The Red Cloud chief., 1875-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

monday of THIS week tney tnfLeu our
at this factory Is bushels Of pins. They
Measure 600 TO the bushel, making total
Of $4,000 clothes pins in ten hours. Mr..
Latiner ran GOO pins through the lathe
in five minutes, ard be didn't consider IL
much If a day tor making clo,hes-pins
either. Some may wonder where all
these cloilies-piDs 90 To and where sold.
They are as sslabie as -four. Every pin
made at this factory is shipped 10 one
firm in New York. They are worth
IN tween one and two cents q dozen at
Wholesale. and retail throughout the
country at five cents u Dozen"
The story Of Elijah and the raven Is
cqualed by an eastern exchange, which
relates that in the town of Putnam. n.
u, recently, a young lady, lying upon
her death bed, expressed a desire for n
boiled partridge; but her friends, know
ing that IT was almost impossible to pro-
cure one at tins season of the year, en-
deavored - persuade her out Of the
notion by offering to obtain a squirrel.
This did not seem to suit her. as her aI-
petite craved the partridge alone; and,
strange To say, during the same day a
partridge flew against the house, and
becoming disabled, Was readily caught
and cooked for the dying girl. 1t was
about the last Of earthly qualification
she was permitted To enjoy, as she soon
after expired.
Capt. Delight, tile inventor of a bal
loon sailing apparatus" by means OF
which he asserts that he is able Ia stack
about in mid air." assembled in his wal
balloon Fairy from Wolverhampton, on
April 10, TO illustrate the action of his
apparatus before making an expert
mental trip across the channel. The
balloon having been filled with about
10000 feet Of gas, an attempt was made
20 ascend, but the power of the balloon
broke the sailing apparatus to pieces. A
second attempt was made, but the bal
loon refused to rise, and after narrowly
escaping striking the tops of the
n%eighboring houses, Capt. Delight made
a quick descent in an adjacent field. He
sustained a few slight bruises.
In one Of the illustrated papers of
Berlin there is a cut of Bismarck and Won
MOltke looking from garnet windows on
opposite sides of the street. The sky is
black and threatening, and in the out.
lines of its rolling clouds the faces of
the Pope, Victor Emmanuel, Emperor
Joseph, McMahon, and the king of Bel
GUM are discerned. Ali arcuni and
beneath are the house tops OF Berlin,
each gable peak having the figure of a
German soldier, erect, with helmet
spike and muskct bayonet pointing
straight up. Bismarck says: "sultry
air; a thunder storm is gathering" Won
Moltke, gazing around, replies, ITS no
matter; the lightning reds are all in
ordar!"
The disaster in the Holyoke church
Thursday evening recalls the burning of
the Church of Campanla, at Santiago de
Chill in 1863. The occasion was the
celebration of the feast of the immac-
nlate conception, when the sacred edifce
was illuminated by the aid of wooden
frames and lamps and candles. The
combustible ornaments about the altar
caught, rs was the case at Holyoke, from
the flare Of the illumination. Over 1000
people persisted in the flames. OF this
shocking disaster it was said 'thc means
of egress were utterly insufficient" The
Chllian government subsequently, Or
dered the ediiice to be RACED to the
ground. But nothing could assuage the
indignation of the people who had seen
their wives, daughters, and friends thus
needless!y sacrificed. There are many
points of similarity between these two
destructive fires which will occur to the
reader. The paraphernalia of a church
of this descrip ton are highly inflamma-
bic, and when the means of exit, as at
Santiago and Holyoke, are imperfect,
the catastrophe would seem almost IN
evitable.
Gen. leslie Combs, who is now in his
SD year, attended the reunion of the
old settlers of C~hillicOthe, o., the other
day, and made them a speech. Without
prcliminaries he plunged into a descrip-
ton Of Dudley's defeat, sixty-two years
ago, which introduced him to the town
of Chillicolhe, and in that battle he was
wounded through the shoulder, captured
by the Indians, and forced to run the
gauntlet. The man in front of him was
killed, but he went through double
quick and did not stop to interview the
Indians. 1t was then. too, that he had
first seen Tecumseh. He was one of the
500 American soldiers captured who
were about to be mastered when Tecum-
sch leaped upon the walls of the tort and
by a speech saved their lives. This was
his first visit to Chillicothe. His second
was made during the campaign of 1910,
in the interests of William Henry Har-
rison. The remainder of the generals
speech con sisted of q treatise on Bourbon