Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-07-18
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Kansas has twenty women holding
office as County Superintendent o.
Public Instruction.
A new game law went into effect in
Maine on July 4 which provides that
no person shall kill, catch, destroy, Oh
carry away more than fifteen trout
and landlocked salmon in any one day
for four years from the date of the
law taking effect.
A lone fisherman on a Biddeford,
Me-, wharf hooked a keg of fine old
whisky the other day which had been
lying at the bottom of the river for a
long time, according to appearances
and taste. The wharf has since been
crowded with anxious anglers.
An unusual number of agents from
Western and Southern States are sta
toned in New York this year tor the
purpose of inducing immigrants to
settle in the States which they repre-
sent. Even Wisconsin and California
are DESTROYS of attracting newcomers.
a raft containing over seven mil
lion feet of lumber, mostly white pine,
is on its way down the Mississippi to
st. Louis. 1t is believed to be the
biggest raft ever floated down the
river. Carried by rail the lumber
would make four and a half miles of
car loads.
Mrs. Thomas Laudy, NATIVE of Ire
land, but who spent most of her life
in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,
died at Mahanoy City, Pa, last We'd
nesday at the authenticated age of
102 years. Her mind was entirely
clear up to the day of her death, and
she had a remarkably good memory.
A fight in progress ON the end of a
wharf at Bar Harbor, Me-, the other
day, was interrupted by the appear
ance of the police. In their efforts to
escape both principals stumbled over
distractions and fell into the harbor.
They were fished out of the water
with all fighting fervor washed out.
During the past month of June,
diphtheria was more widely prevalent
than usual in some cities. From the
report for the four weeks of the month
it is learned that the number of cases
of the infectious disease was S77. The
mortality caused by it was chiefly
among children under 5 of ago
A fashionable tailor, who makes
garmentsifor those who "a afford to
pay his price, predicts that the dom
ming of knickerbockers by wheelmen
will lead to the revival of the old GUS
tom of wearing knee brooches; but it is
not every dude who would like to dis
play his calves on Broadway or the
Bowery.
A farmer who recently h~omesteaded
on the Cheyenne River, near Smith
vile, s. D., has just applied to the
United States Land Office at Rapid
City for permission to make entry on
another forty acres of land, because,
he says, the recent rains have washed
forty acres of his original entry into
the river.
Many women in Lewiston and Au-
burn are, and have been for some
time, wearing "rainy day costumes"
with skirts which reach only to the
tops of their shoes. The townsfolk
have become accustomed to the in
novation and the dress does not now
attract any attention, except in the
way of commentator for the COM
mon sense features of the costume.
The "bicycle facet of anxiety or
dispair is never seen on the boys who
have learned to ride the wheel. Lit
tie chaps with smiling faces may be
seen riding gracefully and easily with
out a sign of any disturbance of the
spirit. Those who acquire a thorough
knowledge of the art of wheeling in
their early youth possess a great adj
vantage over the people who take
their first lessons in it after the mus
cles have hardened.
A big duck ranch at Damariscotta,
Me-, is making considerable profit for
its proprietor. With twelve large in
cubators he has raised about $4,000
ducks this season, and marketed them
in Boston and New York City at prices
ranging from 80 to 40 cents a pound.
The horse canning factory on the
Columbia River is now in full opera
ton. 1t is said that experts declare
their inability to distinguish between
canned horseflesh and canned beef;
but it is not explained, as might be in
ferred, that this fact will be relied on
to secure sales for the product.