Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-05
JOURNAL-NINER
WEDNESDAY .......FEB. 3, 1896
A Brooklyn man has obtained a pstent on bloomer costumes.


 pstent on bloomer costumes.
 It is hardly worth mentioning,
 but Bill Morrison ought to know
 that he isn't built on presidential
 lines.
 The people of this country now
 fully realize that the markets of the
 United States are the best in the
 world. Shrewd foreigners have known it for years.
 Ambassador Bayard should at once cable congratulations to the Philadelphia minister who recently declared the first war against Eng land to have been a mistake.
 The congressman who attended YVette Guilbert's Washington con- cert were disgusted to find her much less naughty than some of the sC- cisty women they know.
 Wonder if w. J. Bryan is ever troubled with presidential bee in his bennett In very many respects he would be an improvement over the incumbent of the pres dentiAl chair.
 The editor who said that "a wom- SD is just as good as a man in Utah might have added without stretch ing the truth that she is a heap sight better in all the other states, and We believe also in Utah.
 Now that New York school chil- dren are being taught that ciga- rettes gre poisonous the cigarette dealers are anticipating an enor- nous increase in the trade in that state.
 Washington didn't get any of the political national conventions, but she has a cinch on the inauguration of the man elected, which after all draws the largest crowd.
 It may not be generally known that the average Chinamau visits his native country at intervals vary ing from three to seven years, and that many of them have families in this country and in China both.
 Forresters of Cleveland, Ohio, have complained to Secretary Olney that Consul General Collins, of London, failed to pay any attention to a request from them for informa- tion concerning the death of one Of their brothers in a London coffee house. The information asked for had to be obtained from other sources.
 Cuban railroad companies evi dently do not think the end of the . Cuban revolution Dear at hand. !. They are preparing to place armored 1 cars on their roads for the l better safety of passengers.
 Senator Turpie Bade a very war ! like speech against Turkey in the ! senate on Tuesday. He wants the | recently passed by con gress followed by shot which would go crashing through the grand ser- sglio."
 A Los Angeles man who had sep- arated from his wife and then re- her was up for sentence on Tuesday, having pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a deadly It was a peculiar case, as he prosecuting attorney interceded on behalf of the man, whose name vas Bass. After remarrying bis =ife, Bass discovered a man coming put of the house at 6 o'clock in the and lost control of himself md pulled a gun to frighten his wife. Sentence was deferred for a lay and the Express facetiously says hat tomorrow Bass will receive lentence for being a fool and not moving when he was we'll of.
 According to Wells, Fargo& X Cos 'eport to December 3lst, 1895, Ari- .ona sent out gold dust and bullion Dy express to the amount of Sl ,206,- '03, by other conveyance S1, ,230069, ,r a total gold product that left the erritory last year of S2,426,572 The mount of silver bullion that went . ut by like means was S4,9l6,2O4. |, The estimate is at 65 cents on the liver dollar. This places Arizona [ fifth as bullion producer. .'-Phenix { Herald. Ii is safe to say that the lbove estimate of the gold product } too low by one-half. Three mines ' lone iu Yavapai county produced [ he entire amount claimed for the , erritory. | Hiram Lester, supposed to have { cen the oldest man in the world, ( jed few days since at McDonough, ieorgis. He was 129 years old and l saves a son 92 and a daughter % ears old. He died iu the Henry { ouDty poor house where he has S we'd for the past l5 years. While [ D inmate of that institution five { ears ago, or at the age of l24, he ( sll desperately in love with Miss S dary Moseley, house keeper of the | GOT house, a young damsel of four I sore years and one, and the couple c ere married. Lester claimed to [ ave enjoyed the hospitality of .