The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-02-27
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The tooth extracte0 from tnlr-
tssn-year-old horse ct TowDsou-
town, Pa, weighed . quarter OF
In Scotland Il Is said that TO rock
the empty cradle will insure the
coming Of other occupants for 1t.
A woman II Racine, Wis, 10 IN
dergoIng q voluntary fast Of thrss
weeks In order 10 cure herself oil
dyspepsia.
Two centenarlans, living In the
neIghb0ThoOd Of Alien, England,
have been great smokers and mOder-
ate drinkers all their lives.
London publisher, at . recent
dinner to TOole, the actor, had the
table cloth At the place ne was TO
occupy.
Some professors who have been
digging into the Indian mounds Of
Pennsylvania have unearthsd the
skeleton Of brave who must have
stood WE'VE feet high.
In q Philadelphia cemetery there
IL planted the lower limb Of o pro-
miaent Grand Army man, who
visits the place on each holiday to
decorate the resting place Of his de-
ceased member.
Oranges are now preserved In
siIos, the fruit being wrapped In
tissue aud buried In sand, care being
taken that the wrappers do not
touch, and only three layers deep
l,eIng laid In each trench.
A man In Saratoga, n. ", who
fought In the war without being re-
gularly enlisted, now finds his name
ON the list Of dsssrtsrs. The con-
gresham from his district has In
trOduced bill 10 relieve him OF the
stigma.
II is now possible 10 be crematsd
In Paris for 30 cents, recent imprO-
vemeuts having greatly reduced the
cost. Nearly all the crematiOns,
however, consist Of the remains Of
persons disposed Of 1t the public ex-
pense.
In Psterbor0, Ont, two men
watching q corpse were terribly sur
prised by the appearance Of = ghost
~ figure at the window. IL proved
10 be q woman who was walking In
her sleep. She was half dead from
the cold.
The Americans who are exploring
In MssopOtBmiA have uncovered At
Nifrus the old NipuT, the temple Of
Bel, and have found tablets with in
scriptiOns Of as early as $3.50 b. c.,
with other articles OF archaeological
value.
Capt. Frank Cunningham, Of
Richmond, Pa, who has sung nj 3S5
funerals, says he intends TO sing NJ
his own, by means OF phOnograph,
which can be taken 60 the church
and the songs given just as IL he
were alive.
From the year the patent Office
was established up TO the present
time :, 500 patents have been granted
TO females. The first woman paten-
ties was Mary KEGS, who invented
machine for weaving = mixture Of
silk and thread.
At Santa Cruz, Cal, during the
food, . little child gathered = small
pile Of wood, aud for fear some one
might take IL, went home and got q
piece OF paper, and wrote on IL:
This wood was got by me for
grandma please don't steal it,"
That the women OF India are ready
for employment has been demon
stratsd by the fact that there are
already ten thousand women EN-
plOyed at the lowest tasks aud the
most unremunerative wages in the
various mil lie Of Bombay alone.
A wOmEn's chance 10 marry be.
tween - and ~ 10 IA per cent, be-
tween - aud - 10 50 per cent, be-
tween y and 30 is Is per cent. Is-
tween 20 aud IS is Isl per cent, be-
tween 81 and 10 IL 81 per cent, be-
tween 10 and - IL - per cent, be-
tween &c aud 80 IL a Of per cent.
a welI-dressed, cOmely, and APP
parently weIl-educated woman
walked into n doctors Office a:
bridgeport, Conn. and wanted to
sell her body after death for disssc-
ton for 800. She was not insane.
She wanted some money TO meet
some family difficulty.
In Massachusetts, they are taking
legal steps TO make funeral expenses
light. A bill has been introduced In
the Legislature requiring cities and
towns tO furnish public hearses and
Baskets al reduced rates. The under
takers will fight the bill, but IL will
probably go through.
The Brooklyn bridge 10, perhaps,
the only suspension bridge in the
world over which horses are allowed
to trOt. There il an old theory that
the trotting 81 horse, or the sound
Of music, or the measured tread Of
soldiers marching, will cause dau-
gerOus oscillation, aud weaken II not
destroy, the strongest bridge.
The manufacture aud sale Of cleo
tric belts, brushes, shoes, pauls, etc,
has reached such proportions In
England that an effort IL being made
In the interest Of an ignorant and
deluded public, to restrict, IL u IL
impossible TO repress, the traffic In
such fraudulent appliances. Prose-
BUTTONS have been made for the pur-
pose.
DIR. Edward UoeTtZ, q Somerville,
n. Y, dentist, WAS operating q few
days age upon the teeth of q girl
when SHE wss suddenly seized With
an epileptic III aud shut her teeth
down on the dentists fingers 40
firmly that the doctor was compelled
to fOrcl6ly eXtricRts the Imprisoned
members, decorating them Ia q most
painful manner.
DO you think you can read all the
new books: In England last year
the books published numbered 1907.
or them ,363 were new editions sid
1874 new books. Add TO this num-
her the new publications Of Germany,
France aud America and you can
readily see how impossible Il 10 TO
keep up with the spawn of the
press"
Tie thrOes Of inventive genius
have resulted On the birth Of another
scheme for utilizing the power Of
Niagara. The last project exploited
cOntemplAtes Transmitting the power
Of the falls TO New EoEk city through
an electric cable about the size Of
barrel, aud at q roughly estimated
cost OF $l5,OO0,0O0 n mile for plant
and operating expenses.
When q COrean marries he IL care
full TO present his wife with Q wild
goose, even 10 he II obliged to hiIe
the bird specially fer the occasion;
for, once upon q time, q wild goose
whose mate Was killed returned year
after year to the same spot tQsnOurD
her lOss, and the COrsan bridegroom
wishes his bride 10 understand the
virtue Of cOnstancy.
THE CHEROkEE STRIP:
The Cherokee strip cattlemsn and