The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-12-24
HERE AND THERE

rides horseback behind his master.
P~ennsylyania coal, anthracite, IS
sold in the City of Mexico at so a
ton.
F~riccaseed lily petals are mentioned
as n dainty shat tickles the Chlnaman'
palate.
Steinjtz and Zukertort are about to
play a game OF chess for a stake Oh
81, 900
Arrangements are making to estab-
lish in California q colony OF ZoO 1am-
lilies from Alsace.
The Sacramento Bee says the Chinese
take S15, 900. 600 a year out of Califor-
MIA and send it home.
A recent storm on the Pacific coast
washed up many sea shells, some OF
them of very rare varieties.
At Altoona, Fla, you al dine on
have grown since September %.
New barracks for the mounted po-
lice. IL court house, and Jail will be
built at Battleford in the spring
A Mormon who was accidentally
killed in Utah the other day left sixty
seven children to mourn his loss.
Charlotte Wickliffe (colored) died
Tuesday at Louisville, aged III years.
She leaves a daughter who is nearly
100 years old.
In Maryland and Pennsylvania eight
out of every twelve families have a big
stock of trade dollars laid away, wait
!ng for par redemption.
A North Carolina man sent an appli-
cation for a p~ostoffice to Ills Majesty
Grover Cleveland, president-elect."
but hasn't seen the office yet.
An opera-house to be erected at
Long Branch will be open ed before
The next fashionable season. 1t will
seat l, 500 people; and will cost $780,
300.
A single ticket from Boston to Den
yer and return was recently sold in
Boston for 81, 4S1. 1t carries q party
Of nine in a special car with stop-over
privileges.
, Transfers who hauled water for the
Dominion soldiers when in camp at
Bsttleford last summer have not been
paid a cent for their work from the
government.
3The guitar has taken the place of
the banjo IN New York society, and it
is said to be a pretty parlor ornament
and TO match well with the Spanish
Jackets now fashionable.
The New York Theological society
has officially promulgated the opinion
that the excessive use of common salt
8 n of the main factors in the de-
struction OF human teeth.
The petrilied skeleton of a whale
over thirty feet long has been discov-
red by an officer OF the coast survey
on a range of mountains in Monterey
county, California, over $500 feet
above sea level.
There appears to be an agreement
among recent medical writer's that
water IS f%attening, or at least favors a
t~ullness and roundness of the body.
Ii should be drank ut it's natural tenn
%perature and in considerable quantity.
Anew hypnotic-urethan-has made
its appearance. Its discoverer believes
that ''lt agrees with the patient" and
produces II sleep closely resembling
physiological sleep" But they say
those things of all hypnotics while
they are new.
1t is reported that .'Blue Dick" q
Chinaman Oh sporting proclivIties, has
won in the neighborhood OF a thousand
dollars daring the past three weeks in
= battle against the tiger" in Phoenix,
Arizona. His original stake, it is
claimed, consisted OF about % cents.
An editor in Kinslor, n. c., who
doesn't object to good produce IN lieu
OF cash subscriptions, gives emphatic
and pointed notice that he will draw
the line at IS or 10 year-old roOsters''
which some subscribers have been in
the habit OF passing on him for chick
ems.
The comptroller of Tennessee esti-
mates the receipts for the wear at
81, 800, 600, being sufficient to paw the
interest OIL the state debt and current
expenses, consequently the state will
not have to borrow money to paw in
terest on the bonds as they are
funded.
In formally putting out his Single
In Boston, Il genuine Chinese phys.an
believes he has adopted the deScrip.
tive phrase III vogue among the most
enlighted portion of his contemporar-
les. His sign reads: DIR. Lee Sine
Sung. Can Ire diseases where ali
otEe rs fail"
In the present discussion upon the
claims or different cities 10 literary
pre-emimence, it is refreshing to hear
this frank admission from u PhiladeI-
phIan: philadelphia has never put
IN a claim to be a lterary center. and
probably never will. Our lack OF en-
thus!asm may be due to German
phlegm or Quaker calm, but the result
is the same"
The Canadian authorities ars paving
considerable attention to the work OF
strengthening Halifax as q military
post. and the torpedo service will be
enlarged by the addition of four first
class torpedo boats of 1000 horse
power each. The military force will
be strengthened by the addition of
another regiment, the First battalion
OF Berkshire, which did such valuable
service during the late campaign in
Hard drinkers will be pleased r.
know tina their praotica - -