The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-10-31
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New York n infested with foot.
pad sandbaggers.
The Prince Of Wales has been
obliged 10 cut OF bis cigarettes.
The electric light on the Eiffel
tower can be seen e Orleans, seventy
miles distant.
A crazy negro In the Milwaukee
fail labors under the impression thes
he IL telephone.
The majority for Prohibition In
South Dakota II sos. The majority
for the Republican candidate for
governor Ii 2s,6Ss.
At the rate Of increase In the past
few years the wool crop OF Colorado
will soon exceed In value the output
Of her silver mines.
Female telegraph clerks In Russia
are not allowed 20 marry any bot
telegraph officials, and there ls, con-
sequentiy, bitter dissstisfaction.
Millions Of butterflies have recent
IL swarmed the streets Of Carson,
Nevada. They were % numerous
a. 10 brighten all the horses In town.
The cornerstone Of the new six
teen-story buildlpgto be constructed
By the New York World, was laid
With appropriate ceremonies, Oeto-
Der 10.
Brsutford, Canada officers have q
leper on their hands. They didn'i
know Il until after they had arrested
him for getting money under false
pretenses.
Rev. DIR. Frederick Upham, Of
Fairhaven, Mass, who celebrated
his nInetith birthday on the 9TH inst.
has been In the ministry for nearly
seventy years.
A woman named Louisa Earnest
| Jumped from the st. Louis brtdg'
| into the Missouri river. The cause
Of the rash act ID unknown. Sh'
sustained no Injury.
In compliance with Q request oil
the Hawaiian government, the loca
i government Of Kanagawa, Japan
will soon dispatch 1900 emigrants e
the sanwich Islands.
A new company, In which Thomas
A. Edison 10 largely interested, hai
been orgAnIzad TO manufacture doll
/ on a large scale. IL will turn on
$50, 600 the first year.
Camden prohibltlonists the othe
day swung from their headquarterl
| a TRANSPARENCY on one end OF which
IL the legend: Local Option 10 II
Local and To Optional"
The payment Of the debts Of tn,
late King Of Bavaria will not b
completed until 1906. They are nov
being paid of out Of the Bavsri
civil list at the rate Of s2I5,OO
year.
Seventy-nine flags were unfurlec
from the Brooklyn, n. Y, school
houses Monday morning. SeverA
cities In the eastern aud centra
states have adopted the plan.
should travel west.
The Third avenue In New York !
to be fitted with cable cars to rul
every minute all day and every hal
minute during the morning AnC
evening rush. They will give tn,
elevated roads q severe blow.
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard propose
TO erect In New York . large seven
story fireproof structure and presen
Il to the Young woman's Christian
Association to be used a. Q lodging
house aud home for working women
Word has been received a
Brainerd, MIMI, from Indian Com
mIssioners ut Mile Lacs reservation
that these Indians have at las
given In aud signed the treaty
which will open some OF the riches
lands In the country to settlement.
Previous TO last week Blsmarcl
had not attended an opera or Q con
cert for twenty years. He has no
been inside OF q church excep
strictly on business, for a muci
longer time, nor has he put hlmsel
on exhibition In any foreign country
The EIffsl tower came high, bu
the stockholders are glad they havJ
II, a. it has paid Its cost, about 81,
OOO, 900, and handsome dividend
besides. As it will be permanent,
IL likely to prove q very handsome
investment for those who backe,
the aspiring architect.
At Mount Vernon, Indiana, Oeto
Der eth, George T. Rice, the sero
rant with wallace's circus, made aI
ascension. As he descended owe
the river he became entangled Il
the ropes, was dragged through th
water and drowned. This wa
Rice's Tooth ascension.
An eminent educator, at tn
Social Science Association, said
"If were to choose two hundre
young men for college, would no
look for them In wealthy famili e:
would select those who have beel
brought up 10 work, because the
have learned the value Of time"
Efforts TO form Q league Of th
negroes In the United States ar
meeting with more recognition tina
was at first expected, and it
among the probabilities that Il vii
be one Of the influential protectiy
organizations Of the country befoE
the next presidential election. Tn
solid south may dissolve at Its soil
citations for q ballot.
John ID. Rockefeller, who IL know
as the Petroleum King" IL fifty
two years old, tall, thin, dyspeptiC
looking. His face IL long, his nos
prominent, his mouth large. A fe,
years ago he was q poor man, an,
started out In life with $500 capita
borrowed from q confidIng friend
with this amount he set up a.
dealer In wood and coal. HI
| wealth In now Estimated at k10 OOO