Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-03-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Tennessee has great natural re-
sources, including ten thousand square
miles Of timber as yet untouched.
There are now nearly seven million
children in the United States who do
not know their letters. - Chicago
Herald.
Josh Billings says he has discov-
cred that there is one thing that can
be said of dyspepsia-it makes man
forget all his other sorrows.
An advertisement can not reach
the general public so surely and effec-
tualiy in any other way as through the
columns of a newspaper that is widely
read and trusted.
"A new rose. possessed of manifold
attractions, perfect in form and coler,
unequaled in fragrance, hardy in habit,
and a perpetual bloomer, has been
named by its originator 1.-The American
Beauty"
The town of Westboro, Mass, did
not have a fire during the year 1884.
The fire department was called out
once to put out a fire in a freight-car
en- route through the town, which was
stopped for the purpose
"A juror at Cumberland, Md, the
other day hung his coat over one of
the heaters in the courtroom. When
he put it on after adjournment he dis
covered that some apples he had in his
pockets were Observation-Disclosures Sun.
An earthquake shock travels about
twenty-five miles a minute through
hard substances. but soft substances,
such as sand and gravel, or clay, retard
It's rate OF progress, and, of course, in
water it gets on much slower still
Chicago Times.
A Georgia negro, named 'Gabe
Walker, tired of sowing his bachelor
wild oats, married the other day at the
age of uinety-iive. .'iabe'S' father
lived to be one hundred and ten and
was in Il fair way 10 live forever when
wagon ran over him.
In China, accordingto the COrnhilk
Maga2ine, they value eggs according
to their age. All eggs are put in
pickle. After several years they be-
come black throughout. The egg of
wealth and luxury in the ,tlowery king
dom is forty or fifty years old.
Perhaps no association has done
so much toward enlightening the pub
lie mind in reference to the condition
of the prisons in the United States and
the necessity for some general improve
ment in their management, as the
National Prison Association.-Ch Chicago
Inter Ocean.
In Brooklyn recently an old man
was arrested for begging, but at the
hearing it was explained by the daugh-
ter that he was possessed of IA religious
mania and gave what he realized from
begging to some needy institution or
dropped it into the poor box at church.
-Brookiyn Eaglc.
On Cape Cod and in many districts
along the New England coast it is
firmly believed that sick man can not
die until the ebb tide begins TO rum
Watchers by beds of sickness anxious
ly note the change of the tides, and if
the patient lives until the tl,<d begins
to set in again BE will live until the
next ebb.-BostoH Transcript.
1t seems that japanese prison man
agement is rather ahead OF ours. 4
large variety of trades are taught in
the prisons. such As tailoring. cooking,
type-Sett;ng, printing. book-hinding.
shoemaking. porcelain and painting
The prisoners have an allowance of
three cents a day and fifty cents 4
week put to then credit and paid to
them on their discharge = Boston
Rerad
Those learned editors ,who are
writing about '-dynamiteurs' and .'dv-
namitardS'' ought to be taught that IN
English word is better for tier readers
than a foreign one, and that .'dvna-
miters" is good enough to describe the
new class of cowardly criminals. Why
Irishmen operating i'll England should
be described by FHench words in Amer
lean papers can not he explained
Philadelphia Bulletin.
An exchange Gays that under the
laws of Pennsylvania bakers can not.
by law. collect bill for the sale of
bread that all bread shall be sold by
the pound: that bread scales shall be
kept on the counter or in some con-
spicuous place in all bakeries; that I'M
less the bread be weighed the sale is
illegal and the seller liableYo fine of
ten dollars and costs for each otfense.
and that half of this sum sNall 90 to
the informer.
One night Admiral. then Commo-
dore, De Horsey. Mturning from
dinner party in Jarsaica, WAS chal-
lenged by a sentry anu asked for the
cornter-sign. He could not give it
and rather pompous1y said: -"Stanil
aside. fellow, and let Me pass. 1 am
Captain De Horsey." To which the
sentry replied: .'Captin De Hersey9
Captn De Donkey Go in de box"
The sentry would not be placated. and
into the box the officer went. TO remain
until,tLe relief guard liberated him.
Two bright citizens of Govingten,
Tenn, who were inpeeunious blt
thrifty. ket two hundred thousand dol
lars on tie last election. and deposited
two large bundles in the safe of the
local bank to pay the wager On the |
strength ST this they bought large |
stocks of goods, one of them married |
q wealthy widow and the other was
elected treasurer of rolling-mill |
After the election it was found that the
bundles were composed of writing
paper, with fifty dollar notes on the