The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-06
= GENERAL. NEWS.
Decay of The Egyptian OheliSk in
Central Park, n. Y.
rarrrs ouR NKrs HER saoo,ooo,
A king aarrles Twenty New Wives "A
s2a,ooe Portrait.

At1fAF ~ vi Ati1NAts -
an hoAnfstr. member OF the New Ynrk
Historical Society.
John q. Whittier. the aged poet. re-
Gently refused -, 900 from 4 magazine
for a short Christmas poem.
Theodore d. Weld. the well-known
anti-slaverv agitator. celebrated his
eighty-sixth birthday recently.
The eldest daughter OF General Ma
hone has one of the finest and sweetest
voices Mrs. John W. Mackay has ever
heard
The Russian government gets about
thirty-six hundred pounds of pure
gold every year from the mines of
eastern Siberia.
Millais has received the sum of $25.-
900 for his latest portrait of Gladstone.
1t was paid for by subscriptions of the
women of England.
Swinbnrne, Alfred Austin. and Lew
is Morris are prominently mentioned
in connection with the English laureate
ship as a successor to Tennyson.
Governor-elect Campbell of Ohio, is
a Knight Templar, a member of the
knights of Pythias, the Grand Army of
the Republic and the Order of Elks,
Rev. i. p. Sandford. who has be-
come the pastor of baptist church in
Birmingham. Eng. is full-blooded
negro who was born slave in Vir-
ginia.
An eccentric old lady living near
Dresden, Tenn. has purchased her
burial robe. She is seventy years old
and insists that she cant last much
longer.
Her American tour viii net Patti
$500, coo. This will 90 long way to-
ward her household expenses in the
Welsh castle with the unpronounce-
able name.
The Egyptian obelisk in Central
Park. New York. is rapidly going to
decay, Notwithstanding the efforts
made TO preserve it. The climate is
too severe.
Charlotte II. Yonge. the historical
writer, has written and published
exactly 100 books. She is now en-
gagged upon her l0ist work. to be pub
lished shortly.
Sir Julian Pauneefote is devoting a
good deal of time 10 the study of Amer
lean literature. He saws that he had
no realization OF the richness and va
riets of the work OF our men of letters.
Editor W. H. Mable of the Christian
al IF0rk thinks too much professional
ism has crept into the churches, and
saws: ave need dirtier churches. more
shabby churches, made so by the masses
attending.
The contract for the organ for Tai
mage's new tabernacle in Brooklyn has
been awarded 10 the firm that built the
old one. 1t viii have 5,o7S pipes and
ll9 stops, and il is said il will be the
largest ever built.
A bright young fellow in London
earns his living by writing speeches for
wedding breakfasts. In England
speeches are still expected from the
bridegroom, and they are generally very
bungling affairs.
The library of the late DIR. Bauer, the
eelebratedGerman scholar OF Leipsie,
has Just been purchased by the Haver-
ford, Pa. college for large price. 1t
ansists of 3. 900 volumes on ecelesias-
teal literature and history.
Senator Edmnnds of Vermont has
served longer in the Uni ed States Sem
ate than any Of his colleagues. April
5. 1890, he viii have been in the Sem
ate without single break tweniy-four
years. Mr.. Edmunds will be % in
February.
Mrs. Emma E. Forsyth. the daughter
of former American consul al Samoa,
is claimed to be the largest landowner
in the world. She has a plantation of
about 150 900 acres on an island near
New Guinea and employs over 500
people on it.
A Lower Soucon, Northumberland
county, pennsylvania. farmer while
bntchering the other day, struck bull
lock with a sledge hammer, and left
the animal for dead. When he re
turned from his breakfast the animal
was finishing chest of meal.
Frank r. Stockton, who stands a
the head of American short story
writer's. is thin. intelIectual-lookine
man. with a fascinating smile and Z
pleasing mode of conversation. He il
a typical American in appearance. o
the highly strung, nervous kind.
Charley Crew, a Marion CO., jewel
er. has completed a medal which is t
be given to Ira Williams. Mr.. vii
liams is the farmer who had the fol
lowing sign posted on his farm regard
ing hunting: Hunt all you please
and when the bell rings come in to din
ner.n
Miss Maud Banks. who figured OF
the stage awhile, is now in Washing
ton acting as private secretary for he
father, Gen. N p Banks The Gen
eral looks as large and strong as b
did twenty years ago, although "A win
ters have made his thick thatch of hal
and his heavy mustache snowy white
A countryman went to a store il
Morgantown. W. Va, the other da
and purchased a kerosene
That's the first one o. them notion
that ever come to my house, he re
marked Candles was allus goo
enough for marin and me, but darter'
got a beau aud thinks we ort to put o
leetle style"
A New Yorker says: Men MARI
their secretaries and typewriters 5
often in the business world of NeS
York that there is now no novelty a
all about the performance. | hav
known dozens of such cases. In on
house alone four men have marie
typewriters or women clerks With
the past twelve months"
The schedule for service by the grea
guns is thought to be as follows: tn
16o-ton gun, with good luck, can b
fired ninety-ive times before becomin
unfit for service; the 67-ton gun II
times and the Aston gun $50 times
The cost of each round for the bi
one is 9327; Elsa for the 67-tonne
and E9S for the 45-tonner.
In the past twelve years somethin
like 400 out of those who have bee
candidates for the post of officer in tt
English mercantile service have bee