The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-03
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/ A dealer in artificial limbs says that
, fully 800. 600 Americans have lost one
or both legs and at least 100. 600 are
minus an arm.
!, A little armadillo. the mulita. of Uru.
quay, Is mentioned as the living repre-.
} sentative of those antediluyian giants.
the myiodon. mastodon, megatherium.
etc.
There are more eyictions for non
! payment of rent in New York and
Brooklyn in one year, says Judge oil
the latter city, than in Ireland in two
years.
In one single day last summer los
americans visited Burns birthplace.
The pilgrims during the year numbered
10000 to the cottage and 80 600 to the
monument.
The isolated Galapagos Archipelago
is rich repository of animal and
vegetable FORMS Its flora differs by
one-half of its species from that of the
rest of the globe.
| Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot
Is passing his old age in the bitterness
of poverty. He is 81 years old, feeble,
sad-hearted. and will not long remain
unclaimed of death.
The sun gives 500. 600 times as much
\ light as the full moon. 1000. 600 600
| times as much as the brightest star ia
the sky. and &c. 600. 900 times as much
as all the stars in the heavens COM
bined.
A golden eagle weighing thirty-five
| pounds was killed short time ago on
| the Sisseton reservation, Montana.
| The bird stood three and a half feet
high and measured nine feet from tip
| to tip
Uruguay has healthy climate, and,
according to its tables of mortality for
1882. out of t3tal of 9,640 deaths.
forty-fiye were of persons over one
hundred years of age. Its death rat
is only 16.510 per 1000.
The Mediterranean IS comparatively
shallow. A drying up of ego feet would
leave three different seas. and Africa
would be Joined to Italy. The British
channel is more like pond. which ac-
counts for its choppy waves.
Some ladies of high social position in
New York are said to have started a
society for the advancement of pro-
priety and frsealfty in Dress Among
the things to be avoided are decollefe
dresses and sleeveless bodiees
About century ago it was estimated
that Paris had only about fifty pick
pockets; now the police reports Show
that their number has reached 4. 600 in
the metropolis alone. and about ten
thousand in the rest of France.
There are 10000 public schools in
missouri. The new state Superintendent
proposes to introduce a uniform system
of instruction and specified course of |
instructions to be published in pamphlet
form and sent to each teacher of the |
state.
S. F. Hershey says in recent article: |
woman lives longer than man, goes
insane less numerously. commits sui |
eide one-third as often, makes one |
tenth the demand on the public purse
for support in jail prisons and aims
houses.m
Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins, of Sui /
liyan, Me-. has had nineteen years of |
sea life, and has sailed to every part of
the globe. She is an expert in naviga-
tion. and could take ship to any port.
foreign or domestic, should it ever be-
come necessary.
Only one member of the numerous
family of the Bonapartes lives in Cor
sica, the home of the great founder of
the family This is the Princess Mari
anra. wife of Lucien Bonaparte. who,
from her husband lives a |
life of seclusion in the village of Ajae-
clio.
Probably the oldest house in the
United States is decaying stone dwell
ling that stands in Guilford, Conn. 1t
was built in 1910 and is still occupied.
In colonial times it did duty occasional
ly as fort and was place of refuge for
settlers when King Philip was on the
I,
Mrs. Garfield is said to be over
by her correspondence. Let
ters come to her from every part of the
country and on every conceivable topic.
Every communication she receives is
given careful attention, and frequently
4 pleasant letter of some length is sent |
in answer.
The Detroit Free Press says: IF
boy fifteen years of age should be left |
zen acres of land in Michigan. and his
guardian should cover it with hickory ,
.rees. the income of the boy when he
came to be thirty years old would be I
from 5000 to $11 900 clean cash off his I
little farm. ,
Occasionally the return of the swal- J
ow or the nightingale may be some
what delayed. but most sea fowls may
De trusted. it is said, as the almanac it !
'elf Were they satellites revolving {
around this earth their arrival could
hardly be more surely calculated by an
l
Webb c. Hayes. the ex-President's
on, lives in Cleveland, where he is ,
ated a keen and successful business
nan. He is Treasurer of one corpora :
ion and stockholder in several 9TH
rs. He is a bachelor and occupies 4
handsome apartments in the east end
# the city.
According to the latest issue of the Il
Directory" there were no t
ess than 8. 4S1. 610 900 copies of maga- {
ines papers and periodicals issued in <
his country or number more than b
efficient to afford every man, woman !,
nd child in the United States one Il
aper per week for year. t
The Ural Mountains were anciently
he subject of various myths. The :
lavonians who, in the eleventh CEN I
lry frequently visited the region of =
rails for trade. described them as u u
reaching the sky, inter- n
scted by terrible precipices, and as =,
eing inhabited by population of cave :.
wellers. I
1t has been estimated that the volume ci
water poured into the Rio de la al
lata exceeds the aggregate discharge m
all the rivers of Europe put together It
8 ordinary flow at some points is &
)0.0O0 cubic feet per second. The h.
rdinary volume of water in the Uru- te
uay River averages II. 600. 900 of cubic b