Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-01-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

one cent evening paper-the Evening
Post =,
The largest United States bond is
sued is che fifty thousand dollar regis
tered bond.
"A silver dollar of 1904, according
to a catalogue recently issued in Phila-
delPhia, is worth six hundred dollars.
Governor Pierce has pardoned a
man from the Dakota PeniNntiary, who
has served five years of life sentence
Tor stealing twenty-sne dollars.
Zach visitor to the World Exposi-
aon is required to deposit silver half
dollar IL, a glass box in charge of the
ooorkeepers, no admission tickets be-
ing sold.-N o. Hcdyane.
-Mulhall, the English statisticsan.
says that. while England has doubled
her wealth since i845, France has
doubled hers since 1857, and the United
States has doubled hers since 1864.
Over one-half of the mail received
by Jay Gould is said 60 consist OF letters
from beggars and cranks, who want
money or claim to have some wonder.
tul scheme for making money.-M Y.
An English physician has been try.
Ing to count the hairs on the human
head. He quotes the average number
OF hairs per square inch at 1,066, and
estimates about 128,00o hairs for the
entire head as a gene raj rule.
BY means of the new electric brake.
invented by an American named
>Walcker, it is said that train running
at speed of about twenty-five miles
per hour was stopped in She short space
OF six seconds, and within a distance
of twenty yards.
-Cautus Morris Of Jones County,
Ca, has carriage made out of the
old frigate Constitution. Its build is
OF style that was seen and used bv
our grandparents. 1t is very high
affair, with folding steps reaching
almost to the ground,
"A way has been discovered by which
marble may be saturated with certain
paint so that it is possible to place a
flower or head upon block of mar
BILE and then obtain as many slabs bear
lug the imprint as one sees fit to have
the block sawed into. The process is
called "Endolithy." Chicago Herald.
Near Giford's Station, on the
Staten Island Railroad, there is a pc
culiar piece Of woodland. The roots
OF the trees are all from four to six feet
above the surface of the ground. The
soil is very porous, and the unusual
appearance Of the grove is attributed
TO the action Of the water and FROST
N. ?. Sun.
Every plant begins life like an ami
malya consumer notla producer Not
until the young shoot rises above the
soil and unfolds itself to the light of
the sun, at the touch of whose rays
chlorophyl is created, does real con
struotive Vegetation begin. Then the
plant's mode Of life isreSersed; cafbon
U retained and oxygen set free.-Bos-
ton Budget.
Thirty years ago an elm on the
farm of P. Mariner, of Penn Yam.
bleW down, and the trunk, which re-
manned in the soft ground and ran
along forty light feet, began to sprout.
Now twenty-six trees. well grown, per-
sect, and some of them fifty feet high.
afe the result. They are not branches,
but have roots, and are independent of
the original trunk. Buffalo cypress.
Not long since th 3 Chinese began
to tortify small island in the river at
Foo Chow. After they had spent up
ward of. one million dollars
upon the works they began to make
tie anxious query of where the gar
hson would retreat I'd in case that act
became advisable. They could find no
place, and SO they abandoned their |
million-dollar works, their plans, and
the island.
Some time in the last century an
English Cor Scotch) Judge had to SEN
tence man to death who in fray had /
mortally stabbed Gfenadier. "Pris-
oner at the bar" said the learned
Judge, mot only did you ferociously
and traitorously transfix the entails of
the unfortunate deceased, a private in
the Foot Guards, thus causing his
death, but also ran the knife right
through the waistband of a pair of
breeches belonging to bis sacred Maj
esty the King, and ye shall swing for
it!"-Londofs Illustrated News.
"A horse belonging in Fresno, Cal,
fell head foremost into well eight feet
deep, it being dark at the time. After
several inefectual attempts to extri-
cate the animal from its unpleasant
predicament the following ingenious
method proved successful: A strong
knot was tied in the horses tail, and
having span of horses brought, they
were hitched to the said tail and were
given the word to pull. The tail
proved equal to the trying ordeal, and
the horse was hauled from its danger
Gus position apparently uniniured.
San Francisco Cali.
Two great RATS of logs were
brought to Cleveland from Lake Supe-
rior last year. One covered five and |
the other eight acres. and contained |
respectively two and three million feet. |
Two weeks were occupied in the transit |
from a point about one hundred miles |
from Sault Ste. Marie to Cleveland. |
Being made up in sections they were |
run separately through the ran;ds and |
rivers, and united where there was |
plenty OF room. The total distance
was six hundred miles. 1t was the first
attempt to run RATS of logs through |
the rapids at the Saplt, which are
mile long, with descent of twenty
feet.
There isn't a leaf of tobacco grown
on the island of Key West. 1t all
comes from Cuba, and is manufactured
into cigars, which ought for all reasons
to be as good as those of Havana, bui
for some mysterious cause they are not.
There is supposed to be some fragrant
potency in the air Of Havana which
gives cigars flavor they can get in no
other locality, but what it is and why
its charm does not exist elsewhere
neither the tobacconist nor meteorolo- |
gist can explain. Tobacco grown from
the same stock, manufactured BY the
same men in the same way, has diS
ferent favor, or bouquet, as they cal
it, If rolled into cigars In Key WeS
from that it has If done up in Havana