The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-01-09
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! -tick-Trusting the sculptor.
The Spanish military authorities have
resolved on the use of carrier-p pigeons.
Seventy tons ofchewing gum are requir-
ed to keep American jaws moving during
/ the year
I Chipmunks' skins are discovered by the
people Of Oregon TO be available for the
manufacture of kid gloves. -
| A man in Illinois has found a way 10
make good lumber out of compressed stra1s.
| America excels the world i'll wood en-
craving.
Pork packing stands as the third Ameri-
can industry. .....=
Last year Texas produced over $4,000
barrels Of molasses.
Itis fair TO presume that there would b
fewer family jars if people INDUCED less
in pickles.
A Bridgeport artist has painted a very
natural fence, but the critics will picket all
topieees.
The red man may tsseoFil your proITereel
treaty, but leave off the last syllable and
try him.
From age to age cheese has skippercd on,
one Of the mitiest forces of the press, Win
ming its whey. ...-.-
When printers grow old their marble
broWs are mnl1ed with display head lines.
Afashion Of putting false hair on children
and Of dying their natural hair, is coming
into vogue in France.
A Pittsburg pa firm is about to make
two hammers, one weighing fifteen tons
and the other five tons.
a new well at Houston, Ga, is said to
send forth current Of gas 50 strong that
two mills are run by ii.
One million two hundred thousand let
ters pass through the Paris Post Office on
an average each day.
England is now sending to America fol.
business cards, as they are executed with
suchzneatness here.
No French publisher will accept a story
without it contains love, Jealousy, murder,
police and several Wine snppeIs.
One Western editor calls another "a lie
viathan Ass. y Brother, it amt right to
critter-cise a man thus.
He that hath no music in his soul is fit
for usher, undertaken, table waiter, or
some such thing.
and now a lawyer is arrested for per-
jury. Where is this prosecution Of good
men to stop.
The 5000 wives of the King Of Siam
live under one roof though it must be con
fessed that they occasionally raise it.
4 uan is going to have his name stamp
ed upon Sc, 0o0, 600 toothpicks. That mans
name will be in eyerybody's mouth.
Toads and frogs were originally intro
duced into the Sandwich Islands to exter-
inmate cockroaches.
While the English infantry rifle is sight
ed up to 1000 yards, that of Germany is
sighted up TO l,750 and of France to ], 100.
"EIow dear to my heart are the seines Of
my childhood, !" nutters the lazy fisher
man as he mendcd the old nets.
a young lady on being asked where her
native place WAS, reI5liel "a have =nefleS;H If
D 5a s.,.1s ..s1s Nj sviei,
il followed viii lead to small laundry bills
hat do you want to shoot quail on the
ground for? :" howIes sporting Journal
On the ground that we can't hit them any
where else.
''EHhe Sioux are not contagious" said
an old Frontiermat. s'Yhat do you
mean?" asked a bystander. II mean that
they are hard to catch, was the reply.
'SIhis business is being carried TOO far, =
shouts the cnd man minstrel in his search
around the chair: 'shere some ones stolen
my bones .a.s ~"
When you want to get the best Of an az
gument with a woman of thirty you should
lead off with: 'Now, then, a woman Of
your age" etc.
\ Belgian physician, appointed to report
on the prevalence Of color-blint}ness, attri-
butes that disease to the excessive and gen
eral use Of tobacco,
Castor oil Is becoming an important pro-
duct i'll British India. Last year there was
/ 81, 900 acres devoted to itin Madras. Ithas
been cultivated with success in Iowa.
The richest university in the world is that
of Leyden, in Holland. Its real estate
alone is worth over four million dollars,
Professor Wong Ching Foo has hired a
hall !" in Chicago, and proposes 10 convert
Christians to the doctrines Of Confllcius.
There are now 151 Indian pupils at the
training school at Carlisle (Pa,) barracks,
representing nearly all the known tribes in
the United States,
George Mellon, Of I,ittsburg, Pa, missed
his wife during the night and found her
standing in a closet with razor in her hand
and her throat cut from ear to ear.
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. Gently picked from tbe furrow two gole
rinos. which are declared 10 he a thousand
wears old, and very curious and valuable
as antiapjfies
.sE,.nts for q, said i see5gv lookin.
man reading the SIGN in the window of
clothing store he was passing: $50 do |;
nova, 7,anfed.s for So in all NV life.
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