Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-25
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sailors, but cat will not be thrown
overheard, IA this would bring a
storm.
Mrs. Harrison shocks Washington
fashionables by carrying her own
bundles just as any other sensible
woman does.
If we wish to be just judges Of all
things, let us first persuade ourselves
of this, that there is not one of us
without fault.
The Wellington, Kan, elite held
a hemming social recently, at which
the young men doing the best work
received a gold pen holder.
Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, long time
editor Of GOdey's Lady's Book, was
! the first woman in America to sus-
tain herself by journalistic work.
The combination Of sawdust and
flour, or sawdust and starch, some
| times recommended for covering
steam and hot air pipes, is very COM
bustible.
1t was told to JekylI that one Of
his friends, brewer, had been
drowned in his own vat. "Ah," he
exclaimed "lIoltlng in his own
watcry bier
a dynamite boom 70 protect fish
ermen by giving warning 10 0ccan
steamers was recently tested or
Gloucester, Masa., and worked very
satisfactorily.
In II personal advertisement
Il woman describes her runaway
husband rs "an ordinary looking
man, troubled with short breath
and long mustache."
The collection Of postage stamps
made by the late Duchess of CALI
era is said to be valued at $3.50, 900.
It is contained in 5000 albums and
is the finest collection in the world.
Cornwall, England, sailors will
not walk at night along portions of
the shore where there have been
wrecks, as they believe that the
souls of the drowned inhabit those
localities.
Whoever would liye his life over
again that he might live bettcrlifc
would do well to remember that he
would do no better than he is now
doing. If you want to begin over
again, begin now.
Even Calitornians seem to tire of .
their perpetual sunshine. The .
Nisalia Delta remarks: jewellers
in san Joaquin valley would like to
swap Off few square leagues of
Italian sky for II little Oregon mist"
Bradstreet estimates that the in
crease in population which will he
shown 10y the census of 1890 will be
thirty per cent. This will, in round
numbers, give the country popula-
lion at that time of siXty-livc mil
ions.
In an old farmhouse garret near
'hamokin, Pa, a clock has stood for
years unmoVcd. One night recent
y, without apparent cause, it struck
seven times. On the following night
1t : o'clock member of the family
net with sudden death. .
A New York lawyer named boo
little once unwittingly entered into
partnership with II brother barrister
named Steele, but lack of clients
oon became painfully noticeable,
md ii was found advisable to dis.
olive the firm of Doolittle Il steele
The skeleton of man, evidently ,
pioneer Indian fighter, was found
he other day in the middle of a bio ,
og taken toa Georgia saw mill. In /
he wood that had grown over il ,
vas the imprint of the clothes as
veil as the old tliutlock rifle that =
ny beside it. +
y rural debating society should try I
D throw some light ON the question,
'hy an American magazine is sold
" thlrty-tive cents in this country
nj only twenty-five cents i'm Fug- Il
md, while an English magazine is 1
'ld for twenty cents a copy in that
'untry and thirty cents over here
An oSSiticd negro, whose limbs L
ng like metal when struck, is the !
test dime museum freak. His -
anne is Norval Monroe and he wos n
lrn slave in Virginia in january. \
I', At eight years of axe his lrrr Il
z began to osSity and two years -
Ter the strange disease took p1ss,s. q,
ON of his right foot. q,
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