McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-26
FACT AND FANCY.


Los Angeles county, California
boasts of $4,000 sheep.
A prune orchard of thirteen thou.
sand trees is being set out near Gilroy
Cal.
Twenty dollars per cord is the price
of wood at Tombstone. Arlzona, and
it is scarce at that.
Twenty-Five of the great sugar plan.
tations of the island of Cuba are farm
ed by the Jesuit order.
There are 1888 boys on board the
United States training-ship New
Ham pshire, at Newport, r. l.
It is stated that Lord Garmoyle at
the opera in New York changes his
gloves whenever the curtain falls.
The largest potato starch factory in
the world is at Carbon, Me. its ca
pacity is from 100000 to $50, OOO
bushels.
New Hampshire has 1913 Presbyteri-
an churches. Seventy-fiye of them do
not sustain permanent preaching with
out help.
The Massachusetts legislature has
refused to allow woman preacher of
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
DIR. Dio Lewis says that tomatoes
are medicine and not food, and
should only be eaten when prescribed
by physician.
The Columbian university. of Wash
inn hos 1nniIn1 f0 cd,
to the study of medicine. with the
same privileges accorded to men.
The widow of Gen. Stonewall Jack
son has consented that his war-horse,
Old Sorrel, shall be exhibited at the
New Orleans exposition for the benefit
of the Confederate Soldiers home.
A Kansas City physician expresses
the opinion that hundreds of people
are buried alive every year, and that
an average of three out of every hum
dred corpses might be resusitated.
A Chinese opium den has just been
broken up at Dalton, Tex, in which
peepholes were rented for 25 cents per
hour to those who wished to watch the
female victims of the drug enjoy it's
influence.
A large meteor fell recently near
Gainesville, Ga. Its course lay di-
rectly over the town, and. as it
passed, SO intense was its brightness
that it rendered objects in darkened
rooms plainly visible.
The diaphragm of a new telephone
through which, conversation has been
held between New York and Cleveland
is made of cork. The extreme sensi-
tiveness of this substance to the tones
of the human voice is late discov-
cry.
1t is like story of '49 to read that at
a recent performance at the Standard
theater, San Francisco, an apprecia-
tive man became so enthusiastic over
the Introductory portion of the per-
Torrance that he began throwing
money on the stage.
The ink pencils lately brought into
use are stated to be dangerous innova-
tions. fas the transfer of writing made
by them is very easy matter. Any
signature can be reproduced by using
two sheets of dampened paper. The
first will take the impression reversed
and the next will receive it precisely
as originally written.
: About decade ago a German postal
official hit upon the idea of printing a
New Years wish upon the bands or
of mail matter that was adj
dressed to foreign countries. The
conceit took, and now the middle Off
Gals in nearly every country in the
postal union greet each other, at the
of the year, in this novel
way.
d.. Crudelli, of Rome, gives the fol
lowing directions for preparing a
remedy for malaria, which has proved
when quinine has given no
relief: Cut up lemon, peel ard pulp,
IN thin slices, and boil it in pint and
= half of water until it is reduced to
half pint. Strain through linen
cloth, squeezing the remains of the
boiled lemon, and set it aside until
cold. The entire liquid is taken fast
ng.
The total number of banking institu-
lions that failed in 1884 is 121, II of |
which were natioral banks, % state |
banks, II savings banks, and ~ private |
banking institutions. Nineteen of |
5hese failures are traceable to the fraud |
IF bank officers; % of them resulted |
rom unfortunate operations in stocks,
from the element of fraud,
md 67, or more than one-half of them,
we're due. either directly or indirectly, |
% some form of speculation.
1t is asserted by some wicked person
hat it is now the custom for lovers to
write peculiarly affectionate remarks
IN the outside CT envelopes, and to
cover such remarks with postage
stamp. Thus young man may write
! note which any young girl could
show to her mother, while at the same
lime he could use the most affection
tie language under cover of a stamp.
All the young lady has to do is secret
y to remove the stamp without de-
;troying the writing underneath.
A guest at fashionable reception
that he overheard 16-year-
Did dandy say to still younger belle:
Il am glad that my family got out of
,rade fifty years ago. My father was
never in business, but devoted himself
70 science as hobby. He made
several discoveries. you know, that
Il