Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-10
PASSING EVENTS.

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A North Carolina hound has caught
fifty-sevcn foxes within the past nine
months.
A Texas paper calls attention to the
fact that that state is larger than 214
Rhode Islands.
There are probably ninety thousand
arc lights alight every night in the
United States.
The board of health of Nashville,
Tenn, have decided to cut down all
the mulberry trees.
An Atlanta, Ga, man who was Civ
Ell letter to mail eighteen years ago,
posted it last week
The fire department of New York
city threw 53.000.000 gallons of water
last year on 9,725 fires.
There is widow in Birmingham,
Ala, thirteen years old, and she at
tends the public schools.
Colonel Fred Burnaby's widow Will
not need pension, rs she has an in
come of $4,000 year.
There are 250 periodicals printed in
the different native languages in India,
about $50, 900 copies in all.
of the present congress of the United
States were educated at college.
Fishing through holes in the ice is
the fashion this season among society
people in the towns of the north
west.
Custom collections at Victoria, Il.
! c., during January were $52, 1917 10, a
gain OF 50, l45 81 over the previous
year.
On the coast of Lower California div
ing for black pearls is quite exten-
sively carried on,a years production
averaging from $4,000 to $l,000,000.
The trustees of Cornell university
have decided to create Il new course
in the history of plastic art, with es-
pecial reference to the cla steal courses.
The baby camel in Druid Hill park,
in Baltimore, is feeling well in its COM
Portable quarters. says the San, and
cares nothing for the storms and snow
which have inconvenienced the Balti-
more public for the last few days
Vassar college is undoubtedly II good
school, but the managers are said to be
really alarmed at the steady falling oil
in the number of pupils, which they
attribute entirely to the outrageous
chat of the newspaper paragraphists,
An extensive firm of Connecticut bed
quilt manufacturers have purchased
the entire village ut Fitchville, Conn. ;,
consisting of two large stone mills,
twenty seven tenement houses, Il
church, school house, and public hail.
Colorado Springs claims the honor
of beating the whole country in the
variableness of temperature, the ther-
mometer there having shown vari-
alton of seventy-two degrees in twenty
four hours during a recent cold wave.
Cork, when carbonized, produces o.
80 per cent. pure charcoal, the great
est per cent. of any any known wood.
Willow, wheat straw, and oak rank
next, in the order named, while maple
and poplar are 1915 and 31.12, or Mt
the very foot OF the list.
: Two weeks ago at Missoula, Mon
tana, Charlie Lum Fung, a Chinaman,
was married to Sophia Walton, II half
, breed. Lum Fung has lost his woman.
The Indians came with their ponies
and took her forcibly away. Lum
, Fung now wants his money back that
:. be gave for Sophia,
, A proposition has been made by The
J DaiI0S Crcx.) HerGid that good clothes
shall be part of the essential require
ments for membership in the Editorial
association in that state, and now
many Texas editors are alleging that
this is n decp-laid scheme to secure tho
exclusion of each other.
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