The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-10-29
GLEANINGS.

Chairman Executive Gem
GLEANINGS.
It costs annually 81, 200. 900 for links
and pins for the freight trains in this
country.
The latest nonsense in . decorative
way Is fitting down windows with satin
patchwork in place of stained glass.
In an old tenement that was recently
torn down in London thirteen cart
loads of cockroaches were carried
away.
A horse which trots mile in z:1O
goes at the rate of ~ 9-l3 mile an
hoar-ncarly the speed of railroad
train.
The annual consumption of imported
and domestic cigars is about sixty for
every man, woman and child in the
United States.
Wooden pavemcnts are now put
down in Paris on q concrete foundation,
and the contractor guarantees them for
eighteen years.
A Franconiaville. Pa. man has a
rocking-chair $50 years old, and pair
Of scissors bearing the date 1880 Both
camc from Germany.
John Lowery, of Luzernc County
Pennsylvania, celebrated his hundredth
birthday July 26. He has used to.
bacco for seventy years.
A bill is now before the Imperial
Parliament prohibiting women in Scot
land from standing on the outside OF
any window while cleaning it.
In q mill in Connecticut alcohol is
used to wipe off certain portions Of the
machinery. Some of the employees get
stupidity drunk by sucking the sponges.
The Charleston News and Courier
says that Sullivan's Island, S. G., is
destined to become the leading sum-
mer and winter resort of the North and
South.
Eight hours labor, eight hours
sleep. eight hours play, and three dol
lars day." is the motto of the Miners
Amalgamated Association of Pennsyl-
vania-
In a recent document put forth by the
+ Associated charities of Boston. it is
stated that the four cases Of poverty
are drunkenness. ignorance, 1aziness
and pride.
It is difficult to drown an insect as
the water cannot enter the pores of the
skin. but If drop of oil be applied to
the abdomen it falls dead at once, be-
ing suffocated.
The young woman of the period has
deal Of responsibility. DR.. Howard
Crosby says: If all young ladies
were what they should b., we'd never
see . dude or dog cart"
A tablespoonful of chloroform in
about four times as much water is an
infallible cure for cholera. saws Gener-
al Gordon of the New York Mining
Record, IN old Cuban campaigner.
A San Francisco paper says that
there are about $50 lepers In that city,
and the number Is increasing. It also
declares that San Francisco has become
the dumping ground for Asiatic cities.
A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
that pictures are not household furni-
ture because they slack. the idea of
household utility that makes the basis
of the definition for household furni-
ture."
The women of San Francisco will
found q cemetery for sailors. Two
thousand sailors are known to have
been buried within the city limits since
its foundation, and the graves Of but
$50 are known.
Major Andre. the spy, drew q por-
trait Of himself the morning Of the day
on which he was hanged. He stood
before looking-glass and sketched
the likeness 1t is preserved in the
Capitol at Albany.
Dr. Seltzer. in tho Boston Metltcal
and Surgical Journal. recommends
beef tea, made very hot with red pep
per, for delirium trcmens. A London
surgeon is stated to have treated $50
cases successfully with this remedy
alone.
The mortality Of the Globe. as yiven
by continental journal which has made
the computation. is as follows: Per
minute. 81: per diem. 1890. and per
annum. IS. 639. SS5; whereas the births
are Sc. 1872 00O per annum. loo, 900 per
diem, and 20 per minute.
OF the $1,000 Postmasters in the
United States there are 1000 whose
salaries are below $40. 81 whose salar-
les did not amount to the sum of 81
each, Is whose salaries were less than
so cents. and one-H. H. Forest, of
Redallia, Pitt County, N. C.-whose
earnings for the year were 9 cents.
Rumor has it that well-known Al
banian. SAYS the Albany Argus. recent
IL deceased. has added another strange
paragraph to those already gathered in
the literature of wills" He be-
queathed each of his three children
the sum of 81 with which to hang
himself or herself as the case might be.
A story comes from India that a
monster snake was recently shot with
q rifle in Travancore. 1t measured 81
feet in length and 8 feet in circumfcr-
ence. A native physician cut open GER
tain parts to take fat from them, but
found that the huge reptile was too
young to have fat. It was the largest
serpent ever seen in Travancore.
California race horses have made
their best time at home. and have not
equaled it when taken to the Eastern
turf The San Francisco Chronicle,
therefore, concludes that the climate is
as we'll adapted to the best develop
ment Of the thoroughbred horse as
Arabia or Barbary, and much better
than that of England, Ireland, or any
Of the Atlantic States.
The nutmeg trees grow on the is
lands Of Asia and tropical America.
and look like small pear trees. They
bear fruit seventy or eighty years. In
Jamacia there t. one tree that every
year has on. it over 4. 600 nutmees. The
fruit Il about the size Of q peach, and
when ripe It breaks open and shows
the seed. which is the article known to
commerce - the nutmeg.
One Of the great curiosities in Japan
to the stranger Is the wonderful variety
II coins that are used daily. In some
Instances Il tskss 1000 pieces to make
lL These are called cash, !" and are |
leldoi, re.'eived BY foreigners. who, az |
} genera rule. refuse to take them in
,hAnga Imagine : trade o. 5 cents
md irving : man . 60-cent piece. then