The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-20
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prison IN the Onlteu cGlles.
A California man has started into the
business Of raising half-breed buffalo.
Senator Quay's second daughter has
gone to Berlin TO complete her educa-
A New York surgeon has supplied a
patient with an artificial larynx and
vocal apparatus.
Ex-senator Fair has within the last
eighteen months invested $5 600, 600 in
San Francisco real estate.
A So gold nugget was picked up from
the gravel with which a street in lone.
Cal. is graded. recently.
After being separated for eighteen
years farmer in Washington County,
Pa, has found his son by means of n
wedding notice.
Marion Crawford the novelist, has
command of eleven languages. besides
the ancient Sanscrit, in which he is
fairly well versed.
Willie Schaeffer. Cincinnati boy,
is z years old. sad tips the beam at 1876
pounds. His brother Robert is IA. and
weighs $50 pounds.
A jury at Carmarthen quarter ses-
sions in Wales recently brought in a
verdict of Not guilty, and strongly
recommended to mercy"
The Princess Alexandra of Wales is
the Queens favorite daughter-in-law.
and has always been most affectionate-
ly regarded by her Majesty.
Mr.. Petroff, who had charge of the
census of Alaska. estimates the popu-
lation of the territory at from 80. 900 to
SO, 900. OF this number one-seventh
are white.
The song birds brought from Ger
many and turned loose in Oregon last
year have prospered. and large num-
Der of insectiyerous song birds will be
imported.
William Holden swore before a Cam
den Justice the other day that Howard
Jones threw a cobble stone which was
broken into three pieces by striking
him on the head.
Owing to his physicians advice.
James Russell Lowell has cancelled his
engagement to deliver six lectures on
the old English dramatists at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Great Britain is generally regarded
as the strongest naval power and
France close second. Some naval
officers are inclined TO reverse the
order, putting France first.
Nine. Barrios. widow of the Central
American Dictator. has n magnificent
collection of diamonds. The greater
part of the Jewels were heirlooms OF
the Kingdom of Guatemala.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Detroit Mich. have decided
that the drinking of ginger ale. ginger
beer, homemade wine. root beer aud
raspberry syrup violates the pledge
The Princess Frederick Charles. OF
Prussia, widow of the Red Prince and
aunt of the German Emperor. has
clandestinely married her first lord OF
the bedchamber. Baron Won SeKken.
dorff.
The fact that the Indians do not ap.
preciate the blessings of civilization
and probably never viii is seen in the
fact that squaw has committed suicide
because her Husband was made a
policeman on, the reservation.
The safest piece of water on earth
is the Lake of Urumla in Persia, stu.
ated more than A. 600 feet above the sea
level. 1t Is much saltier than the Dead
Sea, the water being found on analysis
to contain nearly 22 per cent of salt.
The most astonishing novelty in
Paris is calculating machine. invent
ed by NJ. Bollee, of lie Mans. BY SIM
ply turning a wheel it adds. multip!ies
or divides any number of figures up to
lines of ID. and with amazing rapidity.
A well-known embalmer. DR.. Wick.
ersnelmer. has produced liquid so
perfect that it can be applied success
fully to game. An embalmed hare.
served after having been shot six
weeks, was recently pronounced TO be
as good as fresh.
There has been placed on exhibition
at the Libby Prison Museum in
Augusta, Ga. among the relics of
President Andrew johnson. the old
book in which be kept all of his ac-
! counts while in the tailoring business
at Greenville, Tenn.
Thomas Rasley. who acted as the
/ executioner of Birehall, has ceased u
be steward of the Sunnyside Boating
/ Club. his resignation being accepted
/ by the Directors His reason for leav-
ing is that he had become obnoxious
owing to his acting as exeeutioner.
Princess Bismarck is said to be hap
| pier. now that she is enabled to live
\ quietly in retirement with her hus
l band, than she has been since he be.
eame Minister of State. She has al.
! Ways disliked the publicity entailed
upon her by her high social position.
Professor Crull, of Concordia Col
ldge. Terre Haute; Ind, is cousin o.
/ DIR. Koch. He saws that when he was
a guest at the Koch household tn,
| Ioctor's brothers had no faith in hi!
Z skill. and one of them remarked thai
/ he would not trust a cat to his care.
The late Justice Miller is said to Jiav,
had a taste almost amounting to
passion for mathematics. He depre
Gated the amount of time colleg
students gave to the study of deaC
languages. and held that mathematic.
and scientific studies were of chief i'm
portance.
Rubinstein has been upsetting th'
usual authorities as to some points il
his life. They mostly agree in making
| November 80. 1880. the date of hi
birth; he makes it November 16, 1929
He also denies that he was a pupil o
List, from whom he says, he neve
got anything but dinner and som
advice.
One ofsthe three daughters of JOIN
d. Rockefeller. while a student 1
Vassar. had handsome allowance ii
the way of money from home. In
stead of spending this on rich gown
and apartments. she paid for two year
the tuition and expenses of a girl from
the country who was not able to pa,
them herself.
Speaking of High Churcn EpIscopa
Theological Seminary in Chicago. Rev
DIR. w. S. Rainsford, of New York. re
Gently said: lit contains two ton
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