Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-21
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

The great steel bridge at Cairo IS, in all,
over four miles long.
A street sign at Asheville, n c., reads;
| "Cows for sale or to let"
English merchants are gobbling up most
of the trade in South America.
Pianos boxed in white cherry are new
and so are stools with fiddle back.
Electricity is used in some Pennsylvania
coal mines to draw the car up the level.
There are more stove foundries in the
South than can be probably employed.
A Texas democrat of eighty five years
has just had twenty first son born to hiEc.
Edison is an inveterate smoker He con.
sumes twenty cigars day. He drinks no
liquors.
A Buffalo preacher says there will be
horses in heaven but he Is not sure about
the drivers.
An Alliance firm is building the largest
travelling crane ever erected, for the
! Washington Navy Yard.
The acids in coal tar are now taken out OF
| il, and it is thus rendered good and cheap
coating for iron and steel.
The Atchison Globe says: THE trouble
with man covering up his tracks is that
he makes new ones in dong it."
An eastern Ohio man has been married
three times. Each time there was opposition,
and he had to elope with the girl.
The Louisiana Press says That all 1.-THE
certificates in the world wouldn't take the
| "quackness" out of some doctors.
Yale proposes to endow a chair of music.
1t will be the first university in America to
confer the honor upon the cause"
DR.. r. A. Girard of Chattanooga has ten
living wives. The doctor is in "durance
vilen He now believes in celibacy.
The great jefferson oil fields of Pennsyl-
vania have shrunk in their oil production
from 800 bbls per day to 500 bbls.
A bronze casting to weigh 5000 pounds,
is to be cast in one piece, and placed on the
top of the City Hall in Philadelphia.
The proposed canal from Beaver, below
Pittsburg to Erie, will revolutionize trade
between Pittsburg and the Northwest.
They have taken the school house bell
and hung it on the judges stand at the
trotting park in an eastern Maine town.
In the newly-made tea plantation of
Assam red spider has suddenly appeared,
and threatens serious injury to the plants.
Sir John Lubbock has just discovered
that the death rate in London is 1873 per
1000 as against l711 in other English cities.
A plucky Franklin county, Pennsylvania,
widow took an AK and attacked and killed
bear that was trying to steal one Of her
pigs.
General Neal Dow, the prohibitiOnist, is
IS years old, but still has a clear eye, good
physique and Il wealth of snowy white
| hair.
An industrial school is to be started at
Chattanooga, Tenn. Building and loan
associations are springing up all over the
south.
Women seem to be given to fiction. Pub
fishers of books and magazines say that
three foarths of the novels offered are by
| women
English schools are putting in swimming
baths. The same thing will soon be done
in this country. "WOrk and be clean" is
the motto.
The Westinghouse people, at Pittsburgh,
have induced the Pekin Chinese to put up
big electric light plant. European com
petitors tried to.
A Paris butler won last month the $780,
| 900 prize in the exhibition lottery. His wife
runs the goat carriages for babies in the
Tuileries garden.
| A piece of Washington real estate was
recently sold at the rate of $50 a square
| foot-Ine highest price wv. r,s-i,s prop
erty in the capital
Some very large steel ships are to be
built for lake service. The latest one con-
tracted for will be capable of carrying of
5000 tons of freight
| Letters From Help have been repub-
lished with an Introduction by George
Macdonald. According to 1.-THE new vers-
ion' the title is misnomer.
The new steam cruiser Philadelphia will
have two electric light plants of the most
approved pattern, and the most compact
system adapted to marine work.
George Bancroft, the historian, seems to
have pretty wholesome tastes. After his
tory, which is his business and his pleasure,
| he loves trees, roses and shakespeare.
A young woman of Crescent City, Cal,
picked up a pebble on the beach and sent it
| TO lapidary in San Francisco. He pro-
nounced it a true emerald, worth s., 900.
Even a queen may be partial. Queen
| Victoria is in hopes that Prince George Of
| w dleS Will UO hluB VI SOLIO NoJs
She likes him better than any of her grand
| children.
The cost of the projected bridge across
| the Hudson River at New York is $50, OO0,
600, and capitalists are seriously consider
ing the ACCESSIBILITY Of putting that amount
| of money in it.
Of novel writing there is no end. Char
lotte NJ. Yonge has just completed her 1O1st
book She has written nothing great and
nothing bad. respectable mediocrity has
been her style.
Some one sent Missouri church deacon
postal card advising him not to preach so
loud and not to attempt to sing at all, and
he just backslid and licked three OF his
neighbors inside of a week
"Budge" is the name OF tame crow be-
longing to Miss Orlie Wheeler, of Joliet, Ill
! He goes all over town alone and returns to
| his home at night He is fond OF beer and
will drink it until intoxicated.
Near Silverton, Oregon, is a quarry OF
what is called fire place stone" 1t IS soft
when mined, and can be sawed or chopped
| in any desired shape, and when subjected
| to intense heat does not seem 70 be affected.
An effort will be made to save the
| American bison from utter extinction. A
| company interested in the propagation OF
the buffalo has secured large tract OF land
| in Utah, where a herd of bison will soon be
| domicled.
Northern capitalists continue 10 buy up
| large lumber and mineral tracts in the
south. One !, 300, 900 acre tracts has just
| been purchased in Texas, and a 300, 900 acre
| tract in East Tennessee. Land is picked