The Winslow mail., 1897-02-06
News Items in Brief.
Asparagus is the oldest known plant
used for food,

People who use tobacco to a great
degree rarely suffer from cholera.
Minneapolis trades and labor council
wants postal banks established.
An English Steve Brodie jumped
from the Forth bridge, 150 feet high.
The city of New Orleans is now six
inches lower than it was 40 years ago.
A great many American flags are
made by sweatshop labor in New York
The Indian appropriation bill has
been completed. It appropriates 81
465,OO0.
The Chicago Dispatch says there are
3,500,000 unemployed in the United
States.
There are still 100000 square miles
of the earth's surface that have not
been explored
Gov. Turney, of Tennessee, recon-
mends the extension of the secret bal
lot to the entire state,
J. W. Durham, postmaster of Mid
dleburg, KY, has nine-year-old son
who weighs 22o pounds.
The results of the last French GEN.
sus, just published. show a continued
decrease in the birthrate.
1t is estimated that 100000 bushels
of wheat are being held west of Winni-
peg, Man., for higher prices.
Imperfect teeth are a sure sign of
civilization. Perfect teeth are found,
as rule, only among savages.
Pittsburg will follow Chicago with
an ordinance forbidding women to wear
hats or bonnets in theatres.
The singular punishment for bigamy
in Hungary is to compel the man to
live together with both wives in one
house.
A sleigh owned by Alden Rich of
VT, was made 155 years
ago, in 1741, but is still in use and good
running order.
An American robin was recently
found near Manchester, Eng British
naturalists are wondering how it cross
ed the ocean
A Tennessee convict is asking for a
pardon on the ground that at his trial
he pleaded guilty only in order to es-
cape mob violence.
The tone of piano is best when the
instrument is not near wall. Anev
temper ature should be maintained in
the room.
A crusade against Japanese labor has
begun at Orangevale, California. The
Japanese have been warned to leave,
under penalty of death.
Boston will abrogate it's printing con-
tracts and establish municipal plant.
A state plant is now wanted by the
Typographical Union.
A new kind of jackrabbit making
at Rialto, California. has
front teeth ssveral inches long that
curl around in grotesque shapes.
Artificial arms and legs were used in
Egypt as early as 700 B. G. They were
made by the priests, who were the ply
sicians at those times.
Vessels propelled by wind carry about
one-half of the tonnage of the world.
In Britain alone forty per centsof the
tonnage is in sailing vessels.
Gen. W. ". Guthrie, Of Atchinson,
Kansas, has established breed of poll
ed Hereford cattle by starting with a
freak in his herd of thoroughbreds.
William Turner, of Pierce county,
Georgia, is 101 years old. and his wife
SO. They were in their teens when they
were married. They now have 327
There are 50 penitentiaries and over
1900 jails in the United States. They
cost $500,000,O00 million to build them.
The criminal expense to the country is
not less than $10D,Q00,000 annually.
Since Jerry Simpson is returning to
congress it is recalled that he was the
very first representative to throw dig
nifty to the winds and to appear sailing
down Pennsylvania avenue on bicy- |
;le.
The Japanese religion demands that
4 man must worship "on the soil," every
lay. Princes and rich men evade this
oy sprinkling little dirt in one corner
of room, sometimes on square of
cement made for the purpose.
The air is so clear in the Arctic re-
gions that conversation can be carried
easily by persons two miles apart. It
has also been asserted on good author
ty that at Gibraltar the human voice
las been distinctly heard at distance
Of ten miles.
Gen. Booth, Of the Salvation army,
3ays there are 5000 homeless women