The Branding iron. [volume] (Atoka, I.T. [Okla.]) 1884-1884, 1884-03-15
OF GENERAL rrEnrsr.

wars. !iNe Dccu I'''''N
Eleven stret car conductors IN
Cincinnati hav, been presented with
800 each for png and faithful services.
Prof. Merton SAYS that the earth
receives obot 5000. 100000 of rietcors
every wear. out they only increase the
size of thccarth one inch in loo. 900
years.
A Detroit detective promises TO
vanuuih any one who viii compete
" ith linn in the matter of pie eating.
'.winoui regard To sex. color. politics
or anything else. - DcioH Post
Fifteen aud twenty dollar bouquets
src to be dispensed with this winter
among the best people of the mctrop.
,ls. and only the tinics, lunches OF
lowers are 10 be in favor. n. y.
I,uphic.
Two little daughters of Franklin
Phillips, of RraXton County. West
Virginia. put powder into ~ fire SO as
o make it burn up. one of them i
low sghtlcss. and the others life is de- |
SPARED of. 81. Louis Post.
George William Curtis told the
staten Islanders. at their late celebration. !
hat this precious stone staten Island I
,ct in their silver seas. is the most re-
splcndent gem of the imperial crown ~
he great metropolis "-N T. Tones
4 letter was recently received NJ
! .hc White House from citizen IN
Somerset. Kan. This citizen humhly
pciitioncd to have The nance of the place
hanged TO Handspring. The reason hc
rave was: There are several men in
The town who can turu handspripes.
hut not one who can turn n somerset.
~ Chicago Ttfbune.
Some time since Hartford man
presented u friend .; his a pei squirrel
which he had raised from its infancy.
The next day the pc. was gone, having
forced its way out W the care. IW
days later il put in its appearance ut III,
old homestead, wc1, muddy and hungry.
having Travelled 81 distance Of thirteen
miles. Hartjord Post.
Among the latest batch of crrali,
suicides are these: a Texas lawyer.
because he lost case n Kansas miller,
because n dam he had just built did not
hold wafer to turn his wheel; an Indiana
man. because an old wound would not
yet WELL MARYLAND woman because
.hc gGt religion; an Illinois farmer. be-.
cause the blowing did not suit him.
Hjiadelphid RccOrd.
Among the incidents of the recent
| gale on Lake Erie are the rescue by thc
: lifc-savino crew at Cleveland of c'wii-
, ieen lives, the imperilcd sailors being
brought to shore in baskets, and The
: drowning of four duck-huntcrs ai Erie
! who had no faith in the Signal Service
& al =
I of the Weather Bureau and the advice
, of friends. - Cecetdnd Lcadcr.
Judge Swan, who has passed some
months on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
IN the interest of the United States Fish
Commission. reports the discovery of y
new food fish. which he calls the black
cod. He SAYS it is one of the finest fish
: he has ever seen. and is caught in great
: numbers by dredging in deep water,
y and. when saltcd. is more tender and
+ paiatable than Goldfish. ~ Y. SIM.
y Mr. Barnum reluctantly confesse,
that the profits Of the ''grcatcSt show
on earth" last year were 100000
u The circus business Is coming up. and
:, will soon rival journalism as profcS
sion. The girl that slides down tn,
o wire from the center pole To the ground
! gets bigger salary than any editor o.,
i earth, even If she hasn', spent four year,
: of her life acquiring college cduca
" ton. - Chicago Inter ocean.
Thousands of young American
y swells are said by fashionable talo,
% :, 10 wear nothing of American make
. Their measures are sent to London tail
> ors. hatters, and furnishers. who pro
- vide the articles ordered very promptly
;" 20 II is true tina, garments thus obtane.
y are liable to prove poor fits. but Their
" are English tailors here also. who's
= sole employment is to complete importe,
n n suits to make Them fit.-N. y. Mai.
u Five young men started to tax
d their girls out to ride at Lancaster, n
" H., recently, in single carriages. Il
= turning corner the forward tear
80 tipped over, and the other four team
- " were going so fast that they could no
~ ~ be stopped, but one after the other bc
- came n part OF the general wreck. unit
:, il contained five teams and ten people
~ No serious injury resulted TO the youn
N people but two carriages were bSdl
I; wrecked. 49, Boston Hcr0id.
DR. j. u. Barnum, of Louisville
WHO Ttc'HtlN IfluIfieu from int Nof
'r deriu salt and gas we'll in Braccnburg
cS' Ky, tells II Commercial reporter tina
;, the flow is as great as il was at the tim
T. of its discovery in 1865. The well wnic
~ is $50 feet deep, has been tubcd 50 rs I
y - separate the gas from the water Th
"a Doctors tests showed an hourly escap
n of 81. .l20 cubic feet Of gas, with yeloc
20 ty warranting II company in laying
., pipe TO Louisville, forty miles distan
q. to supply the city with light and powel
Ne Mexico will never be inhabited (
9, any great extent by Anglo-saxon'
Ss according to Don Patricio Milmo,
,h wealthy capitalist of Monterey, for til
a very good reason that there is too muc
Nv available land in the United States II
s- people TO settle on rather than ca,
ty their lot among Spaniards and lsalis
<. in Mexico Those English-speakin
M people who are now there are general
Il adventurers with no money. 'but plen,
Of brass and wind and Don Patrici