The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-10-10
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Switzerland has built loo inns
since tourists began 10 visit her.
OF the nearly seven hundred ply
siclans practising In San Frsnclsco,
ffty-six are women.
A letter can now besent around the
world from London I'm sixty-nine
days, by way Of Vancouver.
A Connecticut pear tree, over .
century old, contains ripe fruit and
quite Q number Of blossoms.
Nearly every vessel clearing from
San Diego, Gal, nowadays carries
from ten 10 thirteen tons Of honey.
Ellis county has decorated the
court house with tie Kansas state
fair exhibits which took third pre-
MUM.
Lenavee county, Mich, IL at
present paying out something like
Twelve dollars Q day In sounties on
dead spaFrOws.
The residents Of HaWarden have
decided TO erect . statue 70 Nj.
Gladstone In commemOrstion Of his
golden wedding.
Maine IumbeFmen are entering the
woods early this year, In order 10
get much Of the cutting done before
the deep SHOWS come.
At North New Portland, Me-, .
swarm Of bees have taken possession
Of the upper part Of the Congregs-
tional church splre and are filling 10
with honey.
On farm at UnadillO, Mich, war
broke out between the bees and the
turkeys, aud seventeen Of the latter
were stunR to death before the eessa-
ton Of hOstIliIles.
The demand for It's leather hiss
brought the kangaroo into imminent
danger Of extinction, and the
Australians are contemplating
measures for restricting the slaught-
ter Of the animal.
Among the remarkable men who
we're born In 1909 may be mentioned
DIR. Holmes, Abraham Lincoln,
Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson,
Mr.. Gladstone, Edgar A. Poe aud
Lord HoughtOn.
The Pittsburgh papers speak Of Q
roll Of paper among the exhibits at
the Exposition there - the largest
one ever made. IL IL nlnety-slx
inches wide, fourteen miles long,
weighs 2,65S pounds, and 10 without
. break Of any kind.
A Sacramento Cali business man
used o photograph cylinder In trans
hitting Important messages to Chi
cagO, sending the novel machine
(which the postal authorities have
decided must be paid for st first
class postage rate) by mall.
About thirty Maine shipyards,
employing from 800 to $50 men,
are In operation. The total number
Of vessels In course OF construction
IL forty, OF which tbirty-six are
schOouers aud three ships. Many Of
the schoOners will be three-masted.
double-decked aud rage from 1000
10 ] 100 tons.
An example Of the depreciation OF
agricultural land In England was AZ
forded within q fortnight when farm
In Lincolnshire was offered for sale.
The highest bid was E2,l00, although
the property cost e6, 100 eigh-
teen years ago, and q consider
able sum has since been expended
In improvements.
Charles Mlngard, q Hoboken IN.
j. composition, has died OF blood
poisoning, which was the result OF
an insest bite. He was stuhg on the
nose by q mosquito, lt II thought.
subsequently, while at work, the
bite itched and he rubbed Il with his
lead-coated finger. The lead, IL is
believed, poisoned the wound and
pyRmia developed.
A bear which IL declared TO have
destroyed 5000 worth Of stock was
killed by William Hood OH the Up
Der Cogullle River, Oregon, Q few
days ago. II weighed dressed $40
pounds. At one time IL killed sou
sheep belonging to Mr.. Hood.
Since settling In that country that
gentleman has killed fOrty-three
bears and no end OF wildcats and
pantbers.
When the plucky DR.. Nansen
returned from the exploration Of
Greenland, some one said to him
that such q hero As he would soon be
caught i'm the snares Of love; to
which he replied that his only bride
was the North Pole. However, he
has Just been married TO Miss Eve
Sars, the daughter OF the we'll
known Norwegian professor,
Michael Sars. She IL noted for her
beautiful singing aud her skill as q
skater.
NJ. Pasteur delivered an address
the other day In Paris to the mem
beIs OF the society Of Practical
Medicine, and In It declared with
much emphasis that rabies IL never
spontaneous. The mierobe produe-
ing ID, he said, was invariably trans
! United. This means, of course, that
no dog ever goes mad unless he has
been bitten 10y another mad dog, q
fact ct once Important and reassur-
ing.
One Of the most surprising feat
lures of the modern business world
Is the extensive use Of cottOn-seed,
formerly considered worthless. Ac-
cording to the New York Tribune,
over so, 600 tons of these seeds are
now pressed for their oil from
thirty-slX to forty pounds being
obtained from each ton. The con-
sumption Of cotton. seed oil In In
creasing both In this country and Ia
Europe, aud new nses for the oil are
constantly being discovered.
Professor Fresenius, of wIesbaden,
has reached the conclusion, after q
series Of experiments, that an egg
has ~ much nourlshment as q
pound and an ounce Of cherries, q
pound and q quarter Of grapes, q
pound and q half Of russell apples,
two pounds Of gOoseberTies, and four
pounds Of pears. He has also found
that ia pounds Of grapes (foreignl,
Ia pounds Of russell apples, 49,
pounds OF peSFs, aud S2I pounds OF
plums are equal In nourishment 20
100 pounds Of potatoes.