, 1888-04-19
PICKINGS.

in Manitoba.
In the City of Mexico this season
S35O, 200 have been spent in fitting
up The six rings where the bull fight
ers do their little deeds of daring
Prof. Proctor asserts that 100000 !
GEO people lived and died in America
before Columbus discovery. No won
der old bones are dug up once in
while.
England sent here last year Ill
OO0,0JO free trade pamphlet. If free
free trade were not to benefit Eng
land, would those pamphlets be sent
over the ocean,
It IS said that a scheme is on foot
to induce the four labor parties TO
agree upon one national ticket at
convention TO be held in Cincinnati
Oh May 18th.
The shortage of treasurer Tate Of
Kentucky is stated now to be S204,-
GOO. The auditor failed to count the
money monthly, as the statute re-
cannot bs held liable
If Texas We're a circular lake aud
France a circular island, the island
could be anchored centrally in the
lake out of sight of land, twenty-five
miles from any point on the encircl-
ing shore.
It is estimated that $4,000 persons
were rendered homeless by the floods
in Germany The damage to prop
erty is now estimated at 4U0,000,0O0
marks. The suffering in the flooded
districts is indescribable
4 city editor in Utica, n. Y, per
suaded condemned man TO be hung
three hours ahead of time, so that he
could describe the execution in time
for his paper and thus get scoop"
on the other fellows.
Last year the snakes, tigers, pan
theirs, alligators and poisonous in
sect5 of India got away with 3S.492
people, about one hundred of whom
were white. These figures are below
the average, and the Indian govern
ment is greatly encouraged.
1t might be a slow, perhapsa stuffy
death, bat the surest way to execute
a criminal in a refined and painless
manner would be to put him on Il
sheep run in Eastern Oregon, under
a free wool policy, and inform him
that he must live on his profits.
The German minister of public in
strnction, it is stated, has ordered
that the famous speech which prince
Bismarck delivered in the reichstag
last February shall henceforth have
a place IN the reading books used in
the higher classes in the government
primary schools.
Washington Territory at present
has 1066 miles of railroad in opera
ton and 500 miles of surveyed and
projected. Another year will see the
greater portion of the projected lines
completed and many more under
contract The era of railroad build
ing in this Territory has hardly COM
menced, but it is not distant
The latest advises from China say
the crisis in Hanan is passed, but
the distress of the people is appal-
ling, 100000 persons being utterly
destitute. The nearest towns are in
vaded by holdes of naked and stary-
ing refugees from the flooded dis
tricts, who, like swarms of locusts,
are devourng every thing before
them.
Eight states elect one or more state
officers this year before the day on
which the presidential election takes
place. These are Rhode Island,
Louisiana, Oregon, Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Vermont, Maine and Georgia.
Rhode Islands occurred yesterday,
Louisiana's on April II, Oregon's on
June 4th, Alabama's on August 5th,
Arkansas on September 3, VermOut's
on September 4, Names on Septem-
ber 10, and Georgia's on October 3.
The public towel is never safe to
use, that Is, the towel the public
wipes on. 1t not only removes the
that it is its purpose to do,
but it ruhs off scales, pieces of dead
skin, lymph from cuts and abrasions,
from the pores, mucus
from the nostrils, pus from sores and
ulcers and any liquid that is excreted
upon the surface of the body. These
and disease germs are re
tanned in the meshes of the towel,
and are ready to attach themselves.
The presidents message, attacking
as it does one of the leading indust-
ries of Oregon, is the chief object of
assaults, while the dem
ocrats are forced to defend it. "Free
wool and taxed woolens" does not
sound well to Oregon farmers. Nor
is it an easy matter to satisfy voters
of the honesty aud wisdom of a policy
which would levy tax on the people
of S50,OO0,0OG on sugar for the benefit
of few democrats ia Louisiandw{hile
seeking to cut off the S5,00O,00L tax
on wool, which benefits large num-
ber of people scattered through re-
publican states.
Capt White, the abconding en-
plOye of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, has been arrested in New York.
A reDn~' IN Interview with the
Gle anadian Pacific office
r>.dre in
Iormed that
is way to the |
electives; that a
d been offered by |
e his capture to en-
of detectives to exert |
influence to battle the |
his career Captain |
found, had Sl2,S00 |
which $4,000 had been |
steamer.