Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-01-16
NISCELLANEOUS.

"A one hundrel-ycar-old gentleman
recently deposited his first vote at Ken
sington, Conn. ,ion IoSt.
New York's gilded youths hide the
marks of dissipation on their faces by
liberal applications OF rouge and lilly
white.-N y. Graphic
1t Is found now that tea and cocoa
are Ceylon's most paying crops, Gin
choua, too, is radidly increasing in pro-
duction. Crop prospects there arc de-
cidcdly better than last year.
1t Is five years since III. b. Cook, of
Dallas, Tex, left his home to visit New
Mexico. His friends did not hear of
him again HeCsnilya party of tourists
ut the San Carlos reservation found
fastened 10 tree key-ring medal
with the name I'll. b. Cook" engraved
on il, and under il, carved in the tree:
IL am lost, lost, lost"
The papers are asserting that
Mount Evarts, in the Yellowstone Park,
is named in honor of Secretary Evarts.
Mistake. The mountain is so named
in honor of Mr.. Evarts, of Philadelphia,
one of General Washburne's explorers
in 1870, who was lost on the range and
stayed lost for thirty-eight days.-De-
trOu Post.
"A lady is transacting quite large
business in New York City rs matri-
monal expert She brings about de-
sired marriages, if possible, but she is
chiefly employed in deciding whether a
pretended lover means marriage, or
merely wants cheap, well-warmed
and well-lighted place in which to spend
the winter evenings. She should open
branch Office in every town in the
country.-N Y. Times.
Out in Illinois they hadn't heard OF
the Java earthquake till n lightning-rod
man came along and told of it. Then
they said they could stand good deal
of lying from one of his profession, but
the idea that they'd believe that whole
ranges of mountains had become a
hole in the ground was an insult to
them, and so they tarred and fcathered
him and ran him out of the region. -
Boston Post.
The principal idol of Chinese wo-
men j. tho God of the Bedstcad, which
they worship rcligiously until the
youngest child is fifteen years of age.
This god consists of rice bowl, with
two pieces of red ribbon laid on the
bottom of it. two cakes of yeast, and
twelve leaves, culled from as many
different trees. The god is kept on a
shelf, either above or under the bed,
according to the fancy of the worship
or, and is appealed to at least twice
month by the woman and her chill
dren.
Quite number of young cattle
have died in the western part of Wy
oming County, New York, of new
and peculiar disease. One of them was
examined, and its lungs were found TO
contain n large number of thread
worms. a microscopical examination
disclosed Il large quantity of eggs con-
tanning worms in live condition.
Much interest has been excited in this
matter. u it becomes n grave question
whether il may not become epidemic
and affect the condition of all cattle,
and result in affecting beef To the same
extent that trichinn affect pork.-Bmt-
ta'o Express.
The little god of love was long
time in getting around to Jonathan
Davis and Elizabeth Elyett, of Georgia,
but his aim and execution were good
when he did sight them. Jonathan
was a bachelor of sixty-fvc, Elizabeth
a maiden of sixty. They had lived in
the same county all their lives, but met
for the first time mt an evening party
last week. IL was case of love at first
sight and on both sides, an infatuation
SO ardent that Jonathan proposed, and
they were married then and there. -
INdt0nnnOLis journal.