The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-10-17
nur nE rHE oRpIrARY.


A Los Angeles farmer who is cur
ing pampas plumes for eastern
markets clears from $500 TO $500
per acre.
A bunch Of celery containing
twelve stalks has Just been gathered
81 Kalamazoo. IL weighed thirty
i've pounds.
A firm Of West Chester, Pa, nur-
serymen, are growing japanese
chestDuts, which are quite large and
Of sweet flavor.
tits figured that It would take
SlO0. 600, 600 10 give every poor per-
son In the world an oyster stew, .
roast Of beef and q minee pie.
GoId-bearing quartz assaying over
1915 ton has been found In China.
IL IL said that a company Of Ameri-
cans proposes 10 work the mines.
An army Of squirrels, black, red
aud gray, have been passing south
ward over the mountains and val
legs Of Clinton county, Pennsylyan-
IL, for the past three weeks.
There IL spot In Siberia about
thirty miles square, where the
ground has not thawed out for the
last hundred years, and where IL Ii
frozen to q depth OF sixty feet.
The country showing the largest
proportion Of cultivated land 10
Denmark, Russia having the small
est. The United Kingdom has -
per cent. Of land titled against IL
untitled.
at may seem singular TO you"
says q New York florist, "but I've
been keeping q record for these
twenty years past, aud have found
that nine murders out Of ten are
ardent admirers OF flowers, and
mOst OF them prefer daisies and
lilies"
CyRnet, o., has an oil well that has
periodic fits Of flowing At intervals OF
about three months. What 10 par
tIcuIarIy strange about Its workings
IL the fact that Il performs Its freaks
always on Sunday, and never misses
the hour Of II q. m. to begin.
In Madagascar you can keep
house, live well and have three ser
wants for about 30 cents per week.
A hired girl would be psrAlyEed
with establishment IL paid over o
cents per week, and the washerwo-
man thinks she has q soft snap ut
8 cents per day.
Uncle Bob Carlton, Of Magazine,
Ark, IL said 10 be I28 years old. He
In strong aud hearty, has good eye
sight aud eau shoot more squirrels
than anybody In the nelghbOrhOOd.
He uses an OId-fashlOned rife that
was carried by q soldier in the rev.
olutionaTy war.
The other day q Chinese cook at
Livingstone, Cal, made a pie for
the guests Of hotel. II looked all
right, but he added two ounces Of
pulveriZed glass for seasoning. The
first bite caused q stalwart team
steF's mouth to bleed, and he beat
the cook to jelly.
A chIIiless old lady of StOddards-
willie, Pa, years ago set apart small
room for spiders to make their webs
In, and no broom has ever disturbed
Il. The spiders dwell together In
harmony as a rule, although the
lady says they sometimes have cat
aud-dOg fights.
The indemnity paid by France TO
Germany after the war of 1901
amounted To five milllards Of francs.
10 this sum had been paid at the rate
OF five francs for every minute since
the beginning Of the Christian era
up TO date, the total amount would
not have been paid yet.
Several reputable gentlemen re-
Gently saw a remarkable mirage In
CiIacier bay, Alaska. They gazed
for an hour on what seemed to be q
large city Of some fifteen or twenty
thousand inhabitants. The town
contained large structures appar-
emily located on the side OF q dis
tAnt mountain.
Two men at brewster, y. ", are
partners In q cIder-mill, and are to-
gether every day, but thay have not
spoken 10 each other In i've years.
They cit side by side I'm church, at
tend to business together, and meet
At the houses of their friends, but
all efforts to make them exchange q
word have failed. The cause OF
their singular conduct is q mystery.
Pita, the new remedy for hydro
phouia recently discovered in Spain,
seems 10 be a name given to the
flower stalk OF the olOe, a plant COM
mon In some parts Of Spain. The
story goes that its virtues were dis
covered accidentally by q man In .
fit Of hydrOphObia falling upon an
aloe plant and biting the stem.
The citizens Of TaylOrsyIIle, Neb.,
recently tarred aud feRthered old
Jason Mitchell, aud then rode him
on q rail. Instead OF resenting this
treatment, Jason seemed TO enjoy IL.
This puzzled the boys very much,
until the old man sued twenty-five
- - a aOah
got it. Then they began to see that
Jason really had the most fun.
II Il said that while American
manufacturer have succeeded In
FivalIng European cutters In nearly
every branch they have failed to
make any serious inroads Into the
razor business. Several eastern
houses have tried to make raEors,
but one by one they have dropped
out OF the business, Till there are
very few remaining. Nine-tenths
OF the rAz0rs ueed In this country
are made In Europe.
New York churches have q not
unusual feature Of . table placed
near the platform for the use OF
EtenOgraphers. The young men
are not reporting for the papers, but
arc UAueNlN GtGNAa hu INV oAANGH y Nv
have studied shorthand and 90 &c
church for praeticing purposes.
Some of them reduce the sermon 90
typewriIlug. and sell copies TO men,
beers Of the congregation.
Brigandage IL now rife la Mace
dOnIa, and no fewer than two hun
dred persons have been murdered
aud robbed within the last two
months. Two bPigands named
ShakiF and Osman, each Of whom
have committed more than twenty
murders, are terroTlBing the couB-
try. Tie Turkish authorities are
described - showing q most suspi-
elOus suPlneness In the suppression
Of brigandage.
Observers In many Of the cities
blessed with shsde trees have no
ticed that those trees near electric
lights have been blighted by some
thing, aud for the lack OF some more
apparent cause they Rseribe the
trouble 10 the lights. Very likely
they are right, a. the trees need
darkness In order 10 remain In per-
feet health lust - much as men
need sleep. Trees at q little dis
lance from the lights suffer proper
atsly less than those close under the
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