Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-27
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
 If you would be happy and con- ] tent, never borrow trouble or lend
 money.
 Missauri has just had an offer
 from a syndicate of New York capi-
 talists to fund it's entire state debt,
 amounting to $4,9OO, 900, in 3 per
 cent bonds. This does not look as
 though money was either scarce or
 dear. |.
 Miss Ethel Sprsgue, daughter of
 Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, and
 granddaughter of the late Chief
 Justice Salmon F. Chase, of the
 United States supreme court, made
 her debut in New York last Satur-
 day evening as vaudeville actress.
 The people of New Jersey have
 adopted constitutional amendment
 prohibiting gambling in that state.
 This amendment is aimed particu-
 larly at horse racing, though ap-
 plicable to other forms of the evil
 in question.
 h Iceland there are ne prssons,
 and no lochy bolts or bars, while
 only two calses of theft have been
 recorded for 1000 years. And yet
 the IcslandeFs are said 10 be look
 ing to more southern climes in or
 der to become more civilized.
 George Young, 6 farmer residing two miles south of Blue Earth, Min nesota, shot and killed his wife, two sons aged two and four years and then himself. Business and domes- tic troubles form the only eXplana- ton for the deed.
 In Germany, when the vote of the jury stands six against six the prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven against five leaves the de- cision to the court and in a vote of eight against four the prisoner is convicted.
 The Baltimore Sun is authority for the statement that probably the oldest station agent in the country in point of service is James A. Gary, postmaster general of the United States. He was appointed agent st Alberton, Howard county, Md, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, some forty-four years ago, and, ac- cording to inst journal, his name still appears on the pay rolls of the company.
 Charles B. Rouss, a wealthy New Yorker who lost his eye sight some time since offered q, ,O00,O00 for it's l restoration. He secured another | blind man to first submit to the treatment. pr. Norman, of Burmah, India, travelled all the way to New York, but refused to try his cure on the substitute, and after a weeks | treatment has succeeded in partially | restoring Rouss' sight. He says | that in four weeks his patient will l be able to seo to read paper.
 A locomotive has been construct cd that made time st the rate of IO9 | miles per honr on a spurt at Cape May the other day. It made a mile in forty-fve seconds, a mile in fifty four seconds, a mile in forty-two sec onds, and passengers who timed the train give the figures at sixty-si1 seconds for two miles or a mile in thirty-three seconds or at the rate of 109 miles per hour by far the fastest time ever made.
 4 travelling museum which in- cluded a glass and wire. cage con taining four hundred snakes ex- at Holgate, Ohio. The crowd was 80 great that the cage was crushed and the reptiles escaped. Among the collection were a number of black diamond rattlers from five to eleven feet long which when stepped on, bit several I people in the crowd. All the doc .ors in town were called into ser rice.
 ". F. Michaelson, of Portland. vas killed on Eldorado creek. near Dawson City, in peculiar manner. suspected that soms- Dne was stealing from his cabin. de fixed a trap gun in a door so hat it would be discharged if any 'ne attempted to enter the cabin. himself was the first me to attempt to open the door, md he received charge of buck hot in the abdomen. He died in ] few hours.
 An American who has recently isited the ancient deserted city of , Jxmal. Mexico, says the governors { palace is the most interesting ruin a America. It rises on 8 broad l riple terrace, and embraces court Ipon court, rows of mighty pillars, nd long stretches of empty halls. )ne of the pyramids is surmounted ' y 6 temple, and another is 300 feet ong, POO feet wide and 70 feet high, 1ith platform 75 feet high on top. | The whole city is pronounced a majestic picture of desolation.
 Mrs. W. G. Ham, of Hoboken, l lew Jersey, is about to bring ! uit for breach of promise against l oseph Pocher, to whom she was nee married, The woman beIiev- az Ham to be dead married Pocher. [ later they found Ham was alive. ] hey, therefore, agreed to become ivorced. Mrs. Ham was then to get c
 divorce from Ham and to re- a harry Pocher. Pocher's divorce was ssily obtained, but Mrs. Ham was t oon shocked to hear that he had e ,arried Miss Mcdonald of Brook ' En, instead of waiting for her. | fence the proposed suit. | Late sdvices from Sydney say: In 7 eptember the yacht Zenobia, while F ruising Uff Point Hoosa, near ? risbane, capsized in a squall and n ve of it's six occupants lost their n yes after drifting about in the n rocked boat for some days. The |, lrvivor, Arthur Kimber, finally ,aoha1 ah1~a .o,, lLn e.I