McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-19

USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

The state of Maine paid last year
| 90, 745 as bounties on bears. the num-
Der of bears killed being 549.
A yellow-shelled egg will not spread
all over plate when ct is broken, as Il
white;shelled one will. The membrane
is thicker.
Foreign silks loaded with dye fire.
uuently cause mysterious flies with
spontaneous combustion, strong ar
gument for American silks.
A jury at Athens, Ga, were out two
weeks without agreeing upon verdict
| in the case of man charged with ped
ding spectacles without license.
Canvas-back ducks are cheaper than
meat in some of the northern counties
| in California. Hares are going beg
cling at fifty and sixty cents dozen.
The total value of property in
Arizona territory, as taken from the
assessment rolls of the several coun-
ties of Arizona for 1884, is $21 ,OOO, 900.
Philadelphia will not use the Schuyl-
kill river water longer, and are sup
piled with fresh spring water from the
country by the druggists at 80 cents
week.
Providence, r. l., sinners are now
besieged by two cohorts of Salvation
lists, Gen. Booth having established q
station there as rival to Maj. Moore's
people.
An eagle was killed at Santa Rosa,
Cal, recently while in the act of car
rying off lamb in its talons. The
bird measured six feet ten inches from
tip to top.
An appeal is made to Boston for
$500 to $4,000 to establish q kim
dergarten, with healthful surround
ings, for the blind children at the Per-
kins institution.
In the United States land Office at
Helena, Montana, recently, $4,000
acres of desert land were filed upon.
The rush was caused by the repeal of
the desert land law.
The citizens of Huntington, Oregon,
warned six of the worst men in the
place to leave within twelve hours
The bad men have loaded their guns,
sharpened their knives, and held the
fort.
In Clackamas county, Oregon, there
is q chestnut tree from which have
been taken five hundred pounds of
chestnuts, and there is one in East
Portland which has borne three hun
dred pounds in year.
The new Billings library building of
Vermont university is to be dedicated
at commencement in June. 1t is spa
cious and fire-proof, and has been
erected by means of gift of 100000
by Hon. Frederick Billings.
A Florida orange tree has produced
one orange whose surface is entirely
covered with sharply-detined ridges
running from the stem to the blossom
end, giving it the appearance of a
small squash, while another is per-
fectly white.
Several mustard mills have recently
been established in San Francisco.
Southern California produces immense
crops of mustard seed, and the seed
will be ground into cakes for shipment
to the east, where the crude material
is prepared for domestic use.
A salt well has just been discovered
at Gardenville, Erie county, N. Y,
whose water yields an ounce of salt
per quart of water, which is said to be
one OF the heaviest yields in the coun-
try. A company has been formed and
three hundred shares of stock sold.
A Vermont farmer made net profit
of $3.50 from the produce of single
hen turkey during the past season
This is equal to 100 bushels of wheat
in Kansas at 43 cents per bushel, with
this difference 1t would cost as much
to raise and harvest the wheat as it
would bring, while the proceeds of the
turkey were gain.
'Delta metal" discovered by Alex
ander Dick, of London, a combination
OF zinc and iron, is said to be as much
superior to brass as steel is to iron. 1t
is very tough, showing tensile
of 81 tons to the square inch
when drawn into wire of % gauge. II
does not tarnish as easily as brass and
takes high polish.
The Indian method of planting corn
was to make a conjcal hillock, in the
top of which the corn was placed, and
being used for the same purpose these
hills became SO hard that they have,
in some old fields, lasted TIL to-day.
In some places in Michigan heavy
growth of maple has sprung up since,
and yet the old corn-hills are clearly
marked.
Science destroys some of the most
cherished popular delusions. Catgut
S derived from sheep; German silver
vas not invented in Germany, and it
contains no silver; Cleopatra 8 needle
was not erected by her nor in her
honor; Pompey's pillar had no histor-
cal connection with that parsonage;
does not contain parti-
lie of wax; the tuberose is not rose.
put a polyanth; the strawberry is not
| berry; Turkish baths did not origin
ate in Turkey, and are not baths at all;
vhalebone is not bone, and contains
lot any of lis properties.
The statement made by Rev. DIR.
Todd, of New Haven, that he does not
believe there's a professor in Yale
college to-day who can translate at
light, and without recourse to we'll
humbed lexicons, page of Greek or
latin with which he has HAD no previ-
JUS acquaintance" reminds The Neu