Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
STRAY BITS.


 The population of France has only in creased 00,000 in five years.
 There are 5O,00O Chinese in Australia in total population of a little over two millions and a half.
 gun for projectiles of 100 pounds has been completed by Armstrong. It fires seven shells a minute
 The Zuyder Zee may be drained before long, for the association for that purpose is about to try it.
 A census taken in China few years ago showed but four centenarians out of popu- lation of S69, 100000.
 It has recently been decided by the supreme eourt of Pennsylvania that Sunday mar riages are null and void.
 A French engineer has conferred blessing on all players of stringed instruments by in venting peg which will not slip.
 The failure of a New York firm was caused by the negligence of the office boy to post a letter. He stopped to play game of bles.
 Papers found after the death of James Frene, of Montreal, show that for the last | twenty years of his life be gave away each | year S4,00O.
 S thrown 500 pound shell distance of twelve ! miles, the greatest distance ever covered by a cannon ball
 The father of Hungarian family lived to be l72 years old, the mother l64, and the youngest child l15 The welded life of the parents lasted l42 years.
 Immense numbers of stoats and weasels are being imported into New Zealand, in hat ho which are pest in that country.
 The cowboys have fired so many bullets into telegraph poles in certain districts in the west that a gust of wind snaps the pole short of, and much trouble results.
 An Alaska letter published in Oregon says: Ut seems quite paradox to see our men chopping down trees with the snow up their knees and brushing away the musquitoes be tween the strokes of the ax."
 In arranging for a Parisian duel pistols were mentioned, and some one proposed that 'parrying with the left hand should be for bidden." This made such a laugh that reconciliation soon took place.
 The French are acknowledged to have the finest guns and projectiles in Europe Their Ferminy shell has been shot through an armor plate twenty inches thick, and come | out with It's steel point unlnJured.
 A tomahawk, with the blunt end so shaped 1 that it could be pipe of peace, has been plowed up lately in Georgia field, and the odd part is that its substance is not stone, but steel of the very best quality.
 Henry Fonda and Douw Fonda are the oldest natives of the town of Fonda, N r., and probably the oldest pair of twins in the entire country They will be !g years of age
 in July.
 Mir. Boyd, Of Collinsvflle, La, must be
 set down as fast man, however exemplary
 he may be. Lately be hauled lumber, built
 a house and moved into it, all in the space of
 a day and night, which certainly beats the
 record upto date
 ! =rle, for.,eue Pc Tree under which Budtiha
 sat and meditated until he became "enlight-
 enediand overcaEe the last temptation" is
 said to be falling to pieces. It is believed to
 be the oldest tree in the world, being credited
 with 2.300 years.
 A Pittsford, Mich, hardware merchant
 put In the spare moments he had between
 business hours painting his house. The lad
 der slipped, Case fell and broke his wrist
 The doctors bill will amount to enough tc
 have paid a painter twice over.
 Jesse Ruth, of Newton Pa, had the lit
 tie toe of each foot amputated as a remedy
 for corns. He had suffered such pain tha
 he threatened to cut the toes of with
 chisel if the family would not consent tt
 have surgeons perform the operation.
 The valet custom in England extends tc
 the poor lodging houses or workingmen'
 homes. In all these common houses ther,
 are men who, for copper or so week Q black the boots, cook the supper and rul :. errands for the aristocratic among the lodg O CTS.
 8 The latest English writer on theatres hold @ that theatre should be ten feet distant iron l. other buildings, or at least it should occupy @ corner location. Exits should be provided D all sides and there should be windows il F, every part of the house, both for ventilation S and safety.
 e Dr. J A Lintner. the well known ento
 mologist, of New York, says there are in th
 world 320000 species of Insects 25,OO0 o ;. these belong to the United States and abou S 25,OO0 prey upon the productions of man !. 1000 or 5000 of these could be considered a U being fruit pests
 '. Elias James, religious enthusiast, rushe ri through the streets of San Francisco recent IT carrying banner which informed the popu e lace that the world would come to an end i  t station, but was not held, as he promised t P. calm his agitation for the future @ In Paducah, Ky, Mr. Joseph Hebute l. rich German, upon going into drug stol e for something to heal a hurt got in tt l. Franco Prussian campaign, found in th t man who applied 1t not only fellow Gel IS man but the same surgeon who had attende t. him when first hurt in the fatherland. !, 1rbaro ora profacciov,oI oooLe t., D,-s, x.l e make business of tasting and inspect;u n dishes at private houses. The cook, when O N dered to a house where a great dinner !" under way, looks, smells, tastes of, orders
 little salt in this soup, a bit of sugar in tn,
 sauce, flavor of onion in the other sala, ts and so on.
 - Football can now be called the nation T. game in England. The Football associate ,- meeting recently held was attended by repr .. sentatives from all parts of the kingdo1 ,s challenge cup was provided, to be COT n peted for by thirty two clubs, each one ,s these to be chosen by competition with u n. other clubs in their locality. l. The new slang dictionary, of which Charl lg G. Leland is one of the editors, is announct te in London It is complete compendium is unconventional phraseology, embracing E 7e glish and American slang and all the reco 'k nlzed vulgarlsms It Is probably as comple KS a guide to conversation in polite circles le cain be found in the market !. A shoemaker of Atlanta, Ga, has ju U; finished the largest pair of shoes ever ma' al for actual use. It took piece of leath te containing l,040 square inches to make u IL uppers, and l,960 to make the soles. That le 5000 square inches altogether. If th rt leather were cut into etrips an eighth of
 inch wide and made into one long string, t string would be 2i.0UD inches long T