Sharp County record., 1888-10-25
NEW NOTES OF INTEREST.

In the United States the telephone IS
used 595 times, the telegraph 1876 times IN
minute.
New York and Pennsylvania pay the
highest salaries to their GOvernors-SlO,UOO
each. Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Vermont pay the smallest-sl,'
0G0 each.
AMERICA is asked to unite with England
in rasing the funds for the memorial 70
Dinah Mulock Craik, which is to be placed
in Tewkesbury Abby, A marble medallion
Is proposed, and five dollars has been flXed
as the maximum of individual subscriptions
in this country.
THE colossal statue of John Marshall,
thought to be the first to discover gold IN
California, will stand on Marshall Hill IN
Eldorado County, where he first found gold'
1t will represent him as a back-Woodsman,
holding nugget in his right hand ana
ponting eastward with his left
IT is stated that plans are being prepared
in the Navy Department at Washington
for two new monitors, which, II the report
is to be trusted, will be marvels of offensive
and defensive strength They are to carry
a 40 ton gun, to be heavily armored, and 10
steam IS knots an hour, all on a displace-
ment of $500 tons.
INDIANS in the United States last year
cultivated 2272G5 acres of land, and raised
724.95S bushels of wheat, 934,972 bushels Of
corn, 512. 1877 bushels of oats and barley,
524,OlO bushels of vegetables and 1Ol, ,o2S
tons of hay. They also owned 35o,334 horses
and mules, III ,4O7 head of cattle, 4O,47l
swine and 1, ,117273 sheep
GENERAL SuERIDAN's grave at Arlington
is marked only by large, fiat stone, when
covers it entirely, and projects above the
surface about one inch. The stone is an
immense cubic block which was the base OF
a column of the old War Department build
ing, and 1t weighs about three tons 1t IS
sunk into the earth, and rests upon brick
vault about the coffin. The guard has been
withdrawn.
THE latest suggestion concerning the
origin of yellow fever comes from DR.. Ga
bier, a French physician. He believes that
the disease is analogous to cholera; that 1t
lourshes only under peculiar conditions Of
race, climate and temperature and that its
in the ntestine8. He has received a com
mission from the French Government to go
to Florida and study the disease.
HEIRS of William Pe1n in England have
brought suit tc gain possession of the pub
lie park Of Elston, Pa. The square" was
given ty Penn for the purpose Of erecting
thereon Il courthouse, land for no other
parposc.n A5 the years have gone by tho
courthouse has been abandoned and hand
sol1cpJbdcl 2@iicrcatod
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WnENEy4R a ship loses ner hold she
gocs TO the bottom with lush.-VaShtng-
ton critic.
TIE poet who burns the "midnight oil"
is kept awake by the muse It's the me
way with the man who keeps a cat-loRE-
CTS Statesman.
TIE man who falls out of balloon re-
alizes the gravity OF the situation before
he has dropped five miies.--HGrper'S Bdzdr'
THE Oldest verse in eXistence-the uni
verse,
A SURE cure for seasickness is to climb a
mountain.
The rig hit man in the right ,place-a hus-
band at home in the evening
THE tea growers may be said to be the
only men who are satisfied with nothing
but tleaves."
THE musicians in brass band may not
be schoolmasters, but they are tooters
nevertheless Vdllcu Chronicle.
IT hurts a man Just about as much to
burn him in ef1igy as to have his shadow
on a stone wall butted by goat.-IoI do
Blade.
BREAD riots result from too much loaf.
IT is one thing to meet an obligation and
another thing to pay it.-DdnSUtIIe Breze.
s-
Do NOT insult the under man In
fight by reminding him that there is plenty
of room on top.-1eras SttingS.
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PRUDENT mothers with manageable
daughters do not especially care for match
less weather during their summer outing.
--NclU HducH NclCS.
THE poorest kind of a poor man is poor
lawyer. He is too proud to work. and b y
liey ng the world owes him living is
shabby enough to want TO sue every body
in it for dana gc5-N o. Picayne.