The Red Cloud chief., 1884-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

An indianapolis dog lived fve
weeks without water or food. its faith
full and sagacious master having for
rotten that il was locked in.-iHdian-
ap0liS Journal.
The most enterprising street-car
line in the world is u between Bill
:inrs and Coulson, Montana, the fare
being twenty-five cents. which includes
two glasses of beer ut COulson.-Dencer
Tribune.
The laborers employed near Al
hany. on the West Shore Railroad, eat
between 1000 and 5000 loaves every
uay. Half of it is made OF rye Hour,
and the other half of wheat.-Iroy
IN. W Times.
Notice in a Hobokcn ferry boat:
1.-THE seats in this cabin are reserved for
ladies. Gentlemen are requested not
to occupy them until the ladies are
seated."-N y. Mems.
"A young English lady has shown
what the fair sex can accomplish IN the
severe sciences. She had been refused
a%dmittance to q series of lectures by
Prof. Huxley on biology, but at last
gained his consent, and has beaten her
$50 male opponents.
The portraits on the new postage
stamps that come in use October l are:
one cent. Franklin; two cent, jackson;
three CEN, Washington; five cent, Gar
field; six cent, Lincoln; seven cent,
Stanton; ten cent, jefferson: twelve
cent, Clay: fifteen cent, Scott; thirty
cent, Hamilton; ninety cent. Perry.
The cabinet OF the Territorial
Pioneers of California has been en-
riched by the donation from Gilbert
Palache OK two five-tollar gold pieces
coined in San Francisco by private per-
sons in lS49 and 1880. Other additions
of early-day relies are continually be-
ing made.
John w. Ship, of Nashville, on
being assigned to a room in 4 hotel at
st. Augustine recently, gave the bed
ding an examination. Under a pillow
he found a pocket-book containing
S31, 900, which proved to be the prop
erty of w. j. Green, a banker from
Utica, n. Y.-ChicqJO Times.
Sixteen completely petrified human
bodies are said to have been recently
discovered in Pine Mountain, Campbell
County. Tennessee. in n solid limestone
rock with fragments of petrified wood.
Near by is also n cave, the walls OF
which are decorated with paintings OF
extinct or imaginary animals.
A Boston lady had a dog which.
when it or its friend the cat wished to
go into the kitchen. stood by the door
orl a11,vr,1 tia nnf 70 rpp,,, tInnn JtS
back. The cat could then reach one
paw over the latch, and by pressing the
other paw on the t~humbpiece WAS able
TO open the door. The cat would then
drop on the dogs back. and ride into
the kitchen in triumph.-Boston Post.
AT Milbrook, Canada, during a re-
cent thunderstorm, according to the
Messenger of that place, a horse harm
essed to a buggy was fastened to afence.
During q terrible lightning flash and
thunder crash the buggy was thrown
completely over the horse, the shaft
stuck into the ground and broken, and
one wheel thrown some distance away.
The same storm shattered to splinters
eight telegraph poles in the vicinity.
"A piece of lime which a boy carried
in his pocket was the cause of his death
from blood-poisoning. 1t is the first in
stance on record of Il boys pant's-pocke'
going back on him. TO think that bras.
wire, rusty old knife blades, decayed
fruit. cobbler's wax, fish hooks, putty,
mice. h~cdgehogs, al be carried with
IMMUNITY. yet there's all this fuss about
a little bit of lime that looked rs limo.
cent as a piece Of chalk. Chicago NeUs