Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-12-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

~ -ltttDlauOf, twice hs large as the
British Isles, is geologically speaking,
the Oldest land now above the face OF
the ocean
Out Of the | l.066 paintings contrib
uted to the exhibition of the Royal In
! slitute of Painters in water colors, in
London. 3i2 were sold for 500, 900.
Vermont pays its judges $1,000 a
year, and there is a scheme TO raise the
salaries to $1,000. with $500 for ex-
penses. The Green Mountain Gov
ernor gets 81 900.
"A bronze tablet commemorative Of
the first blood shed in the Revolution
was recently placed opposite the spot
of the historic Boston massacre, March
5, l77o Boston JoHHdi.
-"Legislative chestnuts" is the lat
est slang phrase. A Legislative chest
nut is Il measure that has been dis
cussed for years and after being
squelched time and again, continues to
bob up serenely every time the Legisla-
ture meets. Chicago Times
A constable at New Castle, Cam,
/ who recently set out to tiud man
| charged with having molested flag
man of the Grand Trunk railway. car
| ried with him pair of handouts. pair
! Of old-fashioned brass "come-alongs, -
a large piece Of strap, several yards of
rope, baton, two reyolyers and a
/ gun
The station agent at Mansfield,
/ Mass, on the Boston q Providence
railroad, was surprised the other morn
/ ing, upon opening freight ears con
/ signed to him, to find large proper
/ ton of their contents, $500 ducks and
about 800 geese shipped alive, dead.
Lack of ventilation had caused the loss.
--B0St0p HernM.
The members of a society recently
organized ut Hudson, n. Y, pledge
themselves TO not make use of the
feathers of any wild bird as ornaments
of dress or household furniture, and
also to discourage their use by others
for decorative purposes. The associa-
tlOn has a membership of one hundred,
/ and includes many OF the leading peo-
pie of the town.-Tr0g Times
The abundance of woodchucks in
Madison County IN. W town led the
authorities TO offer bounty of ten
cents each for tails of the offending
'yarminls During the absence Of
the town treasurer the boys passed in
faurteen huh9xad calls of nhinmnpls
! The treasurer VIE paying one hun-
drcd and forty dollars bounty for
them. When her husband returned
lessons in natural history were at once
taken up.
The steamship Assyrian Monarch,
from London, which arrived in New
York recently, had on board several fine
specimens of the animal world, of
which there were three kangaroos for
the Central Park Geological Gardens.
One of them is mouse-colored and
two are nearly black They are i've
years old, and came from Australia,
and were fed mostly upon hay during
the voyage, but showed a preference
for cabbage.-N y Post.
- Between Fourth and Fifth streets,
on Spruce street, workmen recently
came upon an ancient reminiscencc in
the shape of a cemetery that antedatcs
local historical records, and is not ae-
counted for by the oldest inhabtant
The laborers first struck a stone wall
several feet below the surface of the
street, which was regularly and sub
stantially built and had resisted the
rayages of lime, and close by found
n vault in which were human skulls
and bones and the remnants Of de-
eaycd and broken collins. -Phjiadciphia
Press.
Near Colusa, Cal, recently, an ar
row point made of ivory was extracted
a., .,f ~. ~
wing. As there are no savages nearer
than the Arctic regions with whom
ivory is plenty, the conclusion is that
the arrow was made from the tooth of
walrus or some other iyory-jawed
monster and shot into the breast of the
bird by an Esquimau, or perhaps by
an inhabitant of those polar regions
which our world has been unable to
penetrate. The point had been in the
flesh for some time, as the skin of the
goose had grown over the arrow.
-One morning recently, relates the
Boston Record. a young lady on her
way to work passed by one of the best
hotels, in front of which stood three
wcll-dressed gentlemen, evidently
guests Of the hotel. As the young lady
upIlIOdtutu Sllt bJ0tl NAl Il lliitllf ~NitAtis
half-starved little girl repulsed by one
of the gents. The little girl asked her
for money, so she took nickel ont of
her scanty supply and put it into the
outstretched palm. Aud as one of the
gentlemen had his hat upside down in
his hand, talking to his friends, she
dropped three coppers into the shiny
silk hat, and, never pausing TO look
back, passed quietly on, leaving the
gentleman who had told the beggar TO
'go to the deyi' standing there.
The various kinds of ingenious
contrivances which have been brought
forward from time TO Time tOr the
prompt detection of fire damp in mines,
are well known, but most of them have
been of somewhat complicated ma
ture, and on this account falling of
their purpose. The latest OK these
brought to notice, however. is described
as so simple in principle and construc-
ton as to excite wonder at its not hay-
ing been thought Of before. A child's
Inda-rubber bali with hole in it is
squeezed Hat in the hand and held in
The place suspected of fire damp while
released, and allowed to suck in the
sample of the air; the ball il now di-
reoted toward safety lamp and again
squeezed, when the tcl-tale blue flame
-, d.