Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-08
STRAY BITS.


 Swarms of Chinese are landing in British Columbia and stealing across the border into the United States.
 The pin factories of England France Hof- land and Germany are said to turn out 100000 pins daily
 Leprosy is said to be spreading at an alarm ing rate in Russia. Thirty cases have been officially reported in Darvat alone
 The one story frame cabin in which An drew Johnson served his apprenticeship as a tailor is still standing in Columbia, Tenn.
 Miss Leoline Daniels, of Athens, La, while preparing for her wedding, became suddenly ill and died about the hour she was to have been married
 The average expense of the Cornell gradu- ating class of 127 members through the course was S-j75 year; highest, &, 800, and lowest, $50
 Florida promises to become large pro ducor of opium. Sixteen plants will produce an ounce, and an acre of peoples will yield S1 1,00O worth of opium
 Scientists say there is no plant that does not serve as food for some animal, but the only article used as food from the mineral kingdom is common salt.
 f9 Pennsylvania hospital, in Philadelphia, is scion of the famous tree under which William Penn held the first treaty with the Indians.
 The trustees of Cornell university have de- cided to build one of the largest and finest library buildings in the country. It will cost nearly S250, 900 and is to accommodate 400,- 1 600 volumes.
 1 Three thousand of Jerseys small sand | l. German university, in the hope that some may live to get there and adorn its museum of natural history.
 Anglomania in Paris has had one good re- suit. It has developed a fashion for walking among women. A constitutional is all the fashion, and the morning walk to the Bois is brilliant sight to see.
 Some hens eggs that were accidentally covered up by some men blowing at Peta- luna, Cal, last summer, were matched by the heat of the sun upon the earth, and the noise made.by the chicks led to their discovery and release.
 Dr. Neal Mitchell, of Jacksonville, Fla, left his revolver under the pillow of his room at Rofne, and has just had it returned to him by fellow traveller, who, however, kept it year and carried it all around the world with him.
 worlds wonder is a sinking mountain near Talulah, Ga. It sinks all the time, but so slowly as hardly to be perceptible, but upon the occurrence of earthquakes any where in the world goes down from one to six feet in a very brief space.
 An authorized representative of the duke of Sake Meinfngen expects to be in New York ill the course of month for the pur- pose of making arrangements for an Ameri- can season of the duke's famous theatrical company next autumn and winter.
 The latest western wonder is a soap well near Buffalo Gaps, D. T., whose product is pronounced by Chicago soap man equal tc the best made by men, and which sparse res idents thereabout declare to be, with the ad dition of 0 trile of natural oil, simply gor geous as an axle grease.
 Moses Williams, of Brooklyn, wrapped 8 newspaper around 5000 in greenbacks and left the parcel on a chair in New Yorl hotel for three hours. Those who noticed il seemed to think it was an old shirt, and sev eral persons were quite put out when Moses rushed in and told what it contained.
 A brief description of a Kansas man' chinch bug fence may prove of interest tc Wisconsin farmers who fear damage by thl l pest. lie taxes uOOr10S ana SelS l in the ground with the groove up. In th' groove he puts candle wicking and saturate it with coal oil. The chinch bug crawls of in disgust when he climbs on this side ana gets a sniff ct it.
 The Philadelphia Press says that the big gest check known to American banking wa that for s14, ,296 196, drawn by J. D. Taylor treasurer of the Pennsylvania railroad, il , ! fr,- --ff fla mington and Baltimore held in Boston, ant further that payment was delayed thre' ! weeks to let currency so accumulate as not t, derange balances.
 Near Kalamazoo Mich, the other day Allen Melimer, Esq., aged SS, was by hi own direction buried to the music of a bras band and the vocal rendering of choice oper; airs; and after the grave wGs filled the deat mans son danced Q lively jig, supposed to b . known only to his father, who had alway sworn he would dance at his own funeral and is thought by the superstitious to hav done it in the body of his son. The Atlanta Constitution says the negro i
 changing in appearance and losing some o the birth marks peculiar ts the African race The new generation is showing the effects o , a higher culture. Especially is this notice ! able in the towns where contact with th , whites shows it's effect. The flat nosed kinky headed negro is passing away and be 3 coming an unknown race. All the colore ? children, no matter how dusky in hue, shoy the change. Longer haF, aquiline nose : and smaller mouths, with thinner lips, ar Q the rule.
 :: Those who have unusually small head i. may take comfort from the statement of :. London exchange. It says that ''seven" bt '. ing the average size of mans head as mea. ured by his hat ''it appears that out of foul
 teen distinguished personages, two Q4or
 Chelmsford and Dean Stanley) were below
 while two more Q4ord Beaconsfeld and tt e Prince of Wales) were exactly up to the a1 l. craze" Of the others, Dickens, Selbourr J. and Bright required 71s; Earl Russell, n }, Lord Macaulay, Gladstone and Thackeray v 7sS; Louis Philippe, 75l, and the archbisho Af No,I- fYrllI