The Colfax chronicle., 1888-12-15
NEW NOTES OF INTEREST.

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In the United States the telephone is
used 595 times, the telegraph 1876 times in a
minute
NEW York and Pennsylvania pay the
highest salaries to their Governors-S10,00 900
each. Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Vermont pay the smallest-s1,-
900 each.
AMERICA is asked to unite With England
in raising the funds for the memorial to
Dinah Mulock Craik, which is to be placed
in Tewkesbury Abby. A marble medallion
is proposed, and five dollars has been fixed
as the maximum Of individual subscriptions
in this country.
THE colossal statue of John Marshall,
thought to be the first to discover gold in
California, will stand on Marshall Hill in
Eldorado County, where he first found gold.
1t will represent him as back-woods
holding nugget in his right hand and
pointing eastward with his left
IT is stated that plans are being prepared
in the Navy Department at Washington
for two new monitors, which, if the report
is TO be trusted, will be marvels of offensive
and defensive strength. They are to carry
a ITO ton gun, to be heavily armored, and to
steam is knots an hour, all on a displace-
ment of $500 tons
INDIANS in the United States last year
cultivated 227, ,265 acres of land, and raised
~, ,95S bushels of wheat, 934,972 bushels of
corn, 5l2, 137 bushels of oats and barley,
524, 4,0l0 bushels of vegetables and 10l, ,S23
tons of hay. They also owned 35S, 1884 horses
and mules, III, ,407 head of cattle, 4O,471
swine and ,1l7,273 sheep
GENERAL SHERIDAN's grave at Arlington
is marked only by large, fiat stone, which
covers it entirely, and projects above the
surface abo1t one inch. The stone is an
immense cubic block which was the base of
column of the old War Department build
ing, and 1t weighs about three tons. 1t in
sunk into the earth, and rests upon brick
vault about the coffin. The guard has been
withdrawn.
THE latest suggestion concerning the
origin of yellow fever comes from DR.. Ca
bier, French physician. lie believes that
the disease is analogous to cholera; that IL
fiourshcs only under peculiar conditions If
race, climate and temperature, and that lis
first cause is the development of microbes
in the intestines. He has received COM
mission from the French Government to 60
to Florida and study the disease.
HEIRS of William Penn in England have
brought suit to gain possession of the pub
lie park of Easton, Pa. The /" square" was
given by Penn for the purpose of erecting
thereon a courthouse, "and for no other
purpose" As the years have gone by the
courthouse has been abandoned and hand
some publicparkcreated.
W,IESEvgR ship loses her hold she
Coes to the bottom with rush.-Wasl'ino-
ton Critic.
THE poet who burns the 'midnight oil"
is kept awake by the muse It's the same
way with the man who keeps cat t-Yonh-
ers Statesman.
Tug man who falls out of balloon re-
alizes the gravity OF the situation before
he has dropped FIVE miles.-Harpcr's Bazdr.
THE Oldest verse in existence-the uni
verse
SURE cure for seasickness is to climb a
mountain
TIE ril hit man in the right placc-a hus-
band at home in the evening.
THE tea-growers may be said to be the
only men who are satisfied with nothing
but leaves"
The musicians in a brass band may not
be schoolmasters. but they are tooters
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ctrvi,icls.
IT hurts a man just about as much to
burn him in efiigy as to have his shadow
on stone wall butted by goat.-Tcl d.
Blade.
BREAD riots result from too much loaf.
Ir Is one thing to meet an obligation and
another thing to pay it.-DdnsrIIs Br<ezc.
Do NOT insult the under man in a
fight by reminding him that there is plenty