Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1896-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Deacon Loring, of Auburn, will at
tain his Tooth birthday in few days. |
He is in excellent health.
A sturdy old Democrat of Water
vile, Me-, has voted the straight
Democratic ticket there for sixty
three years.
Potatoes are selling for eight cents
a bushel in many parts of Michigan,
and there is but little demand for
them even at that price.
An orange sixteen inches in Cir
cumference was taken from tree at
Pomona, Cal. 1t is to be sent to Eu-
rope as a specimen of California fruit.
OF the eighteen people who died at
Norwich, VT, during 1895 ten were
more than seventy three years old,
and of these ten five were more than
eighty years old.
A boy of sixteen and girl of thir-
teen were married at Ford, KY, afew
days ago. There were two sixteen
year old brides in the same region
recently and several bridegrooms un-
der twenty years.
Names forests are being made in
to paper at the rate of about twelve
thousand tons of pulp and paper every
year. Some five thousand men are
employed in the pulp and paper in
dustry, and s13,o00,OOO of capital is
invested in it.
English pheasants are being raised
by syndicate of sportsmen at Leb-
anon, N. Ell. Some time this year
the birds will be liberated with the
expectation that, under proper pro-
lection, they will multiply and fur
nish an excellent addition to the sup
ply of game in that region.
The Oldest Postmaster in New Eng
land, in point of continuous service,
is believed to be Samuel S. Fuller, of
Mansfield, Conn. He has been Post
master in that place during the past
forty-five years. He is Democrat,
but his place has never been threat
ened by political considerations.
Horses decreased in number in this
country 3s per cent during 1895 as
compared with the previous year,
and also decreased 1873 per cent in
value, according to Department of
Agriculture statistics. Electrical
street railways and bicycles are doubt
less responsible for much of the de-
crease.
A skeleton of an Indian six feet six
inches long and twenty-four inches
across the shoulders, enclosed in a
stone coffin, was discovered in a
mound near Shelbyville, Ind, last
week. The skull was OF different
shape from any others found in
mounds thereabouts, being perfectly
fat on the top and back.
An odd shooting match between the
National Guardsmen of San Francisco
and the Guardsmen OF Honolulu wal
held last month, the result being JUS
announced. Fifty men from each or
ganiz alton assembled at their respect
i've ranges, in California and Hawaii
on an agreed day, and made thei
scores. The Hawaiian score arrived
by steamer in San Francisco last week
and showed that the Hawaiians woI
the prize by seventy points in 1900.
There is a quaint maniac at SAINTS
Cruz, Cal, who ought to be brough
{ to the attention of Col. Waring. Hi
name is F. Valente, and he has
t mania for cleaning streets. For
! month or more he worked very hard
! all day and much of every night
sweeping the main streets of Santi
, Cruz. Why his commendable mani'
/ was looked on as a public nuisance
not stated, as he was harmless ant
, only wanted to be let alone IN hi
work, but he was examined as to hi
| sanity a week ago and committed t
: the asylum.
: A new buuco game, new at least i
the neighborhood where it is bein
successfully worked, is costing tn
l farmers and country storekeepers
Lane County, Or, a good deal
money. The swindler claims to be
l Treasury detective looking for coun
terfeit coin. He asks the farmers an
storekeepers to submit their coin fo
his inspection. He puts on the silve
dollars a chemical solution whic
turns them black, declares thel
I spurious, and takes them with hin
He also impressively warns his vic
Tins that they are liable to arrest fe
having counterfeit money in the
u possession, and causes them to kee
= very quiet about the matter, thu
8 helping him along in his work
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