McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-29
FACT AND FANCY.


buildings last year.
In Tucson, Arizona, the restaurants
are conducted by Chinese.
Portland, Me-, fish-dealers packed
5000, 900 Holsters last year.
Jeremiah Austin, of South Coventry,
Conn.,, says he is 102 years old.
Six to ten tons of mail matter passes
the Augusta, Me-, postoflice daily.
A citizen of Pittsfield, Mass, lately
invested $500 in an African gray par
rot.
Vermont has 113 Baptist churches,
with 1926 members and LOG ordained
ministers.
A New Haven oysterman found an
old rubber boot upon which were q
500 young oysters.
The Agricultural society of South
Carolina will celebrare its hundredth
anniversary this year.
A Connecticut genius has been
granted patent on machine for
harvesting potato bugs.
At Hill, n. H., man makes a bust
ness of extracting skunk's oil, for
which he gets 81 per gallon.
Fruit trees and vines are rapidly
taking the places of the redwood for
est in the vicinity of Guerneville, Cal
Mrs. Ira jerks, of Lanesboro. Mass,
has pork-barrel, fifty-four years old
which has preserved $1,000 pounds of
pork.
The frightful condition. of many of
the tenement-houses OF Boston Is
arousing the citizens of the Hub to the
necessity of immediate and radical
sanitary measures.
A piece of paper placed between two
blankets is recommended by physi-
clan for light and warm bed-cover-
ing. Paper is poor conductor of
heat, and obviatethe necessity of undue
weight of clothing.
A trout taken out of the water COM
pany's reservoir at Virginia, New,
has two heads and portions of two
bodies, these bodies ending in a sort
of bladder, and the bladder culmi-
mating in sort of tail.
The erection of cotton-mills at the
south has not been stopped by the
show considerable increase in both
spindals and looms, according to The
United States Economist.
In recent letter to a well-known
Torontonian from q friend residing 4
few miles from Los Angeles, Cal, it is
said: cit took four of the largest
steam thrashers four and half months
to thrash the grain ON his farm"
More suicides occur in San Francis
co in proportion to its population says
The AhG California, than in any other
city on the continent. The number of
suicides in that city for the year end
ing with June last was over two and
half times as many as occurred in New
York in 1880.
At an egg-eating match at Peter
borough, Canada, short time since,
one man ate Al eggs and the other 30.
| The eggs were raw and taken from
basket in q grocery store. The basket
was emptied, and the winner said he
could eat dozen more.
Ants will forsake any food for lard,
and they can be exterminated by
greasing plate with that substance
and placing 1t in their vicinity. When
the plate is well covered turn hot
Goals upon it, and few repetitions of
the process will clean them out.
News letters, in manuscript, were
sold before newspapers were printed.
The Italian name gazette was first ap-
piled to these letters, and afterward
to the printed copies. DR.. Skeat says
the word is either a diminutive of
gaia, "a magpie," meaning a chat
terbox. or else derived from gazeLta,
small coin perhaps paid for the
privilege of reading the news.
"What are you doing, petP" clam
studyin' my Sunday school lesson"
'.Is it hard?" ats awful hard.
Here's question l can't answer. 1t
Says, Who was it said all men are
liars?' Do you know who it was, pap'
Eyes; it was David" "DavidI How
did he come to say that, pa?" ''Well,
l don't know, pet. Maybe he was run
uing for office"
Little boy has been swearing, and
mamma, to punish him, washed thor
oughly the inside of his mouth with
soapsuds, "to," as she explains to him,
''clean away the nauty words" A
few days later, while passing the bath
room. she sees the youngster with his
fEce one mass of suds, and his mouth
so full that she barely understands his
spluttering EXPLANATIONS, Getting
them all out, mamma! SWore five
times yesterday!'
The New York correspondent of
The Troy Times, says the king of So
ciety reporters in that city is natty
little Hebrew, who is facially as hand
some as doll and as stylish as Paris
fashion-plate. He has entree to the
best society and can describe with
rare fidelity all she details of feminine
toilets, social innovations, and CASTRO
nomical delights. He also has a fac
ulty of Distinguishing genuine aristo-
cratic belle from an imitation one in
any assemblage.
1t is claimed that England and
France can make better grade of fine
paper than this country on account of
the quality of water. which is here
injured for paper-making by frequent
changes in temperature. Acting upon
this idea experiments are about to be