The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
Thomas 4. Edison's Perfection ol
The Electric Light.
aE0ReE fRANeIs faAlN y n0sr0N
Eastern oregon Sheep raisers sellin:
Their florks.

4 Mexican giant feet & inches IN
height Is employed rs special officer
at Scranton. pa.
The baby king Of Spain is the thir-
teeath of his nsme, which fact makes
his mother feel nervous about him.
John w. Dwight of Pennsylvania
owns in North Dakota . farm nearly as
largo as the state Of Rhode Island.
James Whitcomb Riley. the bachelor
poet, Is III receipt constantly of letters
from women who want to marry him.
Secretary Rask and Representative
Reetl are great friends. They are
called Tom and Jerry in Washing
ton.
John Horn. of Orville. Ohio, is six
feet four inches high, weighs $50
pn and il twenty-five years of
age.
A West Yir4inian has been arrested
for nersonating his deceased twin
brother and drawing the pension Of
the latter.
A proud mother in AIereed. CAL,
owns Il four nonths-oid baby that
weighs tweney-siN pounds aud has cut
four teeth.
An exchange chronicles the fact that
Mrs. Sophia bennington, OF Nenia. O.,
agua forty, has given birth TO her
tMenty-ffth child.
The pope has expressed to the cartti-
mails ut the vatican his desire Tor burial
under the Church Of st. John Lateran,
in the part restored by himself.
The lanees reintrodueed lately into
the French cavalry are considerable
shorter aud lighter than those used IN
this branch Of the service under Ma
poleon |.
lit Is reported that the sheep raisers
of eastern Oregon are selling on their
n0eks as fast as they can. About one
hundred thousand have already been
disposed Of.
A colored woman who said her age
was one hundred and one years was
arrested aud put in the Birmingham,
Ala. lookup the other day. She had
been quarreling.
There il 4 Mission grapevine at Car
peAteria, Cal, which has a gil'th Of six
feet AT the base, branches out in every
direction for a hundred feet, and this
year produced four tons of fruit.
In London they are utilizing cleo
trieity IN a novel way. During heavy
fogs horses carry an electric light on
their heads which can be Illuminated
a. occasion requires. the storage bat
terry being in the wagon.
Ii you would gaze on an example of
superb disgust, find the Maine hunter
who thought he fired At the shining
orls Of a fefocious wildcat ard after
ward discovered that he had filled to-
mato can with shot-holes.
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and various other enterprises have
been started in South Carolina Within a
year. Corporations chartered between
October. 1855, aud 1889. number eighty
two, With an aggregate capital OF over
81, zoo 600.
4 watch for blind people has been
invented in Switzerland. In the mid
die of every figure is small peg,
which drops when the hour hand
reaches the figure. The owner feels
that The peg is down and counts back
10 twelve 10 determine the hour.
When Dom Pedro, of Brazil lay sick
unto death III Italy. not very long ago.
he told his nurse one morning hat he
had lad a dream. An old man came
TO me. said Dom Pedro and in a
most earnest way informed nae that
should lose my crown before lost my
lie.
A queer circumstance has just beer
brought to light IN the Maryinyille
Ohio. postolliee. A large rat was dis
covered hy the postmaster which wa.
iii the habit of making one meal a day
out of postal cards. After being de
prived of this diet the animal soot
died.
Unequivocal contradiction is giver
by Colonel George W. Williams, ths
negro orator and historian, to the re
Gently current tales of his engagement
and marriage to a young English lad,
whom he met on board ship while go
ing to Europe last month. The 70
mantle rumor,n he says, is withou
foundation. y
Citizen George Francis Train wheI
in Boston recently was surrounded b.
a crowd IN hotel corridor, when h
offered to bet that he was the bigges
fool in America. Nobody accepted tn
wager at first. but finally man cam
forward and said: .I,Il take your bet
stranger. provided You are not Georg
Frssncis Train
A well-known London journalist
man Of culture and ambition, is hayin
his eldest son educated to be cook
TIE boy has been trained by famou
~ chef at Brussels He afterwards studie
~ Under the chef of the Grand Hote
Paris, and has Just been apprentice
for three years TO NJ. Charpentier, che
Of the Savoy Hotel, London.
A large tract of swamp land on th
line of the jacksonville Southeastern
Railroad, near Mantle. ILL.,, has bee
recently drained. The result of the til
ing mas been peculiar. In some place
the roadbed of the Southeastern sun
four feet and the road was compeiie
TO spend a large amount Of money
making the necessary repairs.
John B. Allen, the Senator-elec
from the State of Washington, is I'll
Tonngest-loeking man in the uppt
house OF Congress. He has blond
hair and Fasg cheeks and the extremel
S vauthful s9pearance that accompanlt
II COM sexion into middle life. Il
st as goung as he looks, but ii
doesaot give him any uneasines
i. Dafft- -Ebing. an eminent profe;
II tie University of Vienna, SAY
O Iar cent of all cases Of insanit
tsa a predisposition from the
ars IN 20 per cent OF all cas-
etrance Is found TO be the so
cause and in 80 per cent mol
the causes of mental diseas
ises legal measures to comb;
Dit Of intamperan nce. or the fol
Of societies to counteract it.
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