McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-08
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

The tomato is a Mexican tid-bit made
of corn meal, red pepper and meat.
1t is only seventy years since news
papers were first printed by steam.
An Hungarian woman in Wilkes
barre, Pa, wears No. IL shoes, thir
teen inches long.
The rate of mortality in the UniteG
States navy is much less than among
the dwellers upon the land.
The red scale is reported to be raw
aging the orange orchards at Sierr;
Madre village, Los Angeles county
Cal,
+. The highest-priced parlor clock. il
America is owned by a Wall street
man. 1t was made in New York, and
cost 1874, 900.
The Druggist estimates that the an
nual production of canned goods il
the United States equals 500, ,00(
packages. or ten for every person.
Something new insuncheon dishes is
Iplattered eggs, whose golden yolki
are set in red-brown semi-fluid of to-
mato PURGE and shredded anchovies.
The Great Eastern, now on her way
to New Orleans, measures 1875 tons
gross, has an aggregate horsepower
of thirteen thousand, and is 5793 feel
long.
A boulevard one hundred feet wide
is being made upon the sides of the
Los Angeles river, which runs through
the city in Southern California of that
name.
Opium is struggled ashore at Sar
Francisco from vessels in the bay by
the use of bladder floats. They are
thrown overheard at night and picked
up by row-boats.
The authorities say the highest
tides that have been known for many
years may be expected during the
month of December along the Santa
Barbara coast, in California.
The two young men who went all
the way from Youngstown, o., to New
Orleans to buy an exclusive beer privi-
lege at the exposition for $4,000 were
told they could have it for 100000.
The mint-raisers of Wayne county,
New York, are now selling the oil they
have distilled for the past four or five
seasons. The price is now extraordi-
narily high, being 1915 per pound.
A bashful youth confronted with the
contingency of having to 'sspeak to
the old man about her." was heard to
remark: 'After teller pops, then
pops the Teller that worries him
most"
The new building of the Young
Women's Christian association, of
Boston, costing $3.50 600, containing
"a public rooms and Is sleeping-rooms,
and accommodating 104 persons, was
dedicated recently.
The Philadelphia free baths were
used by 660,44S persons last season, a
number equal to about three-quarters
of the entire population. The city
has recently appropriated $4,000 to
build more lighthouses.
A once popular and pretty young
lady of Newark has just completed a
crazy quilt composed entirely of silk
neckties contributed by gentlemen
friends. 1t is perhaps safe to say
they are no longer her friends.
"Do you understand how to fix up
my hair?'' asked lady of newly
hired colored servant. eyes, mum,
kin fix it up in ten minutes" ''You will
never do for me. What would l do
with myself all the rest of the day?"
At the recent woman's congress one
lady remarked that ''it's nice thing
for a man to keep his mouth fit to be
kissed" What has that to do with
woman suffrage? Is this a forecast of
campaign tactics in the halcyon fu-
ture?
Sung Fong Lows new Chinese res
taurant in San Francisco will almost
rival the institution managed by the
renowned Stokes in New York. The
are gaudy in the extreme,
and will cost, with the furniture no less
that $4,000.
The Springfield armory shops will
turn out more rifles this year than ever
before since the war, the average be-
ing 14O day. Last years product was
81, 900, and the product of the year
before was $4,000. The amount of
work depends on the amount of the
which is about $400, 900
a year.
'sAlgernon, love, the doctor said that
I absolutely require little change.
1 was forced to tell him you was al
ways just run out of it, whenever I
asked you for any, and that it was
weeks since you had given me a cent.
Then he said / must need a great deal
of change. Amt you ashamed, now?"
But he wasn't. Not one bit.
$50 the Arabian goes to lodges and
comes home, just as you do " said Mrs.
to her husband, who was of
a conviviai turn of mind. 81 don't
know he stammered. "But / know
they do, for 1 read in paper that
when an Arabian enters his house he
his shoes and keeps on his
hat. That's what you do when you
come home late from the lodge"
When Mrs. Olco, the boarding mis-
tress, was told that the inspector of
provisions had seized 46S pounds Of
veal, 90 pounds of poultry, 50 pounds
of bear meat, 81 lambs, 6 barrels of
peas, and 200 boxes of herring, she