The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-11-11
Thirteen Live Items.

The expenses OF Great Britain are now :
about $500, 900, 900 yearly or nearly 81
900 Per minute but every tick ot the
clock represents an inflow of little over
$40 into the treasury, thus leaving an
annual surplus of about SIC, 100000.
The historic house in City road, Lon
don, in which John Wesley lived and
died, lie to be formally opened early next
month az a museum for Wesley relics.
For the greater part of the present year
this house has been undergoing Tepaire.
The proprietor of the large metal works
az Berndorf, Austria, has had q special
theater constructed for his worKmen by
the architects Helmer and Fellmer. a
theatrical company from Banden will
give q performance twice q week.
Emporer William has decided that the
city of Berlin may accept the legacy Of
several million marks left by an unsav-
ory and disreputable usurcr named 81.
mon Biadt on condition that statue be
erected to his memory.
The board OF directors OF the Maryland
state bureau Of immigration has instruc-
ted Cornelius W Van Der hoogt, secre-
tary of the board, to go to Holland for
the purpose of obtaining q number of
immigrants with whom to settle colo
ny in Maryland.
Within the last twenty years the
French have annexed no fewer than q
00O, 900 square miles to Africa. TSey
own Alebira, Tunis, "the light soil' Of
the Sahara, Senegal, the Ivory coast, the
western Soudan, Dahomey, the French
Kongo and large tract on the Somali
coast, while in Abyssinia they are maxi
ing steady way.
The longest plant in the world is the
sea weed. One tropical and subtropical
variety is known, which, when il reach
es its full development, is at least 600
feet In length. Sea-weed receives its
nourishment from the air and mineral
matter held in solution IN the sea water.
The higheet mountain railway in
Europe, leading to the top o! Corner
Graf in Switzerland, situated between
he Matterhorn and Monte Rosa,is about
completed. 1t was begun in 1896. A train
can take I10 passengers two miles above
the sea level. The power is furnished by
water which flows from a glacier, and is,
therefore, most abundant in summer,
when most needed.
In Rsppahannock county, Va, they
lately had 'spoonameut. All the
participants were ladies. They rode on
horseback at fast gallop, each holding
dinner spoon with an egg in it. The
oue who lode three times around the
arena without dropping the egg was
crowned queen of the spoonament A
world of iun was had by both particle
pants and spectators.
In proportion to its sizs Switzerland
has more inns than any other country
in the world. The entertainment oi
tourists has be come the chief industry oi
the land. No lees than ! 200 hosteleries,
stationed for the most part on mountain
tops or near glaciers, are on the list, and
the receipts OF hotel keepers amount to
S25, 900 600 year, 60 it cannot be such
a bad business.
81. Johns church. EllicottyilIe, N. Y.
has bell that was made nearly two een-
tories ago in Spain and which for oveI
100 years sounded mstin and vespel
calls at q monastery on the outskirts o
Malaga. The monastery was destToyeE
during q civil war, and fer many year
the bell lay among the ruins. 1t VA
England skipper and purchased for thI
E!lico.tville church in 1888. 1t is 4 fee
2 inches in circumference at the top and
little over feet at the base.
H.Since the United States government
was formed 19, 900 white men, women
and children have been slain in IndiaI
wars and afrayss and.about 80, 600 In.
dlans, at an expense 10 our govenmen
of $S07 .073, ,655. To this immense sun
must be added the civil expenditure o
the government on behalf OF the INDIAN
which, between l776 and 1890 amounted
to $259, ,o44, ,oS2, making total of 81 co.,
OH, ,740 for civil and military expense
in connection with the noble red man.
The western papers are again announc
ing that the famous Lost Cabin" golC
mine has been rediseovered. That ba
happened before and the mystery re-
mains a mystery still. Deep In the bar
rem Bad Lands cf w oming, near tn
headwaters of the Big Horn, about sixt,
miles from Fort Wasbakle, the mine wa
originally located, and it has not tTavlet
far from there In the last few years. Fiv
men found it 10 1874 They left the for
full Of hope to prospect for gold. Thre
weeks later one returned ragged, starved
and crazy he could OILY repeat sil
words, but these he said over and over a
gain, until he died, raving mad, a month
later. Those were "L0ts of dust 10 Los
Cabin" He had several large nuggets Il
bear oat his words. Expeditions get on
AZ once, bat no trace Of neD o. min
could be found. Ten years later a COW
boy, lest in the desert, found rottel
cabin and four skeletons lying in tn
door way. A primitive tunnel in th,
hillside closed with yielding nothing bu
plnmbago. Yet the first man had re
turned with good gold. Half the bep
prospectors in the west haVe tried Il
solve she riddle, but. the desert guards il
secret we'll.