Omaha daily bee., 1885-11-14
SINGELARITIES.

Coffee plants haycb en- found growing wild
i'll Butte county, Cal.
Portland, Ore. claims q COW whose milk is
nearly 80 per cent cream.
The crop of one pumpkin vine in Michigan
was 500 pounds of pie material.
The streets of Salisbury, n. C., are being
m~acadamized with god quartz, worth SE a
ton.
Aluge number of white swans have been
killed in tie vicinity OF Mitchell, OAK, this
S,asOn.
A man with bright purple hair was the OBJ
served of all observers IN a CIeyGIallu %.
court room.
a cougar, measuring seven feet six inches
in length. was s.aiu by some hunters on Ian
coin creek, Oregon, last week.
DandeliOn roots were raised extensively in
New Hampshire this Ncaf and prOAtaDly sod
TO manufacturers Of alleged coffee.
A gray eagle, measuring seven feet from
tip to zip, with a rabbit in each talon, was
Slot near Sacramento, Cal, last week.
The body of Mrs. j. w. Taylor, of Louis
vile, which was inferred six years ago, has
been found completely petriicd, with every
feature lile-ike.
A daughter of AIr. and Mrs. Frank King of
| Springnd d, ohio, two months old, only
twelve inches long, and shows no signs Of
growing larger.
A night watclman at Athens, Ga, SAYS he
often llcarS the whistle of the engine on the
y 49, ~" i"' $1,000
400 miles distant.
Capt. Hanna brought up from San Pedro,
Cal, on his last trip, y potato weighing ABOUT
seventeen pounds, and measuring thirty
three and thren-tlSllil5 ilC4IcS' around Tie
largest part.
a number of hogs on a st. Helena. Oal.)
ranch b came intoxicated Iately iTom a too
\ tree Indulgence IN grape pOilidc1, ana Il
pitched bate followed, III which one OF the
pUrkers was kllcd.
n IL gIaf.1 Ii,ut "a nlnni has lnan discovered
in South America wlIlc.I pOsNcSsCs atrunS
| pccIrical properties. On breaking a lNi "a
shock Is felt, and Il compass Is affected at IL
distance sOAle feet lrOhl the plant.
The god dug irou lhe mlncs in Tibet,
writes IA missionary, is 50 plentiful that u IS
used to cover the pinIIac - Ol, lib
lagOdts, aud II hlad mao iu"lS' cI'~li',
cDucheS anu ornaments for The people.
A negro ia Tcxdrkana, Ark, cats glass tor
a living. A WrlJtr ," one ol ,tnc iheulchl
baIeIs sans h9 VIII mastiedtc glass Ton lAy
In ANY quantity, nom 4 sIuaiI piece 10 u
lamp chimney, and keep II up al day.
A shower of smails tell in Hartford, Conn,
one ui-ht last week, appearing HitrT heavy
showers. The Snalis. HE CUulitnl says, were
neither of anJunkHOwn nor rae yauriy, and
we're similar 10 4 laA observed IN Hartford
about q year ago.
A resident OF Denmark, Iowa, Offers for
sale a considerable assortment at snakes,
timber ana lidlrie i%lttler>, blacE snakes,
bilic f,tceT-. spreading Slpfrs, opUtltd adde's
and the ike al - cent, a i0ut, or - Gene il
the purchaser takes Twelve iecl or more.
4 Nevada pIusprct0r discovered rotten
quartz in the dir talONn Out 90 several hoe,
hy ground sqCirrcis, Examining Il, ne FOUND
thai u contained gold. and BY following up
the work oil thc,e industrious Ilile millrls
he discovered the rich mining camp OF the
EsIherd du district.
There is a shade tree in Texas called the
umbrella china. the Ol gin OF VINE Is At
tributed to MIrabeau h. Lamar, second prrSi-
dent OF the l.Oue star state, and An ancestor
OF The present Secretary l.. q. &. Lamar, wlo
china, putting tlie branches under ground
and letting the roots sproIlt.
Henry Slater, of S~0rristown, Pa, has a
litter uf sNcn young pI~s, one ot which Is
a mnnstrOsity of an UNUSUAL type, combining
With a pOielne CONSTRUCTION a portion OF 1uc