The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-07-11
GENERAL NEWS
Ages Attained by the Different
Animals.
RussIA's EXPORTS TO CHECK INeREAs
ING IMMIGRATION.
The First Balloon Observation-Disclosures
Opium Factories-Railroad
Ties of Clay.

A bear rarely exceeds twenty years
Petroleum has been discovered in
Queensland.
Cuyier considers it probable that
whales sometimes live 1000 years
A squirrel here lives seven or eight
years; rabbits seven years.
Elephants have been known to live
to the age of four hundred years.
Camels sometimes live to the age of
one hundreds stays are long lived
A tortoise has been known to live to
the age of one hundred and seven
A dog lives twenty years; wolf
twenty; fox fourteen to sixteen years.
A swan has attained the age of two
hundred years; pelicans are long lived
Pigs have been known to live to the
age of thirty years; the rhinoceros to
twenty.
A horse has been known to live to
the age of sixty-two, but averages from
twenty to thirty.
Insects. as general rule. are short
lived, though there are great many
exceptions to the rule.
Sir Walter Scott's dairy of the later
years of his life is soon to be printed by
an Edinburg publisher.
A Wheeling inventor is at work upon
q watch which is expected to run q
month without winding.
The largest ourang-outang yet shot
in Borneo stood feet and 10 inches
high. The average is about feet s
inches.
The Russian minister of the interior
is preparing a scheme to check the in
creasing immigration into Russia, es-
pecially of Germans
George Augustus Sala it is announc-
ed. has retired from journalism with a
view to entering Parliament 1t would
be quite appropriate to have the famil-
lar @. a. 5. there
Coningsby Disraeli. nephew and heir
of Lord Beaeonsfieid, shares his quar-
tiers at Oxford with member of Glad
stones family. who is his most intimate
friend and chuni.
Henry Smith. an eccentric individual
who died at Kansas City, left directions
that his fu2erai should not cost more
than $50. and that ms AsSS1s;sy sS14yy should be
consumed by slaking lime. Hrs wishes
were complied with.
w ffCu TIC ' icttAA4r-- <AtfftcDttIS
company marched to the Biddeford,
Me-. depot the other day. an old lady
leaned out of a window in the .Blarney
Block and called out. .-Good-by, bows.
Good bless You all. and don't come
back again till you free Ireland
One of the most interesting features
of modern Greek life is the fact that
the inhabitants are above receiving
IL
in the Romaic language which is the
French '.pourboir.n the German
'.trinkgeld." and the Turkish back
sheesh."
William Allingham. the Irish poet,
I who died recently. was a friend OF
/ Carlyle, but the old fellow used to sit
on him heavily from time to time. and
once he did it in this wise: ..AlIingham,
we're no a bad fellow, but I'd just have
We to know that man can never get
/ in a word of sense for your everlasting
/ jabbering."
The Prince of Wales is noted for the
enormous quantity of luggage which he
causes 10 be sent with him on his jour-
Eeys. He takes whole boxes of hats
and huge trunks of dress suits, morn
ing coats, and other charges. He
makes point when visiting anywhere
of not being seen twice in the same
coat. and the variety of his garments
is as astonishing as the tailor's bill for
them must be long.
Prince Bismarck is constantly inn
proving his estates and adding to the
/ income which he receives from them.
His distillerieS at Varzin. the dairies in
Schoenhausen, and the paper and street
pavement factories make him already
| one of the greatest tradesmen in the
Empire and show his industrial and
business talents. He has recently adj
ded to this list a large brickyard,
which he has built in the forests oi
Louenberg.
Mr.. Oscar Dickson. the Gothenbure
merchant. already famous as a gener-
Gus patron of Arctic exploration, offers
to defray the expenses of a new expedi-
ton to the North Pole if DIR. Frithjoi
Nansen. who commanded the recent
Greenland expedition. will accept the
leadership. DIR. Nansen is willing te
take command of polar expedition
but as he is an officer of the Norwegian
Government he desires that Norway
shall defray the expenses.
There are thirteen opium refining
factories at present in operation il
Victoria. B. C. The quantity of crude
opium imported last year would pro
duce 80. pounds of the refined arti
ticle. Five thousand pounds, says
Canadian customs officer, would sup
plv all demands for home eonsump
ton, and the remainder would have Il
be disposed of in the United States
Il. l. =
comes without going through the Gus
tom house.
Few good wives, SAYS the n, 7. SHs
will object to their husbands going t,
the Audubon Club of Detroit. Who
ever smokes in that club must bring
his own cigar to the house, and who
ever wants drink there must havi
/. brought it along with him-a dreadfu
condition that has not yet been know
! in the club. The aim of the club is t,
! provide rooms for reading and carr
playing, but no playing for money
: permitted, and at 10 o'clock ever.
night the club-rooms are closed.
A Baltimore Justice, before whom
policeman was brought on the charg
of profane swearing on the publ
street, dismissed the case, as the office
had said only .sdamn." The justic
explained that the mere use of tina
|, word was not more significant tina
: the word ..durn." Damn as define
, by Webster and Worcester and the en-
! cyclopedia. when used by itself, is nc
profane language. If, he said, til
prisoner had used it in connection wit
, the name of God, then / should hay
! found him guilty and punished him 81
4 verely.