The Mineral argus., 1884-02-28


In the Chinese theater at San Fran
| cisco the members of the orchestra sit in
a row on the stage, smoking their pipes,
and keeping up a most awful discord.
The "supe' sits at their head like an
''end man" in a minstrel band, in his
check shirt, and occasionally gets up and
pulls off or pats on some piece o~ftoggery
for an actor, or moves q chair from one
! place to another, and then sun his
pipe and his cross-legged position as IN
end man.
The Baltimore Day says: There is
no harm in keeping men at work in
| Druid Hill Park on Sundays exhibiting
camels to visitors, but, according to the
! president of the board, watering the
roads on that day would deprive work
ingmen of their needed rest"
Miss Blanche Gray. weight 5l7 pounds,
the New York Bowery Queen o fatness,
who married Mr.. David Moses, aged
seventeen years, is said TO be gaining
five pounds a month, and in ten years,
at this rate, Moses may love l III pounds
of a wife.
Foreign capitalists have Just bought a
large tract of timber land in southeast
! ern Arkansas said to contain 460, 000, coo
feet of timber.
A party of Minnesota young women
have gone to the Argentine Republic to
teach school, and they write back that
their first impressions are pleasant.
The Pittsburg Dispatch hopes that the
use of natural gas for fuel, and of smoke
consumers, will, in the course of five or
ten years make that city one of the most
pleasant places of residence in this
country,
The little village of Annswille on the
Hudson has derived its existence for
nearly half a century from the AIMS
vile wire mills, which employed up
ward of 400 men at good wages. Re-
Gently the wire mills were destroyed by
fire, and threw out OF employment all
the working population of the village.
The proprietor of the wire mills decid-
ed not to rebuild, and last week leased
Sharp's rifle works, at Bridgeport, for
ten years where they will in future carry
IN their business. As a result the store
keepers of Annsville have been forced
to close up, and the village is rapidly
becoming d~epopulated. A more DESC
late looking place can hardly be imag-
ined.
Many of the Notwithstanding pipes
in Philadelphia are reported fouled
with rust.
A negro met his death in Clark Coun-
ty, Georgia, by licking molasses hr.m a
rock, the gravel getting down his throat .
The police of Cambridge, Mass, were
called recently 10 save a man who was
being murdered by his wife, and on re-
pairing to the place of the butchering
found a new married couple, where the
young wife was spanking her husband
with various kitchen utensils, including
the pancake turner, for coming home
drunk.
Mrs. Wells, near Utica, N. Y. says
che never feels better than after a days
pIowing in the field.
"Native" oysters are selling now in
London for a dollar a dozen, and are
poor at that price.
An iron steamboat for the evenue
service was built in sixty days in Buffalo.
The vicar of st. Paul's Church, South
London, is very indignant because a
wealthy miller of the interior who had
become converted to cold water princi-
pies destroyed all the Winesin his cellar,
including 100 bottles of Zine old port"
The vicar, in a letter to a blue ribbon
friend, remarks: 81 could have told you
of a parish of 5000 poor, where several
invalids are languishing, to whom q cou-
pie Of glasses of such wine daily would
mean life. and in come cases a mothers
life. AS for yourself, / leave you to your
e~Cstatic dream; but if there should be
any more wealthy miilers' or others
anxious to relieve themselves Of a few
dozen, or even a few bottles, of fine old
port or other wine l shall be thankfully
happy TO receive the same for my many
sick; and if its medical administration be
a sin, am quite prepared to be a sim
ner."
Nobody has yet ventured to explain
why there is no entrance to the new
Philadelphia postoffice on Chestnut
street, but N eantime it has been discov-
cred that there is none on Market street,
and there is coming to be much wonder
expressed that the architect did not for
get to put an entrance on Ninth street.
There is, however, a capricIous rear exit
to a neighboring restaurant, which is ev-
idence that the architect was not entire
ly out of his mind when he made his
plans.-Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer.
Strength of Iron Pillars