Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


Sweden for the purpose OF bringing
LARGE number of SwedeS to Arkansas.
-Four townships in Hot Springs County
have been reserved for the expected
immigrants.
=. 70 die of broken heart" is not
a mere figure Of speech, as IS generally
supposed. Medical works furnish rec
ords of many cases of death from rup-
ture of the heart, produced by some
organic disease, violent muscular exer-
ti6d, or powerful mental emotion.
"A Lewiston (Me.) man has trained
a Dat to catch squirrels. He takes the
animal in his arms. scouts about until
he'sees a squirrel in tree, and putting
the cat up on the trunk, lets her CO.
I'd cat at once gives chase, captures
thS squirrel and returns with it to her
md ter.
i-Near Deadwood a bull leisurely en-
teled house, probably to get away
fr3m the flies. The woman fed in ter
rot and summoned several men, who
fohnd the bull in a bedroom quietly
chewing his cud and so well satisfied
with his surroundings that it was nee
e5 ary to twist his tail until it kinked
bd ore he would vacate the premises.
"A man of Northfeld, Conn, few
ID s ago, with suicidal intent, waded
ir} pond until the water touched his
cA.n; no one made any frantic efforts to
sa We him, but on the contrary, some
b8dy told him where he could find
dkeper water. After considering the
matter and taking a drink from bottle
which he had with him he concluded to
dme ashore and postponed his suicide
Until another time.
l-There is an establishment in Bos-
thl which bears the name of Faith
Home, and is in charge of one DR.. Cul-
lis, who combines the practice OF pc
ctlliar system of medicine with the laborS
os an evangelist. 1t is sort of hospi-
tH conducted as to its finances on the
h, sn of George Muller'S famous orphan
Be in England Although DR.. Cullis
needs a great deal of money for the
Maintenance of his work, he makes it a
dile never to ask any of his fellow be-
1gs for it. He simply prays to God,
And in answer to prayer receives all he
$ks for. He has been engaged in this
4ange method of carrying on business
Br about fifteen years, and is much en-
Outraged, though he has sometimes been
In close straits.
The ease with which the Esquimaux
of St. Lawrence Island can see to a
great distance and the marvellous way
in which news is transmitted from the
most distant points is really wonderful.
A native will describe the dress and ap-
pearance of man who is approaching
at a great distance. A white man, even
a sharD-eyed sailor, can just make out
that it is human figure. SO, if anything
occurs on the coast--if a piece Of wreck
comes ashOre-the full particulars will
be known in short time 1000 miles
from the place where it occurred. 1t is
a wonderful system of telegraphy-one
native rushing of to pass the news to
another, and thus speeding intelligence
over hundreds of miles Of territory in a
Single day.
.Tb6 list CENSUS of the City of Lon
don proper was taken at night, and it
showed a population of but 20, 900 with
in the city limits out of 100000 who in
habit the same territory by day. Upon
the census night there happened to be
as dodgers from agricultural districts in
the city inn and hotels forty farmers,
besides three farm bailitfS and twenty
three gardeners, 50 that in the ratio OF
apriculturist5 to area London City ap-
pears as the champion agricultural dis
trict of the Kingdom. 1t also appears
that out of 5000 merchants who are by
day " something in the city," only 1856
habituallv sleep within the city bounds;
and that out of 100 brokers only thirty
three breakfast under the shadow Of
St. Paurs.
"A Tanner experiment was made
with number of horses in Paris
in 1876. The following results were
obtained: l. 1t was proved be-
yond all doubt that a horse can hold out
for twenty-five days without any solid
nourishment, provided it is supplied
with sufficient and good drinking water,
2. A horse can barely hold out for five
DAYS without water. 3. If a horse is
we'll fed for ten days, but insulficiently
provided with water during the same
period, it will not outlive the eleventh
day. One horse, from which water had
been entirely withheld for three days,
drank on the fourth day sixty litreS Of
water within three minutes. A horse
which received no solid nouriShment for
twelve days was, nevertheless, in con-
dition on the twelfth day to draw a load
of 279 kilOs.
-Ona recent Saturday evening man
stepped into grocery store at North
amptOn, Mass, with bundle contain
ing a pair of boots, which he laid down
for q moment. Near by were several
Holsters, which had been done up for a
lady from neighboring village, making
a package similar in size to the other.
BY some chance the owners exchanged
bundles, and the gentleman, after hav-
ing nearly reached home, found his
boots suspiciously moist, and took
them back to the store. But the lady
went home, placed the supposed lob
sters on the ice in order to keep them
IN good condition for dinner, and did
not discover the mistake until just be-
fore dinner time.