The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-17

Upward OF 5z,5OOV volumes were
added TO the library OF the British
museum last year.
Ed. Howe Puts u this way: Crsa-
tons two masterpieces: a patient
woman aud an honest man.
I Sixty thousand blue gum trees
| have been planted this year on one
ranch in Los Angeles county, Cal.
Georgia has q courageous eolored
citizen. He has been In Jail twenty
seven times for fighting. He never
got whipped.
The city Of Hamburg has . surplus
Of %, 2JO,O OO. OF this amount $780,
600 was from last years receipts.
The light seen through the new
eye piece Of the Lick telescope will
be 1900 times a. bright rs that seen
by the unaided eye.
Oscar Wilde says: "There is only
one thing In the world worse than
being talked about, and that IL not
being talked about"
Every year the people who 60 to
Saratoga solely for the waters grow
fewer and fewer. Fashion and dis
play are the attractions there.
II long life desirable? Nothing
more so, II with It go q clear head, q
healthy body and an opportunity for
honest industry.
Show me q railway in all the lands
which can for . moment sustain
comparison with the great trunk
roads Of this imperial domain.
Mrs. Hought0n, real estate dealer
Mt Spokane Falls, Mich, is said 10
have made 500, 90 in four years.
The taIle-t school girl In the
world lives nj Rie,lnaun, near SterZ-
Ing. She il In her nth year and IL
about six feet high.
Senator Ingalls, receives an aver
age Of twelve hundred letters a day.
The services Of two tryPwriters are
necessary TO dispose OF his mail.
A stock company with sIO0,NOO
capital has recently been formed for
the purpose Of raising peaches on a
large scale In Houston county. GeOr-
gia.
William NJ. Evarts hss been an
ambitious politician ell his life, q
successful lawyer, an interesting
entertainer, an intelligent public
servant.
Nothing excites pity 90 quickly
for . man among the women Of the
neighborhoOd rs for them to find out
that he has to get up and get his own
breakfast.
IL England thinks she can bluff
our seal fisheries away from us she
lie mistaken. What Americans don L
know about bluff can't he learned at
the poker table.
Newspaper men hold twenty-six
seats In the present German reich
stag. Eleven are editors and the
rest describe themselves as journa-
lists and authors.
Mrs. DIR. Spencer OF Bourbon, Ind, ,
is 81 years old aud has been ten times
q bride. Some OF husbands died,
but she was divorced from the larger
number.
The latest luxury among really
dainty people is, according TO the
Atchinson Globe, vinegar aud eggs.
Vinegar may do over to Kansas but
1t would be n. 9. In Missouri.
The late Marquis Of Hastings was
q heavy better and he lost $685.
on \ single race. Thus IL will he
seen that there are some dangers In
backing the Judgment with money,
even when done by an expert.
TalmAge Is making the most Of his
nOtOriety, pen and tongue. He Is
said to he receiving q larger income
than the President OF the United
States. He talks more.
Many people imagine that the
word tramp" Is Of recent coinage.
AS q matter Of fact, tramps, rs vaga-
bonds and wanderers, have been Sc
designated since the earliest days Of
English literature.
IL isn't necessary TO presuppOse
one ignorant because he Is careless.
Men upon whom alcohol acts like
poison know perfectly we'll that
every time they take n drink they
by that much lower their chances Of
life.
The trunk Of q rOsebush at Ven
ture, Cal, IL said 10 he three fest in
circumference and the first branch
Il throws out il twenty-One inches i'm
circumference. II runs over lat
tice work and since trimming covers
q space Of !, 80 square feet. Ityields
thousands Of flowers.
buiihE NiG IhHt Ten gNbtH tuNtc
has been 1859 recorded duels fought
In Italy, most OF them in Naples and
the fewsst In Venice. The fatality
was not marked, only fifty deaths
resulting from the whole batch,
but even this seems more deadly
than the French code.
We have European pauPers pour
ed In upon US like ocean tides.
There IL lots Of room for them, but
when 8 minister Of the gospel comes
there Is no pulpit for him. When
an expert stage manager comes there
IL nothing but flne waiting for him.
Are We free, and IL so, does this kind
Of freedom pay?
The rumor IL that one Butler coun-
~ alliance has lost thirty-eIght out
Of it forty-four Republicans MEM
bers since the alliance ticket was
put out. Another has been substan-
tally wiped out, having been COM
posed entirely OF Republicans. This
looks like disintegrat!on had Get In.
IL 70 wasn't for the butts Of life we
would all be living In 90 grand and
magnificent q way that we couldn't
flnd time to stop for the humble du-
ties, but would plume our wings up