The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-12-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention or Matters or Gen. raj
interest.-NotesG Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

Portsmouth, Ohio, is TO have corr
fair.
D.phtheria RACES in Morristown
New Jersey.
Heavy stitching on the back of I
glove is bad form.
Archbishop Riorden has left Rome
for the United States.
| A famine is threatened among th,
East African colonists.
There are 100000 women In tho
United States who work for wages.
i The New York law against ca,
stoves goes into effect January lst.
Straw bail goers are having an en-.
counter with the courts in New York
Two-fiIths of the Dominion OF Can.
ada are under no-license liquor laws
From 1880 TO 1888 no less than
4,63I ,252 persons have come 10 this
country.
Louisiana has five newspapers edit
ed by women. The New Orleans Pic
ayune is one.
The sword that Ethan Allen carr led
at Ticonderoga, is owned by a Lansing,
Mich, woman.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, lie rapidly be-
coming one of the most enterprising
cities OF Canada.
The Bible has TO be printed in go
different languages 10 supply the peo-
pie living in Pennsylvania.
From the best statistics obtainable
there are about 1,OO0,000 Union sol
diers living at the present time.
Tramps have filled up the Brooklyn
almshouse. One hundred men have
been put at work on the sand pile.
Alexander II. Stephens during his
life educated $50 boys and 90 girls,
giving them all collegiate educatlons.
There are loo colored preachers in
Tennessee, and the highest salary re-
ceived by any OF them is $500 year.
Military men believe that the White
Pasha, now at Bahr ell GhaEel, and
moving north, is the great explorer,
Stanley.
A Brooklyn boarding-school propri-
etress has sued a plumber for $4,000
because the pupils have become sick
from sewer gas.
s.. Louis painters have condemned
the practice Of the painting OF fire
houses and police stations by police
men and firemen.
They are going back in Philadel-
phia TO the old fashion of selling
grains and vegetables by weight in
stead OF measure.
The Brooklyn Engineers society
last week protested against the grant
ing OF permission TO company to lay
pipes for hot water.
Governor Beaver has lust sent IN
81 900 for the John A. Logan monu.
ment fund of the g. A. r., collected in
various Pennsylvania posts.
The Newark Law and Order league
Is taking steps TO counteract what it
reems the growing influence of |
liquor interests in State politics"
Minneapolis -four men have selected |
st. Albans, VI, as their distributing
center for New England. and intend |
building there two immense storage
houses.
Public men in Canada cay that the
Liberal party will ultimately take up
in opposition to the I'm
perial federation policy of the Con-
Colorado is becoming an oil.produc-
ing State. In the valley of the Arkan-
sas, near Pueblo, there are a number
OF wells, the yield of which is 1000
barrels per day.
The Rev. DR.. David Spurgeon, aged
50, is an inmate of Flatbusb, Long
Island, almshouse. . He gave away
large sums and was ruined by the
failure of a company.
It is estimated that from five to six
million pounds of turkey aud mill
ion quarts OF cranberries were neces-
sary TO enable the city OF New York
10 enjoy its Thanksgiving feasts.
Minneapolis street-car drivers are no
onger furnished with free passes.
Fare must be rung up when the pas
;enger gets on the car instead of at
he time of payment of the fare.
Seventy per cent. of the infants in I
he Founding hospital at Ottawa have
lied during the year. Within five
years GOT have been buried. Im-
proper nursing is said to be the cause.
A deposit OF natural gas was struck
he other day nine miles northeast of ,
Cuscola, Ill. The pressure creates !
lame thirty feet high. The discovery {
has caused great excitement in the !
district.
There are $500 members Of the !.
Michigan Anti-Horse Thief society, !
nd during the past year they have !.
lot had a cents worth of property
toien, although they arc worth an ag.
,regate of $2,S00000.
A man in New Brunswick has dis '
'layed a strange taste about dying. s
lie dug his grave, lowered his coffin, I
ot in and took a dose of poison and C
hen pulled a string to a landslide, a
Thich descended upon him. n
The Toronto Trades Council has re- i,
uested the city to inform intending Il
migrants from England that the q
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