The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-09-26

AEEAB VI AHEBAB8E.
A plan 20 connect the siberian
rivers by canals IL projected by the
Russian government.
Il IL caIea1sted that during o Lon
don season the average amount
spent IN flowers IL E5,0 900.
The Republic Of Mexico has come
10 another anniversary Of its llber-
alton from Spanish rule. IL 10 the
seventy-ninth.
Lord Salisbury has such an ex-
treme aversion 20 tobacco that even
his own sons do not venture 70
smoke In his presence.
Boston expects 10 furnish Q very
interesting show In its international
maritime exhibition, holding from
Nov. 4 10 Jan. 4.
Ship-bulldlng IL booming at Bath,
Ne. There are some twenty odd
vessels on the stoeks-Enore than
ever before st one time It IL said.
A London journal states that
shirts Of chain armOT, which cost
about ElOO, are now worn by more
than one distinguished person on
1he continent.
The Hon. Allen q. Thurman has
left the Virginia Hot Springs and
gone home 20 Ohio. His health 10
much better than it was before his
visit TO the springs.
Gov. Larrabee, Of Iowa, says: 1.-THE
number Of banks In the state has
increased from ls8 I'm 1853 20 pa In
IRss. Deposits have Increased from
t2I, 2S1 ,TlS.T "a to s59, s35 1882 IS In 1855. J"
The dispatch boat, Dolphin, max
ing its tour around the world, should
arrive In about two weeks by way OF
the Bermudas. She was the first Of
John ROach's ships built for our
navy.
Mississippi has now, according to
one Of It's newspapers, 439 sawmills,
~ shingle mills, l3s planning mills,
II logging railroads S. dry kiln
plants, 30 mills using hsfd-sawing
machines, and 80 Wholesale lumber
dealers.
The czar has a new train Of cars
60 ira eel In. The ears are connected
with eseh other by vestibules 80
that he can pass from one TO an
other without being seen from the
outside, and they are covered with
iron aud cork.
Every scrap OF iron or wood with
In reach upon the Eiffel tower Is
completely covered with names and
dates. The interiors OF the lifts are
covered, and the glass wind pro-
tectOrs Of the elevators and on the
various floors are rapidly being filled
up.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who
walks about little in the open air
occasionally, continues to surprise
her physician by her vitality; and
though her mind IL somewhat apa-
IhetIc, as q rule, she shows now and
then brief flashes OF her old brill
liancy.
AyOung lady OF, Louisa county, Va,
was robbed of her dOwTy last week.
She had gone to q village church
with her affianced, and while they
were being made man aud vile
thieves entered her home and stole
g., 800 In bills from her trunk. The
sum was a wedding gift from the
young lady's father.
According TO the Calcutta cores
pendent Of the london Times, q
herd OF 100 wild elephants has been
captured In MysOre. The same cor
respondent says that there were 6,OOO
deaths, from Enake-bites In the
Northwest province last year. In
Madras 1905 cattle were killed by
wild animals, and the loss of human
life by snakes and wild animals was
1,6I2.
James FenImore Cooper, our
pioneer novelist, the Tooth AnnlveT-
saFy Of whose birth came on Sunday,
the 18th, stood full six feet In
heighth and was admirably built.
His head was large and his features
were Of a leOniBe cast, while his
clear gray eyes were radiant with
power. Hence his personal appear
anee was commanding In the
highest degree.
The contagIousness of phthisis has
been recognized in Germany by
military command. An edict has
gone forth from the war minister
that the chest Of every soldier shall
be examined once q month. IL It
does not measure enough, aud does
not expand with drill and exercise,
he II dismissed from the army rs
being predisposed to phtlisis and
likely to infect his comrades.
The latest use Of photography IL TO
make a cannon ball take n picture OF
It's own wObbllngs. An arrange
ment something like q camera II to
be placed In the forw ard end OF the
prOjectile, aud when it IL fired d.
recily at the sun the light traces
lines upon the plate, from the direc-
ton of which ID can be told whether
the proJectile has kept In one posi-
ton or has wavered to aud fro dur
Ing Its flight.
A New England manufacturer
says that street musicians are q
serious expense 10 manufacturing
companies In country towns. A
gypsy girl playing q tambOrene
passed his establishment, aud, he
says. cost the company about 500.
Every employe In the big factory
ran 90 q window, and work was sus-
pended for fully a quarter of an
hour. Every circus parade costs
them hundreds of dollars, and when
q minstrel brass hand marches by 10
costs from SIS TO $50.
The total original cost Of the
British war-ships of all sorts at the
last Spithead review, parsded for
the inspection OF the emperor, was
El6, $50, 1tI5. The number of ships
present was seventy-three; OF tor
pedo boats thirty-eight. The weight
Of metal contained In the heavy
guns was 5000 tons. The tonnage
was approximately $4,000 tons.
Five hundred and siXty-nine heavy
guns, irrespective OF quick firers aud
machine guns, composed the aTma-
ment.
STATE SENs