McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-19
PASSING EVENTS.

months.
There are probably ninety thousand
arc lights alight every night in the
United States.
:. The board of health of Nashville,
ienn., have decided to cut down all
the mulberry trees.
An Atlanta, Ca, man who was Civ.
IN 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.
About 45 per cent. OF the members
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, B.
u, during January were $50, 1877 10, a
gain OF 50, l45 81 over the previous
year.
On the coast of Lower California div.
ing for black pearls is quite extern
sively carried on,a years production
averaging from $4,000 to $1,OO0,OOO.
The trustees of Cornell university
nave decided to create a new course
In the history of plastic art, with es-
peclai reference to the classical courses.
The baby camel in Druid Hill park,
In Baltimore. is feeling well in it's COM
Portable quarters, says the Sun, and
cares nothing for the storms and snow
which have Inconvenience the Balti-
more public for the last few days.
Vassar college is und oubtedly good
school, but the managers are said to be
really alarmed at the steady falling off
in the number of pupils, which they
attribute entirely to the outrageous
chaff of the newspaper paragraphists.
An extensive firm of Connecticut bed
quilt manufacturers have purchased
the entire village at Fitchville, Conn,
consisting of two large stone mills,
twenty seven tenement houses, a
church, school house, and public hail.
Colorado Springs claims the honor
of beating the whole country in the
variableness of temperature, the Their
mometer there having shown a vari-
alton of seventy-two degrees in twenty
four hours during recent cold wave.
Cork, when carbonized, produces 62.>
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 at
the very foot of the list.
Two weeks ago at Missoula, Mon
tana, Charlie Lum Fung, Chinaman,
was married to Sophia Walton, a half
breed. Lum Fung has lost his woman.
The Indians came with their ponies !
and took her forcibly away. Lum 1
Fung now wants his money back that
he gave for Sophia.
A proposition has been made by The |
Dallas CTex.) Herald 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 a deep-laid scheme to secure the
exclusion of each other.
Several months ago Cora B. Piquette,
Of Syracuse, N. Y, witnessed an acct
dent to a shop-mate, whose long hair
became entangled in shaft and was
entirely pulled out. Miss Piquette has
been made insane by the scene. Stand
ing on chair or sofa she butts her
head against the wall and then seems
elieved. She has been sent to an
asylum.
Bridget is evidently more import.
ant parsonage on the Pacific coast than
at the east. and her services are to be
won only by diplomatic art. In evil
dence witness this from The Colusa
(Cal. Sun: ga good family in Colu-
sa at the present time would take
much pleasure in entertaining a girl
for domestic purposes. Good wages
can be obtained.
Upon one occasion, relates Col Ma
poleon Crosby, of Georgia, his COM
pany was forced to march for several
days over the unbroken snow, and his
eyes became so weak and infiamed
that he blackened his whole face with
scot TO counterfeit the brilliant reliec-
ton from the snow. He saws, of
course, it was failure, but he per-
sisted that it was a great relief, and in
less than a day the whole company
presented an unbroken line of black
ened faces and eyelids.
Supt. Bennett, of Piqua, O.. has been
investigating the extent to which to-
bacco is used by boys in the city
schools. He finds that in two grades
of seventy-three boys from II to- IL
years. thirty-one habitually smoked
cigarettes, and only seven could say
that they never had smoked. Of nine
ty-six boys from 10 to II there were
sixty-cight smokers, and in the prim1
airy schools, boys from to 10. 40 pc,
cent smoked, and in the A. B. C. class
many had begun the practice.
Although 8, 4, 5, or cents seem
very little for the use of 81 for year
it is surprising what large sum
amounts to when left for a number oil
years, as in the case of Connecticut
man who in 1888 commenced making
deposits in a savings bank. His total
deposits from that date until 1885
amounted to S1,962.25. Between 1888
and 1858 he drew from the bank ST.
1000; and yet, few days since, on
hayino his hank-boOk written mn ap6