, 1876-09-09

q Z. Il. r. and is indeed a splendid
'crltter, possessed with all the
modern inventions, with an impos-
ing headlight and conductors sig
nal bell. She halls from Pittsburg.
where she was bred and born in
Porter, Bell & Cos machine shop.
She IS centennial racer, makes
good time on little oil and is des-
tined to pull twenty cars, loaded
down with 40 tons. She is Of 56
horse power, with 16 inch stroke
and eight inch bore, weighs about
l5tons, tender included, and cost a
little over ten thousand dollars, as
she now trots off from the depot.
A young man bought horse last
Monday morning and towards even
ing he desired to sell it again. A
farmer who witnessed the sale in
the morning and was half inclined
to invest, inquired and quite natur-
ally too, why he wanted to part with
the horse so soon. "Oh, says he,
after scratching an ugly bump pin
nacled on top of his head, "that
horse IS altogether too fast for my
use." The farmer thought he'd
try him anyhow, since it cost moth
ing, so after exchanging a few kind
words with the willy horse, he gent
crept up on one side and quickly
down the other, while at the same
time the snorting creature changed
ends and played circus. The fall
which the farmer received Knocked
every notion about buying him end
ways.
A man rcd en- Helena, Monta
ma to Pendleton in fourteen days,
an small Indian pony. Over fif-
ty miles day for Il days is better
than Sheridan's squirt, the fools of
the East made so much fuss about.
A frontiersman was requested by
the sheriff to come to the jail to
identify an inmate who was charged
with serious offense. ''I'll go and
look at him, but I'm not going to be
familiar with him until he apologi-
zes for shooting my brother-in-law
last fall" was the naive reply Of
the guileless child of the flower
bespangled prairies.
Archbishop Whately did not despis
pun; in fact he rarely let an oppor-
tunity pass without perpetrating one,
and sometimes at jolly dinner. would
himself make the worst pun of the
evening. He thought gardening a
dangerous indulgence for lunatics, be-
cause they might grow madder. And
it is to him we owe the valuable inform-
alton that Noah's Ark was made of
gopher wood, but Joan of Ark was
The Boston Globe announces the rule
that beautiful female foot should g
one seventh that wearer's height. If
the wearer should be five feet four
inches high, then the foot should be
nine inches high; and it should of
course, be three times as long as high,
which would give it length of twenty
seven inches.
Now here is a case of pure inno-
cance: An Iowa railroad employe,
whose signal lantern, like those of
the foolish virgins, was left without
oil. wrote to the supply office for
"some more of the red OIL" not
knowing that the color of the Ian
tern globe had some thing to do with
the color of the light it threw out
: Hold your horse sir?' said red
haired boy to man who drove up
in front of a house. "No," replied
the man, Il have boy here and
he took weight from the cart and
fastened it to the steed. II meant
hold him up" screamed the disap-
pointed youth as he ran off.
SENr ROUND THE WORLD. - Thlee
months is short time to make voy-
age round the world, even for a piece of
paper. 1t has been accomplished, how~
ever, in little less than three months.
The United States Nail, a journal de :
voted to postal matters, tells of gen
tleman residing in the suburbs of New
York, who recently made an experi-
ment, with a view to ascertain how long
it takes letter to trave! round the
world by mail.
He addressed letter to the United
States postal agent at Yokohama, ia
pan, marked it "via Brindisi," and
dispatched the same by steamer from
New York to Southampton, England,
on the 18th Of May last. The letter
enclosed another, addressed to himself