Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-22
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the upper crust.
New York has five successful
women dentists.
Paper is now used as covering
for pencils instead of cedar
The deaf man finds some cOnsoIa-
ton in the hope Of II hear after.
All men are not homeless, lut
some men are home less than others.
When the poet said that man was
made to mourn he printed the news.
The Bank Of England building,
London, covers eight acres and EN-
ploys 1000 persons.
A man of settled convictions is
one who has teen sentenced to life
services in Il peniientiary.
A man never knows what he can
do until he tries; aud then, after
ward, he is often very sOlry that he
found out.
Mrs. Sykcs-Yes: Bill is most
devoted and loving husband, dear.
He onlv beats me when heis bilious
or his cOrns hurt him.
First Burglar-What's that?
Second Burglar-A simple case.
| spend the daytime goin' around
selling oil to keepdoOrs from squeak
ing. Great scheme, amt il?
George Meredith has tasted the
bitter-sweets of authorship. He had
been miserably poor, and once lived
on oatmeal porridge for Il very long
and proportionately hungry gear.
A young woman in Il Western
city quietly passed a little card
around in business places announc-
ing her readiness to iu "dajning and
mending," and she has found album
dance Of work.
Dr. Chail.e, the Nc.' known
stat- tician. states tl#t the average
life of woman is longer thun mat Of
Il man, and in most parts 81 the
United States woman's expectation
of life is greater.
The total distance to be traYerscd
by ships passing from ocean toocean
through the Nicaragua canal, when
completed, will be about 1863 miles,
which will require, upon as accurate
a calculation as can now be made,
about twenty-four hours to COM
plete.
The experiment at the Los
Angeles, Cal, lighting station with
crude oil instead of coal unGer the
boilers, but corroboratcs what was
long since proved. Oil gives an in
tenser, and, above all, more even
heat than coal, not to speak of its
convenience.
The feature of EdisOn's exhibit at
the Paris exhibition will be All enor-
nous model of all incandcSCcnt lamp
forty feet high and made entirely of
incandescent lights, of which 1t will
be necessary, it is said, to use 10000.
The French and American flags will
be worked out IN incandescent
lamps on either side of the big lamp.
Gen. Hazen, third assistant post
master general, denies the published
statement that he has decided to
change the color of the 2-cent post
age stamps from green to terra Gotta.
He has not even considered the
subject.
One of the most picturesque and
remarkable bodies of water in the
world is Henry's lake, in Idaho. II
is situated on the dome Of the CONT
nent In depression in the Rocky
mountains called rargee's pass. ltI
has an area of forty square miles,
and all around it rise snow-capped |
peaks, some of them being the high
est of the continents backbone.
The intricacies of the English |
language are we'll illustrated in the |
definition given of n sleeper:
A sleeper is one who sleeps. \
sleeper is that in which the sleeper
sleeps, \ sleeper is that on which
the sleeper runs while the sleeper
sleeps. Therefore, while the sleeper
sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper
carries the sleeper over the sleeper
under the sleeper until the sleeper
which carries the sleeper jumps the
sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the
sleeper 10y striking the sleeper on
the sleeper, and there is no LONGER
any sleeper sleeping in the sleeper
on the sleeper,
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