Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-09-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"a iifutlliIull VI llutu llNfIllull
has invented lock which admit
of 3,6i7, 3S5 combinations.
--Colored men propose to rails,
0 81 900, 600 to erect monuments il
Washington to the bcnefactors of theil
race.
a 1t seems a hard thing that so many
dudes should be walking about witt
nothing to do when the hand organ
i man has TO pay forty dollars for mon
key. baltimore Herda.
a The people of Guadalupe. Mex,
are evidently engaging in agriculture
on an extensive scale. Judging from
the recent arrival of three hundred
American plows al that place.
DR.. Richardson. of London, re-
marks that if the mortality of the young
among the lower animals be compared
with that of the children, it will be
seen that there is no animal which
loses so large a proportion of its Of
spring as women do.
Farmer Underwood, of Rodman.
n Y, took "A fine calf to Watertown in
his wagon to sell to the butchers. just
as he reached the railroad n locomotive
came along and whistled shrlly. The
calf gave start, tumb!ed and dropped
dead in the wagon, apparently dying Of
fright,
Buffalo papers are enthusiastic
over the game of base ball The home
club was recently beaten by one from
Rochester, and the next day the start
ling headlines in a morning journal
announced; "Roasted by Rochester
The Butlalos Again Succumb to the
Arch-Enemy. v Troy Times.
"A Georgia newspaper man visited
n terrapin pen the other day where
We're confined three hundred of these
costly little turtles When their keeper
raped on their pen they crowded
about like drove of hogs, and showed
like eagerness to tackle the feed, which
was shrimps, crabs and small fish,
Does the sunlight falling upon an
ordinary wood fire have any eflccl upon
its burningP 1t is a popular notion
that the fire burns more feebly when
the sun shines full upon it. Ii is now
alleged by scientific men that there
may be some such influence produced
by the action of the sun. Chicago
Times.
Alfred Krupp owns probably the
largest business in the world dependent
on one individual The works within
the town of Essen, Germany, occupy
more than five hundred acres, half of
which are under cover According to
a census taken in September, 1881, the
number of hands employed by Mr..
Krupp was 1868, and the members of
their families 10, making 65, 1891
persons supported by his works.
--Six-year-old Daisy Gatchcll was
fishing from pier in Cayuga lake, N.
Y, one day recently. She had her
hook baited and was about to throw it |
into the water when duck waddlcd |
up, swallowed the hook, entered the
water, and swan away with the hook, !
line and pole The bird was a pet and |
was used as Il dccoy by the sportsmen.
and when it heard its masters call it
swan to the shore The hook was cut
off with file and removed without Sc
rious injury to the duck.
The population of Pennsylvania,
by the last census, was 4,2S2, ,S9l, and
in composition approXimated more
closely TO the normal standard than
most American States, males being to
females as 2l3 to PA; native born to
foreign born as 36 TO 3. and white to
colorcd rs 4l9 to 8. This is a more
nearly equal proportion of the sexes
than in any of the adjoining States,
smaller proportion of foreign born than
in New Jersey, New York or Ohio, and
a smaller proportion of colorcd than in
Delaware, Mary land or West Virginia.
r Miiadeiphia Press.
Some two weeks ago a Young man
of Moransburg, Pa, was bitten on the
ankle by a copperhead snake. Whisky
was applied externally and internally,
but in an hour or two the limb had
swollen to such an extent that serious
were feared. The lads
father then placed his sons foot in
basin and poured coal oil in the recep-
Iacle until the wound was covered.
Not long after a substance resembling
quicksilver was noticed in the oil. and
the young man found relief. Next day {
nc was sufficiently recovered to walk \
about. Hitodci1hia Reco,d
A box left at Boston police sta !
ion one day recently by messenger !
caused q great deal of nervousness t
imong the officers Tor awhile 1t was !
that the box contained dyna-
mite, and Chief Nelson left the station
As the policemen came in {
md looked at the box they were warned '
hat it was dangerous, and they hur- j
led out. When Policeman Kean start !
Il to omen tn" box the others warned {
lin. All the policemen in the station \
went across the street while Kean t
opened the box and found therein a toy y
wooden dog Boston Hcraid.
The late renowned trotter, Ham c
,letonan, is buried at Chester, n. Y. I
This remarkable animal is the founder \
# a family of trotters that has added "
many millions of dollars to the taxable V
property of the Union. In addition he i
las given the people of the United D
states roadster that has no equal on :.
he globe. After the death of the
widow of Hambletonian owner the ci
passed out of the control of "
he Rysdyk family, and now old Ham. Il
letonian grave is deserted. "A sug. %
-estion is made that lovers of good d
orses should have a railing placed al
round the grave and an equestrian N
tRtue erected over it, properly in. u
crih-d " Y Sun n