The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-07-04
GENERAL NEWS
Rev. sam Jones Opinion Of the
Year 1880.
THE POPE DEv0TEs FIVE HOURS To
NEWSPAPER READING.
Cyrus W. Fields Beginning in Life
John W. Nackay and
his Wealth.

Ohio have only three legs In the party.
Terrence v. Powderly. General
Master Workman of the Knights OF
Labor. is enthusiastically in favor of
baiIot-reform.
w c. Shaw of Cincinnati, assistant
auditor of the G., III. & ID. railroad. has
become insane, his hobby being that he
Z Is the celebrated Dan McGinty.
The Pope has changed his habits.
He now devotes the time between half
past and 10 at night for the ardent
perusal of newspapers of all nations
Edward Atkinson declares that the
annual production of eggs in this
country equals in money value the
coantry's annual total production of
iron.
Speaker Reed is not a great smoker.
but IN the seclusion of his home puffs a
pipe at intervals. He hates the odor of
4 cigarette and considers chewing bad
form.
President Carnot. of France is a
close student of English. but is better
acquainted with the English of Spenser
and Shakespeare than with the modern
tongue.
Empress Augusta left 1000. 900
marks. Her jewels and ornaments are
bequeathed to personal friends rs keep
sakes. One valuable jewel is left 10 the
Empress Victoria.
Mr.. /. S. Perry. the writer-who IS
the grandson of Commodore Perry.
and the great-grandson of Franklin-is
in Europe. and is busy on his History
OF Greek Literature
Marshal Mcmahon, of France, it is
understood, has completed his MEM
oirs." but they are to be printed Tor
private circulation only. and only a few
copies in all will be issued.
Richard Won Volckmann. the great
surgeon. contributed on his deathbed
159 marks TO the fund for the erection
OF a monument of the Emperor Fred
eriek on the battlefield at Worth.
The Rev. Sam Jones declares that he
is not an alarmist; but he adds, omi-
nously, Il know the year 1890 is going
70 be an epochal year. and some things
have gone just as far rs they can 90.
The Duke of Westminster is believed
TO be the anonymous donor of half .
million dollars for convaiescent hos
pital in London. The Dukes income
IS 5000 per day. chiefly from rents in
BeI9IT,via.
CYRUS w. Field is now three score
and ten years old, but still in active
business life. His first employment
was as errand boy for A. I. Stewart a
s. a week. His duties required him L
open and sweep out the store.
Judge Kelly told friend of his some
time previous TO his death that th,
trouble with his jaw grew out of habi
he had of going to bed with quid o
tobacco in his cheek-a practice which
he had kept up from his boyhood.
Joseph Howe. one of 1he COO wht
made the famous charge at Balakiava
lives in Hartford, and IS prostrated b.
tie prevailing epidemic He says be
had rather go through dozen Bala
klaya experiences than have the grip.
There is vast deal of public discus
sion at Allegheny. Pa. as to the organ
ization and management of the librar'
which Mr.. Carnegie IS founding, whicl
IS very pleasing to Mr.. Carnegie, VIII
locks for wisdom to proceed from sue
counsels.
Gen. jackson, according to a Ney
Orleans antiquarian. appeared on th
battlefield at Chalmette logged out i
queer style. He wore a full suit G
celtC anu CAGtffAiit2 Iii
chapeau bras. Instead of that he wor
a silk hat of the ''stoyepipe" or chin
ney-potn style.
Prince Louis Nepoleon is advertisin
freely his reasons for leaving tb
Italian army and entering the Russia
army. One OF his French organs saws
Prince Louis Napoleon told 4 prom
nent statesman that Grispi was prepal
- ifrlYf fi'hfe ~
reason WHY the Prince resigned tn
Italian army
The late Henry w. Grady was
great raconteur. He was master c
dialect. and was never afraid of givin
a good story plenty of coloring. 1t wa
considered remarkable thing in tn
Office of the Atlanta Constitution if
week went by without a new var
from Grady. His stories were alway
witty but never vulgar.
The town of Abbot, Me-, claims on
of the best marksmen in the State
the person of Mrs. George Brown. NJ
long ago she saw a fox crossing tt
field short distance from the hons
Taking her husbands rifle and raisin
the window she drew bead on Mastt
Reynard, planting the ball fairly in tt
neck. The distance was twenty-tW
rods.
The Rev. DR.. Collier tells this. stol
of the elder Dumas: He was invited
bring his daughter to a reception give
by Partisan woman who was lit
way off the strict line of society. /
went, but he did not take Mile. Duina
The hostess asked him why the your
lady was not present, There are tv
a "A al
second of which is that she has a b;
cold"
John Mount of Covington, KY.
said to be the oldest criminal in t
United States. He is nearly 80 yea
Of age, and fifty-six years Of his Ii
have been spent in the various per
tentiaries in the United States. He h
committed almost every crime exec
that of murder. He is living a seclud
life at present, and seldom goes on I
streets
The Empress Eugenie has just p1
sented to the fathers who have the kee
ing of the mortuary chapel at Far
borough, where the remains of n
poIeon III. and the Prince Imperial a
inferred, magnificent alter cloth, ma
from her wedding gown The clio
has been made by the Empress ht
self. 1t is trimmed with the lace al
embroidery which ornamented {
dress.
MAI. Serpa Pintoswhose name occT
frequently dispatches connected vi
African affairs, Is a native of Portue
and about 40 yeal.old. He ioined {
Portuguese army IN 1868. rose pref
~ rapidly. and becane an aid-de.car