Mesa free press., 1899-10-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Everywhere will be found In
this Column. Items that inter-
est Everybody.

est Everybody.
In the United States 800, 900 cubic
feet of pine is used annually in max.
ling matches.
OF course. if John Bull is determined
to penetrate the Transvaal, We are pre-.
pared to quote figures for the bridge
work.
Now that Chicago has commenced 6
crusade against noise, she ought tt
suppress the Chicago river, which
smells So loud.
Now that Dreyfus is about to go tt
England, Maj. EsterhaZy will doubt
less have business in some other Sec
ton of the country.
A Morrill,, Me-, hen surprised Its
owner recently by laying -shelled
egg that measured 7% by inches, and
inclosed a hard-shelled egg of ordinary
size. .
Washington-General Otis has in.
formed the war department that the
six or eight days mail sent by the
transport Morgan City was lost in the
wreck of the vessel.
Ours is a billon-dollar country all
right. It's grain crop this year is worth
that much money. It is the farmer
and not the speculator, who is king
New Orleans Picayune.
Here is the newest and largest word
in the German language: Ansichtsoft-
kartenausstellungs gebaudein spector
and it means Pictorial postal card ex-
hibition building inspector"
The national hymn of China is said
to be so long that it takes half a day
to sing it. It was probably made this
length in order that some yawping cit
izen wouldn't demand an encore.
Canada lacks only $4,000 square
miles to be as large as the whole con-
tinent Of Europe; it is nearly thirty
times as large as Great Britain and
Ireland, and is 100000 square miles
larger than the United States.
A somewhat singular feature was de-
veloped in the examination for pen
sion of Frank Mitchell the other day in
Kansas. Mitchell is a bachelor, who
SO far as he has been able to find out,
has not relative, near or remote, on
earth.
People in New York, who do not get
a chance to see Admiral Dewey on the
occasion of his reception may console
themselves with the knowledge thai
quite number of millions of persons
outside of New York will be in the
same fix.
Ardmore, I .T.-The Chickasaw leg
islature, in session at Tishomingo
passed the bill raising the fee for mar
riage licenses from $50 to $1,000. The
measure is aimed at white men who
marry into the tribe to profit by the
-annuities and lease money drawn by
female Chickasaws.
A cyclone house has been invented
by an Iowa genius. It is built over a
deep cellar. When a cyclone gives in
dication Of it's approach the owner OF
the house touches a button and the
house does the rest-it quickly de-
scends into the cellar. When the cy-
clone is over another touch of the but
ton brings the house above the earths
surface.
The Chicago Chronicle says that 1t
is probable that after January 1, 800,-
900 or more railroad employees in the
United States will pay fare when trav-
cling over any but the respective
line on which they are en-
ployed. Not only are all railroad men
to be barred from a time -honored priv
ilege, but everybody else, not except
ing the influential shipper, will be
forced to pay for his tickets.
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