Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-03-24
Melrs and Other glems,

RAILWAY is to be built in Palestine twill con
meet Jaifa with Jerusalem, and viii be about forty
miles long and with haybor at Jaa will cost about
million pounds sterling.
Too MASY.-PhiIlip Anthony, of Franklin county
Indiana, married ve wives, three Of them in Frank
lin county All of them still and to allof them
he is legally bound For all this he has been arres
ted and placed in jail to take his trial for bigamy
SILVER axD LEAD-Priyate letters from Rockport
Indiana, speak of great discovery recently made
near there. Colonel Woods lately bought farm at
Grand7iew. FIVE miles from Rockport, and on pros
pectng for oil struck vein Of lead and silver,
eighteen inches thick, which yields two ounces OF
pure silver, and eight ounces Of pure lead to every
pound of ore. What the extent of the vein Is is
unknown, of course. That region abounds IN coal,
and no doubt in oil and Ibeeye it is not generally
known that the finest coal west of Pennsylvania, is
to be had at the Rockport mines. They have only
been open for short tirne and are scarcely known
outside their own county.
A BOYS LAwsrIT.-ITnder great tree. close TO
the village, two boys found a walnut 1t belongs
me- said lgnatins ''for was the first to see it.
NO, it belongs TO me- cried Bernard, for ! was
the first to pick it up, and so they begau to quar-
ren in earnest. II viii settle the dispute, said an
Older boy, who had just then come up. He placed
himself between the boys, broke the nut in two
and SAID: ''The one piece of shell belongs to him
who first saw the nut the other piece Of shell be-
longs to him who first picked it up but the kernel
I keep for judging the And this, he said, as
he sat down and laughed, is the common end Of
most lawsuits
AToAD UNDREssING.-Au relates that he
once saw toad undress himself He commenced
by pressing his elbows hard against his sides and
rubbing downward After few smart rubsh sides
began to burst open along his back He kept on
rubbing until he had worked all his skin into folds
on his sides and hips; then grasping one hind leg
with both hands, he hauled off one leg of his pants
the same as anybody would then stripped off the
other hind leg in the same way. He then took bis
cast off cutcle forward between his fore legs into his
mouth and swallowed it then by raising and low
ering his head swallowing as his head came down,
he strippedoff the skin underneath until came to
his fore legs, and then grasping of those with
the opposite hand, by considerable pulling stripped
the other, and by single motion of the head and
while swallowing he drew it from the neck and swal
lowed the whole.
How TO FoNENT MISCHIEF. There seems to be a
principle in human nature, kind of roguish Curl
osty that impes one to act upon suggestions given
in such manner as to imply that, though wrong it
is expected they may be, or viii be, followed out.
The farmer whohad husking-frolic, and told his
neigbors boys present that they must be peaeeabe
and orderly on the way home, and must not put
neighbor Smiths cart on his corn barn,
was not probably surprised, or ought not to have
been, to find that the cart actually astride ofthe
corn barn when the sun rose next morning. Nei
ther is this principle confined wholly to children
There is story of a Catholic priest and a hoster
which is not inappropriate. When hostler had
finished making confessions of his sins, the priest
inquired of him if he had ever creased the teeth of
his customers horses to prevent them from eating
their oats. The hostler declared that he
had never heard of such thing. The next time
he wenl to the confessional, the first offence which
he had to acknowledge was that he had been greas-
ing the teeth of his customers horses.--IuinoiS
Teacher.
WHERE THE Cold CONES FRoM.-0ur observations
of the the cold terms for several years. show that the
icy wave comes down over the central portion of this
continent, striking our Western States and passes
over the ocean in a south easterly direction. The
cold wave does not affect the Pacific shore it comes
tains, and then turns eastward so that the first
we have Off, days before it reaches here, is from
Minnesota, Nebraska and Utah. 1t follows the
valleys and the course Of the waters, and spends
itself over the Gulf Stream, where it warns again
and rising as it expands, is waited back in the up
per atmosphere. This cold air current is just the
opposition to the warm water current which we call
the Gulf Stream. That comes from the torrid zone
i - Il A.
ton Of the lands, as the cold air wave is eastward
when it strikes the mountains, and thence runs a.
long our coast affecting the climate of the lands near
it, till it loses itself in the Northern ocean and ce
So God has provided in nature for heat and cold
mutually to affect each other.
An On SToRY.-The other day s., who does
comfortable little business downtown, but always
has ways of spending money. provided he had lit
tie more Off, thought he would try his luck in the
oil regions, and happened to be on the spot when
the famous Holmden well was struck, so much talk
ed of lately Heimmedately ascertained who own
ed an adjoining tract of land supposed to be equally
rich and repaired to the house where the man lived
not far off. Arriving about three o'clock in the
morning, he professed to be very much fatigued-
he 'didn't ike to sleep on grapeyines, and wanted
a more comfortable place. In course of time, con-
versation turned to that tract of land The owner
expatiated upon IT'S probable value, and suggested
that his friend just arrived, would do well try his
luck as purchaser The latter said he might not
object to trade, if he had money and more time to
devote to such ventures, &c. but at length inqui-
red about the price. Twelve thousand dollars was
named Well, supposing your wife draws up a
bill of sale, and meanwhile I'll see" The docu-
ment was prepared the cost paid and the signatures
affixed. Next day S., was offered $4,000 for
one quarter of his purchase. Happening to meet in
Oil-Dorado soon AFTER the late owner dryly remark
ed, 'Don like sleeping on grape vine &c, These
are facts.-Ne,c York Journal Of Commerce.
A FRENcH ScESE.-A Freuchman named Soul
ages native Of Colmar, has for some time past