McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-05
PASSING EVENTS.

lessor of elocution.
Conrad Reichter wanted New YORK
| Judge to give him divorce because
his wife pulled his nose.
One-half of 1 per cent is the estima-
ted loss among Yellowstone cattle
herds so far this winter.
| The cost of the Boston post0ffice and
| sub treasury building and Land up tc
Jan. was $3.50, 10l.1S.
An old Mexican woman ut San Luis
Obispo, Cal, aged SO years, has just
cut her third set of teeth.
A bill providing for u tax on all in.
comes of over 5000 has been introduced
in the Connecticut Legislature.
The Wagner feeling is spreading to
remote quarters. On bridge in Pike
county, Pennsylvania, is Il sign, walk
ure Horses"
There is movement TO remove the
principal of the public school at HALEY,
Idaho, because, among other things,
he pronounces Indian ''Injun," and
plays billiards.
At the recent funeral of David Bar
ton, of Plttsiield, Mass, who died at
the age of S5. were among the mourn
ers ten children, iifty-three grand
children, and thirty-two great-grand-
children.
A new rose possessed of manifold
attractions, perfect in form and color,
unequaled in fragrance, hardy in habit,
and a perpetual bloomer, has been
named by the originator 1.-The Ameri-
can Beauty"
A Georgia jury on murder case
remained out two days; that is, they
were out securing the country for the
criminal. When the man was caught
the jury ended their deliberations and
the life of the culprit at the first tree
that was convenient.
One of the most remarkable yields OF
honey ever heard of was recently gar
ncred by III. c.. Parks from his apiary
near Riverside, Cal. The yield for the
season from thirty-three hives was
seven and a half tons, an average of
IA pounds TO the hive.
One of the strangest uses for snails
has been discovered by the London
adulterer. Bruised in milk, and
boiled, they are much used in the man
ufacture of cream, and a retired milk
man prOnounces them to be the most
successful imitation known.
A college exchange says: "a fresh
man coming out of an examination in
mathematics was heard to exclaim:
go dear, Thunder! ConfouDd itt!r
Then, turning to his companion, he
said apologetically: 1t does a man
good to swear sometimes
Four years ago the United States gov
eminent purchased land at Two Lights.
on the coast of Maine, for life-saving
station, since when nothing further has
been done. Already this winter there
have been six wrecks in this vicinity,
the last one only a few days since.
West Pittsfeld, Mass, now produces
the latest oldest postmaster in the
person of A. w. Williams. who is a
Shaker elder and an elderly Shaker,
81 years old, and shaking in his shoes
for fear of losing position he has
held since the day of President Pierce.
When the news of the death of
Elizabeth Berry, in Derry, Pa, was
telegraphed to her father in Ohio, he
dropped dead without word The
news of this, following on her daugh-
ter's unexpected death. was too much
for the mother. The three were bu-
ried together.
The people of Washington evidently
that an Inauguration oc-
ours only once in four years. A glance
at the advertising columns of the
daily newspapers indicates that almos:
verybOdy who has a room or window
ON the line of march from the capitol
to the white house is willing to rent it.
Out of score of advertisements the
lowest price for single windows is SIG
Or two for S1j.
"Old men should never stay toe
IoRg in one place." said Gen. Simon
Camerson recently. Following out
this idea, the veteran will early mex
month make his annual pilgrimage &c
he land of flowers. Mr. Dana, on
The Sun, Col. James Duffy, and
Lawrence Jerome of New York vii
De his companions. They will frs
20 to New Orleans and from there
visit some of the most interesting parts
If Mexico along its railroad lines.
Clinton Z. Latting, II years of age,
If Shortsville, n. Y, has constructed
/ musical wonder, and is another him.
'elf. The instrument is about two
eet square, and was made entirely
With an ordinary jack-knife, the COM
,onent parts being wood and a sheep.
kin found on the farm where the
young man lives, and brass reeds made
rom brass wire. On this instrument
4atting, who has never had any mu-
ical training, is able to play any tune
ound insthe music books of the day.
Ayoung lady at Athens, Ga, some
ime since retired to bed without
blowing out the lamp, when her eve
.aught sight of a mans profile on the
vail, hideous and menacing. Greatly
Harmed, she sprang from bed and
ushed into the sitting-room, telling
he family that man was concealed
n her room. The males of the family.
rmed with clubs, proceeded to the
DOM. The image was still tn ere. A
earch under the bed and throughout
he house, however. awaited nothing.
The mystery was unsolved, though il
vas noticed that the terrible appari.