The morning news., 1889-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE coLLIERIEs are open
in India, says London Truth, and in 1886 1,4O0-
| 900 tons of coal were mined.
Our CONSUL at Peking reports that the total
number Of American citizens residing in China
| is 1, OPP, OF whom SOC are missionaries.
MRS LANGTRY has made three purchases Of
| lands in California, and has combined the
various tracts into one ranch of 6OO0 acres.
| ST. LOUIS PREACHERS are conducting a cru
! sade against the practice of mourners stopping
at saloons on the way back from the cemetery.
TIE RECORDS kept in Paris hospitals show that
fewer deaths occur between and II O'Clock in
| the evening than during any other four hours of
the day.
THE underground electric railway in London
will be only 70 feet below the street level, and
| the roof will come within about feet of the
| surface.
A BILL before the Nevada lie gislature makes
it misdemeanor for women to wear hats OF
| greater hight than three inches at any theater
in the state.
| FROM INDIA comes the news that Lady Eva
| Quinn has shot five tigers in Upper India and
| that the slaughter of big game is becoming a
| fashionable pursuit.
THERE are musical soirees every Sunday at
the palace of the Emperor of Germany, the
| programme being executed by generals, col
| ones, majors captains and lieutenantS.
| THE gilded rooster on the tower of the First
National Bank building in Portland, Me-, is the
same bird that served as weather vane on the
top of the old Portland court house, over 100
| years ago.
| A CHEEKY TRAMP visited Nerden, Conn, last
week He sneaked into residence, occupied a
| bed all night, and in the morning walked down
| to the kitchen aud demanded his breakfast
Being refused the meal he threw the servant
A int oil hor dana tod
carrying with him several articles Of clothing.
ONE of Scotlaud's rare marshy plants, the
Scheuchzertd pdlttstri,s a genus Of the order of
| arrow grasses, has, according to Professor Hill
house, become extinct. 1t was to be found only
on the moor of Methven, in PerthShire, but
some 300 or 400 backed guls have settled
down on this moor and annihilated every trace
of vegetation.
MAINE PARsoN who received a nice large
linen duster for Christmas present, is just be-
ginning to wonder if the gift had any particular
| significance. Another Maine minister Gently
| received from an admiring female.parishioner a
present of a nicely made burial robe. The gift
was made in such evident good faith and limo
cence of any idea of imoropriety, that he re
ceived it with thanks, and cheerfully laid it by
against the need that must come.
JOHN AsPINwALL, during his lecture at Cooper
| Union, New York on THE Honey Bee, ex-
planned that the legend about the sting is that
| once, at great feast given by Jupiter the bees
| sent some honey for their Offering, and the
| queen that took it made little speech. Jupiter
| is reported as having been highly pleased and
| offered to bestOw upon the queen anything she
| desired. The queen asked for sting with
which to kill her rivals. and Jupiter granted her
request, but told her that if she ever used it on
human beings it would cause her death.
A WELL AUTHENTICATED STORY is told of Gen.
A. P. Martin, ex-mayor of Boston, who re-
Gently, in an apparently jocose manner, ap-
preached the foreman of gang of twenty-five
city laborers, working on street in Dorchester
Ia district in BOSTON, near property in which he
was interested and requested him to get the
measurement of the feet of the not over-well
shod men. The foreman looked up in astonsh-
ment but the general SAID he meant it, and the
list and mea surements were taken. The next
day the men were each in possession of a pair
of new top-boots.
A STORY comes from Europe to the effect that
| the two vessels, one loaded with silver which
went down in the Gulf of Finland more than a
| century ago, have been found Both huls were
completely covered with seaweeds. which we're
| partly cleared away, when the divers recovered
| the remains of app.es, cucumbers and shoes,
together with numerous cor&ed bottles. which
| burst the moment the air reached them. One
| of the vessels lies some distance out at sea
| from Jussaro. aud the examination of it was
| interfered with by great heavy stone which
which rested on its deck. The stone constituted
part of the craft S cargo.
The State Agricultural Department of Michi-
gan has compiled figures on the cost Of produc-
| ing wheat in that state in 1885 The cost of
| producing and marketing per acre in the four
southern tiers of counties was S13 So; central
$l2 35, and northern, S11 SO. The yield per acre
in the southern counties was S19 %; central,
| SIG 70; northern, $14 66, and the cost of pro
| duction per bushefn the southern counties is 66
| CENTS central, 81 cents, and northern 81 6-10
| cents. The average price per bushel on Janu-
ary in the southern and central tiers of coun-
=
| showing profit per bushel, after deducting all
items, of 81 cents In southern, 33 cents in CEN
| trial. and 3S cents in northern counties
A SUGGESTIVE YARN about the abuse of the fee
system by constables is told by Gardiner, Me-
man. Officers down on the Kennebec have
| pOcketed lots of money from fees for arreSting
tramps. 1t seems to have been the custom in
times gone by that when one of these gentle
| mon of leisure was committed to Jail he was
presented with plug of tobacco by the officer
who arrested him with the understanding that
| when his time had expired and he came round
| on the circuit again he should look out for his
| official friend and help him to get another fee
| The increase of this branch of police duty
| caused competition to spring up among the
members of the force and it is stated as fact
/ that Soms of the bribeS of tobacco run as high
as pound
| THE CHAMPION TRAMP would seem to be one
| Folkers, whom the San Francisco Chronicle re
Gently interviewed. He belongs in Portland,
| Me-, and is a shoemaker by trade. For ten years
| he has been roaming the country and he de-
| clares that not once during this time has he paid
a railroad fare, though all his trips pa tron zes
| the iron horse" He says that he has a craze
| for travelling, which seems very evident from
| this statement that he rides about 20. 600 miles
| per year. Altogether he has Travelled about
| 200 900 miles At the close of 1885, while in
| Pittsburg, he resolved on visiting Florida but
changing his mind he went to New Orleans, and
| after lingering there a week he started off
| again, reaching san Francisco ten days ago
making exceptionally good time considering his
| style of travelling.
CAPT WILLIAM JAMESON. Of Friendship, Me-,
| is called the Paul Revere of the Meduncook. He
received the name in the following way: It was
during the war of 1912, and the British with
| mutfied oars and under cover Of darkness were
trying to reach and burn the little fleet of fish
| ing schooners at the head of the Meduncook
| river, hoping also to gather in some chickens
eggs, etc, from the settlers along the route
| Jameson, then a boy of II, mounted his horse
and rode through the town giving the alarm at
| every house He then returned home Jumped
| from his horse and catching up his little flint
| lock rifle with twenty-four rounds of cartridges
started off on tho run across lots to join his
ncighbors at Bradford's Point. The British
| soon found that they were discovered and
hastened back to their ship.
ONE OF the pluckiest fellows who ever lived
in Montana is John Meyers He is 20 years old,
and has just gone through thrilling expe-
rience. He is a cowboy and was hunting for
horses with party on the saltwater river. He
was missing one night last week when his fell
low companions reached headquarters II was