McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
PASSING EVENTS.

Oranges are retailing at cent each
in southern cities.
The Baltimore presbytery is in its
ninety ninth year.
A military organization is to be es-
tablished at Tombstone, Arizona.
There are fifty-three newspapers
pu blished in Washington territory.
Custom compels an Icelander in his
native island to kiss every woman he
meets.
The city of Hartford claim. that it
pays one-fourth of the Connecticut
state tax.
The drill-room of the 65th regiment
at Buffalo, n. Y, is 27S feet long by
178 feet wide.
Many young men who enter drug
stores with ague are merely shaking
for the drinks.
The hand-organ has seen 10S years
since its inventor died. Verify, the
evil that men do live after them.
There arc many counties in Tennes-
see without even carriage road, and
horseback is the only mode of locomo-
ton.
t'Don't wish l was senator, maj
"Why, Johnnie?'' because when
senator's want a recess, all they have
to do is to vote for it.
The coolest weather ever expert
enced in the northwest was at Fort
Benton in 1880, when the thermometer
marked SO degrees below zero.
In none of the southern states do the
receipts from the postoffice pay the ex-
penses of the postal service. In Vir-
ginia the deficit is 100000 and in
Georgia $4,000,
A plumber has been indicted for
manslaughter on account of defective
work done. Next they'll indict them
for larceny for collecting their bills.
The world moves.
Massachusetts, now pays it's Cover
nor $4,000 year. The salary was re-
duced to $4,000 in 1879, but restored
last year, to take effect with the be-
ginning of this year.
A New York prison convict has in
vented hat-pressing machine which
he patented and sold for $4,000, half
oi which sum has been placed in the
prison safe to his credit.
In Canada-"Well, wife, suppose
we ought to call on the Mandelbaums,
hadn't we?'' Eyes, dear, 1 suppose
so, but they are horribly common peo-
pie; just think, they only stole s13, O00."
His Master-Did you take those
boots of mine to be soled, Larry?
Irish Valet did sor; and see the
thrife the blag yard give me form!
Said they was purity nigh W ore through.
Snake-skins are now extensively used
in the production of purses, diary
covers, and the like. Albums and
scrap-books are also made of snake
skin, and sometimes slippers and even
shoes.
1t will be noticed that whenever
writer misspells a word to give point
20 joke, the composltor sees to it
that the word is spelled correctly.
This is why so many editors have dys-
pepsia.
The next annual convention of the
Musical association of Virginia and
North Carolina will probably be held
at Petersburg, the necessary guarantee
fund of 100000 having been already
secured.
Waterbury, Conn.,, records a case
where man who supposed he was
being cured by holy water was actual
ly cured of the rheumatism by the con-
tents of bottle of common blue wash
ing fluid.
In December, 1870, the price of the
best grade of granulated sugar was 10
cents per pound. Five years later it
was 10a cents. In 1880 it was 81 cents,
and now it is 81 cents, the same price
as in England.
The sites of Richmond and Peters
burg, Va, were selected as locations
for cities in 1888. The latter was nam
ed, not for the duke of Richmond, as
has been claimed, but for Richmond,
the suburb of London.
A big snowy owl who lodges in the
barn of Al Nichols, in the Sierra val
ley, California, had in his larder for
the winter the other day eight big
mice, several large rats, and chip
hunks without number.
At each rise in the Ohio river large
runs of ccal are made from Pitts
burgh to points below. On the last
rise ten million bushels were sent to
Cincinnati, the cost for transportation
being S125,O00 ard the time required
a little over four days. The saving by
the river over rail transportation was,
on this shipment alone, about S721,-
900.
The Brooklyn bridge has seriously
interfered with the New York and
Brooklyn ferry traffic. The ferry COM
pany owning the five lines most affect
ed paid New York in rents during the
year Immediately preceding the open
ing of the bridge S145, 225.76. and for
the year after it was opened Sl26,971.-
O9-a loss to New York from ferry
rental on account of the bridge, of
$18, 254.66.
Oscar Wild said the other day in his
lecture at Glasgow, that nothing dis
tressed him more than to see in a para
graph that such and such a color was
going to be fashionable next season,
and he held that it would not be more
ridiculous to read in musical maya
zine that :'R fat'' was going to be a
fashionable note. / certainly think,
saws Labouchere. that if s.B fiat" can