The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-09-06
HERE AND THERE.

A popular cane in Maine is COM
posed of whiskey. except for a thin enclos-
ing cylinder.
The wealthiest man in Oregon is
living this summer for fun in the log cabin
which he used to inhabit from necessity.
A tramp was arrested in Nashville
| lying in an alleyway. Concealed in his
ragged clothes was over 81 900 in large notes
and gold pieces.
In London a man fell in q drunk
en- fit and broke his neck. The jury found
out that his grandfather had died of q
broken neck, and brought in as their YER
dict, "Died by the hereditary visitation of
God"
The total exports Of petroleum
from the United States during the fiscal
year ending June 80, amounted to 513,670,-
092 gallons, of the value of $47. 7.1O3, 24S be-
ing an increase Of 7,73S, 40 gallons and
81, 1910, 100, as compared with the exports
for the preceding fiscal year.
A tiny steamer, brought across
the Atlantic in big one, and towed through
the St. Lawrence river and the lakes, is
finally to be carried by men 40 miles over.
land to get her to Lake Pend d'Oreille,
which is close to the northern boundary
line of Idaho. She is owned by English
men who have bought tract there.
Meissonnier was asked, one day,
to go and identify picture said to be by
him. which q dealer had given large price
for. Meissonnies denounced it as fraud,
as he said the real picture was with Mon
sieur So-and-so. 1t turned out, however,
to be genuine, as the original buyer had
sold it and replaced it with a copy, which,
although it had been frequently seen by the
artist, was never detected by him.
The English commissioner for the
International Exhibition to be held at New
Orleans this fall, is energetically at work
among English manufacturers and othere
whose contributions or influence may help
to make the enterprise successful. A COM
nlittee of prominent Londoners is assisting
him, and banquet is to be given at one of
the leading hotels about the middle of this
month. at which the Lord Mayor is expect
ed to preside.
Dog bedsteads are now popular.
One owned by New York lady is the
lower part of barrel sawed through at ten
inches from the ground. The mattress is
filled with hair, and has an artificial leatla-
el ticking. The wood is painted in dark
colors, and around the edge is an embossed
leather trimming fastened with brass-head-
ed nails. On front stave is an ovaly in
which appears the dogs name in gold let-
ters. From bar attached to the back falls
. mosquito netting. enveloping the bed
and occupant
1t seems that the proposed Jor-
dan canal, the plans for which have ap-
peared in the foreign scientific journals, is
not to be, in any proper sense canal, but
rather large inland sea, some 800 miles
long with an average of 10 to Is miles in
breadth. The waters ofthe dead sea would
be raised from their present level about
300 feet, and its area of urse largely in-
The river Jordan, the Dead Sea,
md Lake Tiberias would all disappear with
ame square miles of land, principally on
he western side of the Jordan valley as
low existing, and in their place would be
!. vast inland sheet of water, fertilizing the
desert with the rainfall pro-
luced by evaporation form its surface Ac-
ording to this plan, therefore. there would
'e, instead Of q simple canal, . wide.open
hannel, traversing Palestine from north to
outh, navigable in every sense Of the term,
rith safe harbors here and there on sither
ide.