent, but certain inventors hope even to improve upon that.-N r. Tribune.
 One of the unexplained phenomena of nature is the sudden and spontaneous growth of the mushroom. A resident of Portland, Ore, one morning short time ago discovered in his dooryard large and beautiful specimen of this mysterious fungus, which had sprung up during the night. It measured twenty-four inches in circumference and weighed one and one-half pounds.
 -Umatillo County, Oregon, has an organization of a vigilance committee of over hundred men determined to rid the county of gamblers and stock thieves. The committee is well-armed and mounted. They rendezvoused at Pendleton recently, and gave notice to several hard characters to leave the | county within twenty-four-hours Seven persons were escorted to the train and ordered to leave and never return.- Chicago Times.
 -'Some funny people travel on the cars, was the observation of the Rock | Island candy man; ''the other day | went through one of the suburban trains selling chocolate drops. One old lady | bought package and when came back | that way she jumped at me as if I had | robbed her. '''Here, you miserable | good-fOr-nothing, she exclaimed, what did you sell me this candy for? Do you expect people to eat dirt? You'd better take it home and wash it. You see, the | innocent old creature thought the pow dery coating of the drops was dirt. ."- Chicago HerGld.
 It was a scene worth tickling the eye which Monsieur Bartholdi, our later Lafayette of the chisel, saw when he seated himself at the banqueting board | of the Union League in New York. In the center of the large round table was a sheet of water, 8x14 feet, representing the bay of New York. The colossal | statue of Liberty giving light to the world from an incandeScent electric | light lowered up on Bedloe's Island. Fort Wadsworth and Governors Island | were close at hand, with the French ves-