The Clifton clarion., 1889-05-22
General News Notes

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 The Mexican government proposes to interdict the importation of Ameri- can lard.
 The salt trust to be established in this country will have capital of *25,ooO,ooo.
 Hungarians in large mum bers, who have been working in the Lehigh coal regions, are returning to their homes.
 A whist player, who has counted the number of games he has played during ffty-one years, has recorded 7s,sSs.
 Gen. Fremont may be seen daily on the streets of New York. He holds his age remarkably well, but not one in a thousand know him.
 The total Indian population of the United States in 1886 was 247, ,761, and the Indians had 2,466 square miles of territory reserved for their use.
 A man in Philadelphia who could not obtain employment hung board over his back inscribed "work want edr and took a stand in a business street. He got job within couple of hours.
 Scotland has the gold fever, the dis covery of bit of gold in the gizzard of duck recently killed on a farm in Forfarshire having been followed by the finding of gold bearing quartz in the same neighborhood.
 There seems to be general dispo- sition on the part of the courts-to deny to juries the innocent diversion of playing poker during their delibera- tions, yet the judge who sat in the Kerr trial in New York fined three men because they didn't play whist"
 The Texas umbrella tree is fast be- coming a favorite for shade and orna- ment purposes in California It is a large and beautiful tree, resembling au umbrella in the spread of its foli- age which is so dense that it affords perfect protection from either rain or suu.
 According to denominational pa- paper it cost this government $l ,s4S,- 900 to support 2,2OO Dakota Indians seven years while they were savages. After they were Christianized it cost Sl2O,000to care for the same number the same time, & saving of S1, ,72S,000.
 The newest cure for rheumatism is the stin 2 of bees. The insects are ap- p jed to the afflicted part and called a name or two, whereupon they go right on and attend to the rest of it. No man who has taken this treatment has been known to complain of rheu- rnatism thereafter.
 A youth of l7 at Greenville, Texas, who had frequently been refused pistol by his father, secured posses sion of weapon. The father demand cd an explanation, which SO angercd the boy that he shot his father dead. The name of this precocious murder CT is McGangle Giddins.
 A Pennsylvania Botanical society has received a rose of Jerico from Persia, of which species of flower it is said that when dry weather is pre- vslent it wraps itself into ball, and is to all appearances dead. Tho wind blows it from the stalk. and it goes bounding along until it reaches moist spot, where it unfolds its leaves, drops its seeds, and garden of roses soon appears.
 Says Prof. Haley: "Thc speed of railroad trains is restricted within three theoretical limits: First, phy- sical limit of eighty miles an hour, beyond which it is found utterly impossible for train to keep the track; second, an operating limit of sixty miles an hour; beyond which practical experience has found trains cannot run without much danger to life; third, commercial limit of thirty miles per hour, at which, all things considered, it is found most economi- cal to run train.
 The famous Barker will case has been settled at Dover, \. H. Mir Bar ker, who was worth over Sl,OOO,OOO stipulated in his will that his son Hiram should receive $5,OOO A year