The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-24

TrKmn or INTEREST,".
over 800 elks we're shot h the for
ssts Of Norway last year.
Clinton, Ia, claims 10 have the
largest saw-nIll In the world.
The Chicago police gathered In
sDs Lost children on . recent Sunday.
A factory near Paris turns cut
oyer 100000 quill toOthPicks .
year.
Deer are reported unusually num-
srous In the ''down East region" In
Maine.
A avid East" show, In which
eighty Arabs take part, Ii on sxhi-
billion In London.
According 10 ofiiclAl reports, the
number Of abandoned farms In Yer
mout now rssehes 5000.
A fat mans club, consisting Of lie
members and representing m aggre-
rate weight Of 1900 pounds, -FOUR
ishes In Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
A pair Of robins have built . nest
on q shelf In . school room ct Boa
castle, England. The shelf IL only
four feet from the ground and In
full view Of the pupils.
One hundred boys and girls Of
Woodland, Cal, whose ages range
from twelve to nineteen years, have
formed . "Co-operatiye Fruit Cam
Ing and Drying Union"
The koIanut IL now prepared as =
beverage In the form Of chocolate
kolAIInA. II 10 said 10 be more nu-
trItious than cocoa, and better
adapted for weak digestion than
either tea, coffee or cocoa.
A will Of one Of the Pharaohs
500 years old has just been diseoT-
ereo. II There 10 any money In II,
we may expect 10 hear Of direct de-
scsndants Of the old man Pharaoh
sPrInglng up all over the world.
An Obstinate farmer In New Jer-
sey. who refused to pay toll because
the road was ia bad condition, saw
his folly afterwards, when, on being
sued, he had 20 pay costs amounting
10 IS. The toll was Q few cents.
The New York Society for the
enforcement Of the criminal law has
been incorporated, for "the proven
ton Of crime, the suppression Of
vice and the enforcement Of all the
laws OF the state against crime and
mIsdemeanOr."
Work on the railroad 1T the Me
aragua cansl has begun, and 10 IL ex-
pectsd twelve miles OF u will bs
constructed by the last OF July. A
notable feature OF the canal work 10
GJetty 5OO feet long, which has been
carried out from the shore.
Ida +. BOwser, who graduated
from the department OF music In the
University Of Pennsylvania, il the
nrst eolored graduate Of that depart
ment. She IL an accomplished Yio-
lInist and has arranged several
PrAlsewOrthy musical compositions.
lee men along the Maine rivers
fear that 70 will he difficult to get
vessels enough 10 carry away the Ice
this summer. Allowing that there
will be ,SD, 400 tons 10 ship from the
Ksnnebec, and that vessels will
carry 800 tons esrh, there would be
200 cargOes.
From over the eea comes the an
nouncsment that Of the eight wo-
men who agreed 10 appear on horse
back riding astrIde, st IsOndon's
next coashIng meet, four have back
cd out. The other four intend TO
appear In costumes Of "blue redin-
goat, with skirts falling TO the knees,
tight buckskln breechsd, long pat
ent-Ieather boots and q sllk hat"
The plague Of rats continues In the
fen district Of Lincolnshire, Eng
land, and great damage IL being
done. Thousands have been killed,
but the dlmInution 10 said 10 be
scarcely appreelable. A SPalding
rat-kIller estimates that he has ex-
terminated, with the aid Of his dogs
and ferrets, upwards Of 100 during
the past few months.
According 10 an official returns
there were In India at the close Of
1859, 81, slT square miles OF forest de-
mArcated and reserved by the state.
1.-THE area has increased, especially
since ls7T.S. In that year it was
17,7O5 square miles; In the following
year Il amounted to 4O,i25 square
miles, In consequence Of the ener-
gstic operations carried on In the
central provinces.
The making Of wooden shoes Is
quite q business I'm New York. Not
only 10 there q big demand for
wooden-soled shoes required by
workers In certain trades, but for
the wooden sabOts such as are seen
In pictures Of life abroad. French
and German women are the prIncl-
pal buyers Of wOOen shoes. These
shoes cost about tl.e5 . PAir. They
are mostly worn In the Fast side
tenement district.
The German emperor models his |
handwriting ~ closely a. possible |
otter that Of his grandfather, and
has caused the empress to have her
photograph taken for public display
and sale, in the style Of dress and
attitude with Queen Louisa Of Prus-
Ella. He has scarcely been able how
ever, 10 make the emPress's face re-
ssmbls In any degree that Of the
beautiful but unfortunate queen.
"The little torpedo boat Cushing"
says . Washington special 10 the
Boston Transcript, ISIS still here,
end daily aStOnIshes the people by
aklmming M and down the Poto-
mas At the rate Of thirty miles an
hour. Her officers have all become
smPhlbIa, e. she kicks up such .
spray when she II racing along that