The Dillon tribune., 1885-05-16
oh, Ra1pn G'ib"''e.
.,.,,,sGs OF INTEREST.

,,.,+ tree on earth, SO far as
Inc ,o knows, is said to be the 30
tree IN ,n0 It was planted in 2SS b. T.,
Bulm;aacc y aaacccordingly 2.171 years. old; us
and IS avis "a according to Sir James
great az Tennett, proved by historic
Emerson It is regarded as sacred.
o0.a. - are /. .915 trotting horses with With
lneL0 If $3.50 or better, and 5So
recolus ,rhose records arc within 2:3O.
PAGER, wi" the bays predominant, in both
In colol I'D ~ trotter, chestnuts taking
PAGER ' nlace. while with the PAGERS
secona ,!p and off colors are more nu-
msreus ,ns GUS in proportion to the nom0er Oh
no['.. ,,,er nools are being formed to
LaJh LarJ hold timber lands until want
buy s1S Gno pool has recently bought
ea; coo m 600 feet, and refused to sell
SVOo'VTTh; Th;s sort Of control is steadily
any. y;,e and will, in time, extend it.
sly" ss1i over enough timber territory 10
%.ke 1 too rapid donudatlon OF 1orest
tni timber impossible.
NJ. America,, Machinist gives the
l.hor ~ of locomotives belonging to
numr; nar;can railroads at 29,227. Reckon
Ameii;f .he i;fe Of locomotive twenty-five
ms nasrs' 81 there should be 1,169 OF them
INSTRUCTED in order to maintain tho
ouJ Stocr A car wheel lasts about eight
ss"rs. ssvvs. we are using 10000, 600 of them
!sddI !sd nroduce /, $50, 900 yearly.
Thera is said to be no living thing
~. % viii compare with the common
tna' sss in strength and agility. A hea,
nnue.sixteenth n of an inch in length, can
Suu ;.mn a distance of twenty inches. This
!. @ an times its length. If we should
I,oura a six-foot man to jump 32O
t .;n,as his length he would be obliged to
,.nJ | $40 feet from where he left the
Methodist elder at Fort Worth,
re1 recently whipped a bully, and
.ha Methodist OF that town thus appre'
s;st;vely s describes the incident: 1.-THE
sider took him one square blow be-
tween the lockers without stopping hi!
r.ce and it took twelve rowdies, three
Snners Of water and two quarts o
wbisky.t to revive the patient and ge
him of the grounds"
Apostle Teardel, in an address to tn
Mormons at Nephi, U. T., counselet
the children as follows: II want tt
caution the children. There's me,
around asking the children how man,
wives their fathers have. If they as1
you. tell them you don't know. II
rather you'd tell lie to defend you
friends and parents than tell the trutl
that will bring trouble upon them"
There is a gentleman of robust con
stitution living in Hamilton to who's
system egg is poison. A sip of coffe
settled with egg unsettles his stomach
and makes him sick. The presence Q
egg in anything he eats nauseates him
and less than the twentieth part of on
egg has made him sick for days. L
handle broken eggs blisters his fingers
and to eat single egg, he thinks
would kill him. Hamilton (Ga.) JON
nal.
Outdoor ceremonies of any sort i
severe weather, either summer q
winter, that necessitate dangerous e,
posure ought to be frowned down.
isa foolish and irrational custom.
seems to be assumed that the impor
ance or solemnity OF the occasion wi
serve to protect those particiuatin
from the ordinary consequences of sue
exposure. This is stupid feticl
proved to be fatal superstition h
constant cases of sickness and death .
about us.-1renton (N. H. Gazette.