, 1890-10-02
ALL SORTS.

Extensive Goldfish banks have recently
been located in Alaskan waters.
New York Is afflicted with a tiea pes I
that is making the whole population
nervous.
The Illinois board of equalization Is
discussing proposition to raise the
Cook county assessment S122, 900, coo.
Ii is said that there are moro men
with a classical education on the streets
than there are tramps.
The New York admirers of DR.. Nc
Glynn are preparing To give him q re-
ception on September 20, which is his
birthday.
Hon. ID. Gardiner Tyler, son of ex-
{ he democratic congressional nomination
In the Norfolk, Va. district.
1t kept two big reserve officers busy
yesterday keeping the crowd from in
front of store where a peach was in
the window. A peach is great curl
osity this season. Philadelphia Press,
September III.
Having picked up most Of the avail-
able breweries and factories of the land
the insatiate London syndicate Is now
prospecting among our mines. Just
now tin mines are the most attractive.
An electric street railway is projected
by Burlington, n. j., capitalists.
Within the last few days Springfield,
Mass, has become infested with swarms
OF black tleas.
1t Is stated that over seventy cases were
reported a week ago.
Work has commenced on the Belt Line
road for Baltimore. The line will tap all
the railroads in the city.
A new branch of the Salvation Army,
know as the Salvation Navy, is saving
souls along Erie's water front.
A mountain landslide covering more
than twenty acres recently occurred in
Benton, n. H., caused by heavy rain.
Diseased meat has been sold, it is
charged, in Chicago by the firm EN-.
ployed by the state to kill lumpy -jawed
cattle.
Chicago is disposed to put on literary
airs. 1t has been found out that the
public library there circulates more
books than the Boston public library.
A Clinton county, Penn, judge in
structs the newspapers not to print his
name under any pretense. Hence this
item appears without his name.
Florence, Mich, justice is swift. A
robber there recently began thirty
days sentence within forty live IN inutes
from the time he committed the theft.
When a steamer passes over the Port
Huron, Mich, tunnel the noise of the
wheel can easily be heard in the tunnel,
which is at least forty feet under the
water.
Lightning struck the cathedral of the
Holy Cross In Boston recently, detach-
ing three large granite blocks, one of
which weighed 800 pounds, and which
fell l25 feet to the sidewalk below. Fort
unately no one was injured.
The scheme to connect Lake Erie and
the Ohio river by ship canal is soon
to be presented to the people in the
form of the report of the committee ap-
pointed to investigate aud report upon
the practicability and location OF the
huge canal.
Poweshiek county is making u deter
mined effort to exterinnute the pocket
gophers. Since the first of the year the
auditor Of that county has paid $1,000
for 20, 900 gopher scalps. That number
OF scalps ought to greatly decrease the
number of gophers.
A Cairo bachelor, who, the ad. said,
was "eighty-seven years old. but rich, 4"
has received $50 applications from ladies'
willing to be his wife-and risk his dy ing
very soon.
The dairy interests of Canada are in
creasing. The Toronto Empire notes
'ths shipment this year OF over Az, 600
more boxes of cheese" than during any
former year.
Marshal McGahey, of Leavenworth,
Kan, has brought progressive euchre to
u sad pass in that city by threatening to
arrest any person found playing the
game for prize.
The Fort Dodge Presbyterian synod
comprising twenty-five counties in
N.NrN latag pa tar I'D 4
seventy-two churches, has inaugurated
campaign In favor of Sunday closing
at the Columbian exposition to be held
in Chicago.
The latest thing in trusts Is reported
from Chicago, where broker M amed
Russell has incorporated the National
Tonsorial Parlor Company" with a
capital of $25,0J0. Baroer shops are to
be established in the principal cities, and
tickets of membership issued good for
service for year.
The public schools of Largo, Ind,
were Obliged to remain closed on ac.
A Waterbury, Conn, editor has been
fined 500 by the mayor of that town for
an alleged libel on hisonuer.
The New York city public schools
opened with an attendance OF 1850 600
scholars. Six thousand were turned
away for lack of room.
The Iowa commissioners have ordered
suits To be entered against several rail-
road companies Tor refusing to obey the
order in relation to joint rates.
A field of corn at Arredonde, Fla, is
said to average thirteen feet high, and
the yield is expected to be thirty OF forty
bushels to the acre. The land is ordi.
nary pine land.
Outside of the New York delegation
all but three of the members OF the
house of representatives express them
selves in favor of the removal of Gem
eral Grants remains to Arlington,