Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-09-04
/05

Francisco.
Four thousand persons. are annually
buried in "Potter's feld' of New
York city.
An old womna of 81, the mother of
twelve children, eloped from Clinton,
Can, with boy of II
The exports of manufactured tobac-
co from Petersburgh Va, from the
10Th to the 30th of June, inclusive,
amounted to upward of 265, 900 pounds.
During one week over three thous-
and pounds of arsenic were sent into
San Joaquin valley, in California. to
be used IN exterminating grasshop-
pers.
The four American cities of above
twenty thousand inhabitants having
the highest natural sites above the
level of the sea are Leadville, Denver,
Omaha, and Atlanta, III the order
named.
Manitoba is not creditors para
disc. BY recent act not only are a
settlers household effects AMI furni-
ture, etc, free from execution, but a
portion of his stock. land to the extent
of 100 acres, and buildings to the value
of S25, 600 are also exempt.
There are in the human voice about
perfect tones. Thus, II direct mus
cles, alone or together, produce 16.-
1888; 80 indirect muscles produce 49,
TAI, 1928, and all in cooperation
produce the large total of 1882, 1885,
044, ,415 different but clearly defined
sounds.
A Charleston, S. c., inventor has
devised knob, which may be made
highly ornamental, to be affixed to a
lady's belt, so that her partner in
dancing can 'swing partners" with
out that offensive familiarity which
has thrown gloom over the festive
dance. With another knob on the
shoulder, dancing might be as proper
as swinging scythe-snath,
Signs are taxed 5 cents per letter
every year in Cuba, and the ingenious
Cuban does not put up sign if he
can help it, or else paints on it an
emblem, as boot, II trunk, or a cigar.
If words must be employed, it is not
an uncommon practice to dash daub
of paint across the lettering producing
a legal obliteration, yet leaving an in
scrIptlon that can still be deciphered.
A ham, western cured, has been sub
mitted to a New York doctor to deter
that infested it. He decided that they
were specimens of the acarus sacchari,
or sugar mite, closely allied to the
ordinary plant louse, and closely re-
semblng it in all but color. The doc.
tor gives it as his opinion that they
probably would do no harm if eaten
alive.
Celluloid may be a useful materiG+
for many purposes, but it is not likely
to become popular among cigar smok-
ers who wear false teeth. Pitts
burgh lover OF the weed absent mind
edly smoked the stump of cigar too
close to his celluloid teeth, and an ex-
plosion occurred which used up his
mouth so badly that he will want to
take nouIishment through tube for
some time to come.
1t can not be said that the University
of Oxford is financed very well, says
London Truth: An appeal for sub
scriptions is now being issued on its
behalf to meet its share of the cost of
the drainage works which are being
undertaken in order to make the air
less malarious and the water less i'm
pure. The amount required, it seems,
is ElS,00O, which one would have
thought should have been a prior
charge on the university eXchequer to
the El2O, 900 spent on the examination
palace.
From a report made to the British
government by its consul general at
Frankfort, it appears that all over
Germany the consumption of ardent
spirits is rapidly increasing, especially
among the working classes. In Prus-
sia, for instance, between 1869 and
1880 the number OF public houses in