The sun., 1893-11-15
AESBE.iNS.

According to latest reports collected N San rrao-
cisco. seattle. Victoria aud other staimg portr ou g.
Pacinc coast. the.to'ai number OF scaDstns taken ia
the Pacific Ocean anu Behring sea during the past
son is 12o2Il
Love apple the early name OF THE tomato |, q
translation OF n Fteuch Interpretation as to tho
tanan name OF the ycgcttble. TIE Italian. received
the tomato from Nj rocco aEu called pO;uu IL Nrei,
apple OF the Mours.' The French. d-ce v.i hy IN.
,ouni trans ated it "p0mine damotr," aud tie Eng
lish translation from The french spreUd tho origin a,
error.
Hear, are unusually Plentiful and audacious N
OF the southwestern counties OF Washington this
fail They raid the farms. carrying OF hogs sho d.
md young calves. and doing great damage TO crops
Pear hunting up IN the mountains is ordinarily popu.
lar autumn sport there. but the mere trying keep
bears ont of the farm yards is Just now q serious
bnancss.
Caltornias vintage this year will be about lSooo.
oDo gallons. some 3,OCO.oo0 gallons moro than last
years yield and the quality will be good 1t expected
that the vintage OF thu state viii show decrease dur
ing the next ten years, owing to tho ravages of
phylloXera, and to overplanting. The low prices
caused by overproduction tend also to place check
on tho industry.
Tho women OF tho West are taking ample advau-
tago of their new political privileges. They took an
active part In the school elections in Seattle Spokane
and other Washington towns THIS month going to tho
polls in companies of from a dozen to a hundred.
Candidates OF their own sex were nominated in s.v.
eral districts which helped greatly to onlist the
terest Of The women.
-Lumflt, county, Georgia. Is having an exciting
god-mnng boom. The mine, are not now discoverics
but since silver trouble began attention has been
redirected to Old dggings and gold deposits known to
exist there. Colorado mining capitalists and capital.
lists from other regions have been looking over the
Lumpkin gold fields during the past two three
months with view to in Investment.
Studio life In New York 10 stu 4 somswha: fesbts
imitation OF the same thing in Paris though there
constantly increasing number Of artists who eat and
sleep in their studs A few young women ar. stu.
dents have so far braved tho colventionatss as to
set up housekeeping In thoir studos while others,
although lodging dining and breakfastnR si,ewhcre
prepare their own uncheous in their working apart.
ments
Mrs. Rosa veloso. native of Chilli died at San Joss
Cal. week at tho of lo9 years She had four
greaRrandchildren. ono OF whom is Is years old Two
days before a colored woman. MrA Dorcas Morris.
whose age Of los years well ed d oil in
Portland. Ore Two other centenarnrs. Mary Page,
1o4. and Harry MordecaI. 1o1 died in the Raleigh n
c. poorhouse within day Of each other tho Arst OF
this month
One may guess that the Germans OF this town have
brought with them from the faberiand the national
taste for music by the number of musical insruncH.
dealers in the German quarter. The remote east side
has many such merchants and soue OF them keep tho
largest and most varied stock OF Instruments to bs
founi in the city To unmusca men the show win
dows OF these merchants seem crowded with queer OBJ.
iec's That might easily pertain to some other planet
-f!oriGa anu California fruit is competing success
fully with Mediterranean products IN European mar.
tets this and the shipments already are largely
in excess OF those Of previous years Successful cx-
reriments have also been made this year with ship
ments OF California and Washington fruit to Japan
ether countries of the Orient. From q twenty.acro
p.une ranch n Washington grower obtained this year
forty tons of dried fruit which he sold Portland At
$3.50 ton
Ono cause or the embarrassment of the Denver
cable railway is TO be found in the general
throughout Colorado. Thousands of Denveriss who
used to ride to business either ess or
reach 1t by walking Tho orders of tho Denver street
railways to their printers for tickets have fallen of by
hundreds OF thousands since the pinch began 10 be felt
In Colorado. and in this as in hundred other matess
tho sudden economies of. an ordinarily lavish com
munity have been manifested.
Robert Louis Stevenson. with perhaps the hrst rep
utatiOn among living writer's Of English fiction An
encouraging example of what genius may accomplish
III short space OF time 10 not many years he
landed in this country with weak lungs literary
repute and vainly eBsayed to market his wares with
the publishers Of books and magazines. who now arc
furnish then but even to pay other for gravs
critical articles upon the nature of his literary art
A settler named Lewis. living In q cabin on 4 trbu-
tary of the Mckenzie. near Eugene Or. who long
been missing from his homo. turned up a settlement
few miles from his cabin last week. almost dead and
with his mind sadly impaired from the terrible expo
rience Of being for two months lost in tho forecov
cred mountains OF that region He had nothing with
lhAn
be secured game for hi subustsncs d..r alb ard
and with the other built nreu for warmth port of,h
time he was in several feet deep with no shelter
and but little clothing
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