Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-08
STRAY BITS.
A million pound bank note is kept at the Bank of England

Bank of England
 Up to the present date the hunt for the mysterious murderer Tascctt has cost the Shell estate $39,000
 new Philadelphia idea is alphabetical ice cream, served in small, differently colored blocks, on each of which is stamped one of the letters from A to z.
 It has been found necessary to turn the city hall at Walla Walla, W. T., into tenn porary home for immigrants, the rush into the territory is so great.
 A gang of workmen who were digging a sewer in Savannah, Ga, unearthed skele- bon, on one of whose legs was an iron shackle with part of rusty chain attached
 Dr. Tanner, the faster, maintains that the growing use of opium and it's compounds ire quently produces syncope nowadays, which leads to intermcnt before actual death
 It has just been discovered that out of 25,- 900 native Kanakas in the island of Noumea, 4,OO0 are afflicted with leprosy of the worst sort Efforts to stop the scourge are under way.
 Capt. Ingalls,, of the Pacific coast steamer I Corona. recently married couple The genial skipper wound up the ceremony by l l ford" -
 Australia has just made to projected rail road grant of l6,00O,0OO acres, or 20,000 acres mile The grant to the Pacific rail roads in this country amounted to about 6, 400 acres mile
 Scotland has a gold fever, the discovery of a bit of gold in the gizzard of a duck recently killed on a farm in Forfarshire having been followed by the finding of gold bearing quartz in the same neighborhood
 Druid Hih park. in Baltimore, seems to be the Mecca for suicides Professor Devon, who killed himself there the other day, is the twenty second person who has killed himself there since the park was opened to the public.
 4 savant of Hamburg has discovered that the limitation of Christ was written in verse by its author, Thomas Kempis. Those who have nude the prose version one of their close friends will be surprised at this state ment
 Some of the cures at a European resort are mineral water cure, grape cure. whey cure, cold water cure, massage cure pine needle baths, Russian, Roman, Irish, mud, steam and electric baths All ills are met by cures,
  erGptic in its efforts to increase the study of natural history in schools It will be repre- sented in the various educational associations in the country, and will make every effort tc push the matter
 Fashion in beds is returning to the foul poster with rich canopy and, as a modern innovation, shelf between the upper posts for bottles, glasses, etc. In the simple day!
 
 under the pillow in green bottle.
 The Texas umbrella tree is becoming ia vorite for shade and ornamental purposes il California. It is large and beautiful tree resembling an umbrella in the spread of it foliage. which is so dense that it affords per , feet protection from either rain or sun 7 An English writer says the beaver is sucl an intelligent creature that if a steel tr ay | is left visible in one of his runs he vii deliberately spring it with a stick; but if i 6 is so artfully covered with snow or leave that be steps on it unwarily, be will twis round and round till the limb is severed
 Two postal cards sent from German tow to the German consulate at okohama, on by Canada and the other by Brindisi, ap there remailed to the sender, each by tn route opposite to that in which it had come :. have arrived in the German town agaiI having been around the globe in a little les ,, than three months.
 @ A girl at Saginaw, Mich, who consulted , fortune teller, was told by the latter to le r her wear her Sl00 diamond ring for feI IT days and she would charm it so that the gil if could find out all she wanted to. The gil did so and the fortune teller left town, an then it was found that she had carried ava Q great many other things to ''charm." X In 1888 S1l, 40 barrels, containing ABA 2: bushels of apples, were imported into Englan from the United States in addition to tho, le sands of tons brought from various parts s the continent. England is paying out ovt $40,O00, GOO yearly to foreign fruit grower T. and more than $500, ,000,000 yearly for in IS ported food products, more than half l." which, it is claimed, could be easily raised
 home
 There's gander in Coweta county, Ga
 that has recently been bereft of its mat
 He has since taken up with rooster and trying to learn how to crow but so far wit
 out success. When the rooster flaps |
 wings to crow the gander does likewise, al
 stretches his neck in a vain effort to imita
 the music of the chanticleer He tries ha
 to fly up on the roost and is very affectiona
 ln hlS attentions to the rooster.
 Henry Dewey, of Quitman, Ga, arm 3 with six good dogs and keg of water, we
 to his gin house determined to kill few rs
 that were cutting holes in his cotton seed a
 eating up his oats In short time he b
 killed $50, besides what the dogs ate. Tn In are supposed to have eaten ten each, perha ng more He poured water in their holes a els this brought the rodents out with rush, a
 but few if any escaped
 An English visitor to the United Sta
 criticises the Americans for an unwillingn
 to say Thank you" for small services
 rarely heard it among equals and never
 interiors. The question is asked whether
 is because most Americans fancy that it pl 'ca the thanker in a position of inferiorit Ill Probably the real reason is desire to
 away with any appearance of ceremony les - ing to a lack of courtesy in this instance.