The Red Cloud chief., 1879-04-24

force sufficient to shake houses like an
earthquake. A fisherman on the shore
of Lake Michigan is the only person
who saw the explosion. He says that
the meteor few into small pieces, which
fell into the water, breaking . hole
through thick ice.
An extraordinary case OF mania q pofn
is reported from Portsmouth, England,
where, a fortnight ago, a notorious local
character named Margaret Shugard,
aged Sc, was convicted for the two
hundredth time for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. She has expended
q small fortune in fines; but for some
time past the Magistrates have sent her
to prison without the option OF paying
a fne. In the present case, although
she cam provided with the necessary
mulct. she was sentenced TO . months
hard labor.
IT was long ago shown by statistics
that in general married people have a
less mortality than the unmarried, but
NJ. Jansens, of Brussels, in following up
the same matter, has reached some 9TH
er conclusions which are rather surpris-
ing. He states from his experience that
while married people commit less
crimes, and are less prone to suicide
than the unmarried, widowers kill them
selves much more than married men,
and that, while men with children are
OF more reputable life than those with
out them, widows with children, on the
contrary, are more likely to be wicked
than widows without them.
AN old horse-trainer has been inter-
viewed and he gives it as his belief, not
withstanding the general opinion to the
contrary, that the horse is really a very
stupid animal. This theory is backed
by the horse himself. Henry Bergh, Jr.,
special agent for the N. Y. S. +. L. p.
D. G.. T. A., and nephew of Henry
Bergh, President of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was
knocked senseless by a horse on the
streets of New York a few days ago.
The horse was lame, and Henry under.
took to examine the cause, when the
ungrateful animal waited its foot, hit
Henry in the face and broke his nose
and fractured his cheek bone. Mr.,
Bergh is now in the New York Hospital
for repairs.
GEN. ROBERT T. BURTON, a leading
Mormon of Utah, has just been acquit'
ted after a long trial on a charge ol
murder. Joseph Morris headed q
schism in 1862, proclaimed himself
more glorious prophet than Brigham
Young, and took 500 followers to q fort
on Weber River. Some of these became
dissatisfied and wished to return tc
Salt Lake; but Morris imprisoned them
and confiscated their money. Burton,
as a United States Marshal, went to tho
fort. accompanied by 800 militiamon, to
serve a writ. Morris called on his mer
to fight, and was shot down by Burton
The acquitting jury was half Mormon
and half Gentle.
The deepest mine in the world now
worked is said to be the Adalbert lead
and silver mine in Austria, which is s.,
280 feet deep. The next is the Viviers
coal mine in Belgium, 2,S47 feet. 1t wa
sunk to the depth of 1856 feet, but, nc
coal having been found, the working il
at the former level. The deepest Goa
mines in England are the Dunkirk Col.
liery in Lancashire, 1924 feet, and the
Rosebridge in the same locality, 2,458
The deepest mine in this country is the
Yellow Jacket of the Comstock Lode
1t is now $500 feet below the surface a,
the mouth of the main shaft, and 2,93G
feet below the Gould & Curry groupings
The Savage stands second on the list,
and the Imperial the third, both being
nearly Is deep as the Yellow Jacket.
In Russia taxes are collected in this
way. A peasant, representative of 8
district comprising several villages, i.
charged with the duty of collecting
certain amount of money, and it is The
business Of the people to distribute the
taxes among themselves as they like the
best. For the prompt collection, in thu
first place, the representative is respOn'
sible, and in "a of hardness he is i'm
prisoned for q week with common Grim
inals, and furnished with food at a cos,
of three cents q day. A district is OBJ
liged to pay for all its members, whether
they are actual residents, or have gone
elsewhere, or are in the army. In CASE
q tax-cOllector is unable to do his duty ,hf
reports to the authorities; then the pO-
lice appears armed with rods, and if the
! rods do not secure the desired result,
the property of delinquents is sold al
auction.
THE "Pinafore" companies in the
United States, according to q quite re-
cent enumeration, now number 20, no,
counting the minstrels who are bur
lesquing the play, and the perform
ances range from good to exceedingly
bad. In BrattlebOro, VT, it was given
at an Episcopalian charity entertain
ment, the assistant rector personatine
Captain C0rcoran. In Boston, the Trans.
CRYPT gravely discusses the relative elo'
cutIonary merits of the three Captain,
now appearing in that city in utteripg
the words "Never" and I" Well, hardly
ever" Real brass cannon are the pride
of the "~Pinafore's" deck in Pittsburg,
and in St. Louis q feature of the vessel
is an up-and-down movement of the bull.
warks, giving the appearance of moving
with the waves; but in Cincinnati the
following is printed: can able critic
remarked after he had swept the stage
with his opera-glass, that he never
heard of q capstan abaft the mainmast,
nor had he eye seen small arms stacked
around the mizzenmast. The deck had,
in his opinion, not been holystoned fol
a whole month, the guns were in dan
ger of travelling all over the ship, and
there was a waste of midshipmen At the
wheel"
Comparative Depth Of Lakes.
From an interesting comparative
statement of the depth of lakes, recently
puhlished in q foreiGn journal. It ap.