The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-12-05
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TTEMs OF fNTERB8f.
Boston thinks Of establishing free
winter baths.
Liverpool, England, has . deaf and
dumb temperance league.
A petrlfied alligator was recently
found on the beach nj Cutler, Ne.
A hotel to cost s1,125,0 900 ls going
up In Sydney, New South Wales.
A false Messiah has lately appear
ed In Arabia, and multltudes Of
Jews are following him.
A citizen Of North Hampton, n.
H.. has been . justice Of the peace
for more than hfty years.
Lowell. Mas capitalists propose
to erect q cotton mill OF 900
spindles at Denison, Texas.
II 10 now thought that COlorado's
wool clip this year will beat the best
previous record by over . millisn
pounds.
Emperor williams new crown
weighs three pounds, and has o
frame Of solid gold. IL IL radiant
with diamonds and pearls.
Louis Kossuth declares vehe-
mently that he will not accept
Italian or any other citizenship, but
will die as be has lived, q Hunga-
riau.
Miss Helen Gladstone, vlcs-prin-
cipal Of NEWMAN college, Cam
bridge, looks more like her famous
father than does any other OF his
children.
The latest Partisan novelty In
gloves has q small purse inserted In
the palm, wherein women can car
~ their railway tickets and small
coins.
A French and Turkish dictionary,
by q French Jesuit Father-JOseph
Reali-hss Just been published al
COnstantinOple. II cost the author
ten Year, labor.
Mr.. John Field, the new post.
master at Philadelphia, was born in
County Derry, ireland, ffty-hvt
years ago, and came TO America at
the age Of fourteen.
In Mr.. PercIYal Leigh, who died
recently In London, Punch has lost
the oldest OF its contributors. He
Joined the staff soon after the
starting Of the paper.
Preparations are nearly completed
for the construction Of q telegraph
line from Pen-Ting-F Foo, near Pekin
through Shansi, 10 connect with the
Russian telegraph system at Kiahta
The Canadian Pacific Railway
Company has contracted for thret
fast steam ships Of 600 tons eaci
for the new line from Vancouver Il
Yokohama and Hong KOng. They
are 10 be ready In 1850.
An Alabama BOY, George Peacock
was bitten by q snake, and his fathe
In sucking the poison out OF thu
wound got some Of Il In q cut on hli
lip. Both died, the father about n
hour after the son.
Bees that for seven years made |
home OF an unused chimney, nea
Knightrlll, Me-, we're recently
routed, the building being tori
down, aud more than q washtul
full OF honey found.
The Shah is 30 thoroughly con
WINGED that the accident to his trail
was q cunning plot devised for hi
destruction, that since his return Il
Teheran he has refused to recerv,
Prince DOlgOruki, the Russian min
lister.
An intelligent canine that spend
much Of its time around q railroad
crossing in Boston, takes . position
near the safety gates when q trail
approaches, and refuses to ALLOW
persons to pass until all danger i
over.
An Ohio peddler having fallen III
his seventeen-year-old daughte
mounted the cart and drove Abou
the country for three weeks. He
sales exceeded any that her father
ever made In the same length o
time.
A monument TO Samuel Slater Il
TO be unveiled at Pawtucket OIL
July l., $50. the centennial ami
veTsaTy of the first operation Of the
cotton spinning machinery Ia
America, OF which Mr.. Slater wal
the maker.
by decree Of the Sovereign Of the
Congo State (the King Of this
Belgians), elephant hunting hB,
been prohibited throughout the
state, except by special permission.
This was done To preserve the Al
rican elephant.
King Louis OF Portugal did not In
all his reign sign n single order for
capital punishment. He had con.
scientiOus scruples against inflict-
ing the death penalty, aud 50 sue
ceeded i'm making it practically
obsolete In his dOminions.
Burton KAN Graphic: Accord
ing TO the way people are selling
reliBquishments To Oklahoma claims
they must want TO get back to good
old Kansas. The right 10 some OF
the best claims la that country can
be bought for from $40 to 800.
A Canadian FTenchnan has been
travelling through the State In a
cart drawn by three dogs, two at the
man matched his horse against the
team the other day aud was beaten.
Portland (He.l Press.
Professor Brown Is a strong
advocate of the scaldiDg Of milk to
be used for food, by which means,
he says, the consumers can protect
themselves until such precautions as
are necessary TO save milk from In
lection are universally taken.
Forty tramps went about 1t.
Helena, Montana, the other day,
actually begging for employment
They were put To work In q vineyard
the same day, the story goes, but
by the next afternoon all excepting
three had disappeared from the
scene Of their brief activities.
Tax stamps have been established
in Switzerland to enable the poorer
classes to pay their taxes In small
iRstalments instead Of handing out
a lump sum. The taxpayers can
buy weekly = few twenty-five or
thirty centine stamps, aud so
gradually clear of his debt to the
government.
A check for several thousand
dollars sent to Pope Leo XIII, from
Newark, n. J., has been returned
through the regular channels to the
Newark bank on which 10 was
drawn, duly endorsed by the Pope.
The handwriting IL neat and even.
The check will be kept as q
sOuveniF