Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-05
SCRAPS

SCRAPS
Starvation wages and idle work
men is the story that comes from
Berlin.
One Of the sons Of Charles Dickens
IS said to be a rising statesman in
Australia.
The Chinese population of New
York city in now in the neighbor-
hood of 5000.
There are 17,l07 newspapers and
periodicals published in the United
States and Canada.
The 10000 washerwomen of Paris
have formed union. They will
demand rs cents per day.
Buffalo Bill and his cowboys will
camp for the summerin the vicinity
of the tall Eiffel tower in Paris.
A New Hampshire man took q
chew of aloes by mistake the other
day. He talks very bitterly about it.
The pretty young misses at church
fairs are tinually laying them.
selves liable to arrest on the charge
of robbing the males.
Although experience is an excel
lent thing it does not help girl who
has had a plentiful variety of it in
courtship to a speedy marriage.
There is Il good deal of religion in
the world, but in view of the three
S's-sin, suffering, sorrow-there is
plainly not enough to 60 round.
He: Whatlovely hair Miss Mason
has. But is it her own? She
(rather jealous3: Oh, yes, was with
her and recommended that shade.
Old Lady: I hope, my boy, you
don't sell papers on Sunday? Small
newsboy Sadly: No, mum; amt
big enough ter carry a Sunday edi-
ton yet.
Only one month left, young man,
in which to be sure of your best girl.
After that time she is liable to get
mashed on some base ball player at
any time.
"At what age were you married?"
she asked inquisitively. But the
other lady was equal to the emer-
gency and quietly responded: '"At
the parsonage"
Bishop Foster of the M. E. church
regrets that the ministry of to-day
is in some respects n hireling min
istry, and does not think that any
is worth salary Of $4,000.
Progressive soap-bubble parties
are understood to be allowable dur
ing lent. There is nothing so pro-
ductive of giggling and laughter,
and they are by no means expensive.
Gold corkscrews made to fold
within n very small compass are
used as watch charms, and the
value they possess apart from orna-
will soon force them into
The Kentucky court of appeals
has just decided that the property
which n woman has bought and
paid for with money earned by her
self is liable for the debts of her
husband.
The sea occupies three-firths of
the earth's surface. a mile down
the water has pressure of n ton to
the square inch. 1t has been proven
that at the depth of $500 feet the
waves are not felt.
They are getting up Niagara
show i'm London which is to be aC-
'ompanied by Il Photographic re-
production of the real thunders of
he cataract to supplement the
pictorial attraction,
The only slate pencil factory in
he United States is at Castleton, |
Rutland county, Vermont and it /
urns out 10000 finished pencils per
lay. There are twenty-five people
mployed in the factory, and the
areless school children keep them
'usy the year round.
Sir John Macdonald, Canadian
PREMIER is becoming alarmed at the
rowth Of the annexation sentiment
mong the people, To counteraot
he proposes, so il is reported, to
lbmit TO parliament series of
leasures creating the Dominion in
D an independent kingdom, with
ne of the English royal family as
'igniug head,
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