McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14
FACT AND FANCY.

An eyeless chicken is on exhibition
at New Orleans.
A bullet travels mile IN three and
two-tenths seconds.
Summer cottages in chrome yellow
will vie with the tawny sea-sands this
season.
Making envelopes out of straw pa
per is new and flourishing industry in
ireland.
Penjdeh is accurately written and
pronounced Punjdeh, and means Give
villages. ;"
The number of letters posted IN the
world each year averages about o.
600, 100000.
The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as a refuge for more than 400
species OF meets.
The cost of each saloon to the city
of indianapolis last year was Sl53, and
the license only $52.
The base ball clubs of this country,
it is estimated, will cost the people
SIG, 100000 this year.
Thirteen hundred new buildings
worth about @4,000,000, were erected
in Washington last year.
Some genius has invented a fishing
rod that registers the precise number
and weight of the fishes caught.
Mexican soldiers are said to be of
all shades of color, ranging from near
ly pure white TO perfect black.
A real-estate owner in San Francisco
adds TO his large income from that
source by peddling fruit about the
city.
A wealthy timber merchant has had
his coat-of-arms painted on his carri-
age with the Latin motto "Vidi''-I
saw.
Coal mining machines capable of
doing the work of twenty men are
being introduced in the Panhandle
mines.
The pvrometer, an instrument in
which heat is measured by the expan-
sion of metals, will accurately mea-
sure heat up to 1000 degrees.
Every penitentiary in Texas is pro-
vided with kennel of three or more
fierce bloodhounds for the purpose of
hunting and capturing escaped pris-
oners.
A train composed of two cars of
gold bullion, three cars of silver, eight
cars of silk and four cars of tea, is On
its way east from California and Col
oradO.
An iron car-wheel will travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire will run
100000 miles, costing two and a half
times as much and running more than
four times as long as an iron wheel.
w. II. Wood, OF New York city, re-
Gently caught on the gulf coast of
Florida tarpon weighing Ill pounds.
The tackle used was the ordinary rod,
reel, and line employed by bass fishers
ON the Atlantic coast, and the feat
ranks without known parallel.
An enterpris;ng man, who wished to
be able 10 announce the first sign of
spring placed a twig on which was a
cocoon of a caterpillar near the stove
for a week or two. The butterfly was
Matched in the month of March and
exhibited as the first harblnger of
spring"
A Philadelphia minister has even
exceeded Mr.. Gifford's denunciation
of pleasure. He condemns not only
skating -rinks and theaters, but all
church fairs and festivals, and says:
"Its shame that whenever money
has to be raised for church purposes
some people think it can't be done I'M
less they must have little fun over it"
The tunneling of Tuscarora noun
tain, in Fulton county. Pennsylvania,
is gigantic work. Drills propelled
by compressed air are in operation on
each end of the tunnel night and day.
The tunnel is already bored 1000 feet
on the west side and 1900 on the east.
AS the mountain is calculated to be
just one mile through the boring is
now half completed.
An effort has recently been made to
measure the dimensions and speed of
deep-sea waves with marked success.
The longest wave recorded measured
a half-mile from crest to crest, with
period of twenty-three seconds. Waves
having length of five hundred to six
hundred feet and periods of ten to
twelve seconds are the ordinary storm
waves of the north Atlantic ocean.
1t is not generally known that Yer
mont has gold mine. 1t is called the
"Rooks," and is located at Plymouth.
From annual report it appears that the
mine produced from September, 1883,
to January, 1885, S6s,070 in gold, and
paid four dividends aggregating $46,-
900, the yield varying between S33 SO
and $50 50; while the cost declined
$40 Is to 81 20 per ton for mining and
A colered preacher in the outskirts
OF Columbia, S. c., notified his congre-
CATION on recent Sunday that he
would not preach till he had So. The
hat was passed round, and when re-
turns were made $3.50 was in the pot,
whereupcn the preacher said he must
have S1.50 more before he would
preach. The hat was passed around
the second time, and the So made up,
when the congregation was treated to
one of the best efforts of the thrifty
pastor.
From recent surveys it has been
ascertained that the entire city of Vir-
ginia, Nevada, has moved over thirty