Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-03-29
"SCRAPS.'

Dancing is said to be declining in
popularity in England.
1t is certainly a pardoX that we
are naturally desirous of long life
yet unwilling to be old.
Mr.. Wrong aspires to the Mayor
atty of Concordla, Kan. What's
the matter with Mr.. Wrong? He's
all right.
"You can't do anything without
money, my boy" ooh, yes you
can" "pd like know what?"
"Get in debt"
The man who was for Harrison
for president was in great demand
some months ago, but now he is a
drug on the market.
a Georgia man committed forgery
because starvation stared him in
the face, and then starved himself
because the forgery stared him in
the face.
If there is an autocrat set up and
bowed down to by subjects who
entreat him to rule over them it is
the tried and trusted family ply
sjcian.
The new penal bill framed by
Prince Bismarck for Germany is a
despotic code of even more stringent
measures than any previous laws of
the kind enacted.
What promises to be the largest
orange grove in the world, 10000
trees, is to be planted in Pomona
Valley, Cal, by u syndicateof Illinois
and Iowa capitalists.
Frank Carpenter, the portrait
painter, is going to make an oil por-
trait of President Harrison. He
has painted all the presidents of his
time, beginning at Fillmore.
The committee i'm charge of the
centennial in New York is perfect
ing arrangements for "beauty"
collection, in which 100 of New
York's beauties will participate.
The Hessian fly is destroying the
wheat crop in central Illinois. In
some places whole fields have been
destroyed. The dry freezing weather
is also aiding in the killing of wheat.
Marion d. Lytle, nephew of the
soldier who wrote "I am dying
Egypt, dying" and a step-nephew
of the president, will soon leave hls
Western ranch to 90 to New York.
The first thing Secretary Blaine
was called upon to do after assum-
ing the duties of his office was to
look after n runaway baby that had
been uulawtully carried from Amer
lea to England.
Manchester, n. H., is to have a
new and somewhat novel industry.
A prominent restauranter in New
York city will engage in the busi-
ness of raising frogs for the Boston
market,
Not content with the futile at
tempt to Danish beer from Iowa, Il
member of the Iowa legislature has
introduced n bill to prohibit the inn
portahon into that state of Timber
ger cheese.
Australian school teachers have
been eXhorted to suppress a peculiar
uasal twang in the voice that Is de
veloping in the rising generation,
and which is becoming as distinct
i've as the Yankee twang,
Miss Nellie Gould, theelder daugh
ter Of Jay Gould, has something
more than $4,000, She is just
twenty aud rather pretty. She is a
church member and eschews society.
She goes TO the opera, however, and
Is a fine swimmer.
Pundita Ramabia, the educated
Hiudoo woman who came TO this
country to raise money for a home
In Bombay where child widows of
the higher castes, might be educated,
obtained about 100000 is subscrip-
tions and the promise OF 5000 a
year for period of ten years.
Joseph Nicola, a full-blooded In
iiau, represents the Penohscot tribe |
IN the Maine legislature. The PEN I.
lbscots and Passanaquoddies are .
zach entitled To one representative /
whose position is similar TO that of
, territorial delegate in congress,
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