McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-07
PASSING EVENTS.

skillet full of old Spanish coins
was dug up Monday. near the entrance
to Harvard college, Cambridge.
There is a bed of clay in Greene
county, Alabama, which is said to
possess valuable medicinal properties.
Dressmakers' rooms are now got up
IN a high style of art and called
"ateliers. The customers pay hand
somely for the luxury.
1t is estimated that there have been
almost as many trees planted this sea-
3son in the vicinity of Tucson, Arizona,
as the total of the last six years.
Weddings can be had cheap in
Georgia. Uncle Calvin, Clarke
county justice of the peace, only
charges a plug of tobacco for marry
ing couples.
While eating its food horse belong
ing to a citizen of Williamsburgh, n.
T., was bitten in the lip by rat, and
died from the effects of the wounds
THIS inflicted.
In Arizona any person who uses pro-
fame, indecent, vile, or abusive Ian
guage, or threats, within the hearing
of women and children, is held liable
by law to fine or Imprisonment.
Jupiter will be worth approaching
as an evening star this month, for he
looks larger than he will for six years,
because he is going away from the
sun and wilt not return until 1892.
| One hundred and forty thousand
eucalyptus trees are being planted
near Los Angeles, Cal, for fuel. 1t is
said that an acre of them after a lapse
of four or five years will yield as much
as an acre of grapes.
A buried graveyard exists near
| Mesilla, New Mexico. In 1862 the
burial ground was hidden from sight
| by the sands; this year the capricious
silica was lifted from its resting place,
exposing graves and tombstones that
| were covered more than twenty years
ago.
Maine papers say that q Bath board
ing mistress surprised one of her
boarders, who was learning to play on
the banjo, by reducing the price of his
board, on the ground that his
singing and playing had frightened
away all the rats. The compliment
has discouraged the young man so
that he has given up practice.
The managers of the Franklin in
stitute, in Philadelphia. have decided
to hold during the fall of the present
year an exhibition to be devoted, as
their announcement declares, 'to such
recent inventions, improvements, and
discoveries in the sciences, arts and
manufactures as may be deemed
worthy of the name, the place, and the
occasion"
The election of the governor Of Rhode
Island is proclaimed by the sheriff
from the balcony of the state house in
Newport to the citizens assembled in
the square below; evening bells are
tolled throughout the state to announce
the event, and there remain other
vestiges of the ways of the old English
settlers. Rhode Island is the only state
in the union which makes the owner
ship of property condition for voting.
\ A good story is told in lions Herald
4 wedding in Methodist church
whereat a prominent divine who was
to officiate, finding himself and con-
gregation in the church considerably in
advance of the bridal party, finally
asked that some one should strike up
hymn to improve the time. A good
brother started off just as the bridal
party entered the church, with the
hymn beginning
"Come on, my partners in Distress"
One secret of the decline of the
southern cotton-mills, which The NeoO
Orleans Picayune admits and deplOres,
is that there was too great boom
in these enterprises. Those that were
earliest in the field made heavy divi-
dends, which induced others to crowd
in, until the production of the coarser
grades of goods, to which these mills
are chiefly devoted, was pushed be-
yond the demands of the market.
A young doctor IN Abbeville county,
South Carolina, was called to treat a
patient ill with pneumonia. He left a
small vial of veratrum, to be taken in
ter1ally, and a linlment composed of
hartshorn, turpentine, and chloroform,
to be applied externally. the next
day he was gratified to find his patient
better and able to sit up, but he COM
planned of terribly sore throat. On
investigation he discovered that the
patient had taken the liniment and
rubbed with the veratrum.
Those desiring to check a tendency
to obesity may now choose between
four systems. 1. The original Bant-
ing, which consists of eating nothing
containing starch, sugar, or fat. 2.
The German Banting. which allows
fat, but forbids sugar OF starch, 3. A
Munich system, which consists of
dressing in wooden clothes and of
sleeping between flannel blankets in
stead of cotton or linen sheets; and 4,
the Schweninger system. which in
sists on an interval of two hours be-
tween eating and drinking.
Paul Howes. Georgia drummer,
while travelling in South Carolina,
Joined with fellow drummer in buy
ing a one-t housand-mile ticket. The |
conductor refused to allow but one of
them to ride on the ticket, saying that |
while it could be issued to two or more |
parties, only one person could ride on
it at one time, and Mr.. Howard was
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