The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-27
GENERAL NEWS
North Rivers Stnpendous Railway
Bridge.
THE GROWTH OF NAroNALlsM.
Mexiros Preference TO Annexation With
the United States.

of n cat.
DsAlbert the pianist. is n strict vege-
tartan and eats an enormous number
of apples.
A youth of eighteen at Bayshire. Z.
l., has become insane from the excess
i've use OF cigarettes.
Last year Germany granted only s.
92l patents, against England's 9, 779,
and 20. 420 in the United States.
The Royal College of Physicians has
passed a resolution that the medical
curriculum should be extended to i've
years instead of four.
William Greer, who is engaged in
the cattle business on the Canadian
River. Deer Fork District. Texas, shot
and killed a white deer recently.
A one-legged tramp who jumps on
and off trains with the agility of cir
Gus actor. Is known to the train hands
OF every railroad in Pennsylvania
The Prince of Wales has become
much more careful in his habits. He
has given up cigarettes. aud never
drinks anything until after 6o'eIock.
The entire French army is to be
armed with new helmet. 1t is of
nickeled copper, with a eockade, worn
for the first time by the French soldier,
upon the top.
The prices of camphor and gum
promise TO rise The German govern
ment is making gigantic purchases of
these articles for the manufacture OF
smokeless powder.
j. Ramon de Ibarrola of Mexico. is
travelling in this country. He IS an
He says that Mexico would rather
have the devil than annexation"
Edward Bellamy AYERS that to him
one of the strongest proofs of the
strength of his Nationalistic theories is
that they are beginning to be most
vigorously condemned in many quar-
ters-
Oliver Wendell Holmes has taken to
a peculiar course OF life. He always
retires at the same hour. eats dinner in
the middle of the day and walks at
least two miles every twenty four
hours.
According to a recent paper read be-
fore the French Academy of Science
the temperature at the top of the Eiffel
tower is frequently much higher than
at the ground, though the contrary. as
rule, is to be expected
LYDIA Bacon. of Sudbury, Mass. who
has Just been cut of in her 103d year.
attributed her longevity to hard work.
plenty of exercise. plain living. and
reading enough to keep the mind in
peace with the body's Vigor.
A Florentine millionaire. the Mar
quis Carlo Guigneoni. has Just pur-
chased the far-famed island OF Monte
Cristo He has started to build a castle
there, with villa on the seashore and
a hermitage in one of the most retired
spots
A Berlin professor while disseeting
a shark recently found in its stomach a
dolphin weighing rs pounds. forty
three fish, decomposed seal. human
arm and four human legs. Nothwith-
standing this s.feed,n the brute was
probably after a bait when he was cap
1ured-
If the stlpendous railway bridge
across the North River at New York is
constructed as contemplated, the
trains will run at a great height above
the house tops OF Jersey City and will
span the stream at height sufficient
for the highest-masted vessel to pass
under.
4, ,faFmer living in the southern part
of Douglas County. Kansas, has o..s-
covered vein of marble and granite
about thirty feet in thickness and about
twenty-feet below the surface. Sue
cessiye strata developed different col
ors, beginning with notified gray and
running through a blush, pink, blue,
red and clear white.
Tt is a fact well known to pigeor
fanciers that the two eggs laid by pig
cons almost invariably produce male
and female. Some curious expert
ments as to which of the eggs produce
the male and which the female have
resulted in showing that the first egs
laid is the female and the second tht
male.
The oldest lawsuit on record is nov
being tried in the Russian court at St
Petersburg. It was brought 500 years
ago against the city of fKamonez-Podoisl
by the heirs of a dead nobleman to re
cover many thousand acres of hi
estate which had been confiscated b,
the municipality. The written testi
mony is said to weigh forty-five tons
Dumas ffls has begun to publish ;
series of hitherto unpublished maxim
of his. The first is as follows: '.Whei
Life appears as God has made it ther'
is nothing left but to thank Him 70
having instituted Death" The last is
Woman, according to the Bible, wa
the last thing created by God. HI
must have made her on a Saturda,
night. for the work shows signs o
fatigue"
Paul White, a prosperous ranchmar
at Rocky Ford, Col, about montl
ago advertised for wife. giving an ac
curate description of himself and hi
surroundings. etc. His mail has beei
so heavy ever since that it has beel
necessary to put it in barrels at tn
post office, and Mr.. White was com
PEELED to bring his farm wagon to tow
Ito haul it home. He has not yet mad,
q selection.
- It is narrated in Boston, where h,
died. that just before he died, Alonzt
Stoddard, the operate baritone, elec
trifed his attendants and others in th
hospital by sitting up and singing on
of his favorite solos. s'He never san
with more feeling or with more beaut
of tone. The song was sung from bt
ginning to end, the last notes die
away and just as they ended the SINCE
ell back IN his-Eod dead"
t1ere are many Americans, - say
ward Everett Hale, s.Who forget. {
rhaps never knew, that there are i
is country towns and villages wher,
factically speaking there is no Grim
aleiass and no class of paupers. Ih
1llse of correction in many a count
America is empty half the time
here is many a poor-house in Me-
epd where they take Snmme