Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-10-29
GENERAL.

| -Oclenunc inquiry IS D0'nS maze
into the medical virtues Of dogs
tongues.
"A Bridgeport Conn. woman COM
mitted suicide because of the noise
made by her neighbours children.
The United States and Territories,
1t as densely populated as SaxOny,
would have population equal to the
present of the world.
1T takes superior woman to be
an old maid" says Miss Sedgwick.
which is equal to saying that women
prefer to be inferiOr.-N. y. inaepen-
dent.
Eighty years was the age OF an in--
habitant of Youngstown. o.. who re-
Gently married a sixteen-year-old girl,
three weeks after his wife's DEATH
Pittsburgh Post.
Such observation-disclosures as Krupp,
Wkitworth. Armstrong and Hotchkiss
have to send to Amer ca for all their
screw-bar wrenches. About eighty
| thousand dozen are exported to Europe
annually.-Chicago Times.
"A genuine Stradivarius violin was
recently sold in Germany for $4,000.
The Emperor bought one of these in
struments some years ago for Sl,7OO.
and gave it to one of his chamber mu-
sicians to play on.-Fetir Meyer.
Owing to the frequency of fatal
mistakes through the great sim larily
in appearance of morphine and gu nine
physician urges the pan of coloring
morphine red and enacting law pro-
hibitlng the sale of white morphine
N. Y. Tribune.
"A society lady at Newport says she
ian gather at any time hundred
young. handsome and rich women as,
guests: but to find half dozen Young.
men who are not spoiled with admira-
ton. selfish and egotistic would exceed
her ability.-M. J. Graphic.
"A monument is to be erected at
Thornton's Ferry. N. H.. to the men,
DRY of Matthew Thornton. one of the
sigrers of the Declaration of indie
pendence. The State Legislature has
authorized the Governor and Council
to expend 81. 600 for that purpose.
"A $500 maidstone brought from.
Ireland to New York. has been in the
possession of the P les family. of Salli-
van County. for 200 years. 1t is grny
in color. is full of pores, and seems to
be as light as SO much paper. One
thousand persons have used it, and its
present value is $4OO.-N. Y Herald.
The latest device by which people
in Pittsburgh are swindled is by the
sale of English spar,ows dyed to rep
persons deceived are those who know
IS E:,.l T. II,
were sold in Pittsburgh during the
summer that lost their color in ten
days.-Pitts6urgh Post.
"A good deal of horror has Justly
been lately expires ed touching the
atrocities perpetrated by the King of
DahOmey. Still. it may not be gener-
ally known that we have cannibalism
nearer home. In Brazil there are no
fewer than six cannibal tribes, whose
custom it is for mothers to eat their
dead children. pounding up the bones
into maize the mourning lasting until
all is consumed. Christian at WOrk.
Milo Collins. the half-breed Indian
who placed $4,000 in one OF our banks
this week started in the business of
stock raising W tn two or three head
-
has disposed of portion of his in
crease. and recently sold his herd fer
$4,000. This shows the poss .bilities
of stock raising. Milo is married to
deaf woman of the Crow tribe. and
takes Life very easy, surrounded by his
horses. cows and offspring .-Bozemam
(.Kontanaj Chronicle.
"A young lady died in tire Roosevelt
New York; hospital last MAY shortly
after undergoing surgical operation
for the removal of sarcoma. a species
of tumor of the malignant type from
her face. She was engaged at the time
to be married to New York police
captain S son. Recently the latter hal
also sarcoma removed from his face.
and the cases are regarded as unusually
interesting. since. if there is anything
more than a remarkable coincidence in
them. it is that tumor can be con.
tracted by contagion or sympathy
Buffalo Express.
Will am Unangst has an odd
name, and on recent evening there
vas revealed at his house up in Berks
an odd scene. No less than thirteen
spinning wheels, so placed that they
formed a circle. were handled by thir-
teen fair flax spinners. and the flax
that they spun wa' twenty years old.
A flush came into the cheeks of a.
granddame as she looked on
from the center of the circle, for it
minded her. she said of days lang
syne. All went as merry as a marriage
bell, nor is It amiss to add that the
who took part did full and
fair justice to the feast that followed.
PHILADELPHIA Press.
An amusing sight greeted the
guests of New York turtle club as
they filed into the banquet hall the
other day. A large turtle reclined at
ease on It's back on bed at the middle
Of long table. A pillow of down
it, head. and the bedcloth-
ing had been carefully tucked around
it. Over its head rubber hose was
suspended. and q stream of water pass
ing through gardeners sprinkler kept
the shelfsh in contented state of mind.
A wreath of myrtle surrounded its