Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Brief Mention of Matters of General
Interest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

Dlpntherla RACES IN MOrrlStOWn,
New Jersey.
Heavy stitching on the back of a
glove is bad form.
Archbishop Riorden has left Rome
for the United States.
A famine is threatened among the
East African cOlOnistS.
There are 100000 women in the
United States who work for wages.
The New York law against Car
stoves goes into effect January 1st.
Straw-bail goers are having an en-
counter with the courts in New York.
Two-ffths of the Dominion of Can
ada are uader no-license liquor laws.
From 1880 to 1888 no less than
4 ,637 ,252 persons have come to 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 Lansing,
Mich, woman.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, is rapidly be-
coming one Of the most enterprising
cities of Canada.
The Bible has to be printed in 20
different languages 10 supply the peo-
pie living in Pennsylvania.
From the best statistics obtainable
there are about 100000 Union sol
diers living at the present time.
Tramps have filled up the Brooklyn
aim mahOuse. One hundred men have
been put at work on the sand pile.
Alexander H. Stephens during his
life educated $50 boys and 90 girls,
giving them all collegiate educatlons.
There are l 100 colored preachers in
and the highest salary re-
ceived by any OF them is $500 year.
Military men believe that the White
Pasha, now at Bahr el Ghazel, 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.
st. Louis painters have condemned
the practice of the painting of fire
houses and police stations by police
men and tiremen.
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 a company to lay
pipes for hot water.
Governor Beaver has just sent III
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 1t
deems the growing influence OF
liquor interests in State politics"
Minneapolis flour men have selected
St. Albans, VT, as their distributing
center for New England, and intend
building there two immense storage
houses.
Public men in Canada say 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
80, is an inmate of Flatbusb, Long
Island, almshouse. He gave away
large sums and was ruined by the
failure of company.
It is estimated that from five to six
million pounds of turkey and a mill
ion quarts Of cranberries were neces-
sary to enable the city of New York
to enjoy its Thanksgiving feasts.
Minneapolis street-car drivers are no
longer furnished with free passes.
Fare must be rung up when the pas
senger gets on the Car instead OF at
the time of payment of the fare.
Seventy per cant. OF the infants in
the Founding hospital at Ottawa have
died during the year. Within five
years GOT have been buried. I'm
proper nursing is said to be the cause.
A deposit of natural gas was struck
the other day nine miles northeast OF
Tuscola, III. The pressure creates a
fame thirty feet high. The discovery
has caused great excitement in the
district.
There are $500 members Of the
Michigan Anti-Horse Thief society,
ard during the past year they have
not had a cents worth of property
stolen, although they are worth an ag'
gregate of $2,S00,0OO.
A man in New Brunswick has dis
pIaved a strange taste about dying.
He dug his grave, lowered his coffin,
got in and took a dose of poison and
then pulled a string to a landslide,
which descended upon him.
Tho TorOnfo Trades Council has rp-