Mohave County miner., 1890-10-18
u.,noRn MISSILES.

The French authoritios Af@ WIZ 49,
ousiy ssypressing gambling.
Four millions a money arc spent in Lon
do, IN three months III search OF pleasure
Nv digging a well near Pullman, Wash,
recently q farmer discovered rich bed OF
opals.
Mis- Alice Ward Of Coney Island wears
the belt Oh bcGns tho most expert swimmer
IN the world.
Montana ciaiuis 10 have tho LARGEST and
finest jasper gosrrics In the world, recent
ly discovered.
Antiquarians say that mot half Pompeh
has been exeayated, and greater things
yet are 10 be excayated.
A fsrofk4.psan's politeness never deserts
him. One oiioe said on the gaillotihe'
''Cut away, II you please, SIR"
The cook of the leading club st Spokane
Falls was employed as chef BY President
Cleveland while he was in the white house
Salaries Of pastors In Germany are very
low. IL Is proposed TO give minimum OF
E0 year Al present they arc IS low as
$40.
The latest returns are said 70 show that
gS 900 out Of the 1900 men In the English
home army are under twenty-oDa years OF
AQe.
The salvation army, every member OF
! which must be total abstainer, Is now
the largest temperance organization In the
world.
A snow-white swallow, hatched and
reared under the caves Of glass roof In
| Greuelle, Is interesting the ornlthologists
| of Paris.
The mayor Of Boston receives from a
horse railway company in that city, IL Is
stated, 600 free tickets weekly for charita-
| BILE uses.
Mrs. Emma Cooper, OF Joliet, Ill, keeper
OF notion store, through the death OF her
grand parents, In England, becomes heir to
o. 10000.
The population Of France has been stead
fly decreasing, or, at least, Its rate OF in
crease has been steadily diminishing OF
late years.
| The average temperature at Sitka,
Alaska. In winter Is +3 above zero. In forty
year, the mercury has fallen below zero
but four times.
An oswego young lady made 100 words
of the letters contained In conservatory, +"
while her mother wrestled with the weeks
washing unaided.
Bishop Blyth, Of Jerusalem, says there
are now in Palestine nearly 1000 Jews,
whereas In 1883 there were only 5000, and
in 1871 only 5000.
A new sort Of "taffy'' pavement Is being
laid on the boulevard Anspach, Brussels.
II is composed of indisrubber and ground
stones Of various kinds.
It Is claimed in the south that more
southern people visited northern resorts
last summer than Ia any previous year In
the history Of the country.
No one will feel obliged 20 excuse cold,
since Philadelphia physician has declared
that in the hard climate In which we live II
is impossible 10 escape colds.
There are some 5000 Icelanders still
left In their native island, Notwithstanding
the fact that the emigration epidemic has
been raging there for nearly twenty years.
DIR. w. M. Taylor, of New York, says
there are more shrtnes for the worship Of
Bscchus In one Of our great cities thar
there were in the whole Of ancient Greece,
Over twelve hundred fathers with fam
lies OF twelve or more children have ap-
piled for the land offered by the provincn
Of Quebec for that condition OF parcntsge.
At the French penal colony Of New Gale
donia convicts are permitted 70 wed each
other. The matron OF the prison pronouncei
the experiment failure as reformator,
move.
A bird fancier OF Washington, who hn,
twenty parrots says that the Mexican
double-heads arc the best takers, while
the African grays make the best mirnici
and whistlers.
The English authorities are investigat.
ing the habit Of ether drinking, which Is
said 20 be spreading In that country, many
persons using ether as @ substitute for al
coholic liquors.
A case OF extraordinary longevity Is re-
ported by Monastir newspaper. In q vii
iage near Elbassan lives q man named
Ismail, who Is said 10 be one hundred and
forty years old.
A woman entered an on City dry goods
1 hbOfc ou wednesday auu SOultoetu W Sht
proprietor that she had stolen q cloak from
him sixteen years ago. She paid for II and
was freely forgiven.
A blind old soldier, asking for aims at .
Manchester, England. church door, had q
board hung round his neck inscribed as
follows: Engagements, s.; wounds, 10;
children, 8; total, "a"
Mrs. Nancy Carter, of Barre, Mass, who
died last week at the age OF ninety-siK
years, is said TO have been out Of her house
but seldom for twenty years, and 10 never
have seen q railroad train.
The blasting out Of the Iron Gate, !" the
great rocky pass Of the Danube, is now in
progress. This work has been contemplat-
ed since TrajaD's time, but no one has had
the courage 10 undertake H.
Mr.. Sage says Gould is the heaviest
owner Of securities in the world, his income
alone from dividends being million dollars
year Outside OF this he has an income
Of from 10 10 l2 million dollars.
The crown which the negus Of Abyssinia
ordered 10 be made at Milan is nearly cora
pleted and has already been paid for. II Ia
Of the purest gold, contains 100 precious
stones and weighs three pounds.
The Quebec Telegraph says IL Is deluged
with congratulatory letters and kilograms
from all parts of the dominion applaudipg
tho bold stand it has taken in favor oi