Telegram-herald., 1888-02-05
sITs or GOOD READING.
Stray Items of General Interest Clipped
from the Various Exchanges

Stray Items of General Interest Clipped
from the Various Exchanges
Only twelve Indians are left OF the tribe of
600 who inhabited the Yosemite valley but
few years ago.
A Chinaman arrested in San Francisco
carried revolver which was heavily plated
with silver and set with rubies.
Archaologists have traced the wedding
ring 20 the earliest times 1t has been made
of gold, silver, copper, brass, iron, tin, pew
ter, lead, bone and wood
The harbor at Charleston used 10 abound in
black fish, but none are caught there now,
and it Is believed that the earthquakes have
scared them away.
1t is pink season in Washington Pink
menu cards are used; ices come in pink roses
set in real rose leaves of green; and the ladies
wear pink corals
The empress OF Austria has been recon-
mended to try the new health clothing for
rheumatism, from which she suffers, but she
prefers imperial purple silk with lace trim
mlngS
The king of the Belgians has recently in
sured his own private property in the royal
palaces at Brussels and at Laeken for $780,
600. This property consists Of furniture,
pictures, plate, objects of art, and china.
1t is now possible for a traveller to go direct
by rail from the City of Mexico TO British
Columbia, a distance of 5000 miles. This has
been made possible by the recent completion
of the California and Oregon railway.
A census has been begun Of the French
carrier pigeons They are regarded now as
| of such Importance in the event of war that
all owners are obliged to report their pigeons
under a maximum fine o. z, 900 francs.
Buzzards in Mississippi devour vast guam
titles of carrion and hence are valuable as
| scavengers. The law against killing them is
| strict, the penalty for violating it being Sl5.
| The birds are therefore very plentiful and
tame.
A member OF the Duke Of Norfolk's mis-
sion took his wife to Rome, but was at once
obliged TO relegate her to another hotel, as
the vatican etiquette, which is very strict, re-
| quires that no woman shall be included in,
or connected with, any mission to the pope.
The British are rapidly pushing their India
railway system in Afghanistan. BoStan, a
| point twenty-five miles beyond Quetta, to
which a railway is open for traffic, has be-
| come an emporium of Candahar. In a single
week recently 500 tons of dried frslit, wool,
and merchandise were brought there for car
riage to India
| IL is said that the ambition Of che life Of
Nine Boucicaut, the great Paris shopkeeper,
was 70 receive the cross Of the Legion Of
| Honor, but she always refused to intrigue for
it or to buy it, hoping to earnit. The recent
scandals, showing how empty wss the honor
that she sought, was great blow to her. and
she at once gave up her longing for the deco
| ration
| The diamond mining companies of South
Africa, which number about ninety, propose
70 form gigantic combination that viii con-
troll the whole diamond territory. The OBJ
Jet, OF course, is TO increase the price, which
has been reduced by the enormous produc-
tion Of that region 1t is estimated that
there ase about 81 600 900 900 worth Of dia-
monds now in use, ono-half Of which came
from the African fields
The papers and public of The two capitals
OF Austria and Belgium were mach excited
the other day at the report Of an accident
which bad befsilsn Archduchess Stephanie.
Some bangs had become loose, and she
wanted 20 fix them with her own hands and
a hot iron But those hands not being used
70 rough work the iron burned the skin and
did not FIX tho bangs. An ugly bum over
the eye was the result Of the Hishap.