The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-27
HONE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

were recently found in 8 ruin neal
Zacstecss, Mexico
PAgrs last year consumed 1l,3ls
horses for food, being some 'U more
than Ia 1877
HEREAFTER every LOST Of bread sold
in Cincinnati must have It's weight
stamped upon il.
TuEgY are now more THAI 1,3oO WON
en- EMPLOYED In the departments al
Washington.
In 1915 the average yield Of wheat in
france was II bushels TO the acre, Low
it is -.
No liquors, wines, or lager beer may
be sold IN any pat Of the new Connecti-
cut State-hJuse.
The London StGndard the other day
paid 5000 for a single telegram from
India.
BILL before the Nebraska Legisla-
ture provides for q new Capitol at Lin
coin. az a cost Of not more than $780,
co.
YUsG WING, the Chinese Ambassa-
dor, has just had a son born in Wash
ington. A Chinese President now
looms up among the awful possibilities.
A BILLS before the Legislature Of Al
ALBANIA sppropriatiHg $1,000 for the
payment Of So each 70 soldiers who
lost an arm or a leg in the Confederate
service.
The hotel keepers of Iowa viii hold z
convention al Council Bluffs on the 10Th
Of April. The object Is 10 devise some
mesn to protect themselves against
dea3-beats.
The late Judge Cadwallader,of Phila-
deIphia, was such a stickler for Judicial
dignity, that be fined his brother $50
for contempt n time when he came
into court and called him John"
A WELsHMAS, named Thomas Row
lard died lately al the age Of lQ3. He
left eight children. whpse respective
ages were Il, 20, IS, CO. 81, 81, - and
IS, or 5l4 years altogether
MIS-. URSULA HUyPHREYyILLE, Of
Eorfhield, Conn, e 10 her 1Olst year,
and is still able 10 be about. Two years
sgo she rode on a mcwipg-machine,
driving the horses through the field.
A NEWFOUNDLAND dog, at Ricgeway,
y. j., recently seized 4 little child BY
lis clothes and dragged il from the rail-
road track, just in time to prevent its
being Filled by a passing train.
THERE is q man in the woods Of West
Virginia who has been a fugitive there
ever since be was drafted in 1868. He
4 not be persuaded that the war is
over.
The Melbourne Exposition is to open
n. I Cd .11-x MI ~ I.sI l. g,
expected to DO great things for Austria
liam trade. January and February arc
very hot months in Australia.
RATS and mice will go into a trap
more readily if a small piece of looking
glass be put. in any part Of the trap
where they can see themselves reflected.
They mistake the reflection for another
rat, and where others 90 they follow.
THOMAS CRAPO, Of New Bedford,
Mass, who made a voyage across the
Atlantic in a small sailboat, is now
planning for "trip mex summer up the
Mediterranean, by the way OF the Suez
Canal, into the Indian Ocean.
COLUMBUS, o., has an ordinance for
bidding candidates for municipal offices
from treating voters under penalty Of a
SJ0fine, 10 days in jail and forfeiture of
vote in all municipal elections. The or
dinance also forbids electioneering with
in W squares Of the polls.
THE receipts of -four at Chicago dur
ing the year just closed amounted to
100000 barrels. This is unprecedent-
ed in her history. The same may be
said Of wheat and c1rn. Of the former,
100000 bushels were received, and
of the latter Ga, 900, 900.
THERE are parts Of California where
the beasts Of the forest exist in their
primitive glory. Panthers and lions re-
Gently made q descent from their noun
tain home upon some fine and costly
Angora goats belonging to a farmer of
Carpenteria, and left only six out of
twenty-five.
A NEVADA paper tells of a Chinese
cook who was reprimanded by his mis-
tress for not having cleaned the fish
well that he had served up at dinner.
The mex time there was fish in the
house she went in the kitchen and saw
John carefully washing the fish with a
fine piece of brown soap.
Two little children went to church
alone in Westield, Mass. They became
tired during the long sermon, and the
older one,% supposing that school rules
held good in churches, led his sister I'D
IN front OF the preacher and said:
"Please, sir, may we 60 homer" He
said Yes" and they soberly walked
out.
OWING to the severity of the weather,
tho fnYpsfs of tho Rnrnao, T,-1 =
tested by drOves of wild boars, some
times 60 numerous as to defy attack.
Bands Of wolves hover about the farms
at night, and hundreds of hungry
chamois have descended from the noun
tains, and are wandering about the val
legs in search of food.
Dr.. BELLOWS says that it is unfor.
tunste that so large a part of the world
fails to recognize the truth that labor,
manual as well as mental, is heavens I
best gift to man. He declares that while
1t Is natural for men to dislike to see
their wives and daughters work, yet if
they would work more they would have
better health, and probably better tenn
pers.
Gov. WILLIAMS, in his message to
the Legislature, commends highly the
managers Of the Indiana Women's
Prison, Mrs. Rhoda NJ. Coffin, Mrs.
Eliza C. Hendricks, Mrs. Emily A.
Roach and Sarah Smith, the Quakeress
superintendent. He says of them that
they have strained the inmates to habits
Of industry and kept their expenditures
within the appropriations"
GANGS of s~harpers, claiming to rep
resent a firm in Syracuse, n. Y, are
canvassing In Maine, making called
commission contracts with responsible