The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-19

Thirty thousand dollars a month Is
paid out for lottery tickets In Key
West, Fla.
The whole worlds produce OF salt
per annum is 1900, 600 tons. England
produces the most
Mrs. Eunice j. Jose, ninety-one-
year-old Saco. Me-. woman. is cutting
her third set Of teeth.
The aggregate debt of all the col
onies of Australia is $2l5 per head of
the population. or $6SS. .0O0. 600.
Tomatoes are eaten in London for
biiiousness. They are proposed also
as a remedy for chronic throat troubles.
The father of a family was seen
lately bearing eight overshocs of as
sorted size ''nested' like Chinese puz-
Zle boxes.
Fish Commissioner Stanley, of Maine.
believes that there is more than enough
gold at Swift River, Me-. TO pay for
the digging.
There is an unclaimed letter In the
Grass Valley. CAL, postoilice for Mr..
!. You. hog merchant Mr.. |. You is
probably Chinaman.
a boy at Nevada CITY. Cal, catches
lizards with Il hook baited with flies.
DE throws his line on the rocks and
the reptiles spring eagerly for the fly.
A bell. cast recently for the Kharkow
Cathedral, contains 6S per cent of pure
silver. II weighs GIG English pounds.
and its vibrations last several minutes.
A vicious stallion mt Rochester. Ind,
bit its owner in the shoulder. then at
tackled a passing tlairyman, and finished
up by biting off the ear of the latter's
horse.
The export of canaries from Ger
many is very large. Every year about
l3O 900 of these birds are sent To Amer
lea. 5000 to England aud about 1000
TO Russia.
A single orange tree in Florida has
been known To be;tr 8. 900 oranges in n
year. Sncl a yield is excessive, as a
grove that will yield l, 500 TO the tree
is considered excellent.
1t appears that the great majority of
persons committing suicide in Japan
are over fifty years of age. Next on
the list come persons between twenty
and thirty years of age.
Now that it Is decided that the mos
quito can transmit yellow fever and
malaria by the puncture with his little
n more
war than ever upon him.
The largest reservoir or artificial
tank in the world is the great tank of
Dhetar. twenty miles southeast of
Udaipur, in India. 1t covers an area
OF twenty-one square miles.
Ninety years ago Mr.. Palmer an
actor, fell dead on the Liverpool stage.
The moment before his death he had
exclaimed, % God o God, there is
another and Il better world
The Primrose League of England is
nearing the millionth member When
the returns were made up at the close
of last month the registered members
numbered 939, 1870. and the habitations
2, 103.
1t is told of Young man in Han
| cock. Me. that. though he goes to
meetings, parties aud other gatherings.
he has never been known TO speak TO
anybody but his parents. No reason
is assigned for his silence.
A sycamore tree near Newtown.
| Conn, is said 10 be S5 feet high and 2I
feet in diameter, while its branches
shade an area extending 80 feet from
the trunk. 1t produces large and
abundant white blossoms.
A bill will be introduced into parlia-
ment next season which proposes to
restrict the public performances of
| hypnotic experiments. According to
medical testimony much harm is done
By amateurs dabbliug in this science.
The Cinnamon of New York have
given to their joss. at 16 Mott street, a
ulaIion is punishment which should
be reserved for males.
The island of Tristan. in the south
Atlantic. is inhabited by eighty people,
the patriarch of the party, Peter Green,
a yeritable Robinson Crusoe, having
been there for fifty-two years. He has
just sent letter complaining that some
of his grown-up children show desire
to leave their lovely island home.
The religion of Dahomeyland is to
the effect that any soldier Killed while
new umbrella which they had brought
| over from China. 1t is covered with
dragons and other monsters with gilt
tering eyes, aud is said to have cost
$400.
/. N. Blankinship. of Marion. Mass.
has a clock which was made in 1882.
| The works are of brass. and the clock
keeps as good time as il did when it
| was Hldue, 100 years deo. Oub tue dC-
counts vary as TO the kind of time it
kept in 1882.
The population of the Dominion of
Canada, according to the census of
1881. was 1924 800 and it is estimated
that by 1891 the Il ,uu-< will have in
creased to 5.270, 377. Preparations are
in active progress for taking the CEN
sus of next year.
The ''Old Witch Hou-p." in Salem,
Mass, is still standing. j:lst as in the
| DAYS of Hawthorne, and hy a sort of
| grim wooing of circumstances, almost
opposite it there is, on door, n sign
which reads like this: 'sClairvoyaut
and Business Medium"
In Austria the hangman is a man
named Seigfried, who wears black
uniform, with a cooked hat and white
| gloves. He has never had TO hang
gnling WnIte ineH goes i Straight ii 10
eaven to become a handsome young
nan of twenty-five. who is provided
| with fifteen beautiful wives aud all the
ant, he can eat for l. 600 years. Un-
| 'lcr this belief hundreds of them do
their best to get killed.
Miss Elizabeth Miles, of Colera.
| Ala. is the victim of remarkable
dclusion. She imagines that she is
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and that her
husband is still president. Miss Miles
met Mrs. Cleveland three years ago
and became attached to her. She fell
from her horse Il year ago. since which
| time she has been possessed of the hal
| Inclination.
A new 'cure" has been invented in