The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-01
Alaska and Her vasl Mineral
Resources.
ENGLAND's CUSTOMS BEING ADOPTED
~ NEw WORKERS.
In Divorce Matters and Beer Erinkin:
japan Competes With America.
The tleean's Treasure.

from chicken killed at Lock Haven.
Pa.
EmiD Bey has two relatives In this
country--his fathe,'s sister. Mi~. .. r.
Kolsen. OF Pittsbug. and cousin. her
son. who has served as Mayor of Terre
Haute.
Senior Yalarhe. Bolivian delegate to
the Pnn-American Congress, fayors n
common American coin. This would
be a great thing for the simplilication
of the slot machine.
The belle At a recent dog feast on an
Indian reservation in Dakota wore
jacket trimmed with teeth from $50
elks. which she herself had slain. She
Is the granddaughter of the chief of
the tribe.
BY paying e2 In spot cash. You can
get a divorce In four hours In Japan.
But there Is a great deal of dissatisfac-
IL is generally felt that the business
ought 10 be done in one hour.
The rise of the price Of ivory may be
described By the statement that the
cutlery firm In Sheffield. Rodgers d
Sons, used TO pay E600 ton. but they
have lately paid El, 2s0 and in some
special eases as high as E2.00O.
The proclamation suppressing the
Chinese secret societies has been pub
lished all through the straits settle
ments. The property OF the societies
may be disposed OF, though the gov
ernments do not desire 10 contiseate it.
President carnot Of France has learn
cd to waltz in the American fashion.
He has always been fond of dancing.
aud his recent intimacy with the Amer
ican colony in Paris has led him TO
adopt our mode Of tripping the light
fantastic toe.
Beer has become very popular
beverage in Japan. The importations
from Germany Increased from $50. 699
bottles in 1886 TO 2 COL. 22S bottles in
1888. but since then the imports have
decreased. owing to the establishment
of native breweries.
1t IL said that the first thing that the
new government of Brazil did was to
send telegram 10 the Rothschilds ask
ing for their continued financial sup
port. and the reply received was favor
able and undoubtedly did much to-
ward solidifying the new government.
A Greek paper reports that a num-
ber of Golfers containing so, 900 gold
aud silver Spanish pieces of the year
( 1866 have been hauled out of the sea
near the island Of Andres. Six bronze
I cannon we're also found, aud il is
{ thought the articles came from the
( wreck of a Spanish war vessel.
I Gen. Boulangcr. a recent visitor to
I the Isle of Jersey SAYS. has not aged.
7 On the contrary he has rested face.
fresher color. His shoulders. how
ever. have weakened and his gait has
+ become slightly heavier. His eye.
always bright. clear, and curious. has
lost none OF its expression, but the
Z smile is uncertain.
Alfred n. Hazard, seventy-three
years old. turned up in New Haven.
I recently. much to the surprise of his
son. Alfred N. Hazard. Mr.. Hazard
( deserted his family in western York
State forty years ago. and after wan
dering about in the West has become
wealthy aud returned to his son. As
he put it. he has come home to die.
James S. +. Stranahan of Brooklyn
seems likely 10 enjoy the unique dis
tinction of living to see statue erect
ed in his honor. His name is intimate
1 IL identified with numerous important
public works. and movement has be-
gun for the erection Of his statue in
Prospect Park. Brooklyn's proximity
TO New York. however, may prove ia
tai to the project
G.. V. Dupont of the great gunpow-
der mandatory at Wilmington. Del,
declares that the so-cilled smokeless
and noiseless powders so far invented
are failures. but he proclaims his be-
lief that in the next live years new
powder for warfare will be invented
which will be smokeleSs. noiseless, uni
form, and safe and free from poisonous
gases when it is consumed.
Some men are disastrously supersti-
tious, says the Burlington Free Press.
Burlington swain came to the deter
mination to propose on a certain even
ing. Entering the parlor in consider
able trepidation. he picked up book
and glanced at the title page. 1t was
copy of Don't" He didn't and on
the very next afternoon his girl con-
sented to be Mrs. Somebody Else.
Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs, the new
Lord Mayor of London. has two
daughters who are deaf and dumb. but
they have been so admirably educated
in the oral system in Holland that they
can by lip-reading even understand
what goes on at theater. They have
such bright, intelligent faces that nc
one could possibly imagine them tc
be deprived of two of the best senses
DIR. Seth Pancoast, who died recent
" in Philadelphia, was descendant oi
the three Paucoast brothers who came
to this country with William Penn
He was graduated from the Universit,
of Pennsylvania in 1852. He became
Professor of Anatomy in the Philadel
phia Female College in 1858. and il
the following year was called to tht
chair in the Pennsylvania Medical Col
lege.
While the sealing industry of Alasks
holds prominent place in public at
tention. and gold mining in southeast
ern Alaska and at Unga Island to tn,
westward is inviting capital for grad
ual and certain development, the Goa
deposits in the vicinity of Cooks Inle
and at other points west of Sitka ar
rapidly coming to the front. Expert
pronounce the coal of good quality an
the beds extensive.
Lizzie. a polar bear in the Cincinnati
Geological Gardens, has lately give
birth to twins. TING cubs are abou
the size of full grown rats. 1t Is fou
weeks before the young of the pola
n bear species open their eyes aud full
a six weeks before they venture out {
: their den. In their native haunts tn
n mother remains with her young unit
4 spring. when, emaciated and scarcel
able to walk. she crMwls out