The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-11-14
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he Wnlte rose - the fdNoflte mower
la France this SUMMER.
A San Beruartlino fCal) paper Is
printed with blue ins
Until 1776 cotton spinning WINS per-
formed By the landspiniiiug- wheel.
Germany manniaetnres over E2 OO0.-
900 Worth Of etildret's toys every year.
To salute with The left hand Is a
deadly Insult TO Mohammrlans In the
East.
The natives pronounee Ncwfound-
land ''Nuifonlonn with the accent
hard on the last syllable.
The veteran Dan Rice Is going into
the show business again with an old
fashioned one-ring circus.
ConstantinopIe Il believed to have
founded the first hospital in the world.
as we now understand a hospital.
A machine has been invented for
drilling square. oblong or hexagonal
holes. heretofore found impossible.
The average width of the path of de-
struction with tornatocs is said to be a
little more than one thousand feet.
About 1900 species OF wild bees are
known, of wasps l,lO0. Of which I70
and 10 respectively live in Britain.
According to the Wilmington Everg
Eeeai1ag nail was found la the heart
Of COW that lied near there recently.
An owosso (Aiich.) firm advertises a
job-lot of tombstoues. and advises peo-
pie 10 hurry up because there are only
a few Of them left.
Mrs. Eva b. Hart. who died near
Syracuse. n y. recently ut the reputed
age Of l13 smoked as far back as her
children cap remember.
Seattle the Indian chief after whom
the Washington city was named. Is 10
have a monument erected 10 him by
the whites. He died in 1866.
The Portuguese nation is said 10 be
one OF the least instructed Ia Europe.
the illiterate inhabitants being official
| ~ stated at 81 per cent of the total
population.
One of the heayist wngcrs ever laid
was that of the Marquis OF Hastings.
who bet 800 900 on single horse race
and lost. The Marquis aud his money
were soon parted.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on
their head; the fairhaired may even
have 70 dress seventy miles of threads
OF gold every morning.
| II Is said that woman In Missouri
/ had her husbands name put down on
/ the census enuInerator's report as a
l lunaiic because he had sold out two
/ years ago and left Kansas.
! Professor Daniel Willard Fiske. who
\ won the - 500 coo lawsuit brought by
| Cornell University. is abroad at pres.
ent- He IS noted for his Icelandic
scholarship and his big lawsuit.
Justice Stephen J. Field is the poor.
/ est man-in dollars aud eents-on the
/ Supreme Bench. and vet he is several
| removes from being hard mp. His re-
| sidence Is one of the finest in Washing
ton.
/ Ii costs the English Government &. !.
962 600 annually to support Queen
Victoria and her immediate family.
Whenever the Queen visits Balmoral
/ Castle IL takes 5000 TO defray the
railroad expenses of the journey.
As soon as the horse cars from Cairo
/ TO the pyramids are completed. and
the work IS nearly done. AN elevate,
will be made TO the tops of the yener
able piles so that ascent may be made
l quickly AMI comfortably TO the modern
traveller.
Samuel Dey, of Wesley. Me-. is one
/ of tie greatest bear hunters of his
/ time During his life he has Killed
220 bears and cubs receiving over So
coo in bounties therefor. He must
have gone around pretty we'll loaded
all tile time.
Ralph Woodman, workman. oi
I Auburn. Me-, sBatehed a 3-year-old
child from in front of railroad train
and had such NJ ROW escape himself
1 that the eow-catcher Of the locomotive
Knocked OF his hat. and it was carried
under the wheels.
The French mint will soon replace
/ the copper sous with nickels. SinguIar-
" enough the and 10 centime pieces
will be perforated in the center after
the manner of Chinese coin. This
enables them to be strung and counted,
or handled with great ease.
David Dudley Field saws that he re-
members hearing Mrs. Fannie Kemble
say some years ago. of the l. 2O0. UOO
| people then inhabiting Massachusetts
that. taking them ali in all, she thougll'
they were the foremost POO. 600 peo-
/ pie living together in the world.
John Rose Ward. the British Admiral
/ whose death was recorded recently.
/ organized the working department oi
the National life-Boat Institution, and
during his thirty-one years of service
/ as General Inspector of Life-Boats
that institution saved more than 20. OOG
| lives.
A German of Detroit tried to figure
! the height of loo, ,000, 900 silver dollars
| 1t placed one on top of the other. and
because he couldn't get it within a fooi
suicidal iRtent. Although he has never
had pile foot high he wanted to be-
exact about other peoples money.
American naval officers who have
adopted the cholera belt in the tropic:
find it SO beneficial that they often re
tain it in all latitudes. 1t is simply 1
broad band of flannel worn night and
day the year around tight about the
waist, so as to protect the stomach
from sudden changes of temperature
1t is an excellent preventive o
stomachic disorders.
A very influential committee ha!
been organized in New York. with DR.
a. l.. Loomis as president. to preserv,
the Adirondacks from further destruc
tion by reckless tree cutting. 1t il
hoped that the state may be induced
to purchase all rights. and to eonver
this beautiful region. which is highl,
spoken of by New York physicians fol
its health-giving climate, into ''stat,
forest park"
Herr Schmidt relates that one da,
when Chancellor (then Lieutenant
Won Capriyi was ut military schoo
three volunteers were summoned t,