, 1888-05-03
PICKINGS.

PICKINGS.
Thirty yachts, designed by Bur
CESS, OF Boston, will be put into the
water this season.
Great indignation is felt at Lon
don ia regard to the peoples decree
regarding politics in Ireland.
The whistling craze has started
imong the fashionable women of
New York, aud society is preparing
to pucker.
The population of this country is
at present about sixty millions Of
people, which includes all those
whose names hive been proposed for
Offices.
A Linguist asserts that any man of
ordinary intelligence can master
Volapuk in 4 months time. Per-
haps; but will any man of ordinary
Intelligence try it?
The City of Gig Harbor" has
been plated and the plat filed the
auditors Office The city consists of
forty lots and four streets named re
spoctively Front, Burnham, Tacoma
and Forest streets.
A New York man lost his daugh-
ter, and the police recovered her for
him at an expense OF 81 cents for
telegraphing, which he refused to
pay. Here is a problem in heredity
| If she took after the old man he was
right in refusing to pay three bits
for her recovery
Mr.. Jhos. B. Merry, the we'll
known newspaperman, has been ap-
pointed by President Cleveland one
of the commissioners of the United
States to attend the worlds exposI-
ton IT Melbourne Australia Mr..
Merry was at one time reporter on
this Journal Who says that an ann
bilious newspaper man cannot Sc
euro recognition ih these glorious
United States of America?-.P-I.
Rev Father Conrady, late of the
Umatilla reservation mission, at his
own request, has left for the Sand
wich islands, to assist the missionary
priest, Father Damien: among the
| lepers of the island of Molakai rs
the latter has contracted the dread
disease and can no longer say mass
for his 1900 unhappy mortals watt
ing FOR death. The self-sacrifcing
priest will soon be followed by vol
unteer sisters of charity from Syra-
cuse, n. Y.-Mail.
Judge Gresham, who stands as
good chance as any of aspiring
candidates for the presidency has
held two cabinet offices. He was ap
pointed Postmaster General by Pres
ident Arthur April 3, 1883. and
served in that Office till September
"a, 1854, when he was appointed Sec
retary of the Treasury. He held
that Office u little over q month,
when he resigned to accept the
United States Circuit Judgeship,
which he now holds.
As was feared when the news oi
her stranding first came, the steamer
San Pablo has proved total wreck.
The loss is the more to be regretted
as she was one of the finest vessels
in the Pacific fleet. No details will
be received for several weeks. but il
will probably be found another case
like that of the wreck of the City of
Toxic, near Yokohama. Carelessness
OF recklessness is very costly in the
navigation of such dangerous coasts
as those of China and Japan.
At English, Crawford county, In-
diana, the white Caps" raided the
home of widow named Jones and
took her strapping sons from their
beds and gave them seventy-tiye
Iashes each for general meanness
| and laziuess. An organization of the
kind might find profitable employ
| ment in many towns on the Pacific
| Coast. Meanness and laziness
That expresses it all. A widowed
mother over the wash tub to support
sixteen-year-old boys whose sole
business is to play baseball or
smoke cigarettes on the street cor
ners. Send the "White Gaps" this
way.
Speaking of the proposed new
buildings tne NaIld dlia CHtO"
says: The penitentiary commission
ers expect soon to let contracts for
the new buildings to be erected.
They are in some doubt concerning
the establishment of the jute indus
try this year. as the appropriation of
S25, 900 seems to be insufficient for
the purpose. They have eorrespon-
ded with various parties concerning
the matter, and the cheapest e-timate
made would cost completed 81 600
1t is not likely that the factory can
be started this year or until larger
appropriation can be made for the
purpose.
A monument to La Fayette is in
course of erection in Washington, b.
O.. which promises to be one OF the
most attractive works of art in this
county. Two distinguished French