Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — The Reason for It. [ARTICLE]

The Reason for It.

“After standing the opposition of parents and the machinations of wicked friends io part us, Mabel and I have quarreled of our own accord." “Why, it was only yesterday I saw you! goiugio church together. ” “Yes,, that’s the trouble. You see, we both thoughtlessly joined the same-ohoir. ” An ~old lady living at Lewieburg, Oregon,,picked up an Indian arrowhead tthat is quite a relic. It is black flint interspersed with quartz, pearl and emeorald, and under the microscope exhibits a roseate hue of exquisite beauty. The Molalla Indians forty years ago told the whites of a rock south of Mount Hood in ■the mountains that shone with such indense brightness as to excite superstatwmi un ithe-s ivage breast to such an extent, that they feared to approach the sparkling luminary. There is not much credulity to be attached to Indian tradition, but if the stone from which this arrow was es-i itraofed could be located, gems of great: value might be found.

A bomantic young woman named Barbara, who, gets her mail at Oketo, Kan., wnofce .her address on an egg, and in the course of time a postal card arrived at the Oketo office from James Miller, of 521 Flushing .avenue, Biooklyn, N. Y., saving that in a lot of eggs received at his store this one was found, and if the young Indy was so inclined, he would be pleased to hear further from her; a'«o that he was single and salone, bnt that it was by no means certain«that he would always remain so. Further developments are awaited. An electric railway in Siam has been incorporated and will be built at once from Bangkok to Paknam, a distance of thirty miles. This >road is to cost $400,000, and Siamese capital will alone be nsed. An electric light ''otnpany has also been organized and the plant ordered for Bangkok. The typewriter has invaded the British war office, and with such success that it is proposed to transfer some of the work at present done by clerks to women with their machines. The greatest deposit of manganese ever found in the United States hr/s been opened up at Tredegar, Calhoun County, 8. C. It is reported from the rnby mines of Burmah that a ruby weighing 304 carats h&* been frond.