The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-04-02
! FACT AND FANCY

8 FACT AND FANCY. fH5 5ss5
W. ii, Morton, Of Athens, Ga, has
hen that lays two eggs at q time. ss5s
..Vending the public prints, is the
magazine literary style for selling
newspapers"
The losses of cattle in Indian Ter.
ritory this winter are placed as high
as 68 per cent. e
The Harvard annex for women is a.
success. It began with twenty -seven
students, and now has over fifty.
:: Eighty-two turtles were frozen TO
death q few days since, Oh. the train
between Jacksonville and Savannah,
Ca, 5.5,, n \ r. s4 s. y
The Idaho legislature has passed
a bill to erect q capitol building al
Boise City, and an insane asylum at
Blackfoot. :s5ss 35t is5#
sG The Indianapolis street-car compat
MES have established four places ID
that city where drivers and cons
ductors are furnished hot coffee free Of
charge. a: 5.. H {! E,s5 si
The population Of Portland, Oregon,
according to the new city directory, Ia
SO, 0O0. This does not include 1000
Chinese, nor East Portland and
Albina, which would swell the total to
AZ, 00O.3 Ii .3s *
There is chiId's rocking-chair in
Quitman county, Georgia, that has
rocked the children of four genera-
tions. 1t is sixty-efght years old,
and is still good for many years to
come. s$js & 81 Rs s--4s5
The resid ences Of foreign diplomats
OF W ashington, which are Technically
territories, are not taxed /. neither do
the ministers nor attaches residing III
them pay poll-taxes or any taxesupon
personal property. II X .5
negro child was born near Shelby,
N. ca o day or two ago, with eyes in
the forehead, two inches and q half
above the proper place. It's face look
ed very much, like chat Of an owl. and
the eyes themselves were like frogs
eyes. s,s! t,sGs 8 5'5st.
AZ Sunday school teacher asked a
little girl Of: her class if she had been
baptized. .sYe s, = said the little girl,
1.two times..'' 5'sTwo times! Why,
how could that be pr exclaimed the
teacher. at didn't take the first
time, = said the little girl
Extensive and valuable phosphate
deposits are said to exist in a singular
natural cavity in Alachua county,
Florida, known as the. Devils Mill
Hopper. About 81 per cent. of the
rock. is pure phosphate, which is 10 2
per cent more than is yielded Dy the
Ienosits in So,Ith 6aro1;no & 5t,,,5, saE74
Returns Of. the Bessemer steel pro-
duction in the United States last year
show Q total quantity Of lngots con-
verified of 1855, 300 net tons, a falling
off Of z per cent. from 1888. The rail-
product ton for the past year was: Bes-
semer steel, 4,116,O4l tons. iron, 21,-
800, and open hearth steel, 5000.
Instead of: sending his eldest boy
to Florida % the physicians recon-
mended, 81. sP. i Hubbard; of New
Haven, has built a. conservatory over
his kitchen addition, and! the boy
spends six or seven hours in the sun
shine every day, and Is growing strong
again. z. S &, a. S Ss To-
Z Nantucket is. ice bound. "a writer
from there, on Feb. 6, said |: A.No boat
has left or come to- this little town
since Saturday, January 81, thus de-
barring us from sall Intercourse with
the mainland. 'Sconset and every
other part Of the island is frozen up {
80 that no one can come to: our assist
r-.aissa
Hawaiian newspapers are: appealing
for popular subscriptions inS aid of
ieper children, the number Of whom is
said to be largely on the increase.
The government, 1t is explained, is SO
nearly bankrupt that it has no money
to appropriate toward the home; for
leper children which 1t is proposed to
build, Il i 133 z. ~ rs
Maine ranks second in her sea and
first in her river fisheries among the
states in the union; In her sea fisher
les l,071 persons are employed, and
the Valuc of the product last year was
W, 6l4.1 78. In river. fishing i, 500 per-
sons find employment, and thew
caught in 1883, fish to he5Yalue Of
$175, GAG. .fs.s.8 q -.
a physician connected with one Of
the hospitals in New York where
children receive special attention SAYS
that many of the cases Of spinal
trouble brought to his notice are the
direct result Of the careless handling
of baby carriages. The matter Of how
nurses and others handle these little
vehicles is$ one to which parents may
well pay attention. i5.;.2- t5ly5
Since 1856 there have oeon sold ia
private parties 4O2 Of tie islands along
the coast Of Maine. THEW range IS
size from /, ono to II, 900 acres. Tnera
are 8 islands comprising from i. 900