The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-29

; Barnum proposes 70 take bis big
show 10 England next year.
A life-sIzs portrait Of Boss Tweed
recently sold at Albany for %.
Over 81. 600 copies Of General Lev
Waliaoeis "Bsn Hur" have been sold.
John L. SuIlivan's parents original.
ly intended their sons for the minis
Try.
Bafnum's famous baby elephant
Bridgeport died In New York We'd
nesday.
Fifty American diary cows were re-
Gently shipped from San Francisco 10
China.
An Illinois boy stands At the head
Of the West Point class In the eXami-
nations this week. He Is Henry Q.
Newcomer.
Colonel Ingersoll says the hotels Of
this country have kept him In power
/ 81 all his life.
Victor Hugo left ten volumes Of
poetry, plays, and rOmanees for pos
thumOus publication.
Rev. Arthur Gray-HOWe, an Eng
fish clergyman who died o short time
ago, left 81. O0O. 900 70 two sons.
Daniel Arnold Of Macon, Ga, secre-
i ted 500 Ga q hole near his house. but
the recent flood wash away the whole
OF It..
The dime novel is doing great work
Ia Connecticut and neighbOring
States. Small boys are leaving home
for the west IN large numbers.
Senator Kenna, Of West Virginia,is
an amateur photographer, and amuses
himself In the summer by tramping
over the mountains Of his State TAX
ing views.
lib. Mcdowell, son Of the late
General Irwin Mcdowell, has been
sent to Jail for three months In San
Francisco for libel. He is the editor
Of the Ingleside.
The medical men OF the United
States are going 10 put up g statue OF
DR.. Benjamin Rush in Washington, |
who is spoken Of as the father Of med |
ieine IN America.
The Republican State Convention |
Of Pennsylvania will be held 81 Har- /
risburg June 30. The nomination Of |
General Beaver for Governor Is q. fore
gone conclusion.
IL is not generally know that this is 4
the Rev. Mr.. Milburnis third term"
as Chaplain in Congress. He served
In that capacity IS far back as 1915,
aud again in 1853.
The fashionable dog for spring wear
In New York Is the King Charles
spaniel, and he comes ct $50. No
New York girl can be fashionable
without Charley dog" and q chain.
The Buffalo Express says that Jay
Gould eats grapes Of his own raising
in January, Strawberries from his
own lighthouses In December, and
peaches from his private cOnseryatO-
~ IN April.
One hundred thousand orange trees
were planted last winter In Southern
California. The crop next winter Is
expected 20 aggregate 800, 900 boxes OF
fruit.
Squire White, who died at Quine-
baug, Conn, last week, At the age OF
IS, was one of the active persons of
the famous DOrr rebellion, Of 1912,
when Thomas w. DOrr undertook 10
seize the government Of Rhode
Island.
The prospective Minneapolis Ex-
position Building Is TO have 600 feet
front and 400 feet deep, having a total
floor space Of 100, 900 square feet. It Is
claimed that It will be the largest sim
gle exposition building in America.
"Chambermaidsi Mexican hotels
are male Indians, termed mazOs.
They are def and quick, and will
hire themselves to a stranger in the
capital for s. per week, giving their
employer undivided and very well
come service.
Issae Ksyixn. OF Flint, Michigan,
has a bust Of Lincoln, the material
of which was originally worth So 500.
The bust Is OF redeemed greenbaeks,
which were macerated by the govern
men, after which the pulp was press
ed and nodded 10 form the likeness.
More than q month ago q Florida
hotel keeper cut q lot OF willow which
he made into rustic easy chairs. They
were cut before the trees began 10 bud
and now there are 90 be seen on one
Of the posts Of chair nice green buds
aud almost full-grOwn leaves.
Visiting Liverpool on May II and u
the Queen will use NEWMAN HO use
rs q residence. This spacious Old
belongs TO the corporation Of
Liverpool, aud has been used as
ROYAL residence on former occasions.
Ii will be her first visit TO LierpOOl In
ihirty-hve years.
An Eastern Oregon paper resents
the statement that the month Of
March was rough on stock In that re-
gion, and declares that the branding
iron,n instead of the rough March
Is responsible for the deple-
ton OF the herds OF many small
owners"
Ex-senator A. G.. Thurman was
robbed recently Of several hundred ,
dollars by a. tramp whom he employed
The fellow forged the old Romans s
name TO checks and got them cashed ]
at shops near Mr.. Thurman's home In 5
Columbus.
Thorndike Rice, the owner and edi-
tor OF the North american ReUieiO, is e
not devOting himself exclusively TO !
literary business abroad. According q
10 the Paris NciUs, he was at Monte
Carlo the other day, and al two sit
.ings won 0,O00 francs.
A Buffalo paper says that the Hon.
Daniel n. Lockwood, who nominated 8
Mr.. Cleveland In the National Demo 1,
,ratlc Convention, has received let =,
er from the President rendering him u
he appointment Of Secretary Of the Z
Treasury In view Of the disability Of o.
Manning. o.
Mr.. Charles Jones, ninety-slx years q,
I'D, who last week visited Washing
on for the first time In seventy-five u
years, is an old fashioned Democrat, q
Who applied for the enthusiastically at Il
Bark hamstgad, Conn.,, under Presi- p,
lent Madison, and who visited the =
apitAl to see II his recommendation Z
lad been examined. OF
Col. r. g.. IngersOll, Chauncey M. p
)epew, Governor Hill, Mayor Grace, NJ
tOscOe COnkling, and F. Y. SehOOn- n
maker are among the speakers who
7ill be present at the big banquet of 81
IOtel men at the Metropolitan Hotel, al
Few York. May II. Colonel IngeF- n,
oil says this will be the opportunity -
( bis life 10 get even with tue men
mo haYe kept him poor all his life. Dc
The school in District No. IL, Sa- ~
ne county, Kansas, April Is. The ns
nal examination averages were rs r,