The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
PASSING EVENTS.

One family arrived at Newport iass
week with sixty-four IN
There is an active demand for cot
tages at Long Branch this year.
Nearly one-half the entire popuia-
ton of Buffalo is of Teutonic origin.
Corn has gone up IS per cent II
Monterey, Mexico, in the last avs.
One-ffth of the legal voters OF Mas
sachusetts are vetrans OF The CIVIL war.
The construction of a hotel costing
$3.50. 900 Is on the tapis in Washington.
The northwestern lumber resources
have decreased % per cent. N the last
year.
A dude has been defined in an At
Ianta court as "a fellow who Is mash
ed on himself"
Mrs. Black Bear, a Piegan squaw,
died at the Blackfeet reservation,
Montana, aged 124 years.
The first bee-tree ever found in east
ern Washington territory was dlscov-
ed a few days ago near the Touchlt.
ga frisk," is the fashionable
name for a ball in Philadelphia, and
a theater party of buds is a "dove
party"
A LAWYER named Scipio Africanus
Kenner is under arrest at Salt Lake
City, charged with stealing ten thou
sand brick.
A statue of Moses in the Bullrushes,
by Herman Klein, is to be placed at
the lily pond in Paramount park,
Philadelphia.
Large focks of ~blackbirds IN Los
Angeles county, California, are prov
ing a check TO the depredations of
grasshoppers.
/ The Dominion government has re-
duced the tax on timber in British
Columbia to 10 cents a tree or 70 cents
per one thousand.
The Washington territory Grand
lodge of Masons has declared retail
liquor dealers Ineligible 10 member
ship in the order.
The population of Macon, Ca, was
IL, 900 according to the United States
census in 1880, and is o $4,000 ac-
cording to the directory census.
An Italalian ship has been sheathed
with glass plates, to take the place of
copper sheathing. The joints are
made tight by the use of mastic.
Bicycling isnow utilized for wedding
journeys. The bride rides the tricycle.
and the groom the bicycle, or, more
easily, both ride the sociable tricycle..
Next to Senator Stanford's large
claims to have the largest in the
world, covering three thousand acres.
An elevated railroad train was de-
layed a minute in New YOrd owing to
the fringe on a lady passengers dress
becoming entangled with the button
on a brakeman's coat.
A novel game of baseball will be
played at Carlton, Yamhlll county,
Oregon, at an early day. Nine young
ladies will play nine gentlemen, who
must be over 80 years of age.
An exchange states that if a CASTOR
oil plant is kept growing in a room,
mosquitoes, dies, and other pests will
not enter, or if they should they are
o found dead beneath the leaves.
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers, COM
prising, it is estimated, go, 000, GOO
separate insects, were captured at tho
Natoma vineyard, near Folsom, Cal,
by drowning in the irrigating bitches.
Strawberry shortcake has been
served out to all the prisoners IN the
Arkansas penitentiary, despite the
provisions of the constitution concern
ing cruel and unusual punishment.
One juror in Clarke county, Georgia,
has caused no less than twenty mis-
trials, and now it is proposed to leave
his name and those OF other men who
have acted in the same manner out of
the jury lists.
The Columbia Indians in Harvey
valley, Oregon, are much incensed
over the recent killing by white men
of two Indian horse-thieves, and they
are reported TO be holding war dances.
The n~eighboring whites are alarmed.
In an account of the war between
the fishermen of New Jersey and Della
ware The UeUeLand Lcader remarks in
an offhand manner that New JERSEY
had better annex the three counties of
that is to say,-the whole
state.
There 10 a Hotel Boston in New
York, opposite the Central park, which
mas aUGnI SdHuSlOne front Or0amented
with blue trimmings, as if to Indicate
the blue blood which is proverbIally
associated with the first circles of the
Hub"
A New Hampshire court has lately
decided that a physicians horse and
buggy are ''toOls," and as such are
exempt from seizure for debt when
they are necessary to enable him to
practice his profession with reasonable
success.
A curious statistical fact has been
discovered. There are twelve thous-
and stamp collectors among children
Of the New York public schools, and
many dealers in stamps. The coiIec-
of buttons, old coins, and other
small bric-a-brac were not enumer-
ated.
According to Bill Nye, the sign of
distress for a Maine man in search Of
Irink is, close your right eye, hook
your right foot around and back of
your left leg, with the left hand exc
the celebrated gesture of SamI OF
Posen, and place the right hand on the
stomach.
The Robbins family at Green's land