The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-12-24
Things Compressed.

The finest church in Buenos Ayres Is
called the Church of the Remembrance.
1t is of pure Roman architecture, III
italian marble, and cost about S23o,-
900. 1t is the property OF senior y
Carlos Guerrero, a wealthy cltlzen,
who erected it as a memorl2l TO MS
daughter, who was murdered by q re-
jected lover about ten years ago.
An alarm against violent exercise Is
sounded by the medical and surgical
examiners. They sayit may be ac-
cepted as o. truism that any nature or
amount OF exercise that will cause the
heart to Jump or thump against the
chest-wall is exercise carried to an eA-
cessive and alarming extent: Inc
athlete and the slugger, for this rea-
son, are short lived.
Norristown Herald: "The new
special delivery service is o. great
boom" said a Norristown young lady
recently, sticking O. 1O-cent stamp OH
a letter directed to a female friend III
Philadelphia, said missive conveying
the important intelligence that h
writer was out riding with Charley
and had an invitation to attend %
wedding.
The manager of q circus which has
recently visited Canada says: "No-
where else in the world are audiences
so interesting to the performers. In
Quebec, Montreal, Hamilton, and Lon
don, notable fugitives from United
States law-such as Emo, Mother Man.
delbaum, and l suppose not less than
so more-are pointed out to the ring
people by some resident person
These eXiles are sure to go to the CIR
Gus to relieve the tedium of life In their
uncongenial cities; and they are inter-
esting to showmen, just as big imam
cial rogues are to all Americans"
The New Orleans Picayune says: "a
queen bee lays from 5000 to 5000
eggs in ninety-four hours. 1t is not
necessary to ask How doth the little
busy bee?' She doeth we'll, and should
be a shining example to the lazy hen
that can only be induced to lay one
egg in twenty-four hours, and then
only when eggs are cheap"
1t is worth remembering That dur
ing the first visit of cholera at St.
Petersburg, in 1882, says Iron, a firm
of iron founders employing five'hun-
dred men informed them that all those
who would not take q teaspoonful OF
powdered charcoal on entering the
works in tie morning must leavethelr
employ. The consequence was that
they did not lose q single man when
myriads were dying around them.
The Hartford Times has the follow
ing interesting paragraph: clay
Gould's ancestor, Nathan Gold, was
the richest man in Fairfield, Ct, in
1910, and was an Assistant OF his
colony Tan Office answeringtO Senator
at the present day. He died in great
honor and respect as The Worship
full Major Nathan Gold, Esq, in 1904
His son, Nathan Gold, died in Office
as Assistant Governor Of Connecticut
in 1923. The latter was grandfather
of Colonel Abraham Gold or Gould
Jay Gould's great grandfather), who
was killed at the battle of Ridgefield,
in 1777, the place where he fell being
shown to the present day"
In 1868 the Rev. Newton Chance, of
Texas, killed an editor in Sherman
and moved to Mississippi. At that
time he was q lawyer, but becoming
converted, he entered the ministry.
Recently he returned to Texas, and
while on q visit to Sherman was az
rested for the murder committed
twenty-five years ago.
Sir Arthur Bass (of Basis alefame)
has purchased Chesterfield House, for
nearly one million dollars. In the
hands of a famous architect it will be
restored to its old-time glory, and
among the r~estorations viii be the
mantelpieces which were taken
by Lord Chesterfield to Briefly.