Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

i
New York's ..Mrs. Grundy" says
| Questionable wives and fashionable
husbands rarely know where to find
eacL other" But the Sheriff manages
70 find the husband at Chicago
Journal.
| "A Boston man was taken i'll out
West. When asked if he wanted any
thing, he said: 20, give me anything
made of beans" So the attending
physician gave him castor oil.-ChicaQo
Times.
Stanley says that sunshine in Africa
looks like moonlight. That's about the
way it looks right here at home to the
Board of Trade man who gets on the
wrong side of the fence in big grain
deal Chicago Ledger.
The Captain of Boston sloop has
been fined twenty dollars by the Gus
tom House authorities of Newport for
having her name on the stern painted
IN white letters on red background
instead of white letters on black back
ground.-N Y Sun
The brightness of some stars varies
periodically, more than 108 so-called
variable stars being known, while many
more are suspected variables." The
periods range from a few days to many
years. The variation is usually slight.
Boston Budget.
Hundreds of acres of sandy desert
near San Francisco have been made
fertile by the introduction of beach
| grass. In other places where, few
years ago, there was nothing but sand
| dunes, there are now thousands of cy-
press and pine trees.
The full name of the fiourishing city
of Southern California was LA
Peubla de mestra Sonora, la Rejna de
Los Angeles" the City of Our Lady,
the queen of the Angels. When the
people got too busy to give the entire
name, they shortened it to Los Angeles,
the gels.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The British manufacturers have
been accustomed to make poor quail
| ity of cotton cloth and stiffen it with
sizing for the Chinese market 1t is
now learned that the Celestials have be-
come tired of the stuff and are buying
good American cottons at little higher
price.
"A few days ago party of Georgia
gentlemen were discussing high prices
in the South during the latter part of
the civil war. Il paid $40 yard for
a suit of gray cotton jeans" said the
| first speaker; "the suit of clothes cost
me 5000 after being cut and made"
"The biggest trade I made during the
| war;" said No. 2, "was $50 for a spool
of cotton thread" 'And l." said the
third speaker, "paid Sl5 for shave"
| Chicago Times.
"A call was made at the postoffice
| for a special delivery stamp. Post
master Halves asked where the party
wished to send the letter. The appli-
cant said it was to 90 to Cuthbert, when
the postmaster told him that Cuthbert
was not special-delivery Office The
applicant replied that it didn't make a
| bit of difference with him, that he pro-
posed to try the new system anyway
Lumpkin (Ga.) Independent.
Russia is adopting combination
system of prohibition and high license.
All the saloons which exist merely for
the purpose of retailing grog will be
| closed, to the number of at least $4,000.
The sale of liquors will be permitted
only in the hotels and restaurants, and
licenses to these will be limited in num-
Der according to the Judgment of the
excise officers, and fee of 1925 exacted
for each.
San Francisco, it is believed, is the
only city in the United States in which
the exchange of Mexican dollars is ex-
| tensively conducted. and is one of the
only two cities in the world where the
business is largely transacted - the
other being London. The Mexican
dollar is an ugly, ill-stamped, badly
milled silver disk of Ala grains, but it
has been accepted as the standard coin
of China for nearly thirty years, and
has steadily grown in use and favor,
Notwithstanding the amusing episode
of the trade dollar, with its 42O grains
and English die-sinker.
The Bulletin" of the French
Geographical Society gives some curl
Gus details about the system of numera-
ton of the Indians of Guiana. 1t is
based upon the five fingers of the hand.
The Indians have names for only four
numbers, corresponding with the four
fingers; then. when they come to five,
they say, not five fingers, but "a hand"
Six is '.a hand and first fnger;"
seven, ga hand and second fnger;'
ten, 1.-TWO hands, fifteen. ''three
hands, twenty, not ''four hands," but
ga man." From this they proceed by
the system of twenties. Forty is .'two
men, forty-siX, 1.-TWO men, a hand and
first fiprer' >,