The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-12-24
PASSING EVENIS.

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a live frog several days ago for two
bottles of beer.
Aproposiiton has been made to erect
q mecament to Gen. Grant in Buffalo.
n. T., by popular subscription.
The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given by a Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the BIZ
cycle, and it has become popular there,
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
of comprehending it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near
ly as possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared, and bring to the
work a sort of rudimentary education.
Prof. l.. E. Richards, the Yale pedes-
trian, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure.
Last year he made iwenty-one hun
dred.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is o to open at Allegheny, for the
use of its employees, a library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the open
ing of the Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as a popular summer re-
sort the school is fast taking the place
OF the camp meeting.
In a recent issue of a we'll known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisement: .'Wanted, a dis
tinguished and healthy looking man to
be cured patient in a doctors wait
ing-room. Address, etc."
As two men were fishing in a mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw a
crocodile about six feet long crawl
into the water. 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
The Jews of Austria complain that
it is q great hardship that they should
be forbidden to work on Sundays, since
their religion obliges them to rest on
Saturday. The Jewish population in
Vienna alone amounts to $50, 600.
Lunches at the Ascot races, eaten
On the grass or under cover, consist of
''bread, butter. and a ard boiled egg"
for a ''threepence" or, more elaborate,
The '.periwinkle, 'ot 'ouse grapes,
peerless pines," and as a sweet a pack
age of acid drops.
The tribal government of the Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and AZ up
per and lower house CT representa-
lives. The Judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after the
manner of the whites.
The dry weather in Texas affects
The Luttnq Wasp in this
1.-THE foam-covered coursers of the
air are constantly in sight, but the
sound of their tramping comes not,
nor do we feel the welcome spray from
the raingod's fountain"
Plainfield, n. j., has an odd and
somewhat confusing title for Its chief
literary and artistic institutlon-the
''Job Male Public Library and Art
Gallery" ''Job Male" Is merely the
name of the ex-mayor who has erect
ed the building for his fellow-citlzens.
A horse was thrown down in New
York a few days ago by the iron shoe
nf one foot coming in contact with
the v of q manhole for the cleo
trio wires, which was affected by leak
age, while the other foot touched the
iron rail of the Blocker street horse
railroad.
AS an illustration of the depreciation
of land valued in England, London
Truth states that q large free hold es-
tate in North Wiltshire was offered for
sale at Devices recently for 500, 900.
There was not Il single bid, and yet
ten years ago this property was valued
at $240, 000.
A statue of Moses in the Bullrushes.
by Herman Klein, is to be placed at
the lily pond in Paramount park,
Phil adelphia.
Large focks of blackbirds in Los
Angeles county, California, are prov
ing o check to the depredations of
grasshoppers.
The Dominion government has re-
duced the tax on timber in British
Columbia to 10 cents a tree or 20 cents
49, $50 4L~----i
A novel game of baseball will be
played at Carlton, Yamhlll county,
Oregon, at an early day. Nine young
ladies will play nine gentlemen, who
must be over 50 years of age.
An exchange states that if a castor
oil plant is kept growing in a room,
mosquitoes, flies, and other pests will
not enter, or if they should they are
soon found dead beneath the leaves.
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers, COM
prising, it is estimated, 60, 000, 600
separate insects, were captured at the
Natoma vineyard, near Folsom. Cal,
by drowning in the irrigating bitches.
Strawberry shortcake has been
served out to all the prisoners IN the
Arkansas ~penitentiary, despite the
provisions of the constitution concern
ing cruel'and unusual punishment.
One juror in Clarke county, Georgia,
has caused no less than twenty mis-
trials, and now it is proposed to leave
his name and those OF other, men who
have acted in the same out of
the jury lists.
The Columbia Indians in Harvey
valley. Oregon, are much incensed
over the recent killing by white men
of two Indian horse-thieves; and they
are reported TO be holding war dances.
The oeipbhorinp whites are alarmed