, 1886-12-02
PlckIngS.

The Chinese government, it is
thought, will soon prohibit Chinese
emigration to the United States.
Ex-Gov Phelps of Missouri, who
died last week, was the father of
Mrs. J. b. Montgomery of Portland.
After all, politics is sort of chick
en- business. Just think of the
scratching at the polls and the crow
ing afterwards
Mr.. Roosevelt, defeated for Mayor
of New York, is to marry wealthy
Miss Grow. Not every defeated pol
itician is so fond of his crow.
There will be an increase of hop
acreage the coming season in the
Puyallup valley, and word comes
from King county that the increase
there will be very large.
Galusha A. Grow presents himself
as candidate for the L. S. senate
from Pennsylvania. Grow was a
member of congress before the war,
and once speaker of the house.
In Montana the vote cast for dele
gate in the recent election exceeded
$4,000, against 10000 in 1884. It is
probable that the population of the
territory would reach 10000
An exchange notes that since the
death of Tom Thumb, the smallest
man In the world is the one who is
too stingy to take a newspapers and
not too proud to beg or borrow one
Sheriff elect William Cochrane OF
King county, says he dug $500 bush,
els of splendid potatoes from his
twelVe-acre tract on his Black river
farm, an average of 500 bushels pei
acre. How is that for "spuds?"
Gardiner, president of the San
Francisco Pacific Stock board. has
decamped. His liabilities are about
100000, and his creditors are mostly
poor people. Cause of failure
short on stocks in rising market.
All the presidents of the United
States We're lawyers except Wash
ington, jackson, Harrison, TayIol
and Grant, and yet, we are the mos
practical business men in the world
Only lawyers and soldiers have occu-
pied the executive chair.
Prof. Foster predicted a snow
storm for Saturday, and Prof Proc
tor meteoric shower for the same
night. Foster and Proctor should
consult each other regarding thei1
counter attractions, and not give ex
hlhIf1nn- NTA flN.A
There is great embarrassment
among the ''mugwump" journals
They highly commended President
cleveland Tor removing the Missouri
district attorney; and now they don't
know what to say to his reinstate
ment of the man in Office
The Columbian says it is not gen-
orally known that Henry George, the
great champion of the labor party oi
the United States, was among the
hardy pioneers who stemmed the
Frazer early In the sixties on theil
way to the gold fields of Cariboo.
The notorious Judge Dawne Of
Alaska fame and other notoriety
whose sudden disappearance elected
SO much comment during the early
part OF this year, is now reported as
having turned up in San Francisco
and is travelling as DIR. Benson. 8
professor OF surgery in the San
Diego university.
As wheat-producing state Wash
ington ranks twenty-first in the list
of the forty-eight states and territor-
les, being above the middle of the
row. Our crop for 1856 is placed al
5,SOO,OOO bushels, from an acreage OF
445,OO0 acres. The great state OF
North Carolina only furnishes 5000,
900 bushels from 100000 acres.
The monthly report of the condi.
ton of the blast furnaces of the
United States. published by the
American Manufacturer, shows 3I2
furnaces, with weekly capacity of
l22,6il tons III blast on November l
and 2I2 furnaces. with weekly ca
pacity of 63,499 tons out of blast
AT the same time last year 233 fur
haces, having capacity of 76, ,723
tons per week, were in blast.
The peoPle of this country ex,s-nd
at least thirty times as much l. uev
IN Newspaper advertising as thay did
thirty years ago. The vast crease
sf population and Newspapers ex-
plains considerable part Of this,
but it mostly comes from the more
general and freer use made of the ad-
vertising columns by the general
public. AL classes have come more