The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-06-19
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California seems to be lucky state.
Natural gas has been discovered three
miles from Vallejo.
France spends nearly i. 600, 600 francs
q year in providing warm meals for
the poor school children.
The National Academy. London, had
SO $50 admissions on public days in
1890. an average of 2. 594.
Ii is cnriously noted that girls who
work in candy factories lose their taste
for sweetmeats after the first week.
The British Museum, is is stated, has
been offered statue recently recover
ed in Egypt after burial of over 8. 900
years.
A company of Russian and Belgian
financiers with large capital has been
formed to cultivate cotton on large
scale in Bokhara.
The English Lao Times reports gem
eral complaint among lawyers of lack
Of business. Crime and contention
are both declining"
The city council of Santa Barbara,
CAL, has ordered every eucalyptus tree
that stands within 100 feet Of water
main to be cut down.
There are over 60. 600 Italians in
New York City. The business men
among them are naturalized; the la
borers. rs a rule are not.
An oak tree felled in Branch Coun-
ty. Mich. the other day, measured five
feet in diameter. aud. according to the
rings on the stump. was 496 years
old.
1t is asserted that resident of Meb-
anes. N. c.. found the other day in
secondhand mattress. which he had
rsSaH for- a NpaA cf hanty
aggregating $1.oIl.
It is understood that a Troy audience
will sit unmoved and immovable
through a cry of Fire but let any
one suggest fight and the entire
crowd will glide out to see it.
A man in Bloomington. ILL.,, recent
" gave $50 600 to his children, intend
ing to spend his declining days with
them. They accepted the money and
then hid him put in the poor house
French chemists are again certain
that they have overcome the difficulty
that has hitherto prevented them from
producing large rubies. and they can
now make them of any reasonable
size.
Berlin's Society for the Homeless
sheltered last year lob 900 men and
15. 600 women. Since 1870 the society
has assisted. with lodgings. baths. break
fasts and medical care, 9. 200, 900 per-
sons
In Africa the number of missionaries
exceeds 500. and the number of con-
yerts 400. 900. increasing by about 25.-
600 year. During the past five years
Africa has furnished more than 200
martyrs.
Gail Hamilton has charge of Bible
class in Washington. If the lovely
Gail should put as much vim into her
theology as she does into her political
teachings the exercises in her class
would be of the liveliest.
In 1880 there were in Germany 1, I3i
strikes. in each of which more than ten
men participated. The total number
of strikers was 394 44o. In 420 cases
they were entirely unsuccessful; in
l89 they got all they demanded.
The doctors of Berlin have agreed
that in the future their eoachmen shall
wear white hats. SO that a doctors car
-riage may always be Immediately dis
tinguishable and the public enabled to
summon medical aid from the street
in urgent cases
The movement for the erection of
monument to Admiral Semmes, of the
Confederate Navy. started in Balti-
more some time ago. is being helped
on by Mobile organization of vete-
rams 1t is intended to raise $40. 900
Or $12. 900 for the purpose
The Baroness Fava is an Italian lady
of rare accomplishments who speaks
several European languages huently
and correctly. as well as English. She
is great admirer of America. though
the climate has prevented her from
living here for two or three years.
A California inventor has built a
boat made entirely out of soap. and
will sail in it about the bay during the
reception of President Harrison. The
craft will contain several members of
the company and the inventor. This
will be the first soap boat ever launch
ed.
The portrait of the late DR.. Henry
Schliemann, painted by. Sydney
Hodges, has been purchased by En-
peror William of Germany for the
Museum of Anthropology in Berlin.
Mr.. Hodges painted the picture while
DIR. ScAliemann was on a visit to En-
gland
The lot for Mrs. .Fremont's new home
has been purchased about two miles
from the center of Los Angeles, and
work on a small house has been be-
gun thereon. The presentation has
not yet been made. however. and about
Ez5VtO 10 BILL " Oc IdtoOo III OIdCE "
complete payment.
The war upon self-binders continues
in Dayiess County, Indiana, and the
vandals. in trying to wipe out these la
bor-saying machines. have burned
twenty-three barns within the past
eighteen months, and eighty seven
horses have been cremated. besides 9TH
er live stock. Property valued in ex-
cess of $50, 600 has been destroyed.
1t is a curious fact that water pipes
under ground will often freeze during
the warm spell that follows a cold
snap. The explanation made for this
interesting phenomenon is that after a
cold wave a large quantity of heat is
taken from the ground in the work of
changing the frozen moisture into wa
ter. and thus. on the principle of the
ice cream freezer. the pipe is chilled.
enough heat being taken from it to
freeze 1t.
A device has been recently patented
in England for the purpose of remov-
ing grease from gloves and fabrics 1t
is called benzine pencil. and consists
of cylindrical body about the size OF
an ordinary lead pencil. containing
benkine. At each end there is thick
piece of felt. One piece is intended to
be moistened by the benzine, while
the other end of the pencil is kept per-