Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-01-08
HERE AND THERE.


Il Is said that New York modiste haspaid
$40, 900 for a house on Fifth avenue.
An Ohio lad has just shot companion who
stood near his target by trying Ito see how
near he could miss him.
A Chicago firm has already sold 10000
drums this year-presumably in anticipation
Of the presidential campaign.
A young man in Maine is accused Of hav-
ing voted thirteen times at one election, and
he is in fair way to be convinced that the
number is unlucky.
A British shipmaster at New Orleans re-
ports that while off the coast of Patagonia
butterflies we're blown aboard his vessel at a
distance of l5O miles from the land.
At the New York water color exhibition
the picture of a red headed girl, by Miss
NOVEL;, hangs on the wall, and near it one
of Zogbaum's cavalrymen on a white horse
The lumber export from Ottawa, Canada,
to the United States during january, Feb
ruary and March was valued at $500, ,9O2, an
increase of 81 per cent over the same months
of 1887
The managers of the Cincinnati exposition
have obtained number Of gondolas from
Venice and propose to have them on exhibit
BlOu ON u Sludl ldk6 dJIdCueu 10 BuB ldlI
grounds
woman's invention is a baby wagon for
the house, thoroughly padded, in which the
baby cannot be hurt, even if it tips over The
wagon can be turned into cradle and made
into a swing
The word Birmingham, so common in
naming towns and cities, is composed of
three words, which together mean ''the hill
which is the home of the broom" a small
English tree
1t is said that Perry county, Pa, has a man
who deals out whisky in a saloon licensed by
himself He is one of the associate judges of
the county, and his place of business is in the
borough of Blaine
The water in the Great Lakes is now the
lowest it has been in forty years. Shipping
is crippled by it. What makes it high or
low is a question the experts have not yet
been able to solve
The introduction of An -rican watches into
England has reduced the number of gold
cases marked at the london assay Office from
"a, ,944 in 1876 to %, ,4l6 in 1885, and Of silver
cases from 119,sO4 in 1875 to 95,7Os in 1885,
As an evidence of the progress that mod
Aru ideas are making in Japan, 1t is stated
new railroads at a cost OF over 0000,000
and it has hundreds Of miles OF railroad al
ready built
Nashville minister said in his Sunday
sermon that 1.-THE woman who will occupy
two seats in a street car, in violation of her
neighbor's rights, may be respectable, but
can have little claim to either religion OF
good breeding"
Edward and Mary Stetson, aged respec
lively II and o years, have made the journey
safe from Damariscotta, Me-, to Seattle on
the Pacific coast, with no other guardian
than that special providence that is said TO
care for children.
In a recent fire near Tower, D. T., girl
barely 10 saved the lives of two small chill
dren by rushing through flames to their bed
side, and dragging them to where she could
throw them to the earth without danger and
herself leaping after
Two prominent St Louis men nave ell
gagged in litigation over the ownership OF
duck valued at twenty-five cents. The pre-
liminary suit made costs, III addition to the
attorney fees, $4S, and now the case has been
taken to the circuit court
London jeweler recommends diamond
cutting and polishing as an excellent EN-,
ployment for women, saying that he believes
that any woman or girl with quick intelli
gence could learn to polish a diamond "very
fairly in six months" He says the qualities
necessary in this art are great honesty, good
education, quick intelligence, great patience
and good eyesight"