The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-09-11
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ITEMS az INTEREST.
Henry VI. Stanley's manuscript IL
very legIGle. aud scarcely an hlters'
ton 10 made In n folio.
IL il said that tile Hon. Hannibal
HAnlin does more fishing and catch
IS fewer fish than any other man In
Maine.
A Louisville physician few days
ago married his sixth wife. He 1.
sighty-One years old aud she IL forty
years younger.
Eighty women are employed in
the pOstoiIirs department at Wash
ington, with salaries ranging from
$50 TO 81, 800 q year.
The board Of educ alton I'm Column
bus, o., has decided that hereafter
there shall he no difference in the
salaries paid to men and women who
are teachers In the public schools.
Dairymen supplying milk dealer.
in New York, being short OF Ice, or
account OF the mild winter, are los.
ing much milk, aud to make up fol
this loss they contemplate putting
up prices.
Among the curious features Of this
peculiar season the fact is mention.
ed that in Iowa ihore has been a to.
tai failure Of the honey crop, owing
TO the fact that there has been nC
honey in the flowers.
Lightning struck the cathedral Of
the Holy CrOsE IN Boston recently,
detaching three large granite blocks,
one Of which weighed $40 pounds,
and which fell I25 feet to the side
walk below. Fortunately no one
was injured.
Senators at Washington keep cool
by the use Of three tons OF zee rer
day. This Is not used for lee water
and other cooling and refreshing
drinks, hut currents of air pass over
Il aud ara carried up into the senate
chamber.
The old house at John Endicnit,
tho first head Of the first popular
government established in America,
10 bsing torn down at Salem, Mass
Tue structure was framed in Eng
land, was brought to the new cOuu-
try and first put together at GIou-
eester.
Boston has succeeded in making
contracts 10y which the electric
lights, which have cost sixty-five
cen Is = night, are secured for forty
cents. This will Ice saving Of ST.
500 n year, and the extra money will
be expended in increasing the num-
Der Of lights.
Moo Chin, Kee Foo and Lee Wing.
three noble Cinnamon, who are in
this country buying several million
dollars worth OF building aud equip
inent material for Chinese railroads,
passed through Chicago on their way
TO the west To examine the various
railway systems.
Something new in the way Of brick
making has sprung up ut 81. Joseph,
Mich, where the sand OF the beach
by q chemical process IL being turn
ed into brick. They are represented
10 be superior TO pressed brick, aud
large quantities are being put into
fine residences and fronts OF business
blocks.
The German Empress occupies
three villas az SassnitL. which are
very simply furnished. They only
just suffice 10 accommodate herself
with her sous and the necessary ret
niue. A steam-launeh II IL kept an
chorsd of the shore, in which the
empress, accompanied by the young
princes, has undertaken various ex-
cursIOns.
A business man In this city has
fouBd q new use for the electric |
light. After he closes up for the
night no takes his books, zen and
Iak, and seating himself on a nail |
keg under the arc light, proceeds to
post up his accounts, thus saving the |
rost Of gas aud at the same time en-
Toying the cool breeze out Of doors
u There IL any.--Nidd'c'oTB Mercury.
The down-east cranberry growers
ire not worrying over that alleaed
purchase Of Jersey hogs by an Eng
.lIsh syndicate. THE entire crop Of
rape Cod always meets with \ ready
,aIe. :" says the New Bedford Sidn-
iard." land the crop Of the Ply
mouth aud Carver belt commands
he 1est prices in the market, and
my move in New jersey would have
little effect upon It,"
The expenditures for pensions for
he year ending June ~, - now Of
ieIaIly stated, amounted to sl0a, s57,-
50. In the previous year paid ISL
~, 5Ts.lI, while in the year before
hat we paid $50. 2Ss. Joi.T7. The cost
81 the German army, Il may he in
Ieresting 20 note, u for this year es-
Iimaled at sci, 72s .22gS. Besides our
pensions our army costs tJo,00,0o
A little child In New York, in fall
ing cut Of Q second story window the
Dthsr day, grasPsd two pillows that
we're airing on the sill, and when
The struck the ground the pillows
were underneath her aud she escaped
injury. The place where che fell
vas paved with eobblsstOnes, and IL
The sSIld had net fallen on the pill
lows she would probably have been
killed.
Mr.. Cleveland IL keeping very
quiet lately. The only news sent
but with regard 10 him for several
weeks IL that he has had his hair
,ut, which may or may not mean
hat his brain IL in training for the
productiOn Of another political let