The Red Cloud chief., 1880-01-08

- sRPfS doC MflltU IIfS Nt1I
bore S3 bushels Of apples, not one OF
which exceeded an inch and a half in
diameter.
"A WHITE swan, measuring Sc IL
inches from the tip of the toes to the end
OF the beak, and SIS inches across the
wings. and weighing II 1-2 pounds, was
shot recently near Washington, Pa.
PICKPocKETs frequent all funeral ins
New York, and are only captured by
detectives shrewd enough to keep their
eyes on the members of the cortege who
seem to be the most deeply and solemn
ly affected.
SEVERAL girls were recently brought
before q Justice in Scranton, Pa, on a
charge Of stoniDg a p~eaceable old lady.
Their defense vas that she vas q witch
and they believed it to be their duty to
stone her to death.
In the Island of Jersey the practice is
to skim milk when it is "a hours old; in
Guernsey, a few miles distant, the milk
is churned whole without being skim
med, after it has become thoroughly
soured.
The Toxic Times asserts that
English Influence is declining i'm Japan.
The English employees do their work
with diligence and fidelity, but do not
conciliate the regard of the Japs. Ac-
cOrding to the Times the Americans are
the most popular foreigners.
In the tenth volume of his Archives
de la Bastille," Ravaisson deals with
tho nnA.fAn of fhA Afan ~ 4hn vrAp
Mask. His solution is that this mystic
rious being was Sebastien de Paramount,
COmte de Keroualle. ensign of the Due
de Beaufort's guards, and brother of
'tlMadam Carwell," mistress of Charles
III.
DR.. MILES, in his work on domestic
animals, says, as showing the influence
of feed on the fecundity of domestic ami
mails, that among the barren hills of the
west of Scotland two lambs will be
borne by about n eve in twenty +;
whereas, in England, on the rich pas
lures, something like one eve in three
will bear two lambs.
A NUMBER of old dwarfs and Young
children arrived at New York the other
day, from Italy. They were brought
here for the purpose Of making beggars
of them. One of the men was over 40
years of age. The Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty TO Children will re-
turn the children, and the Italian Con
sui will take charge of the dwarfs, and
send them back to their own country.
Two men started from Minneapolis
on the same train carrying conflicting
deeds to a piece o. land in Sioux Falls,
and each resolved to get his document
recorded first. As they approached that
city one of them climbed UPON the en-
CINE, slipped the coupling, left the train
to take care of itself, and rushed on, Sc
curing a record of his title half an hour
in advance of his rival, who had to wait
for another locomotive.
AT a seminary not many miles from
London a huge mastiff exhibited won
derful powers. Al 6 O'Clock every week
day morning he will ring the school
bell To awaken the inmates, by Juggling
at the rope that hangs within his reach,
and on Sundays one hour later. He is
soon admitted in the building, when his
task IS the distribution of 20 pairs Of
boots TO their proper rooms. A new
pair at first perpleXeS him, but after put
ting around all the others has no trouble
in deciding to whom the new ones be-
long.
GREAT excitement was caused i'm
Lima by the capture of the Peruvian
iron-clad, the Huascar. Subscriptions
were at once opened for the purchase of
another war vessel, to be called the AL
mirante Gran, and to swell the fund de-
voted to this purpose, Peruvian ladies
are reported to be contributing their
and their plate. One lady
diamonds valued ut f2,OOO to
be converted into money for the ship
day after the subscription was
opened.
been reported to the French Academy of
Medicine. A carpenter nearly cut off
the big toe of his right foot with an AK.
The toe was held to the foot by a small
thread of skin only. DIR. Ganey de-
tached the toe completely, and having
it and the wound on the foot,
brought the surface together again and
held them in place by strips of lint,
soaked with collodion. When the col
|odion had set another strip was wound
round. An apparatus was used also to
keep all parts of the foot immovable.
Iwenty-fOur days after the accident the
was perfect.
THERE is in the Royal Library at
an immense manuscript,
which, when open, covers about a square
1ard OF surface, and requires two or
men to lit it. 1t consists of 500
caves OF thick parchment, probably of
isses' skin, anu contains the Old Tesla
nent, the Antiquities and Jewish Wars
If Josephus, the Origines of Isidore, a
medical work of Johannicius Johannes
the New Testament, a
curious picture of the devil, and other
miscellaneous matter. 1t belonged to
small Benedictlne monastery at Pod
azic, in Bohemia, and tradition asserts
hat 1t was written in one night, with
ne devils help, by an imprisoned
monk. The date of its transcription
nay be ascribed to the period between
224 and 1899. Late in the sixteenth
century it was taken to Prague, whence
{ was carried off by the Swedes in the
asst year of the thirty years. war (l649).
then it has been in its present
lOme.
THE discovery that an animal on the
arm, however valuable, has a broken
eg is generally the signal for taking its
lie, as If no other course were possible.
DR.. L. c. Naramore, Williston, VT, de-
lares that in most cases a cure can be
ffected, and he describes his plan of
reatment in the american C~ultirutor
The difficulty of managing an animal
the ordinary way is that it keeps
training the leg, thus preventing the i
roken parts from knitting together. If ,
he leg is swollen, cold water is one of {
he best applications for removing the !
yelling, and this should have immedi- !
tie attention. After the bone is care ,
ally set in case the fractured parts (al- :
0 a space above and below them) with !
eavy leather something like a bootleg.
in or wood might answer the same :
urpose. 1t should be large enough to =
two inches space all around the 7
g. which space should be filled in solid \
18th wet plaster of Paris. The latter !