Arizona republican., 1898-10-05

S. Dow Elwood, the Detroit banker, who has just died, was a grocer's clerk in Rochester, N. Y, ffty-four years ago.
 Miss Fetnertopp (to sportsman, who is exhibiting his days shootins)-Oh, how could you kill these dear, pretty birds? 1 think it is positively cruel Mrs. Hayricks-It says here in the paper, Silas, that this war has served to bring the people of our country closer together Do you think there's any truth ir it?
 My impression is," oracuIarly be- gan the eall boarder, that opA.n is go- ing to cede''-
 Tt would be more correct" inter rupted the solemn boarder, ito say she has gone to seed. Judge.
 Mr. Hayricks-Yes. When I looked into the parlor last night Lieutenant Striplings and our Annie was settin good deal closer together than I ever seen 'em before he went away.-Chi- cago News.
 Sportsman-I suppose you knew there is great demand fer these for hat commentators?
 Miss Fe1hertopp-Oh, of course, 1T
 it's 8 case Of necessity it is perfectly excusable-Boston Transcript.
 Mamie-Cnly think, Fred Saunders has given Carrie Moore a diamond for
 ali enga cement ring.
 Steve-Thats- all right. Carries fath- CT is a painter and glazier. The dia- nlond will come in handy in his busi-
 ness.-Boston Transcript. Dr. David Gill. the British astrono-
 nler at the Cape Of Good Hope, has
 baen elected a foreign member Of the National Academy Of Sciences, Wash ington. The list is q very limfted one,
 the only ether foreign astronomer on ! it being pr. Otto Stuve, late imperial astronomer Of Russia, and Dr. Arthur Auwers, astronomer and president-sec- retary Of the Academy of Sciences, Bsr-
 lin.
 Jerry Simpson, candidate for re-elec- ton to congress from Kansas, proposes to Chester 1. Long, his opponent, that they make no speeches this campaign. This is the fourth time the two have
 ccntended fer q seat in the national house of representatives from the sev- enth Kansas district In 1892 Simpson beat Long 763 votes; in 1894 Long beat Simpson 1885 votes, and il 1896 Simp- son beat Long 2,923 votes. Mrs. Polly Owens, who was lately married to William Owens of White River township, near Noblesville, Ind, is now living with her thirteenth hus- band. Mrs. Owens has six children as 1 the fruits of her former marriages, no two having the same name. She is about fifty years old. She was separ- ated from the larger number Of her husbands She is part Indian, her mother being a half-caste.
 Professor J. ". Johnson, recently president of the University Of Oregon, whose death is announced, did not know the alphabet when he was 10 years old, but by great exsrtions man aged to prepare himself for college. and worked his way through Yale. He was graduated fifth in a class of enc hun dred. Among his classmates were the Rev. Joseph Cook, Chief Justice Judd of Hawaii, Henry Holt, the publisher Of New York city, and the Rev. ". H. H. Murray Of BostOn.
 The North China Herald says thaE one Of the most heroic women of China is
 Mrs. B. c. Patterson, N. D., of the Southern Presbyterian mission, Hsuch fen, North kiangsu. Eighty miles from any ether foreign woman, herself and baby exposed daily to the famine fe- yer, while her husband was away help ing the starving thousands, she has in
 nins months had eight thousand pa tients, and expects to remain at her post during the heated term, minister ing to the sick and suffering. |. is proposed to erect in Aberdeen, Scotland, a statue of Lord Byron, to commemorate the ten years of boyhood