The Red Cloud chief., 1880-01-22

MAJ q North Shields
rnoi.nl. Who va returning 10 hfs bom'
n tie c3use Of Ms days work. strucA
m.sch seainxt his trousers, and IN a mo
s..r, - envelopcd in flames. In 3 liz
-. rso-. ,hsn a minute all the clothinf
~ - anon him was reduced to ashes
"a II was dreaAfully burned. HI,
| ciothes seem to have become ~sa;uars,e.
with chemicals while following his EN-.
ptryment
An expert In antique coins In Paris I:
. poodle. The money bei.e placed
upon a table the dog Z introduced. and
After nas!se among them will knock of
the table all the bad pieces with his paw.
After acquiring great fame it was found
the whole thing was a trick. His mas
ter took care to handle only the bogus
coins, and the poodle's decisions were
arrived at by faculty Of scent.
1N Berlin, last month, q horse ran
away with a cart In which there vas a
little girl. A boy Of i3 seeing the situa-
ton, rolled a barrel into the midst Of the
road, which half stopped the horse, who
was about to dodge the obstacle, when
the boy seized the bit and contriyed,
with great agility, to swing himself up
and clasp his legs around the animals
neck, which very Don came to 4 stop.
Then the brave little fellow slipped
away unknown and unnoticed.
Mr.. VAN Derry Is a bachelor, resid-
ing at San Jose, Cal, with whom his
married sister left her baby for a few
hours. He had hard work amusing the
child, and at length hit upon the expe-
dent of tying it to m end Of a long
pole and holding il up To a tree, where
it could suck the plums as they hung on
the branches. The infant died from
swallowing the stones and its inventive
uncle is being prosecuted for malicious
mischief.
THE rapidity with which the bison is
disappearing from the Western plains
may be inferred from the following sta
t~istics, collected at Fort Macleod, near
the head waters of the South Saskatcth
evan Zion. ll4o W., lat. 500 ny, in
British North America, and Fort Walsh,
some four degrees further east, bo-h
places being important centcrs for the
collection Of buffalo robes: The money
value of each robe to the Indian hunter
may be estimated at 81. In 1877 some
$1,000 robes were gathered at Fort
Macleod, and a larger number mt Fort
Walsh. In 1873 the number was l2,191
at the former, and 1851 at the latter
place; while this year only 1874 have
come In to Fort Macleod and 1927 to
Fort Walsh.
THE corps Of skaters, a force peculiar
to the Norwegian army, has been lately
r~eorganized, and consists nov of five
companies, each of 10 men, which in
time Of war can be reinforced by calling
in 270 skaters belonging to the land
wehr. The men of this corps are armed
with rifles, and can be Unanswered upon
ice or over the snow-fields of the noun
tains with a rapidity equal to that of the
best trained cavalry. The skates they
use are admirably adapted for travelling
rough and broken ice or frozen
snow, being six inches broad and be-
tween nine and ten inches long. In
ascending steep slopes the men take a
zig-zag course; lacking up the mountain
side as a ship does against "a head wind.
As an instance of the speed at which
they a go, it is mentioned that last
winter a messenger dispatched from
Rocrass at 3 o'clock in the morning ar
rived at Drontheim at $50 in the even
ing of the same day. having consequently
accomplished 100 miles in eighteen and
one-half hours.
In most countries it is usual to invite
to public dinners persons distinguished
by their virtue, their genius, or their
wealth. But at a supper lately given i'm
London a diploma in crime was neces-
sary to secure admission. This supper
was given by the Mission Chapel i'm st
CHESS, where there is an attempt on
foot to reclaim cOnvicts. One of the
of the establishment repairs
every morning to the Coldbath Fields
and invites the discharged pris-
oners to breakfast and conversation. At
the recent yearly supper some 2CO GRIM
sat down to an excellent repast.
The invitations issued numbered only
LA, but long before the doors Of the
were opened a large crowd of
hungry, unlimited guests had assembled,
and they managed to squeeze their way
in. Then a wedding process ensued,
and fortunate indeed was the happy
man who had committed a burglary, as
none but bona fide convicts could be