The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-03-13
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Record.
A rustic bridge just completed at
Beach Haven, Ga, contains nfty-
seven kinds Of weed and veins,
grown on the fifty acres Of Beach
Haven Park.
IL has been discovered that large
portion Of Utah IL underiaid by
large body of water, which can be
reached by boring wells from 100 to
DO feet in depth.
Screw nails for timber are new
made, without cutting the metal, by
rolling wire Of soft Open-hearth steel
In q seriee Of dies until the thread is
sufficiently formed.
A cat I'm Santa Cruz, Cal, has
become so expert In climbing up the
door and raising the latch 10 get In
that the carrying Of big rat does
not Row interfere with her perform
ing the feat.
PhOnOgrsph closets are very COM
nIun now I'm the offices Of New York
business men. A man goes In and
talks TO his machine, and after
while the typewriter gees In and the
machine talks to her.
The head Of the farmers alliance
In Kansas IL named "ClOveT." This
makes him Intensely popular all
over Kansas, with the possible ex-
ception of the alfalfa belt In Western
Kansas.-Std'c Journal.
IL Is estimated that IL will require
the labor Of 1000 men fifty-four
years TO extract all the coal from the
territory between Reynoldsyille
and SykeEvilIs, in the Punqsu-
tawney region, Pennsylvania.
Que citizen Of Augusta, Me-, called
aud ether n "jackassn about two
years ago. The matter has been in
court ever since, and the other day,
when finally settled, IL had cost each
litigsnt over 81 800.
A Scranton fivs-ysaT-old, whose
mother had used 10 cents from his
savings fund, last evening stunned
his father with the remark: PA,
you owe me 10 cents your wife tOok
that much from me-"
Use tool, whenever you can,
instead Of n man." the machinery
principle, IL still getting In its work.
Out in California = steam plew is
reported TO be tearing up the earth
ut the rate Of 10 acres per day.
The Australian papers tell Of
remarkable hAil-stOrn at Brisbane
ut the beginning Of last month. One
Maidstone picked up at South Bris-
bane measured So inches by l0l,
inches, and weighed nearly five
Ounces.
The gulf stream really starts In
the Antartic ocean, ii then skirts the
the west coast OF Africa, crosses 10
Cape 1t. Rogue and enters the
"A
OF Mexico, out of which ID emeTges
bearing its hest known name.
In Cherokee county, Georgia,
there IL man who draws two pen
sions-ons from the United States
for wounds received In lighting for
stars ard stripes, and one from the
State sf Georgia fer wounds received
In fighting against the stars and
stripes.
Il II not often the ease that a man
passes his entire life in the home In
which he was born, but such was the
experience OF Samuel Banlsy, q
hiEhly-respectsd citizen OF Psrter's
Corners county, New York, who
died recently, aged ninety-One years
The past years emigration Was
5000 from ireland and 2ji, 600 from
the whole of Great Britain. There |
IL large falling off ia the move |
ment to the United States, Canada |
and Australia, and an increase In |
the emigration to other places.
An Austrian sculptor, Friedrich |
Beer, has discovered . process for |
diss0lviug marble aRd then molding |
ID like metal. The name of the |
marble thus treated il beryt. The /
new product costs little more than
plaster, and IL especially well adapt
ed to the ornementatiOu OF houses.
The government of st. Domingo,
which claims t0 have the only origi-
nal bones of Columbus, IL desireus
Of forwarding them To the United
States for use In lSst2, provided there
be given In return for them so, 600 |
cash down aud - per cent. OF the re-
ceipts on public exhibition Of the
same.
Ex-Governor Click was black
bsiled by the farmers alliance, be-
ing ineligible To membership under
the constitution. The alliance pre-
poses to receive its political instrus-
lions by telephone. 10 Father Click
has anything to say, he can say IL
through a keyhols. - Clay Center
Times.
A second consignment Of nine tons
ef mummified eats, from the great
Egyptian eat cemetery, has been
sold At auction at Liverpool. The
bulk Of IL brought E5 LIS Cd per ton,
but some single pieces went for
fancy prices, such as los Cd for n
head, and rs Cd for a perfect body
without the head.
Riveting by sIectrisity has been
successfully accomplished. The
cold rivet Is placed In the hole, aud
when heated to the proper tsmFera-
ture Il can be closed by any Of the
ordinary apparatus new In use.
The heating Of a half-ineh rivst Of
two or three inches In length takes
about half a minute.
Lack Of work 10 so keenly and
generally felt in the towns and
provinces Of Italy that the projects
aud royal governors arr issuing
vigorous proclamations, calling
upon all owners of property to
serape up some kind of employment
for the unOccupisd, who are literally
pennIless, aud At the door Of starva-
ton.
Miss Ella Ewing, living near
Rainbow, Mo-, eighteen years old, IL
now seven feet and eight inches
high, weighs 22j pounds, wears .
No. Is shoe, which, Of course, she
he's to have made 10 order, and her
shoemaker hsd to order . special
last. The girl's parents are Of about
the usual size, the father being
possibly q little taller than the
average man.
The liquor bill at the LewishAm
unlon, = wOrk-houss near London,
last yesr wss: Ale aud porter,
7,7e0 piuts; wine, ~ bottles; gin,
l56 bottles; brandy, 9iS bottles, min
eral waters, 6,l92 bottles. Some
earping critics intimate that there
must have been fraud about it;
others insist that the drink capa-
city Of the average work-houss (
ofholal fully accounts for the con- |
sumption.
The oldest living criminal In the
United States IL John Mount, Of !
CoyinEtsn, Ky. He was . good one
In bis days. He is new nearly
ninety years Of age, and fifty-six
years Of his life have been spent IN ,
various peuitentlaries Of the United
Statss. He has committed almost
every crime except that Of murder. :
He u living q very secluded life at /,
present, and seldom goes on the