The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-11-07
Potxrs or oEnRRAL INrRREsf.

ONNA GfeNEo WI - NSA~@-o
slready been shipped east from
Fresno, Cal.
Women In London are beginning
10 affect the single eyeglass, it 10
chr0nieled.
A stone mansion built In 1850, on .
farm near Greenbush, n. Y, still
stands.
They have q ''tomato king" In
California His shipments average
1000 boxes . day.
A carriage road has Just been com.
plsted 10 the top Of Pixies Peak.
1t 70 sixteen miles long.
6ahelies, Spain, IL supplied with
water by q Roman aqueduct that
has been lately cleaned and put In
order.
One county (Custer) I'm Montana
n said TO have an area about I'VE
times greater than that OF hassa-
chusetts.
Al Uxiah, Cal, . man Of p has
married q widow With several child
rem. One Of her sons 10 older than
her husband.
The mate Of Maine schooner has
q seal that follows him like Q dog,
and II allowed 10 take q bath In the
sea whenever lt likes.
California, q 10 said, now manu-.
features nearly all the Iron she needs,
though only Q few years ago she de-
pended on the East for her supply.
The hat trade at Danbury, Conn,
was never, Il 10 claimed, more pros
porous, between 5000 and 1000 cases
being shipped from there weekly.
The heaviest, consequently the
best, OF hides come from Buenos
Ayres. They weigh over twenty
pounds each, and fetch 10 cents per
pound.
The reported discovery Of gold
near Tacoma, Washington Territory,
has created great excitement there.
Forty filings FOR placer claims were
made In one day.
The chemists OF the National Agrl-
cultural Department are about 20
begin the work Of investigating the
different artificial foods now on the
market, Il II reported.
The melancholy news comes from
Spain that old bull fighters CON-
Bl1lu lu8t tue HIlIit ~ uOt Nu9t -
WAS. IL 10 the old cry. Too many
amateurs In the business.
Lord wOlseley's brother, Mr..
Frederick Y. WOlseley, an Austria
liam squatteF, IL said 10 be making q
fortune out Of Q sheeP-shearing
machine which he has invented.
The lump Of silver, Weighing ten
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men engaged In digging q cellar ia
Hicksviile, l.. J., h supposed to
have been buried by some one years
ago aud forgotten.
A Chinese doctor In San Francisco
10 said to enjoy an income from the
practice Of his profession Of ", O0(
per month. He has been In Americs
nearly thirty years, and many eau
casIans are among HE patients.
Lucy Mack, q young woman OF
Highland, n. ", jumped from 8
sleeping car on Thursday, while IL
was going at the rate Of thirty-five
miles an nOur. She landed In 9
sand pit aud was rescued unhurt.
Most Of the lepers In the colony
on the Sandwich Islands are men.
The average durstIon OF the disease
IL eleven years and the mortality
fifty per one thousand. The local
physician, DIR. Hoffman, II . victim
Of the disease.
An Austrian railway official has
invented Q portable telephone for
connecting Q railway train st any
point at which IL may happen 20
stop with the nearest station. The
experiments are said 10 have given
satisfactory results.
A New York paper, In comment
Ing upon the departure Of the
scientific expedition which lately
December y, says, that rs q rule,
.he scientists Of the party are well.
built, medium stout men and Will
present an attractive appearance
before the cannlbsls.
Old river captain Shaking his
head deIectedly aud shifting his
QuId 10 the other cheek)-Steam-
botIn' Amt what Is used to be. IL
that kller explosion on the Misslssip'
the ether day had happened twenty
I've year ago it would have killed
more'n two hundred people ut the
least calkIlatiOn!
After all, the hustle doesn't seem
10 have been as generally discarded
IS was thought. The owner Of q
hustle factory In Connecticut writes
. New York daily thus: at 10 not
likely that any manufacturers will be
compelled 10 go out Of the business
20 long ~ bustles sell ~ well as they
do at the present time"
About the cOstlIest, As well as the
most peculiar leather In the world is
that known a. "pIano leather" IL is
made solely from the skin Of Q small
deer peculiar to one district Of Ger
many, aud its manufacture has for
ages been handed down from father
20 sou In q single family In the dis
trlct. IL costs nearly its own weight
In gold.
Colored people In Texas, accord
Ing 10 statistics produced At the re-
cent Waco Convention, now own
about Q million acres OF land, and
pay taxes on so, OOO.OOO Of property.
They have 2,O0O churches, - many
Sunday schools and benevolent as
sOcIatiOns, 10 high schools, $500
common schools, 5000 teachers aud
l25,OOO children at school.
A gentleman vas out shooting
near TOtnes, England. the other
day, when he had the misfortune to
shoot his dog. For Q moment he
was too much overcome TO zee what
damage he had done, aud before he
had recovered himself the animal, Q
black retriever, had come up to him,
bringing In It's mouth Its own tail,
which had been shot clean of.
Mr.. Neville, the great London
baker. was offered aud refused t4,-
OO0, OOO for his business shortly be-
fore his death. In early life he
failed and had his accounts settled
by the bankruptcy court. Later,
when his second venture had made
him rich, he paid all his old credi-
tots the balance Of their claims In
full with iuterest.-NeW York Tri-
bHne.
Piping times are expected In
China. The great bell Of Hung-wu.
which has long lain buried In the
ground, dsfying all resources Of
engineering, has ut last been raised
by foreign machinery aud hung In q
Buddhist pagOda built OF iron rails
by q foreign firm. According to .
well-knOWn prophecy, this bell was
never 10 be lifted until China enter
ed upon q new era Of prosperity.
INDUSTRIAL
A Leeds firm has built the biggest
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