Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-11-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

the most healthy article Of food known
to man.
4 The Chinese claim to have discov-
cred the art of sneezing and TO have
practiced it two thousand years before
any other nation caught on,
"A human skeleton weighs from ten
to sixteen pounds. and the blooJ of the
body about twcnty-eight pounds, but
cremation leaves only eight ounces
Health Monthly.
The Chamberlain Cd. T.) Democrat
says that beets and carrots have grown
to such a size In Brule County this
stump-pullers to pull them from the
ground.
-Patsey Collins, while shoveling
grain in the top of brg Niagara Falls
ilouring mill, fell into the hopper, slid
for eighty feet through spout eight
| by ten inches in size and shot out, with
six tons of grain, into car standing on
the track below Buffalo Courier.
"A young medical student in Sacra-
mento tried the earth-cure on sick
man and came within shave of hav-
ing the lamp-post cure tried on him.
He hadn't got the patient covered
higher than his hips when he gave up
the ghost San Francisco Chronicle.
The Womens Christian Temper
ance Union of Cambridge, Crawford
County, Pa, persuaded the store-keep-
ers of the village to stop keeping
cigarettes after the exhaustion of the
present supply, and then bought up the
supply and cremated Philadelphia
Press,
The life insurance agent had been
talking steadily for only an hour or SO.
when the victim. perceiving chancl
to get word in edgewse, remarked:
"Do you know you remind me Of sud
den deathph "How SOP" "Nobody
is safe from either Of you. ~ 7erdJ
Siftinqs
"A st. Louis man going through
one of the poorly lighted streets felt
rat up his troueers' leg. and pounded
the victim successfully with his cane.
When he got the animal settled and
came to a light he drew out his lino
gold watch, which had slipped down
his trousers leg 1t was something
worse for the pounding. Poor old
Missouri Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A triple wedding occurred few
days ago at Verdigris Valley, Neb, The
three and only children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tomec were at high noon united in
marriage to their hearts mates. Over
five hundred guests were present. The
grooms and their best men wore
badges and bouquets of orange bios
hri thn,
ants wreaths of orange blossoms
Thomas Caldwell, Of West Troy,
N. T., recently traded horses with
George Brewer, of Smokey Tavern,
and shortly after the trade discovered
that the animal he had traded for was
balky and nd-broken. He then
traded with the father of Brewer for
three-year- colt, which he also dis
covered was of no use, Then he bor-
rowed rig from farmer and went
home disgusted. Troy Times
The use of morphia by physicians
to suspend pain which they can not
cure is said to have become an abuse.
A Pittsburgh man has been found to
have one thousand and forty hypoder-
mic injection punctures in his body.
Many are said to take the injections
for the soothing effect when nothing in
particular ails them, and thus fall into
n habit worse than drinking, which is
the natural consequence. ~ Pttsburgh
Chronicle.
Some one in Hudson, N. Y, has
written b tie Toronto Globe as fol-
lows: "Aa ], sm very rich man and
can easily aGo-d it, / have decided to
give the whole of North America to
my wife, believing from my knowledge
of woman's nature that she will
govern you all wisely and we'll AsI
am the legal husband of every woman
in the world, this includes every woman
on the Continent, Ezra, King of Eng
land, North America, the World and
the Church. ;"
While the orchestra was playing
the prayer from ''Rienzih in the Louis
vile Music Hall the other day a vigor-
Gus baby struck in with lung solo
right in one of the most delicate pas
sages. Conductor Damrosch stopped
the orchestra and sat down. When the
little one had been quieted he re-
marked that while it was a good thing
to give children a musical education,
ll'lc NuH outl tHluP as btBiilHll1S
too early in life. Then he resumed his
baton and the prayer was resumed.
-"Speaking Of insertions of genu-
inc mechanical character" says an ex-
change. ''the ordinary gas meter is
perhaps the most remarkable and most
profitable device ever constructed. So
very sensitive is it that the least re-
duction in the price of gas sets it into
much increased activity, and the lower
The price. the greater the activity of
The meter; and it has been known.
when the family was away on sum
mer vacation, to remain at home and
Keep industriously at work all the
.ime.
Talk about earthquakes, said
an old fiat boatman to me on the levee
Ihe other day, "why that Charleston
was nothing. They are COM
mon on the Lower Mississippi. In
1858 ! was tied up at the bank few
miles below Vicksburg. A shock came
along, broke all the lines and ran my
boat ten miles up the river before |
could stop her. Large fish were thrown
,ut on the bank and killed. Then we
never thought about taking up sub
for earthquake sufferers. bul
had IN poddlc our a1yn cannca ~