The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-04-10
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For that hope and pray;
I want ~ be an angel
but, 81 course, not right away.
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one shot few days ago.
land In the financial section q
Broadway, n. Y, recently sold ~
rate Of q, 000, 600 per acre.
There is q tree at Montecsllo, Fla
which bears three kinds OF iruit-
ounces, pears and apPles.
A female real estate broker at Sal
Lake complains that her husband
caution prevented her from MAXIM
$4,000 In . single deal.
The perfect figure Of q huTasn bod.
has been fouBd In q large elm tire
trunk that was being cut mp In
timber yard 1t Scarborough.
Il IL stated that one real estat
firm at Salt Lake City cleared $40,
COO last year on commissions alone
Another broker banked s3s, 600 In I'll
months.
II. X. snow, Of Colonla, VenturI
county, Cal, intends to plant MT.
acres Of peanuts this season. Las
year he gathered 400 sacks from thir
teen acres.
MaryIand's new cigarette law re
quIres the seller TO pay an extra TAI
Of $50, and to make affidavit tbs
the cigarette he sells contains no In
furious drug.
IL IL proposed 10 reduce cows mill
10 q powder, rs being better fol
transportation and superior 10 con
densed milk. The idea originated In
Switzerland.
Fifteen nails, one screw, q rive
aud q copper penny were found 10
tie stomach OF . COW slaughtered By
Joseph e.. Sbivers, near Burlington
n J a few days ago.
A strange condition Of affairs eX'
ists at Hydetown, Pa. The village
has three churches, aud only one sol
itary member of any Of them lives
within the borough limits.
II H. estimated that only - pei
cent. Of the population OF Russis
rHn read aud write. The number OF
primary schools IL =, 900 for the pop
ulatiOu of over 100 300, 900.
In the formation Of n single loco.
motive steam engine there are nearly
G,ODD pieces 10 he put together, and
these require to Ice as accurately ad'
justsd a. the works of n watch.
The first American union flag was
unfurled on Jan. I, lTT6, over camp
at Cambridge. ID had thirteen
stripes Of white and red, and retained
the British cross IN one corner.
All the biggest meteOrs in the
country fall in out-Of-the way
places. One weighing several hun
dred pounds IL said 10 have fallen Ia
Texas last week, sinking some fifty
feet in the ground.
There Ii still living on . planta.
itou In Lee county, Georgia, q Negro
woman who does not know she IL
free. She IL totally deaf, and has
never been made TO understand
about emancipation.
Mime. Patti has made a contract 20
build at her castle Of Craig-y-NOs,
la Wales, a winter garden covered
with grass, lOI feet long and seventy
feet wide, with a curved roof forty
five feet high.
Nevada cattle-men are troubled by
the cruel trait of the magpie, which
leads 10 10 pick out the eyes OF the
cattle. The spectacle Of living ami
mails with their eyes picked out IL
said To be q common occurrence.
Mr.. X. |. Young brought TO the Of
fee Of the Press, at Middleton, Pa, @
glass Of apple butter that was made
by his mothers grandmother In the
year lS9G, making Il siXty-four years
old. lt II little tart.
IL was on July 4, 1929, that omni-
buses first ran in England. Two
then began Co TuB from the Bank Of
England TO the Yorkshire Stingn"
Inn on the New road. They carried
twenty-five passengers inside, but
none outside.
The appliance Of hydraulic power
10 the manufacture Of steel seamless
boat IL one Of the latest things In
England. These boats are thought
to be In every particular superior to
those made of wood, and can be
made at about the same cost.
Sam Bailey, Of Nashville, Mich,
came across three rats In the road
some time ago and all Of them had
hold OF n straw travelling along. On
closer Investigation he found that
the two outside rats were leading the
center one, which was blind.
The results Of the recent expert
ments In the Mediterranean showing
how far daylight will penetrate the
water we're found with gelatine-
brOmite plates. The greatest dept Il
WAS I SIS feet, or 327 feet short OF the
limit assigned some years ago.
The volcanic island thrown up In
the south Pacific four aud q half
years ago, H. beginning to be covered
with sea weed aud vegetation. In
the course Of few generations IL will
be transformed into n verdant bit OF
land III for human habitatiOn.
A strange fate overlook two broth
ers named Snowden, miners Ia Trim
ity county, Cal. A landslide from
the mountains filled a pond, aud the
water rushed down the gulch aud
swept the two men n half a mile be-
ynnd where they were working.
A Belgian has lately invented q
musical shirt, on the cuffs Of which
fragments Of n score are printed, so
that II the instrumentalist I've q fiut-
list, hRrpist or cOTustist he has his
entire part under his eye. aud need
not carry any further music about
with him.
Not every person knows that the
sure test Of genuine paper currency
l. To hold the bill up to the light 30
that you can discern two lines run
ming parallel across its entire length.
These are n red and blue silk thread
inside the paper. No counterfeit
has them.
The vitality Of the snaif IL remark
able. One that had been glued 10 a
card, in the British Museum, for
four years came To- life upon being
immersed Ia warm water. Some
specimens in the collections Of a
naturalist revived after they had
apparently been dead for flfteeE
years.
An English teAmster, after q good
record Of fourteen years, has been
ssut To prison for q month for steal
ing two oranges from some goods he
WAS cartlng. The court said the
gravity OF the Oilsnse did not lie In
the value of the geOds, but In the
breach Of trust towards an employer.
The number OF applications 10 the
Quebec government from fathers Of
twelve children for the offered free
grant OF one hundred acres OF land
IL exciting surprise, notWithstand
ing French Canadians are prOveFbIal
for large families. Up to the pre-
SeBt time rs such applications have
been received.
Prince Albert OF Monaco, who
receives ES0,OOO a year from the
prnprietors OF the Casino, intends To
devote this money TO making Inn
prOvements In his state and In |