Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-23
GLEANINGS.


 one day at Russellville, Montana.
 Rufus Hatch feels quite sure that William II. Vanderbilt and his three sons are worth together $500, 100000.
 Senator Brown is the largest individ- ual taxpayer in Atlanta, Ga, and he pays taxes on S329,5 worth of real and personal property.
 Arecent authority says there are about 1,200 different dialects spoken in the world, while the languages proper from which they have been derived do not exceed five or six.
 Josh Billings remarks in his philoso- phizings: "A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will allwass keep their eyes on the spot where the krack wuss."
 The bold drummer will have to pay license in Virginia when he sells goods in that state, the law having been declared constitutional by the State Supreme Court.
 A 13-year-old girl living on Bayou Terrebonne, eighteen miles from Hou- ma, La., has growing upon her face a light brown beard two inches long and very heavy, except upon the upper lip.
 Eugene Goddard accomplished recent ly at Berlin his eighteen hundred and sixty-seventh balloon ascent. It is es- | timated that this celebrated eronaut | has travelled over a thousand leagues in l the air.
 The 'wickedest' woman in England, Jane Johnson, aged 84, has. been con- ! verted. She has been in Leeds Prison 240 times, and nearly as many times in other jails. She is now preaching in 1 Hull.
 A concert at public cost is given on Boston Common every Sunday afternoon in Summer, There was opposition by the orthodox church people at first, but it has died out and this year it is fash ionable to go and hear the music on the way to evening religious services.
 A negro living in Jefferson county, Florida, went to church recently and listened to sermon from the text which advises the plucking out of the eye and cutting off of the hand when offensive, and upon going home attempted to lit era'ly obey the scriptural injunction by using razor on his hand and plucking out his eye.
 A Fayette county (Texas) jury hay ing decided that a man was guilty of murder in the first degree, were divided as to the punishment. Nine favored | hanging and three life imprisonment. In order to arrive at q conclusion they drew lots, resulting in the death penal ty. This proceeding having leaked out. a new trial has been granted.
 IA .4s..4az>.>=e....l has been discovered along the ShaWan- l gunk mountains, New York. It is of a very fine grain and easily worked. The stone throughout is yeined1 with dark lines. AS soon as the proper leases are perfected the quarry will be worked, and it promises to be q bonanza.
 A man at Moretown, Vt, whose wife recently presented him with four babies in one day, and who is a poor man and an old soldier, received notice the same day that he wGs to receive $420 in pen sion and arrears. His family now con- sists oi two children Is months old, and four 15 days old. A COW and $l00 have been given to the quadruplets.
 Daniel Hicks, of Madison county, Florida, has collard and gourd worthy of mention. The collard plant is feet high; ? feet from the ground the stalk measures inches in circumference. The first leaf branches off at feet in ches from the ground. at which place the stalk is 6B inches. The gourd is feet long and 3 feet 3 inches in circum- ference.
 An improvement for bob-tail cars at last. A glass-faced tube, with openings eighteen inches apart enables passen- gers to deposit their fare without tread ing on their fellows. The ''conveyer, " as the tube is named, is inclined toward
 the front, and the nickles roll down it to the fare box. The contrivance is said to work well in Brooklyn.
 Hoop-snakes have recently been seen was killed recently which measured three feet in length This snake had hard, fine-pointed, bone-like substance at the ) end of its tail, with which it strikes. It forms itself in the shape of hoop, and speeds over the ground at a lively rate; but it is only necessary to step one side to avoid it, it being impossible to alter it's course when rolling.
 A police magistrate is questioning a tramp whose bearing indicates that he has seen better days. ''You look as if you had been a gentleman" he re-
 marks. ''Yes," says the prisoner with a sigh; ''once I was worth a hundred thousand" ''Gambled. eh?' No, sir. '' : "'Squandered it in riotous living?" '.No, sir" ''Then to what vice were you ad- dicted?" "Friendship, sir" 'That man is phrenologist, Pat 5 "A phat?h asked Pat puzzled "A phrenologist.' 'Phat's that?" ''Why, , a man that can tell, by feeling of the bumps on your head, what kind of 8 man you are" Bumps on me head is it?" exclaimed Pat. 'Begorra, then, :, 1 should think it would give him more of an oidea phat kind of a woman me t wife is!''
 f Baked eggs are sometimes relished I by those who find fried ones greasy and
 indigestible. Butter deep earther i, 2 pie-plate, then put in the eggs, taking I care not to break the yolks of any; put ! a little lump of butter on each egg, and ss a little pepper and salt, too. If the
 oven is hot, the eggs will be cooked
 sufficiently in four minutes. As soon a;
 the whites are firmly set they are done Dr. Declat, of Paris, has pushed the : theories of Pasteur and Coch to the ex , tent of claiming that all diseases result , from the presence of parasites in the tis sues or blood of patient. To cure al diseases it is only necessary to find some thing that will kill these parasites. Af :, ter much experiment, Dr. Declat has . ascertained to his own satisfaction tha1 what he calls chemically Dllre carhOlif