Arizona republican., 1897-11-17
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. According to the Tfmes-Herald of
 Chicago an attempt will be made to
 break the strike at the coal mine in i the northern Illinois district by the l employmi5Tt of 500 Chinese, and ar i engagements have been made for an additional thousand Chinese miners,
 provided the first venture is success.
 Elaborate preparations have been ! completed to give the first eight hun ! dr'ed Chinlamen ample protIsc ion i The Chinamen will all bear arms and live inside a stockade equipped with
 gatling gun, and will be guarded by one hundred Americans who have i served as policemen. The first con- ! signment of about two hundred men
 will arrive at the mines of the Will
 miDgton BraidIwood district on Tues
 day next.
 A curious inlciIdent occurred the
 other night at the Manhattan hospital.
 An engineer in a fire engine company
 fnraotured his ankle on election day when attending fire, and was taken
 to the hospital, where his ankle was
 encased in plasIter of paris The other night he was awakened by the sound
 of a fire bell, and imagining himself
 back in the engine house dormitory
 where an iron post extends down to
 the horses ard emgines upon which
 the firemen slide, he sprang out of bed and threw his arms around the
 iron post of his cot, and tried to wrap his legs around it. He fell to ' of Is IL
 were again broken.
 While the admirers of Henry
 George have decided not to erect a
 monument to his memory. the p:cu-
 liar will of the late Dr. Tyler Hull of
 Lansing, Mich, just pub,isihed shows
 that some people are unduly arX:ous
 regarding such matters. The doe.or
 Instructed his executors to erect a.
 his dscease, a monument the cost of
 which would be such as the assets of
 the estate should warrant. If his es-
 tate is worth $40, 900 or mcre, then the cost of the monument shall be
 S10,000; but if $30,000, then only S6,-
 eco. and so on, according to the same
 ratio, to the modest sum of $500 in
 this event of khe estate being worth , not more tllasl $4,0o3. And if the es- tate shali aggreg gate less than S400C the whole question of a monument } will be left to the discretion of his : widow
 } At Topeka, Kan, when the local elections are ties, they are decided by chance. Usually the contestants draw
 stFaws. In Bourbon county &hert : were four elections which were ties l and on Saturday they weu1:, decided bl 9 throwing dice. But it has not turned f cut a very satisfactory way of settEn. g thEi difficulty, for as the whole fou s elections of the county so decidet
 went entirely to one party, the de e faIbed candidates now assert that tn e dice were loaded, while the winner y solemnly declare that Providence i Il on their side.
 l. "Am Emglishman," writing to 3. New York paper, says that he visite d Gen. Grants tomb the othar day whe Ie therI1 were about twenty men pres r. entt, and Hhah he was the only on g who removed his hat. He wants t 'e lnlow how it is that Americans wh 7. are compelled to remove their hat
 in the Metropolitan museum, and wh > usually remove thlsir hats in an ele 'h vator when ladies are present, do nc le uncover their heads when thay wis e. the sarcophagus which contains tn 1- mortal remains of Americas great D: l. id.onal hero.
 S. It is claimed that Mrs. Ann Arm a strong, who resides in a litttle thatcl y. ed cottage just outside AKlIown, Ma le bay, County Clare, Ireland, is the olt he est person in the world. She is no l- 116 years old, and was baby in al-n n. when the British force surrendert r. to Washington at Yorktown. She C. said to be in excellent health, al
 with the occasional attention of kin h. ly neighbors she is able to live in h nd little cottage alone. It is one of u e. most remarkable instances of longe le. ity on record.
 k Miss Ray, who is known in the Ii H. erary world as Jack CarltCn," h K, startsd negro colony near Decatl as. Ala, which will be known as the c ct. dar Lake Negro colony. The sta e. administration sanctions the schem IT, and a provisional city government h sS been elected and a poS1office opene or Miss Ray has given $10,000, a nd claims that it is not business spe M. ulation, but simply a plan for ha
 mCnizing the race problem.
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