Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-20
FACT AND FANCY.

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August Harting, Baltimore police
man, recently died while on duty from
Bright's disease.
A mountain eel, weighing seventy
three pounds, was caught at Ulida,
Montana, last week.
A rural obituary relates that I" the
deceased had accumulated little mon
ey and ten children"
A large amount of molasses made
from sorghum will be produced in
southern Oregon this year.
The salaries of the supreme court
Judges of Vermont have been increased
from So, 500 to $500 year.
Four-ffths of the aspirants for stage
honors in the New York schools are fe-
males of the average age of 20 years.
Portland, Oregon, now ranks fifth
among the commercial cities of this
country, standing before Philadelphia.
Out of about SIX hundred cases of
sunstroke noted in New York the past
summer, at least 250 turned out to be
drunks,
For slipping on the snow on the deck
of ferry-boat and for sustaining inju-
ries, Philadelphia woman has been
awarded 81 500.
Two hundred citizens of Columbus,
O., have been fined for profanity in
the public streets. One man has
caused the arrests.
A meteoric stone, nearly globular,
and about four inches in diameter, was
recently found by Prof. Marsh, near
Radensburg, Montana.
Oak pillars are better support for a
building in case of fire than those of
iron. The latter are liable to warp
from the effect of the heat.
A man in Greenville, S. c., has been
blind for years, yet drives alone in
| buggy, and runs both sawmill and a
gin mill-that is, a cotton gin mill.
The very ,small boy is so excited
over torchlight professions that his
family are required to use persuasive
coercion to make him sleep o'nights.
The Atlanta, Ga, city hall, erected
thirty-two years ago, was sold for old
brick at 1915. 1t was for many years
the finest building of the kind in the
state.
"Swampoodle" and "Gandertown"
are the names of Philadelphia s slums,
where, nOrthward from the city, the
dregs of the city's population make
their homes,
The Indian agent of the Saskatche-
wan district, Manitoba, recently dis
tributed $4,000 equally among two
thousand Indians; 81 year is very
cheap living
There are only four ports of entry in
this country larger than that at Puget
sound. The business of the great
northwest is rapidly assuming man.
moth proportions.
A traveller says Mississippi and Ala
bama are covered with mortgages held
by New Orleans merchants. Good tim
bered property in those states can be
bought for 80 cents an acre.
Twenty Cinnamon are in Jail at
Seattle, Washington Territory, await
ing shipment back to Victoria, British
Columbia, from which point they tried
to sneak into this country.
Oregon hops are now being inspect
ed by eastern buyers, who are there in
large numbers. The hops are pro-
nounced inferior by reason of bad
weather interfering with the picking.
Experiments in raising grain in
Camas Prairie, Idaho, show that where
irrigation is resorted to the crops will
not mature before the frost catches
the kernel in the milk BY dry farm
ing the crops have time to mature, and
the yield is abundant.
AT the North Carolina state exposi-
ton at Raleigh, there are many inter.