Sharp County record., 1880-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Telephone experiments on a large
scale have been successfully made on
the French cable.
"A French physician tried to initiate
DR.. Tanner, but surrendered at the end
of week.
An aged woman died in Philadel-
phia from fright at seeing her son and a
burglar in conflict.
The Chicago Spiritual Journal ex-
plains that Tanner did not really fast.
lmpalpable spirits fed himimperceptible
food
"A little Rochester boy said, Lets
play butcher" and carried out the sug-
gestion by chopping off one of his COM
panion's toes.
Charles Riley did some genuine
fasting in New York that did not at
tract such attention as Dr. Tanners
starvation. Riley was found between
two piles of lumber where he had lain
for ten days without food or water. He
was a laborer and homeless. He lay
down between the lumber piles sick
and helpless, and getting weaker could
not come out. He probably would have
died there had not policeman found
him.
"A Paris merchant, who has been
several times robbed by unfaithful
cashiers, has invented an infallible test
of competency. The cashier presents
himself, offers his services, shows his
reference. Then the merchant: "Show
me how you would erase a mistake in
your figures" The aspiring cashier
sets to work with scraper, ink eraser
and what not and if he succeeds in de-
stroying all trace of the erasure he is
invited to take his hat and his leave.
"A young man from Texas married
a girl in North Carolina, and then pro-
posed to leave her while he worked his
way back to his Texas home, in the
hope of there earning money enough to
send for her. She said, however, that
she would rather accom- pany him afoot
They therefore made the journey of
1000 miles as tramps; but their good
appearance gained for them considera-
Bile help along the way, and for the last
fifty miles they rode triumphantly in
carriage, provided by an enthusiastic
admirer of their pluck.
One of the most curious things in
plant life is the part which bees and
other insects play in helping flowers
perfect the seed. No seed can grow
until pollen from the stamens of the
flowers has been carried to the pistil.
1t is pretty certain, too, that the seeds
grow better when the pollen comes from
the blossom of another plant of the
same species. Bees that suck honey
from flower to flower are made useful
in carrying pollen from one to another.
And a multitude of other insects do the
same thing.
-Abdurrahman, the new Ameer, is
described by a correspondent at Cabul
as possessing undoubUed abilities, both
military and political. His birth and
claims are incontestable, his courage
and manliness admitted by all, and his
long absence from Afghanistan removes
him out of the sphere of personal jeal-
ousies and family hatreds and offers
him fair chance of being regarded by
all classes of his future subjects on his
own merits and according as he may
rule with justice and mercy or the re-
verse.
In the accounts of the recent great
races of St. Julian and Maud S. at the
Rochester Driving Park there is very
confident dealing with those exceeding
ly small portions of time known as quar-
ter seconds. When tens of thousands
of dollars change hands, as at Roches-
ter, on quarter seconds, and, as else
where, on eighths of seconds, no wonder
that some men find that it takes very
little time to lose great deal of money.
No wonder, also, that they sometimes
question the accuracy of subdivisions of
time so minute that the eye, the hand
and the mechanism of the watch must
all act with absolute perfection in order
to avoid the error of at least an eighth
of second.