Mohave County miner., 1889-12-14
WINGED MISSILES.

Mcnarchies and Kingdoms arc passed
Republics are the fashion.
A hunter At Pocatello, idaho, has DEER
horns with forty 1.-TWO prongs.
| Not including Alaska, Brazil Is larger ID
extent than the United States.
1t is said that there are forty .cieh
languages and dialects spoken In Mexico.
There are moro newspapers published In
Pennsylvania than Ia all British AEerica
Foot ball thinks 1t Ia going to ,'get the
heels" OF base ball as national game II
looks 80
Frouae Is writing . life of Lord 3eacons.
Held fictitious subject viii just suit the
pen OF the romance historian
Clara Louise Kellogg has grown 10 fat
| she never expects TO grace the stage again.
She never did become thin characters.
The number of persons who wrots
ABcautiful Snow'' was estimated by the
late Richard Grant White as twenty four.
1t is estimated that the output Of coal for
the present year will not greatly exceed as.
oVo,U1 tons against IS. l45. 7lS tons last year.
Who would have thought In Philadel.
phia, the symbol for slowness, is said 10 be
the greatest novel reading city in the coun.
try.
A Philadclphia pony has whipped q
mountain bear In fair fight There Il q
good deal Of animal pluck about the good
old city.
An Aibino, Pa, coon, without . gray
hair on II, has been captured by John Bark
ley, OF Monroe county, Ohio. The animal
has pink eyes.
A young man blowing on ranch near
Gait, Cal, found over ei,60o. His employer
kept all but go OF 1t, and left the plowman
TO piod his weary way in the field.
Lawiessness in parts Of Georgia attribut-
ed TO the whites has been traced to negroes,
who, acting as regulators. have been settling
old grudges against black enemies.
An otter, muskrat and mink play TO.
gether on the banks OF creek at Scranton,
PA. The farmer who owns the promises
won :. let bis boys trap or shoot them.
The artistic wealth Of the Paris munisl-
paliiy In paintings, s.S,lo'are, engrayings,
etc. Is estimated at 2,< milliu- dollars out
side OF the great traasarers owned =, the
nation.
Alphonse Daudets novels have won Q
fortune for him. but his plays on the stage
have been failures. and this jealousy of
Sardou's success Is set down by his critics
70 be intense.
A sdung woman Of Crescent City, Cal,
picked up large pebble ON the beach some
time ago and sent 1t 70 d iapidary in San
Francisco, who pronounced it 10 be an en-.
erald worth s?6O0.
A live lobster. half red and half green, |
the dividing color: line running lengthwise
his whole body.is now on exhibition in Port |
land, Me. Fishermen cay that specimens |
like this are very rare
The boys of the college for the blind OF |!
Worchestef, England, indulge In cricket, |
and are reported TO play very fair game
The ball used is made Of wicker, with bell |
inside OF 1t, which rings when it is thrown.
The latest "fad" In jewelry is small.
open-face watch set In the handle OF cane,
three or four inches from the top II IL
wound and regulated after the fashion OF /
stem winders BY turning the knob or head
,f the cane.
Buenos Ayres win erect monument to
he French revolutionist, Cambaceres, ct
;ost OF $4,000. The Spanish races have a
rood deal OF respect for the fellows who
have overturned things They believe in
'evolutions.
The naturalists OF this country, who
tarted out TO raise among themselves o
und for monument to John James Andu-
ION, having secured about $1,000 and q
arge collection Of promises, have concluded
o appeal TO the public at large.
Recent widespread failures In the tea
rade in China have had curious effect on
uined merchants. Five OF them have
AIKEN refuge in a monastery in preference
o meeting their creditors. One committed
nicide and many have disappeared.
Talk about ship building reviving in
america. 1t IL as yet mere circumstance
to what Is going on over on the
ther side. Ship building is so active on
be Clyde that in many OF the yards work
$ carried on at night by means OF electric
ights.
The Norwegians are said TO be the long.
st lived people in the world. Ofiicial sta
is.ics show that the average duration of
lie in Norway Is 1888 for the men, 5t.30
or the women and 4aU for both sexes
The duration of life has Increased OF late
ears.
The New England Farmer says that
yerywhere In cities fruits and oatmeal are
sed on the breakfast table, while In the
ountry the farmer still compels his wife
. keep him supplied with pies I'D lbitum,
nd. worse than that, to make pork the
rincipal meat diet.
An enthusiast speaks OF BIackmore's
Lorna Doonen as the most attractive
the most fascinating in its touches
Z both nature and human nature ever
sritten in English and perhaps In any
snguage. IT'S fine story. Artists and
ublishers have taken kindly TO IL
War was the business Of the Bourbon
'rench. As they have no opportunity In
rance, they have gone elsewhere for oc-
upation. Prince Louis Napoleon, son of
Plon- Plon" and younger brother Of Prince
'ictor, has received his commission In the
.ussian army and will 90 on duty in the
'aucasus.
The newspapers of Illinois and New
'ork should not let the old worn out land
I Italy 20 before them In admiration Of
christopher Columbus. The newspapers
I Italy are raising subscriptions for q
to the bold old navigator. New
'ork, however, builds no monuments; 1t
olicits for them.
One hundred thousand people would
IL. ~. -
oung and middle aged and old men are
irectly interested In the subject Of mill
.ry music In this country, and certainly