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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1891. ADVKltTISKM KNTS. r i m uu m III i nrrs of iKOHMATir. Montreal lists h 0-t.THO pound lull. In l.;iil:iitil lin'ss fiisliimis have not changed fr 1 .000 years. It U estimated that Indian wars have est llic ( iovei nmcnt $THM.l!!'HI,0OO. If ou would be correct in proiioiinciin, Manitoba accent the last syllable. lVlwecii ami 1N90 (lie n1.-i1 it t of the United Slates increased from ill .000.000 to Ii2.000,00, or just Kill per cent. I It is !)'' years since Sir Kdward .Tenner made the peat discnvery of the virtue of :u -('illation as a safeguard against small pox. Those who can not go as nature in tended them are very numerous. A dealer in artificial limlis says that 300, (100 Americans have lost oneorboth legs. The Society of la Malia sprang from the wandering hordes of Arabia's deserts. Its husiness is to blackmail and then to kill. Sicily is its stamping ground. It was a woman, the Princess Howena, who introduced the kiss into Kngland. Since that time the custom has liecn steadily growing by what it feeds upon. By the Italians the Knglish language is considered the horse language; tho Spanish, the bird language, while their own smooth Howing lingua is called the language of song. t A census bulletin just issued shows that nearly all the population of the United States breathe an atmosphere containing 05 to 75 per cent of it full capacity cf moisture that is, atmos phere from two-thirds, to three-fourtlis saturated. It is claimed that tlie finest forest pre serve in the United States is in the Adi rondack region, and that the IMack forest in (JermanT, the Norway forests, and the forests of Canada can not le compared to it. There are 2,700.000 acres in that region which it is pniosed to include in the Adirondack Park. PKOPLE. Fred Douglass mounts that he can not celebrate his birthday. He does not know when he was born. .Senator Hearst's widow was a school teacher in Steelville, Mo., where she was married, and her husband was then a poor man. Mrs. Mary Brayton Young, who has just died, was the heaviest mill owner in Fall River, and possessed an estate valued at $12,000,000. Rev. Dr. Talmago's mouth is not half so large as the pictures make it. He is by no means a homely man, as homely men go in these days. Sir Edwin Arnold is an ahscntinindcd man and is somewhat negligent in his attire. He has a mild eye, a calm face, and a general air of indifference. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has left England for a ramble through Italy. Her health is very precarious and the ef fects at bur receut accident are telling severely ujwn her. AVeUb C. Hayes, son of R. B. Hayes, of Fremont, Ohio, lives in Cleveland, where he is rated as a business man of great capacity anil integrity. The young man takes little interest in politics. Miss Sophia Gregoria Hayden, the win ner of the $1,000 prire for the best design for a woman's building for the World's Fair, is a resident of Jamaica Plain, an outlying district of Boston. She looks very much like Mm. Cleveland. Captaiu Jolmnrt Ortb, the missing Austrian archduke, was signaled on tho Pacific Ocean some weeks ago. accord ing t a statement in a French paper published in Yokohama, but the story is not received with credence in Vienua. The Rev. Joseph Cook is strongly opposed to Sunday paers. And yet if the Boston Sunday papers hadn't mado a clerical white elephant of Joseph thero wouldn't have been enough of him to bo a drawing card for a $10 a month con venticle. Adelaide Ristori, the great actress of s former generation, is nearer 70 than 80 years of age, but, says a Roman corre spondent, is still a beautiful woman, with voice strong and clear, her fine figure straight and graceful, and her face neither wrinkled nor yellow. When graduation day came for Cadet Joseph E. Johnston at West Point his coat was so shabby that he found it nec cssary to borrow a better one from t.'adet Wilson. It is worthy of mention that General Johnston forgot neither the lsr rowing of the coat nor the cadet of whom he borrowed it. Captain W. W. Peabody. who has been appointed one of the World's Fair Com missioners to take charge of the Ohio ex liibit, is the right man for the place. He knows exK)sition business as he knows the business of railroading, and his fa miliarity with that reaches from tho surveyor's chain to the private drawers in the president s desk. General O. O. Howard, who com manded the right wing of the army that marched through Georgia to the sea, cays that Sherman's promotions iu the army to western commands were won against the prejudices of those above him, especially of the Secretary of War, who considered him erratic, his opinions swollen, his estimates excessive when he called for 60,000 men and then 200,000 more to finish the war in tho west. In 1890 there were in Germany 1,131 rtrikes, in each of which more than 10 :nen participated. The total number of strikers was 39-M40. In 4'J0 cases they were entirely unsuccessful ; in 401 par tially successful ; in 187 they got all they demanded. A colony of 200 or 300 monkeys is re ported to exist in the everglades of l'"lorida. They are supiosed to owe their origin to the wreck of a vessel upon the coast, having on board monkeys which cscuh d into the forest. , The only onyx polishing works in this country, located at Rutland, Vt., will be removed to Missouri and engage in pre Piiug Tor market the vat quantities of ny mined in Crawford aud Pulaski counties. kXW ' LIPPIMN BROS.. Proprietors, Druoqlits, Llppmin't Hock, SAVANNAH, CA. For Sale by W. M. COHEN. apr23 ly OW A1"' AGENCY jot N V A iwmnMatnf infnimmtlnn nri H- v Obtain menu, t Teili, Tnme.J MarkA. cnnvrirhtA. imt mi. 'F V MvnN CO. 3B1 Rrolwr. THE NEW YORK WORLD Never crow?. For what it has done it asks no favor and and no consideration. That is ancient history to bo forgotteu. It looks only to the future to the work to be done. Our hopes and fours, our joys ami sorrows are before us not one behind. In THE WORLD'S wmk for 1891 every American citizen is itally interes ted, and not one no matter what his politics may be can afford to be without its weekly edition, which has not an equal on earth as a newspaper. Nine men out of ten know this to be true. Kvery tenth man should send to day for a specimen copy, that the knowledge may a universal. Subscribe at once. Tbr e months costs nnlo '.!S cents, and bv ever week s delay vuJ J J J w you miss something worth more than the subscnptien pucfe tor tns your wnu n is only one dollar. Address THE WORLD, New York. I THE $1.50. The tunities, Good Wages should subscribe at once and the information it will contain. We have the greatest Water 1'ower in the South and its development, now in rapid progress, will make this entire community a great hive of working human be ings gathering money from everywhere and briuging it here where it will bo in reach ol all who deserve it. THE: ROANOKE - NEWS ONE YEAR FOR Roanoke News will be sent for $1.50 TO ANY ADDK1SS, Ai this is the lowest price a newspaper was ever offered in Eastern Carolina, lubecriptions must be paid (A. m nmu. Why should wc do this ? Because we want to extend the circulation, well knowing, that after one has read it awhile he or she will be a regular subscriber during the remainder of their natural lives, and for the further reasot s that thia is to be an interesting year for politics, and money is scarce. The paper will give County, State and general news, suitable for politicians, Allinnce men, Religious people, farmers and every other kind of people whatever their tastes. Nor will the ladies be forgotten, but can find something in its columns to please. T q e ff o I o k e Jews, While doing all this and a good deal more to supply interesting readio $ to its patrons will continue to be what it has always striven to be a clean, straight cut, unprejudiced family journal, which the most fastidious tastes and the most cultured minds can endorse, and the most careful parents introduce into their families. J. - $ y HAS A Great Future before it and it is not far off. THE ROA NOKE NEWS will keep the world informed of its progress, and tiinsA lnnirW fnr Good Investments. Favorable business oppor THE GREAT AM ERIC ANPBE ACHER, ' ,'' $1.50. "V take advantage of
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