The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-11-28
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Canada claims TO be larger By DOU.-
600 square miles than tiie United States
including Alaska.
The corporators of London has made
a contract for supplying electric lights
to large portion OF the city.
II Is said that coyotes have killed
more than six hundred lambs on one
ranch near Napa. Cal. since last fall.
Partisan dandies now wear pink.
blue. or red shirts I'm the evening.
with regular low-cut evening waist
coats.
james Yates killed an owl on Hawk
Mountain. Ga. which measured four
feet seven inches from tip to tip Of
wings.
fexas has double-keaded cat 1t Is
perfect In form exeeps the two heads.
II has four eyes. four ears and two
mouths.
A typewriter manufacturer SAYS that
there are 1900 women In this coun-
try who make a living By running the
machines.
The mormons are gaining foot
hold in the Canadian northwest. and 1t
Is believed will make trouble for the
government.
Hollyhocks and ferns make popular
table decorations, aud other old-fash-
ioned flowers have been taken into
fashionable favor.
Georgia beats the world in babies.
The wife Of Will Lennon. painter. In
Macon. has given birth TO child weigh
ing forty pounds.
Silk from paper pulpis made smooth
a. "A.
the strength of ordinary silk and sbout
the same elasticity.
A summer charity ia Philadelphia
has given a days pleasure To nearly
zoo 600 people. mostly children and
babies. in thirteen years
A luminous buoy has been invented.
the light for which Is produced by
phosphuret of calcium. and is visible
two and a half miles away.
Electrically deposited copper Is SO
dueiile that il can be drawn down un-
iii il resembles the finest hair. and
this too. without anneaiing.
The tombstone Of the late Mrs Ann
ID. Carter. of Philadelphia bears the
following lines cut in marble:
Some have children and some have none.
But here lies tie mother of twenty-one-
The form of real estate deeds has
been reduced from three pages to one
| in New York and the cost of record
ing from $1.75 TO 90 cents and 81
| each.
1t is proposed mt Vienna to span the
Danube Canal with bridge lined with
shops like the famous Ponte Rialto at
Venice and the Arno bridge at Flor
/ ence.
The electric battery has superseded
| the hose and cold water treatment for
| tanning refractory prisoners in the Ohio
/ peniIentiary. II IS reported TO be very
| efficacious.
Rhode Island is afraid OF being over
| crowded. since it has been learned
through the census that the population
has increased about 67. 734 during the
| past decade.
The sentence Pack my box with
five dozen liquor jugs has been found
to contain all the letters of the al.
phabet as we'll as important instruc.
tions TO the servants.
A Cairo bachelor. who, the ad. said
was '.eighty-seven years old, bul
rich,r has received $50 application:
from ladies willing to be his wife-and
risk his dying pretty soon.
1t is reported that a Judge at Troy
has declared that the baby carriage i.
a nuisance. when il runs into law.
abiding citizens. There is no appre-
citation for the poor baby anywhere.
The western busy bee has not been
making honey this year. In Iowa
there has been total failure of the
honey crop. owing to the fact that
there has been no honey in the flowers.
The Oxford County Advertiser
Bethel correspondent recently saw
several leading citizens of that town
flying kites on the common. among
them being prominent physician and
justice of the Supreme bench.
Vegetable or fruit sandwiches are
recommended as new delicaeies for pic
mics. The newest dainty sandwich is
made of nasturtium leaf. sprinkied
with a little salt. and set between two
round slices of biscuit and butter.
There appeared one week recentlyin
the obituary columns of the Philadel
phja Public Ledger notices of the deatl
of twenty-one persons. sixteen men ant
i five women. who had lived to or be
yond the advanced age of eighty years
: A man was brought to the hospita
: at Eastburn. London. who had driver
four nails into his skull three or fou
/ inches deep. He suffered from sever
headache. and took that means to cur,
it. The nails were extracted with diff
! ficulty.
) The day of paper car-wheels 70
J railroad ears is passing. The chic
reason is alleged to be that the irol
Al = h
paper ones. but are cheaper as well
costing about one-sixth as much as tn
!, paper wheels
In Cowlitz County. Washington
which has been settled for forty year
and has 1000 Inhabitants. is sectio
covering several townships that ha
: never been trodden by the foot of
b white man. 1t is a dense. unpene
r trated wilderness.
The amount of water the sun raise
y from the earth is estimated at th
enormous weight of 81. 900, 900, 600 ton
e a minute; the quantity of coal require
: to produce a heat in any way equivs
4 lent to the sun is calculated to be II
: 600, 900, 600, 900. 900 tons.
s A lady of Bremen. Me-, has a parrt
! and also a cat named Shag. Sh
! has taught the parrot to spell Ca
: cat. dog. dog. and few such word
:, and the other day Polly electrified tt
= household by spelling very Loudly an
. plainly CAT" and then pronouncin
lr ..onag. rerhaos Polly cant 1rinl
Lunacy is rapidly increasing in Il
gland. Last year the lunacy commi
y sioners had on their books the nam,
IS of a. $40 insane persons. This We:
3 they began with &C. 0S7, an increase
; 1,727. The great majority of the ii
q sane are found among the lower classe
:. 77.257 of the patients being hopele