The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-03
MISSING LINKS.


direct descent from Lord Bacon through
her father.
A Georgia editor has twenty-three
children. and certainly has the right to
call the particular attention OF adver-
tisers to his large issue,
Albert Bierstadt is going to Europe
soon to make studies for his Landing
of Columbus which he hopes to finish
for the exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
The tomb built by the town Of West
Peabody. Mass, last year, Mt an ex-
pense of over $400, has been used chief
~, y,since 1t was finished. to keep potatoes
in.
A jackson (Mich.) man hit on an
original plan. He was married the
around he gave bread tickets to his
friends.
An extraordinarily large Polar bear,
the fur of which is bright pink color,
has been captured in Northern Siberia
The animal will be sent as present to
the Gar.
Senator Washbnrn. of Minnesota, has
so many Seantlinavians in his constitu-
eney that he has decided to visit Nor
way and Sweden this summer TO study
the original stock.
The Grand Army of the Republic ex-
pends about quarter of n million a
year from its relief fund, and up to this
time its records show more than So
600 600 thus laid out.
Mrs. King. the ..eattle queen.r of
Corpus Christi. Tex. recently sold 15.-
900 head of 2-year-old steers for $s2, :
600, probably the largest single order
for cattle ever filed in Texas.
Clara Novello. for whom Rossini is
said to have written his immortal Sta
bat Mater music. is one of the fore
most women in the intellectual society
of the italian capital at present.
John Boscacci. n tinker. of Oakland
CAL. had his leg amputated. In do
ing his work he held the articles to be
mended on his knee. and the continual
hammering caused the bone to dry.
Rev DIR. Mendenhail. of Cleveland,
saws he wrote the ',Breadwinners, and
Harper Brothers say he is not the man
for whom they printed the book and to
whom they have since paid the royal
ties.
DIR. Seelye recently President of
Amherst College declares that Mt the
present rate of progress the women of
the country will at The end of the pres
ent century be better educated than the
men.
DR.. Koch has been honored in Berlin
by having his portrait displayed over
the entrance 10 new cafe called The
jolly Bacillus In order that The at
fractions shall not be too exclusively
scientific. the place is equipped with
pretty mattresses.
The Sultan of Turkey is said to be
f,,,R fth
eross-eyed people. He had a man in
his suit afflicted with an obliquity of
vision in one eve. and as the courtier
was too useful to discharge the eye was
extirpated.
Emperor William is said to be fond
of PLAYING Caliph Haroun al Raschid.
by going about disguised at night to
certain liquor shops and music halls
where his soldiers and sailors are to be
found. in order to pick up criticisms of
his army aud navy
A woman living in Mary's Landing,
N. j.. s~ked her husbands permission
to attend "a missionary meeting and
has not been seen since. 1t has been
learned, however. that she skipped for
China or some other country with a
married man living in the same town.
There was panic in Milwaukee the
other day caused by newspaper an
nouneement that 'sthe price of beer
would be advanced. The paper had
to get out an extra announcing that it
should read beef. > not beer" aud the
thirsty Milwaukeeans drew a long sigh
Of relief.
Austin Baiiy. a rich farmer, resid-
ing near Humboldt, Tenn, asserts that
he only spent 25 cents in three years.
when he began to get start" in the
world. and that 10 cents of that was
spent for a pocket comb. Mr.. Baily is
now estimated to be worth at least
300. 600
According 10 the list usually given
by the Roman Catholic authorities, Leo
XII. is the two hundred and sixty-third
on the roll call of popes. Ever since
the death in 1928 of Adrian VI, who
was native of the Netherlands. every
occupant of the papal chair has been
an Italian
The richest heiress in the world is
reputed to be the little Wilhelmina.
Hollands child-Qaeen. She is an in
telligent little girl, speaks four lam
guages with flneney. and Il constant
effort is made by those about her to
preserve her natural ingenuity and
childish simplicity.
A souvenir spoon is now made of
silver dollar. The circular shape is re-
tanned aud the coin is placed under Il
heavy die that pushes the center down
until the whole affair is shaped into
shallow bowl that will hold nearly a
tea-spoonfuI. 1t is then fastened to Il
straight silver handle
William NJ Roberts. of Liberty No..
entertained an angel unawares last
December, when Edward Williams
stopped at his house. asked for shelter
and was given a home. He died re-
Gently without relatives. leaving Roberts
a block of brick buildings in Kansas
City and large bank deposit.
Lawrence Barrett's will leaves ST.
600 per year to each of his three daught-
ers. and the remaining income from his
estate to his wife SO long rs she re-
mains widow. If she marries. she
is to have only one-third of the net in
come, and the remaining two-thirds is
to be divided among the daughters.
The other Sunday popular Cincin-
natl preacher said that if there was
any person within hearing who be-
lieved in the so-called Christian science
that person was either dunderhead
or base impostor. The theory was
hobby--a fake-a burlesque. and he
warned all earnest men and women
against ii.
A novelty in the washing machine
line has just been invented. 1t is con-
nected with chIid's swing, and after
the soiled garments with the proper
quantity of soap shavings. have been
fbf a,aI, -, .,