Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-07-11

was given het to ea, recently, but in. stead, she adopted it and is rearing it a,
 carefully as though it had been one of her kittens.
 A Kentucky woman has patented a quid-holder for gum chewers, and women and girls will no longer be obliged to stuck their quids on door castings and
 window shutters when their jaws demand rest.
 The postmaster general has written a letter to the president formally protest
 Ing against the proposion made by the civil service commission to extend the classified service so as to include the railway postal service.
 California IS going in for silk culture
 with enthusiasm The state board of s'lk culture sent 10000 mulberry trees and cuttings to silk cultivators. and this season will put out 5o,ooo more.
 In the case of Jos NJ. Case, Senator Collum's coachman, indicted for man. slaughter in causing the death of Prof. Paulson on March 30, by reckless driv- ing into him and his bicycle, the jury returned verdict of guilty.
 Two dogs have been decorated for bravery and fidelity by the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals Tn Paris. One saved his mistress from burglar and the other its masters child from drowning
 The house has now completed the consideration of the free-list schedule of the Mills tariff bill. This portion of the measure effects reduction of $25, 5,ooo, ,ooo in custom duties based upon the importations of last year
 Something that pays better than a gold mine IS large ledge ofmica located just west of Moscow, Idaho. It was discovered few years ago by an Indian, who sold 1t for trifle to w. A. Woody. This ledge was mex! purchased by a Chicago firm, who paid $I25 5000 for 1t and have since taken fortune out of 1t every year
 The largest pear tree Tn the United States is said to be in Monroe, Michi- gan. It was planted by Frenc:5 settlers long before 1890 and Is now thirteen feet in circumference at point five fee, from the ground, and is sixty-five feet high. It annually bears fifty bushels of fruit.
 A Madera, Cal,. telegram says: The stage running between thls place and Hildreth was stopped this afternoon by masked men. They jumped from behind rocks and compelled the express messenger to throw them hls gun and compelled him and the driver to hand over the express box containing $Io, 900 in silver bullion. The robbers escaped
 The natives of the Arctic regions have a barbarous. but effective way of deal ing with the wolves which are pest there. Sharp blades are stuck IF the ice and bated. The meat freezes, and in thawing it out with his tongue the blade cuts the tongue, ultimately pre- venting the beast from licking the snow, and thirst finally kills the animals.
 Charles A. Ashburner, of the United States geological survey stationed in Pittsburg, has received an offer from the Shah of Persia to take charge of the government engineering corps now be- ing organized in that country. At pres ent nothing but torquoise is mined in Persia, and the Shah expects to discovor deposits of coal, iron, petroleum and possibly precious metals. Ash burner has not yet accepted.
 The Turks have projected railroad from Constantinople to Bagdad, the his toric city of the Caliphs. the very heart of that romantic and magical region which is celebrated in the gorgeous sto ries of the "Arabian Nights" Its length is to be 1,4oo miles, and it is estimated 70 cost $7o, 1000, 900. A thousand years ago Bagdad was the seat of the might lest empire on cath.
 Some of the handsomest old mansions n the country may be seen in Annapo- is, Md, where they have stood with but title alteration since the early colonial Jays. A f.w of the houses date back to he seventeenth century, but the more imposing of them were built just priorto he revolution, when Annapolis was the eat of refined and wealthy commu- lity.
 Supervising Surgeon General Hamil- on, of the marine hospital service, has Iotified all health and quarantine officers hat all American consuls in foreign laces must cable home at once upon he leaving of any vessel for United tates ports with sickness aboard Also , notify the service if there he any kind outbreak of conta sious diseases in the ection from which such vessel sails The ,gulation, approved by the president $ nd promulgated by the secretary of ate, has been issued to the consuls by ! ,e state department IN
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