The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-12-19
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A Springfield, o., man requires .
No. 8 shoe for bis right foot and
No. for his left.
The sun does not rise on Mirror
lake, Yosemite Valley, until 11:s0
o'clock In the morning.
The largest ouTang-outang yet
shot In Borneo stood four feet ten
inches high. The average 10 about
four feet six inches.
A hog that weighed nine hundred
pounds was recently butchered near
Laurel, Del. IL was heavier than
one Of the farmers horses.
The United States 10 the largest
owner Of ArAble land In the world.
The value Of public land yet unsold
would wips out the public debt.
An auctioneeF at Bath, Me-, dis
gusted at the low price offered for
bis goods, sarcastieally put up q -
bill, which was promptly bid of ct
"a 80.
In q revival meeting at walla
WallR, Ore. q man confessed that he
was q murderer, and asked forgive
ness. He refused TO reveal the cir
eumstances.
A Harrisburg woman placed her
sleeping infant on q railroad seat.
and covered Il with a newspaper.
A careless drummer came In and sat
down on II.
A japanese nun IL q novelty In q
Catholic convent. However, o.
young japanese lady belonging to q
high family will soon take the veil
TO enter a BavaTiaB nunnery.
A Santa Clara correspondent Of
the San Francisco Bulletin gives o
list Of eleven women In that county
who run aud manage pruns orchards,
doing much Of the work themselves.
In little town Of Schleswig- Hol-
stein there IL q tax exemption for
dogs that sleep with their masters
and mistresses, and 80 preserve
them from govt, rheumatism and
like pains"
One Of the enterprising papers OF
Reading, Pa. recently printed q pie
ture Of the sun, together with q de-
scTipiiOn of the planet, for the bene-
Git Of readers who had not seen IL for
SOME time.
Vegetable flannel IL q textile ma
terial now being largely manufac-
tured In Germany out OF pine leaves.
The fibre IL spun, knitted aud wO-
ven into undeTgarments aud clothing
of various kinds.
The increased binding power Of
cement due To the addition OF sugar
IL said TO be due more to the mechAn-
zeal than chemical causes. Sugar
rstards rather than aeceleTates the
settirg Of the cement.
The soil Of Bradford county, Flor
ida, IL said to impart q peculiar
gloss TO Strawberries, making them
look as IL vanished, and giving the
berries a beautiful appearance. IL
IL due to the silica In the soil.
Paris IL surrounded by ranIparts
twenty-seVen miles long. Within
these the river Seine, which divides
the city, curves and dOutles until
there l. seven miles Of Il. IL Is cross
ed by twenty-seven bridges.
George =. CANISTER, q mechanic of
Reading, Pa, has invented q clock
work arrangement for street lamps,
which turns Off the light when the
moon IL up, aud starts on again
when the luminary disappears.
When a clergyman 1t Pensburg,
Pa, handed his wife the envelope
which contained the customary
present from the gloom, she found
Il contained only o cents. The min
lister had been called out OF bed To
peTfOrm the ceren .Ony.
At the MariOnvilIe pOstoflice, In
Ohio, "a large rat was discovered that
has been la the habit Of making one
meal day out of the adhesive Por-
ton of postage stamps and another
out of postal cards. Soon after he
ing deprived Of this diet lie died.
4 resident of MurfreesbOro, Tenn.
presented n ticket issued Ia 1855 on
the Nashville X Chattanooga railroad
the other day, and rode In a palace |
ear uu the same bit Of pastebOaTd
that would have secured him pas
sage In one of the clumsy cOAches Of |
thirty-fuur years ago.
\ new style Of horseshoe has been
patented Nv a Wisconsin man. The |
rhue IL made In sections, with elias |
tie cushions between and rivets con-
Meeting the sections, making a shoe |
Ia which there will tie q vertical
Welding or spring, avoiding shocks
or Jars Ia the horse while travelling |
over hard pavements or roads.
Judge Mark Blandfore, of the |
Georgia Supreme bench, IL q firm
believer in the zodiac signs. He |
lost an arm ut the battle of Mellow !
ell, Va, in May lSB2, and he declares |
that lie and every other soldier who |
got wounded In the arm in that |
combat recovered, while all the leg
wounds proved mortal. He says he |
had Oc ,asion To take particular no |
Iice of that fact.
4 swindler sold a Clinton county, |
Pennsylvania, farmer u recipe for |
making his wheat weigh twice n |
much as il ought to, aud signed n
contract To divide the money gained |
by :hs extra weight with the scien-
tiiir swindlsT. The contract" even
iually turned up as q promissoTy /
note, and the farmer paid $500 for It,
and didn't advertise the matter with |
a brass hand either.
Ia the course Of hearing In Bal |
timore, in the case OF child bitten
by \ dog, Judge Stewert said: THE
power possessed by dogs Of finding
their way back home IL remarkable.
remember reading Of q deg which
was sent from SCOTLAND to n man I'm |
Patapsco Neck. Some weeks later
the dog reapppared nj his home In |
Scotland, having found his way to a
vessel bound 10 that country. How
the dog did ID Is more than | can
say