Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-08-22
STRAY BITS.

feet.
A Florida planter has contracted 10 furnish
a New York dealer with 100000 cabbages
during the season.
A scientific paper has been started in Paris
with the novel feature Of publishing nothing
not written by women.
A vegetarian hotel is an innovation in
London. There are already thirty vegetarian
restaurants in that city.
A shoemaker at Atlanta, Ca, has lately
completed pair Of shoes that are IA inches
long, 8 4 wide and so deep.
The electric arc lights in the United States
now number nearly 100000; and the incan-
desceuts number over 100000.
The annual copper production Of the world
is 27j, 900 tons, and the French syndicate is
said to control 2lj, 900 tons Of it.
Sylvania, Ga, has a stalk of corn ten feet
high, and which contains seven well developed
shoots, six Of which have put out silks.
A comparison Of the work Of English,
French and American detectives show the
latter TO be - per cent ahead all around
A Glasgow firm has just finished brass
wire for the Glasgow exhibition sixty-fyc
miles long and "A copper wire III miles long.
The National Telephone company, Of Scot
land, has several submarine cables of seven,
eight and nine miles in length, which give
perfect satisfaction.
The Atlanta Constitution notes that "the
lumber used in john Browns gallows is still
preserved at Harper's Ferry, and the owner
wants 81 500 for it."
In China there are over 400 species Of
plants used for food, and in the world prob
ably ten times that number Sawdust ID
Sweden is used i'm bread and found diges
tible
a farmer near Buffalo, Pa, while plowing
few days ago, came upon pot containing
laarly $1,000 in gold coin. 1t is supposed to
have been hidden by miser who lived near
tho spot many years ago.
On opening an ice laden car at Cincinnati
"A tramp emerged and hurriedly made off
As the car had been locked three days before,
it is supposed that ne endured the wiutry
temperature all that time
Mr. Denise, of Dayton, o., who died the
other day, is said TO have been worried 10
death by the accidental discovery that his
wife, a few months before had been buried
while in state Of trance, and when too late
revived.
A fish dealer says it is easy enough TO tell
whether "A fish is fresh or not If his ewes are
bright and clear and pellucid, he is fresh as Il
fish need be; but if dark, cloudy and sickly
looking, he is an antiquity, and by no means
TO be desired
The California state board of silk cultur
is doing much 10 boom the business. 1t has
sent 10000 mulberry trees and cuttings q
silk cultvators and will this year put out
10000 more; and worms and eggs are give.
TO owners OF mulberry trees.
In San Francisco suit has been brougl.
against the estate of one Loewenthul, uAl
committed suicide last winter ON the day s.
for his wedding, by the father of his uuucvu
for the 5000 claimed 20 have been spent IT,
preparation for the marriage
A Providence, r. l., foundry is engaged H.,
casting the largest mining pump in the worD
for the Calumet and HDy.,, of Michigan .
single section has been ,uun.cted and vei~h-
twenty tons The uuna,uYug OF a.. Lu.
will bo done sooner tIau aas expected
A new fire escape in England is 81 sort of
chair that slides down 20 IS, and the host q.
a house possessing II often ontortaius h.
guests 10y permitting Jhcm TO take "a ride Al
the Italian exhibition u london 10 is cNuect
ed 10 prove great rival To- tho switcuoacA
railway.
The municipal authorities think the rro-s
ings are SO unsafe IN Paris Jlat an Eug.sa
paper says they have employed surgeons, dis
guised rs policemen, Tor JNo purpose OF help
ing the timid people across the perilous parts
Of the streets and boulevards and to be NJ
hand in CHNg of ncplcputS
Ventura county, Cad. boasts that it con
tains brown stone enough TO rebuild the
great wall of China, oil enough to float the
vessels needed for It's transportation and
lime enough to make the mortar TO build the
wall Ii says nothing about having gas
enough 20 blow up the whole concern.
4 Six hundred newsboys were washed, scrub
bed, secured, rinsed OF, rolled up in flannol
and laid out in the sun 70 dry the other
morning at a hathhouse ON West Madison
street. Chicago IL required l4,OOO gallons OF
hot water AS much moro OF cold, !, 30 bottles
OF shampoo and 200 towels to do the
work
Americans have the good habit OF going TO
College 10 is said, as TO the learned nations
that In this country one man in every 200
takes a college education; in Germany one in
every 2iS, in England one in every 500, and
in Scotland one in every COO The grade Of
general intelligence is higher in the United
States than in amy other country ON the globe.
a statement has been prepared at Chicago
showing that "a SIS, ,2a9 words of preSs specials
aud other messages were handled at the Chi
cago office OF the Western Union Telegraph
company during tho week from June 10 TO ~
inclusive, while tho Republican national con
veuuon was in session, THIS Is AN average OF
2,O15,0S4 words for each day, Sunday in.
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