Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-09-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There are. IL is saia, fifty thousand
Mormon children in Utah.
The Government loses one million
dollars year in the smuggling o.
opium.
A merchant at Wallingford. VT,
recently reduced to ashes book that
had ten thousand dollars of bad ac.
counts on its pages.
In 1850, it is asserted by court
prophets, the entire House of Lords
will be bosscd 10y American heiIesses,
provided il lives as long. Washington
Hatcbei.
No Jury will ever convict n man OF
stealing an umbrella. Every Juror has
once or twice in his life been caught
out in the rain and but this is getting
personal. -Hiiadeiphia CaH
Lady philosophers are priming up
for Concord. Question for solid dis
cussion; "Are caramels wherewithals
OF the wherefore, or whcreofs of the
whereabouts?'-M. L. Jom3ai.
London engineers say that. as a
h'HAt'l VI 'HNpti, ~ - l'bNNlbiN " iidhC
steamers to run forty knots an hour
and cross the Atlanlic in three days.
But the vessel could only carry paasen.
gers.
Very little of the New Orleans mo-
lasses finds its way 'nto Utah, aud foI
that matter into any part of the great
West and Northwest. The sirnps
mostly consumed in that locality are
made in San Francisco. r. Chicaqo Times.
AT Philadelphia recently the United
States attorney brought suit against
William Brown, manager of a concert
park, TO recover one thousand dollars
penalty for the importation of foreign
talent into this country under
contract, which is II violation of the
law.
The Indian agent at the Rosebud
Agency refused to give the Indians
their agricultural implements unless
they used them where he designated.
says the Nebraska Statc
JoVRGi, the Indians organized strike,
which was so successful that the agent
not only turned over the implements,
but "set up three barrels of sugar and
a lot of fancy groceries
-Of the thousand or more prisoners
discharged from Sing Sing Prison dur
ing the last year and half there was
not one who was not able TO sign his
name. Many had learned this while at
penal service. More than one who has
entered the prison ignorant has been
able on coming out TO make new
start in life with the education he OBJ
tanned within prison walls. Troy az
~ Times.
The German army is arranging
celebration in honor of the forthcom-
ng ninetieth birthday of the EN-
)eror, which is intended to be fully
worthy Of the occasion. 1t is proposed
hen TO form union of the officers
)f the entire army corps and found
Dhilanthropic military institution in
lonor of the Emperor. The Emperor
viii be ninety years old ii he lives
ill March %, 1887.
"A man appeared ut the police sta
ion in Meriden, Conn, recently and
lsked to be taken in. The jailer in
luircd for a reason for putting him in
he cell, aud the man replied: you
see, my wife is on the war-path again,
md there is always the devil to pay at
lome ON occasions of thus kind You
rad better take me in now, for You will
surely have TO do so before morning
-HWgo'd CoWaHt.
A quarrel recently arose between
Joe Shearer and John Bird at Forrest
'ity, Ark, over the ownership of ten
,ents. The lie was given and returned,
md both seized their guns. Joe Sc
,ured his first, but instead of using il
IN his adversary shot and killed the
alters son, an eighteen-ycar-old lad,
who was standing near, but had taken
40 hand in the trouble Shcarcr was
n Jail awaiting trial.
1t is estimated that the annual
'cyenuc from the two-cent tax on oleo-
will amount to one million
l0llars. This is on the basis of home
consumption of fifty million pounds,
md is Il low estimate. The exports OF
Ilcomargarine last year amounted to
nearly thirtv-eioht million pounds.
rhe total production of butter in the
United States in 1880 was III, 2j0, ,587
pounds. - Washington Post,
1t is among the curiosities of Nor
nonism that its protector Smith, was
BORN in Vermont; that the second spir-
tual and worldly high priest of the
,ystem, Brigham Young. was originally
rom Vermont; that Edmpnds, the
ramer of the Edmunds law, was and is
I Vermont Senator, and that the Re
Iowa was born in the same Green
Mountain state Chicago HeraH.
Miss Moodford, the famous stake
winner, is one Of the pets of Long
Branch. Her owners pay the strictest
SttentiOn 10 her needs, and see that she
; provided with the best of wardrobes
Ter raiment when in public consists OF
/ pannicr worn with a broad girth, a
narrow band under her chin and
iilyered front piece TO hold her bangs
n place. She is invariably accompa-
lied by little man in knee brccches
md a parti-eolored cap. N Y Mail
Jacob Noveek. Polish peddler, OF
New York, went to the police head
luarters and asked when the first bal
Don started for Hamburg. He had
Jcen told that a balloon line was TO |
,onncct Mulberry street with Hamburg |
md he was anxious TO go, a> be under
tood the first passengers were % get a
rec trip and five hundred dollars lie !
would risk it for that. The police au-
horiiieS inform ed him that the balloons