Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-10-28

FACT AND FANCY.

vulgar. "Monopo!iling the macaroon
is what we call It.
The late New Haven manufacturer
after whom the Yale lock is named
left an estate OF SS,000,000.
The Iceland coast cod keep well
this year They are in ice. The fish
ing vessels can't get at them.
One of the naturaists gives the COM
forting assurance, rs he calls it, that n
bee can sting only once. Once is
enough.
Figs grow well and plentifully in
the southern states, and their cultiva-
ton costs little. Besides they are good
for dyspepsia and biliousness.
The city fathers of Ocala, Fla. pass
ed an ordinance forfeiting conct aled
weapons, and now they have a small
armory and don't know what to do
with it,
A new history of Methodism in
America states that the first Sunday
school in America was founded in 1886
by Bishop Asbury in Hanover county,
Virginia.
Apropos of the announcement that
man descended from the bear, n Boston
paper says that if bruin was at the top
of the hill the man showed q heap of
good sense.
A man in Georgia has rooster that
"strikes the hour" He crows twelve
times every night at II o'clock, and is
sure not to vary q second from the cor
rect time.
A new island, covering twenty acres,
has appeared in Lake Winnepiseogee.
1t is not an upheaval of the earth, but
the drought that has caused it. No one
ever saw it before.
Three hundred entries have been
made for the national horse show 10 be
held in New York this month. Among
them are two Arabian stations, bred by
the sultan of Turkey.
Father, addressing his little boy, who
has brought home bad mark from
school-"Now, johnnie, what shall l
do with this stickP" Johnnie-"Why,
} 90 for walk, papa"
An Irishman, watching game OF
base ball was sent to the grass by
foul which struck him under the fifth
rib, "A foul, was itp Och, sure, l
thought it was a mule!'
An enterprising (D young brute of
Buffalo, named Stephen Porter, went
about the city the other day trying to
pawn or sell n set of false teeth which
belonged to his grandmother.
The profile of the Old Man of the
Mountain is TO have a competitor, Tor
, at Cohassett they have discovered a
: rock which gives very good contour
: of the features of Daniel Webster.
| Nj. Jablochkof' has patented pro-
$ cess for obtaining alan inium and the
D alkaline metals, sodium and potassium,
: from their corresponding chlorides by
S means of electrolysis.
8 One of the most interesting historical
t curiosities at the fair recently held in
Y Canton, Conn, was vest made in
s 1776 from blue-striped bedticking spun
e and woven by Miss Rosannah Ferry, OF
: Simsbury.
$ A new chime of bells, which is said
e to be the largest in the country, has
II been presented to Holy Trinity church.
g Philadelphia, by Mr.. Joseph f. Temple
y 1t was made in Belgium, and consists
e of rs bells, the heaviest of which
u weighs $500 pounds.
;. gentleman near Gainesville, Ga.
- has II COW II years old that has not haC
y calf in six years. About the 1st o
4 December every year she gees dry anc
10 in the following spring begins to give
IL milk, yielding over gallon at every
- milking. The habit is kept up witt
is the utmost regularity.
% There was a happy family reunion il
Polk county. Oregon, n fortnight ago
Mrs. Nancy Diggett, of Missouri, hay
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