Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-02-27
NO. 81.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


''Laffin Gas Ten cents a Ha Ha!''--
Detroit Tribune.
If every inhabitant of the country
gets his share Of the years grain crop
he will have to consume or waste fifty
three bushels Chicago Herald.
"A snow-melting machine which.
II is claimed, viii melt snow rs
fast as fifteen men can shovel it in, was
tried in New York the other day. N
Y. San.
From tests made by DR.. Fisher, the
German chemist, 1t appears that in or
dinary stoves not more than twenty
per cent. Of the fuel consumed Is
Utilized in warminguthe rooms.
"A prize obituary poem on General
Grant Il entitled ~ Cadfridog Grant"
1t Is in Welsh and the first line con.
sists OF the sonorious sentiment. "Du
lwyth DIR yr Unol Dalacthian.
1T may be remarked, for the cont
fort of honest poverty, that avariee
reigns most in those who have but few
good qualities to recommend them.
This is weed that viii only grow in o
barren soil.--Hughes.
An English medical publication
says that turnips. beets, onions, carrots
and parsnips are so completely made
up of water and waste materials that
they can not be depended upon for
nourlshment, but are valuable aids in
digesting the more concentrated foods.
"A very sad affair is reported from
Ridgeiield Park. N. j. A bridegroom
died of lockjaw within fort
night after marriage. His death was
caused by slight wound from nail,
and his funeral service was rend in the
same room which few days ago was
gay with the bridal party N T. 7rib'
nne.
On the first day of January, 1885.
contribution box was placed in the
conversation room of the Working
Mems Institute, at Millville, N. j.,
the object being 10 raise six hundred
dollars to place town clock in the bel
fry. The other day the box was opened,
and was found to contain fifteen cents
--Bu6ato Express.
"A man who was sued in Charles
County, Md. last summer by a
neighbor for killing his dog, and paid a
penalty OF ten dollars, has found tho
dog alive and well, except having be-
come thin from exposure. Where the
dog has been is mystery. The dog is
a beagle, and some of the witnesses at
the trial valued it at fifty dollars
baltimore Sun.
"A man from New Lisbon, N. Y,
mailed two letters at the Oneonto post
Office the other day. His strange man
ner in buying the stamps, and his
query as TO what TO do with the stamps
after he had bought them, excited curl
osity, and inquiry brought out the sim
gular fact that although fifty-tive years
of age he had never before mailed n let
ter Utica Herald
AT dinner of fifty covers, given
by resident of North Broad street,
Philadelphia, the other night at the
Bellevue Hotel in that city, the cur
tains at the windows of the banqueting
hall were removed. and curtains of
natural flowers, costing over one hun
dred dollars each, were hung in their
place. Tho cost of the dinner was
about two thousand five hundred doll
lars. Philadelphia Press.
Peter Cummings drove the first
boat that made the trip from Buffalo
over the Erie Canal in 1925. De Witt
Clinton stood at the bow of the boat
and gave the word to start. The boat
was called the Young Lion of the West,
and was drawn by nine horses gaily
caparisoned. Cummings drove until he
was seventy-fve, when he was drowned
at Pcndieton. He is buried at Tona-
wanda, and Erie Canal boatmen are
now raising fund to erect monu-
ment over his grave Buffalo Courier,
The friends of certain man in
this city, who occasionally fingers with
the wine-cup far too long for his own
good or that of his family, are Just
now having a laugh at his expense.
His son, poor little innocent, chanced
to hear some older people talking about
sleep, and piped in his childest treble
after this fashion: "Pa gets awful
sleepy sometimes; he came home the
other night and was so sleepy that he
couldn't get in the house, but just laid
down by the wood-pile right out of
doors. ~ Portland 0reqonian.
"A new incandescent electric light
has been invented bv Frederick
Scbaefer n vouno German If Roston'
Silk thread co,bonized Is emnloyed in
tha olohes and Il is fonnd 70 f., ~ ON
durable and flexible as platinum wire.
The invention has been patented and
is in use. 1t is evident that there is
abundant field for new inventions in
electric lighting. The energy with which
American Inventors have pursued this
subject is quite remarkable. The old
world can learn much from the sue
cesses of American eXperimenters.-
Boston Journal.
Tho small hov who teaches tbeol-
oo,, ,n ,ba his,orisan ,ys, ,.or,, bad in.
Jsed at the table the other day,so
aanahty in foot tbat b;s s;s,a, ss;d ~
hin, snyiousI,. ..yon soon, 70 oat verse
.vorr day Aro yo,, 80 80, ,a 10