Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-04

A dish cloth hung on a door knob
is a sign of death in Il family.
The corpse must not pass twice
over any part Of the same road.
To dance on the ground indicates
disaster or death within a year.
The cabinet selected by President
Harrison represents S2S,OO),OOO.
Mayo w. Hazletine receives $40 a
week from The New York Sun.
Edgar w. Fawcett receives about
81, 900 a year for all his writings.
The late e. p. Roe found no diff
Guilty in writing $4,000 worth a
year.
President Harrison took the in
augural oath upon the family Bible,
brought from his home in Indiana
polls.
Tobacco men say that the CON
sumption Of cigarettes has greatly
fallen off during the last year. 1t
ought to.
In Idaho there are twice as many
males as females, but the male in
fants are only little in excess of
the females.
All the stree car lines in Scran-
ton, Pa, are run 10y electricity and
have been in successful operation
for several weeks.
When all honorable means fail,
and mean souls have no resort left
to defeat t'uth, then they resort to
slander and throw mud.
Emperor William has sent very
complimentary letter to Count Won
Moltke in recognition of the latter's
seventy years Of military service.
Female physicians are allowed to
practice in Turkestan, but there is
so little demand for their services
that they pay patients to employ
them.
Letters received at Berlin from
Zanzibar state that Stanley, accord
ing to native reports, is marching
rapidly toward the east coast of
Africa,
Mrs. Shee)s of Virginia, who has
been n notable figure in Washington
since the Inauguration, is n cousin
of five presidents of the United
States.
London's new electric under
ground railway will be only twelve
feet below the street level, and the
roof will come within two feet of
the surface.
A new Philadelphia idea is alpha
betical ice cream, served i'm small,
differently colored blocks, on each
of which is stamped one of the let
ters from A to u.
The virtues of cinchona We're not
generally known till 1888, when it
cured the wife of the Peruvian vice
roy, Chinchona. 1t was sold at one
time for its weight in silver,
DR., Tanner the faster, maintains
that the growing use Of opium and
its compounds frequently produces
syucope nowadays, which leads to
interment before actual death.
\ gang of worllmcn who We're
digging sewer i'm Savannah, Ga,
unearthed a skeleton, ON one of
whose legs was AN iron shackie with
part of a rusty chain attached.
Australia has just made to a pro-
iected railroad a grant of 100000
acres, or 10000 acres a mile. The
grant to the Pacific railroads in this f.
country amounted TO about 6,iOO
acres mile.
a strange accident has befallen a .
young RiN al NheiNtuA, france. /
She was playing with a little child /.
ON her lap, when she suddenly
threw back her head and remained
< hairpin had p'ne-
tmted her skull, She never rcgained .
aud expired short
tins afterward
4 farmer who lives near Ameri-
,us, Ga, has thrce-gallon COW
that suddenly ceased to give milk,
He fed her and cared for her In
every way, bat the mystery was not
solved until he found one day that
ln old sow had been stripping the
llw. The porker, which, itls need .
less TO say, was in fiue condition, im-