The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-09
Miscellaneous Items
cuiiod FROM Oar Exchanges.

Candidates for office are swarm
ing in Kansas.
During the past five years 10000
couples have been divorced in
France.
Five cents is all it costs to attend
Puyallup, WASH, entertainments
these hard times.
A committee for the promotion
of international bimetallism has
been formed in Boston.
An Irishman well described the
grippe as "a disease that will keep
you sick three weeks after you get
we'll"
A class paper states that all but
one of the leading cities of this
country are using the electric rail
way system.
Numbers of dead fish are coming
ashore on the beach at Santa Bar
bara to San Diego. 1t is thought
some seismic disturbance has oc.
Cured near the shore.
The Boston Aldermen want theii
salaries raised from $500 to 49,.
600. More modest than the San
Francisco Aldermen of 1850, who
voted themselves $4,000 salaries
Fred Marshall, a II year-old
Roseburg boy, was fined $40, anc
given ten days in Jail besides, fol
beating a girl about the same age
while going home from school.
Three female members of tht
Tufts College, at Haverhill, Mass.
were summarily dismissed anG
fourteen were suspended for giving
an exhibition Of high kicking anC
skirt dancing to the members o
the College Glee Club, who wer,
on the campus.
1t is rumored that the 0regonial
is preparing to make another biz
cut in expenses. G. A. Morden
foreman Of the composing rooms, il
now in the East, 1t is rumorec
that shortly after his return tn
office will be supplied with type
setting machines.
In Ohio some counterfeiters hav
taken to making dollars with NOR
silver in them than those coine,
by the United States. They cal
do this and still reap a profit. Blu
the question arises, could they b
convicted for being more homes
than the government?
Sandow, the strong man, wa
hypnotized by DR.. Mercereau, q
the College of Physicians and SUI
geonS, at New York. Two-poun
dumb bells were made to appear S
heavy that the strong man coul
not lift them, and his limbs al
sumed and maintained rigidity
, the will of the hyprotiaer.
The friends of May Brookly
had difficulty in finding a clerg,
man to conduct the funeral Sc
vices, but in the entire city of Ne
York finally found one who woul
say a few words over the remain
1t is not known what was the col
sideration. Those who refused gay
as reason that the actress con
mitted suicide.
The following is d correct defn
tion of grippe: 1t is a combinatic
of bad colds, several degrees
once, continual headache, sickne
at stomach, blind staggers, chickt
pox, hives, springhalt, disordert
liver, kidney trouble, each bone
ones body trying to ache mo
than the others, and about for
other indescribable diseases. A
of these, never less, sometim
more, at one and the same time.
A Portland correspondent sa..
that Capt. O'Brien is said to
lying in wait for the democrat
nomination for state printer. I
is Pennoyer's expert who passes
all the state printing bills al
measures up all the thousands
dollars worth of work that is pc
formed by the republican sea
printer. Being a democrat and
labor man he has had the scrutil
of all the work done in the off
: the past eight years and kno,
Just what there is in it. ..