The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-02
POINTS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The Paris exposition will close No,
vember 6.
An electric launch in England re
Gently made sixty miles without re,
charging the aCcumuiatDr.
Sahelics, Spain, is supplied with wa
ter by "A Roman aqucduCt that has been
lately cleaned and put in order.
AT Ukiah, Cal, a man of % has
married IA widow with several children
One of her sOns is older hal her hus'
band
The heaviest, consequently the best,
OK hides come from BucnOs Ayres.
They weigh oven twenty pounds Zach
and fetch Is cents per pound.
The spirit of %witchcraft still seems ia
brood over Salem, Mass. 1t is mildewy
with age and its roofs are green with
moss and lichems grow on its walls.
The melancholy news comes from
Spain that old bull fighters complain
that the sport is not what it was. 1t
is the old cry. Too many amateurs in
the business.
The lump of silver weighing ten
pounds, found Wednesday by work
men engaged in digging a cellar in
HicksviIle, l. |, is supposed to have
been buried by soine one years ago and
forgotten.
Most of the lepers in the colony on
the Sandwich Islands are men. The
average duration Of the disease is
eleven years and the mortality fifty per
one thousand. The local physician,
DIR. Hoffman, is a victim of the dis
case.
A New York paper, in commenting
upon the departure of the scientific TX
petition which lately sailed to view
the SUMS eclipse on December %, says,
that as a rule, the scientists of the
party are we'll built, medium stout
men and will present an attractive APP
pearance before the Gannibals.
Old river captain ~(shaking his head
dejectedly and shifting his quid to the
other cheek)-steambotin' amt what il
used to be. Ii that biler explosion on
the Mississip' the other day had hap
pened twenty-five years ago it would
have killed mOre'n two hundred peo-
pie at the least calEilation!
A hand refrigerator ana lunch box
has been invented by Miss Phelps, of
Dorchester, Mass. 1t is particularly
suitable for lunches and plcnice. and
has a compartment for ice. The small
est size holds three pounds and "a half
of ice in a zinc lined box, and is said to
last for seventeen tours.
A gentleman was out shooting near
Totnes, England, the other day, when
he had the misfortune TO shoot his dog.
For a moment he was too much over
come to see what damage he had done,
and before he had recovered himself
kI1 - sanl n llnaI- ,..,.a III ....
up to him, bringing in ITS mouth its
W tail, which had been shot clean of
The city of Washington has one of
the finest, if no; the finest, market
buildings in the country, bnilt at an
expense of over $500 900, with com
plete farmers market, meat and fish
and fruit market, shops, restaurant and
cold storage house. 1t covers a space
of two and one half acres in the enter
of the city, upon its finest avenue, and
yet, go beautiful are it's proportions and
surroundings that II stranger would not
lake II for a mar ct without entering
its precincts.
1t is predicted that the United States
will become Il nation of blondes. The
population of Norway shows a per-
centage Of 1925 of light eyes. Flaxen
hair appears in 57.5 per cent, while
absolutely black hair is only found in
the ratio of 2 per cent. The inmigra-
ton from Scandinavian countries in
1882, numbered $4,000, or about me
sixth OF the entire Immigration that
year. The Immigration from Germany
is also largely made mp OF pure blondes,
while that from the British tiles and
other European countries is very mixed,
with blondes still in the lead.