Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-01-25

and the local acts 2,I63 pages.
 The fast train of the Union and Cer- tral Pacific railroads known as me over land flyer" has been abandoned.
 During the recent cold snap, t'e
 thermometer naked ,ixty-one degrees
 below zero at poiuis in Colorado. The thermometcr registered IS be!ow
 zero d, o,. Paul on the 2ist int, and 6S
 below at Chippewa Falis. Wisconsin.
 Over I.7co o4krfs. cooks and "ait' IS
 are on a strike in san Francisco, and res
 tsurant boarders have to ra>tit for g-uh.
 The United States treasury now hqids $527. 26s,s59 in cash, "f ~hi h $2o5,- sI94z4 IS available for de!a reduc'ion. Ptilip Hoffman. ! German cleigyn an and naturalist, claims to have dlscovt d
 the art Of photography in 1855, K years before DagueEre.
 Theisshave been aI7 deaths repHtd in the fissrthwest from the co,d weather, and estimates are made that this list ".il be swollen to at least ,ooo. IL looks as though murderer Maxwell
 might hays 10 hang yt. the Uhned States supreme court has dismissed he
 case for want of jurisdiction. Train robbers, near Missouri CN Mo, a,tem, ted to rob train ou the Wabash road but were met ~llh >Aot guns and one 0. their numOef kll!k q. The III ion prirters or the Loul,> iie Courie, Journal offi Q are on s'ite, and the announcement IS made tat ! hereafter that will be I non-ution oii'e. 1 Seven vari,ties of fishes examined by nsturaists of the Challenger exnedi on are found totally bind in the deep sea, but have eyes when inhabting shai'ow water
 Two young bloods of Washington ad
 duel with fists recently over a youug lsdy One was son Of Attorney Cen eral Garland and inc ether son o! he lovesick senator from Florida-Jouge. Here is another CemOCraiic feio'I to
 discommode the people, ana delay he
 transmission of mail Ar order has ! CT
 issued to postal clerks to put eff all let ters mailed on railway trains tt the first post, flee.
 President Cleyeland has made $eo.- 900 m the increased Ya!ue of iand rpon which his country home rear Wasbing- ton is located, ard Secretary Writney
 cleared $oo. .ooo m his sale cf "G'2ss- 1 land"
 The king of Spain IS seveuteen mo ths old and has a E iaIy of $I.ooo,coo a year. But when he gets ou' ot his bath
 and sticks his pick toe in his mouth md inadvertently b,tos t he bawis just ke
 baby with no salary.
 The farmers in the vicinity Of Ba' CTS field, Caltforria, had grand jack rabbit roundup last week. \ count she we'd
 that s,o75 of ,he pests had teen destroyed. This record tar excelS that
 made by the jick rabbt hunters ir Fn- l lare county.
 A powerful dIsinteo,an,, adsae 10 l all purposes, has been obtained m Pus
 from coaloi. It IS sirupy b.own liquid of no, disagreeable odo-, re- 1 suliing from peculiar saponllcation oi the oil by caus,ic soda. l. destroys moss ana fungus on trees, and spongiDg with
 a weak solution keeps flies from horses Entomolosis,s show that the bee in-
 vented the canning business. When a bee has filled cell with honey and Eut
 the cap on. he Punetures the cap with his
 stinger and deposits inside 2 drop of
 formic acid, which preserves the honey. The acid Is the poison which he inflic,s upon an intruder.
 The steamship Grea, Eastern. the largest vessel in the world, Is finally 70
 be broken up. having been sold to aniron firm for old metal, the price being sixteen thousand pounds. Fer many
 years ,he ship has been financial tail-
 ure, and has passed from one set of
 owners to another until finally no one but
 a junk dealer could be found to buy her, and 10 junk dealer she Seat. IL is now pretty certain that the ns 1 tional democratic convention will be held in New York as Grover Cleveland is in favor of such decision. and most
 of the party leaders oelieve .hat the best
 way of insuring the Empire state to the democratic columns IS by selecting New
 York City as the place to begin the
 campaign.
 A rotary snow plov on the Northern
 Pacific during the late storm cl-arec 200 miles of trsckin ffteen hours. The snow wss froh two to twenty feet deep The plou is new invention and alter sbe , snow is cut oy the rotary plox i, Is eleya-.