Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-12-08
CURRENT EVENTS.

wciched " } pounds.
I; costs Sl.23o,0OO per annum &, keep the
streets Of paris clean.
One Of The leading anarchists in 81. Louis
IS name! ,,riticrabber
Nearly ~ 800 men have been naturalzed in
New York city this year.
4 Rochester paper speaks OF tramp look.
iu-s as seely "a watermelon.
y grandmother only twenty-five years OF
age is the chief curio in Hancock, Ind.
! g. ..Inau officer cannot marry an Amcrt-
can woman without Bismarck's consent.
rb. cranberry crop in Deer Isle Nc, is not
hall tie usual yield. Early frost was the
cause.
fuoll bachelor SAYS that be rather likes
couicll baby. but he obeclB when it becomes
Il screaming farce.
InIcr the law no political parade can be
held in PHILADELPHIA during the week pre-
ccd,ng All election.
Tic ranches and large forms of southern
California are slowly but steadily being cut
IN into small farms.
Inward OF 1000 children are reported TO
have died from measles in Santiago, Chill, In
less than two months.
Imporlaut success has been obtained in
bee, cultivation in Siberia, IN the elevated
portions Of the country.
More than SO old coins and medals have
been stolen from the French museum At
Carthage, North Africa.
Tie total decrease in the public debt Of the
United States since the opening OF the cur
rent year is SIS. 1916
\ total of ;, 30 miles Of new road has been
added TO the railroad system of tie United
States this year thus far.
The corn crop is 80 poor in Langdon, ~ H..
and vicinity that farmers are already buying
grain to feed their cattle
An interesting ancient canoe, followed
on, BY means OF red-hot stones, has been
found in south central Norway.
The Manitoba wheat crop is estimated BY
The secretary of the Winnipeg Board OF Trade
at ) 0O0,O00 to l0,0J0, 900 bushels
4 Vermont citizen who started out to pur-
ell Sc wedding suit got drunk instead, and
on returning home committed suicide.
A South Windham, Ne, man attributes the
cure of a cancer on his nose 10 the applica-
lion of the plant known as wood sorrel."
The Oldest and largest tree in the world Is
a chestnut near the foot Of Mt Etna. The
circumference of the main trunk Is 2l2 feet.
A waterfall has been discovered In the Rife
Creek, Colorado, which is said to exceed Nj
aeara In beauty, though not equal to It 10
volume.
The advance in the price of wheat will en-.
able the growers in Minnesota aud Dakota to
realize from sS.0O0,000 to sl5 go, 900 more
than K 80 wear. -
While testing q rope Ire escape at Pittsburg,
Pa, the rope broke aud three boys fell ssycn.
tv feet, Two we're instantly killed and one
fatally injured. I7r'-a
The foreign trade of the United States dur
ing October has slightly exceed d in exports
those of last year, while imports have fallen
slightly behind e..
An eastern sportsman lost his gun In an
odd manner. a wounded bird, in falling,
struck the weapon as the owner was taKinR
aim aud knocked 1t into the water. --'----~
Employees OF the Central railroad at Macon,
GA. are good deal disturbed over the ghost
of an immense Newfoundland dog that roams
around In the rear of the Union depot
According to Johann Faber. this famous
manufacturer of Nuremberg, the people OF
the United Stated use, in round numbers
about 100, coo, 900 lead pencils every year.
a letter was mailed at Pittsburg recently
addressed to ''The Secretary OF the knavy
Department" and the intelligent clerk sent
il 10 the warden of the state penitentiary. ~.
In central Dakota sections the wheat 10
well marketed. The threshlng was done
under the most favorable conditions OF wealth
er. placing the crop early In shape to sell.
Anew double pointed nail Is the invention
Of an ingenious woman. The points turn In
opposte directions, and the nails are es-
pecially useful for invisible Mailing in wood
work. sSsISS
The name of the White House Is derived
from tie fact Of the Virginia free-stone, Of
which 1t is built being painted white to con-
ceal the dscoloration caused by smoke and
weather.
II is estimated that crows have cost the
farmers of Maine Sl0O, 900 the past year. The
next legislature will be asked to give boun.
tv of ten cents a head for the destruction OF
these sable fovorites. '--.-'' -
sparrow with white wings leads flock OF
100 Of the brown species at Rondout n. Y.
II Is treated with great Difference by Its COM
panions, who follow all its movements at
a respectful distance.
it has lecn found that a goose can stand
the weather until the thermometer goes to Ga
degrees below zero. Then her feathers won't
save her. Wild ducks can go II degrees low
er and come out on top.
The Alaska salmon pack is now all in. The
Alaska Commercial company alone caught
1000, 0G0 salmon, most Of them In karluk
river, which is only 2l5 miles long. The quail
ity Of the fish is fine. 80 d.
An ingenious farmer of Shiloh, Ga, has re-
sorted 10 the use of halfinch pine boards a.
a substitute for bagging. bale OF cotton
in the novel covering reached Columbus, Ga,
and attracted much attention.
Four thousand boxes OF California raisins
sent this fall TO London brought better prices
| than the famous layers from Malaga, and
orders have come to California from Am
| s,crlam Vienna and Australia.
The American trade with Cuba IL an i'm
portant aud growing one. Out Of total Of
seventy five vessels arriving at Havana last
| month, thirty-seven Of them were American.
British vessels numbered only five. ~ n
The Nawab OF Rampur recently paid
Serst-Maj Freyer a surgeon in the British
army. the prncclv fee of $4,000 for having
| brought him safely through a three months
| Illness from ma!gant rheumatic fever. o.
| A California willow had plans made for q
| s. ,G0) monument tor her late departed, but
hen The lawyers got through fighting over