The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-30
Miscellaneous News Items.


large cisterns and twenty miles of steam
pipes; making twenty-six tons of starch
daily.
Ray~ A lawyer in the Nj Bratney VS..
Kansas Pacific case at Leavenworth con-
fessed having received 500, 900 stock in
the road, eight sections Delaware and
10000 acres Pottawattamic lands for
three weeks service in Washington.
Ba~ The steamship Paraguay, from
London for New York, returned to Lon
don, having been damaged in collision
at sea, with the screw steamer Wells
The latter foundered Immediately and
thirteen lives were lost by the accident
D9y~ 1t has been ascertained that out Of
fifteen hundred salmon eggs in the ordi-
nary course of nature, only one produces
mature salmon. If all the eggs laid
were to produce salmon, the ocean in
half century would be moving mass of
fish.
Bdyn In famous horse case in Bing-
hamtop, n Y, the attorney asked veter-
mary surgeon, Have you ever made any
examination in the abdominal region ?"
To which the witness replied, "No; all
of my examinations have been in Broome
county"
Ba~ Henry Ward Beecher once asked
Park Benjamin, the poet and humorist,
why he never came to Brooklyn to hear
him preach. Benjamin waggishly repli-
ed, "Why, Beecher, the fact is, have
conscientious scruples against going to
places of amusement on Sunday.
pa John Hatfield, who died few
days ago, was the first maker of lucifer
matches in this country. He cut them
out one by one with his jack-knife. The
chemical composition necessary to insure
combustion was prepared by him, the in
gradients at that time being known in
America only to him. This was in 1896.
Dsyn A whirlwind in Broad street New
ark, recently opposite the parade ground,
formed column of dust thirty feet in
diameter and several hundred feet in
height. Its duration was fifteen minutes
Stones weighing several pounds were
drawn up, and the street for hundred
feet was swept clean.
Bkg~ A stranger, observing an ordinary
roller-rule on the table, took it up, and
inquiring its use, was answered, " 1t is
rule for counting house" He turned it
over and over, up and down, repeatedly,
and at last, in paroxysm of baffled curl
osity, he inquired, How in the name
of wonder, do you count houses with
this ?"
pa At meeting of the miners of the
the Lehigh Coal region, held at Mauch
Chunk on the oath instant, it was
resolved to accept nothing but the basis
of '69. The following places voted to
resume on the operators terms: Eckley,
Buck Mountain, Upper Lehigh, and
Woodside.
Rayr A man recently died in Indiana
from wound received at the battle Of
Queenstown, Canada, in 1912. An ounce
musket ball which had remained imbed-
ded in the bones of his face over fifty
eight years, liberated its way into his
mouth and was spit out. From this cause
inflammation arose, which extending, ter
minated fatally
s1~ A miner in Mich, met au un-
timely death not long ago, and one Of his
friends interested himself in obtaining
subscriptions for the bereayed widow
He collected some six hundred dollars,
and then, thinking it might be good
thing to marry the three days widow,
proposed, was accepted and they were
made one that same evening.
Baya A foolish fellow called at the house
of a neighbor who was cutting up and
saltinga hog he had killed the day before.
The fellow stood with mouth open and
hands in his pockets, looking on with
vacant stare until the job was nearly
DONE when he said 4" Nam told me not
to ask you for any pork, but if you offer
ed me some to take it," He got the pork.
B6y" A singular hitch occurred in a di-
vorce case at Memphis, few days ago
When the case was called for trial it was
found that the husband was but sixteen
and the wife but fourteen years of age.
AS minors can neither sue nor be sued,
the lawyers were in quandary; but the
Court came to their relief by appointing
guardian for one of the infants and a
next friend for the other, after which the
trial proceeded in due form.
B8- The Bridgeport Farmer tells
remarkable story in regard to what, not
many years ago, would have been consid-
cred a miracle 1t says that in the old