Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-03-30
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snow shoes.
There are 100000 negroes in the
United States.
The Empress of Austria has a
lady doctor in her suit.
Females are now eligible as school
trustees in British Columbia.
A western circus manager says
the tent show is on the decline.
New York state sent into service
during the rebellion 100000 men.
Sewing machines are run by cleo
tricity at the rate of 5000 stitches
per minute.
Girls are employed as shingle
packers in the mills at Bay City,
Mich.
In Spain "a law has been passed
compelling the employment Of cleo
trio lighting in all ,he theaters.
Pure food associations are increas-
ing in numbers rapidly. 1t is to be
hoped that pure food is increasing.
The dark oranges grown In Florida
are known there as, the "African
russet." They are growing in popu-
lar favor
1t is said that intemperance has
greatly increased among the In
dians since they were placed on the
reservations.
An authority on shoes reports that
more patent le1ther will be worn
this year than in any other since its
invention.
1t is reported from Rush Valley,
Utah, that a mine of natural shoe
blacking has been discovered on Il
farm near there.
More than twenty million acres of
Land in Washington territory, or
nearly one-half the whole area, re-
main unsurveyed.
The Florida woods are td1 of bird
plume hunters, and if the cruel
slaughter is kept up the plume birds
of the state VIII become extinct.
A home missionary was asked the
cause of his poverty. "Principally," )"
said he with twinkle of the eye,
'because l have preached so much
without notes"
Prince Bismark has returned to his
long pipe and beer, much to the his
regular physicians disgust, He
says there is no use living unless
one can enjoy life.
The mauso,eum of the Emperor
Frederick, of which the corner stone
has just been laid at Potsdam, will
be a reproduction of the Sepulcher
Church at Jerusalem.
A wonderful real estate dealer
does business at Gladstone, Mich.
He won't sell a lot unless n buyer
signs forfeiture contract not to
allow whisky-selling on the prem
isCs.
Jo Cook, in one of his recent
lectures, declared that 90 per cent of
the liquor exported from the United
States is manufactured within
seven miles of the state house in
Boston.
A dweller in the country has OBJ
served that a good file is now part
ofthe outfit of the professional tramp,
He finds it useful when there is a
barbed wire fence between bim and
something desirable.
"Has your husband got natural
i2ed?n inquired an energetic pol IT,
clan OF robust female. "Got natu-
raj eyesw was the response in an in
dignant tone; eyes, be CORY, and
natural tathe, too!'
Scotland has Il gold fever; the dis
coyery of bit of gold in the gizzard
of duck recently killed ON II farm
i'm Forfarshhe having been followed
by the finding ofgold-bearing quortz
in the same ncighborhood.
More than a sixth part of the
land of the globe and nearly sixth
part of the population of the world
are under the control of Great
Russia ranks second in
territorial extent and the United
States third.
Mrs. Partington says that Ike
having become very much enameled
Of n siren of Boston has led her TO
the menial halter. He didn't appear
the least decomposed. ON the back
pf the wedding cards We're little
'ubehs with wings,
Herr Krupp, the cannon maker,
Baron Won Rothschnd of Frankfort,
and Herr Won Bleichsweber, the
blind banker of Berlin, are the
.hreo richest men in Germany, ac-
,ordmg Ia the Berlin income tax