Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-02-14
Mexico, Thursday February
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are 10000 camelss at work In
Australia.
The Democrats have lost their tie in
the Senate.
Wedding outfits can be hired in New
York for SO much an hour.
] Bodies of two more victims of the
Elbe disaster have been recovered.
The Whisky Trust headquarters viii
soon be moved from Peoria to Chicago
The present blizzard is felt in almost
every state and is the worst of the
year.
A furnace in the schoolhouse at
Elyria, o., exploded, wrecking the
building.
The cold is intense in England and
Europe. Several people have been
frozen to death.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has re-
nounced whatever rights she had as
ruler of Hawaii.
| President Cleveland as arbitrator
between Brazil and Argentine decided
in favor of Brazil.
The Swiss government made profit
of about $1,000, 900 last year on its
monopoly in spirits.
Aliens are forbidden the right OF
suffrage under a measure introduced
in the Texas House
| The fields of Waterloo and Linden
are each covered with a crop of GRIM
son poppies every year.
An eagle with seven feet spread of
wings was caught in a wolf trap near
Brady Island, Neb., recently.
AS result of blizzards, there is
much suffering in Western Kansas
and in the Cherokee Strip.
The President may invoke the law of
retaliation if Germany insists on
shutting out American meat.
There have been 20 changes in the
personnel of the present Congress, due
to death, resignation and custer.
A recent murder in Gorham, Me-,
was the first that occurred there since
it was Incorporated, 15o years ago.
Safeblowers robbed the Post Office
at Mattawa, n. Y, and mortally
wounded a policeman who tried to ar
rest them.
Measures in the Missouri Senate in
dicate that movement is on foot to
consolidate all the street railways of
st. Louis.
A $1,000 diamond ring was stolen
from the remains of Judge Tomason at
Dallas, Tex, but was later mysteri-
ously returned.
The town of Meriden, CT, proposes
to impose tax on all book agents and
canvassing men that follow that trade
in that town.
"A nrofAssar at .Esdinhlarnh. IIniuarsitH
has an income of over $4,000 year,
and his chair is the most valuable in
the world.
A lower floor of the crypt of old ST.
Pauls was recently discovered by a
bin of wine falling through from a
cellar just above.
Bland's substitute for the admins
tration finance bill was ruled out ON
point of order. He appealed, and
the appeal is pending.
1t is announced that the admins
tration will make no further move to-
ward getting out bond issue till after
the House votes on the finance bill.
The Chicago Civic Confederation de-
clares that there are $4,000 victims of
the opium habit in that city. They
keep alive 100 public smoking places.
Partisan restaurant keepers mix
little honey with their butter. This
gives it an agreeable taste and flavor,
and makes inferior butter more pal
atable.
A French publishing house has is
sued volume of eighty pages that is
smaller than the ordinary 2-cent
stamp. 1t is the story of Pennault,
"Little Hop o. My Thumb"
A German statistician has computed
that Greece stands in the first rank
among European countries in the num-
ber of centenarians. He attributes this
to the climate.
There is rumor in New York that
fully S25, 600 worth of diamonds have
recently been stolen from MaidenLane
dealers by means of fraudulent MEM
orandum orders.
The electric light which is to be
erected on Fire Island, on the New
York coast, will give an illumination
of about $50, ,00o,O candle power. 1t
is expected to be visible 120 miles out
to sea.
A small residence in Highland Addi-