Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-10-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

BILE pets. !. Mail.
Three boys ranging in age from
! eleven TO fourteen years are serving
term Of two years each in the California
penitentiary for burglary at San Jose.
1T Is said that n "mule can not
bray II brick be tied to his tail. y
! The Burlington Free Press raises the
| question, "What becomes of the fellow
! who adjusts the brickp"
Mix Chicago with Pittsburgh and
salt the whole with smoky sandstone,
writes Carp, land YOU have the great
Scotch city of Glasgow. II is larger
than Chicago, and better built than
either Chicago or Pittsburgh.
A good many of the colored people
are satisfied that if the artesian wells
had not been bored there would have
been no earthquake. They are just AS
well satisfied with their theory as many
of the scientists are with theirs.-Sd-
vanndh NcWS.
The Grand Army of California con-
tains representatives from every Massa-
chusctts regiment and organization
that served in the war except the teftn,
| iifty-fourth and tifty-lifth infantry, the
two latter being coloied regiments. ---
San Francisco CdH.
The deepest sea sounding yet ef-
| fectcd was made of the coast of New
| Guinea with four hundred weight
| lead sent down from the English ship
| Challenger, which struck bottom az
the enormous depth of twenty-six thou.
sand seven hundred feet.
Eggs transported long distance
in railway cars are said to become in
famed to such an extent as TO be nm
safe as an article of food. Probably II
packed in such way as to secure
them against iolting this result might
be prevented. r Boston Globe.
AT restaurant in Tucson during
the late heavy washout, when no train
had arrived for several days and there
were no potatoes in the market, the
bill of fare was printed, POTATOES en-
route aud another read, ''Potatoes in
box car. - San Francisco Chronicle.
Reports of n peculiar ease of blood
poisoning come from Culiacan, Mex.
Some time ago lady was peckcd on
her arm by hen, and shortly after she
began to feel pricking sensation
about the spot. Then her arm became
inflamcd and swclled rapidly, and the
next day she died, the physicians be-
ing ignorant of any means OF afording
her relief,
A convict in the Jail Mt Athens,
Ga, stripped the iron hoops from his
cell tub, made them into saw blades,
sawed through an iron bar an inch
square. making hole in the window
fourteen inches square, soaped his
naked body and thus slipped through
| it, and was then detected by the sheriff.
He said that he had to get out Of his
dark cell.
Mr.. Horace Andrews, an American
gentleman now in London, has written
TO a friend in Boston that he has
learned that there is in possession Of
n French family, near Paris, n portrait
(ife-size bust) of Franklin by the ia
nous portrait painter Greuze. II was
purchased from royal palace during
the French revolution in lSi0 Mr. An
drcws says. He suggests that, though
il would cost n large sum, it ought to
be procured for some public building
in Boston, 1890 Boston J0HrHdi.
--"What bothcrs society ladies more
than any thing else is to keep up with
the fashions in walking says the
| Atlanta Constitution. Cone season
lady will be expected to adopt II win
ming gait. At another time swinging
strides will be the style. The slow
walk and the rapid pace alternate in
popularity. Nothing lasts long If
fashion dccrecs that woman must
make herself perambulatng conyul-
sion of millinery and dry goods 1t is
all right. The style must have its
run.
There is a village just outside of
| New Haven that knocks Enoch Arden
out. The soprano of the church choir
is n od-looking young woman OF
! thirty summers. Her second husband
plays the organ, aud No. /, who was
divorced, works the organ pump for
the good of the church. And the mus
ical couplct of husbands are good
friends. The divorce law has been got
down to such a fine point in Connecti-
cut that il isn't any longer considered
good form for the principals to get out
of humor with one anothcr-N y.
Times.
Among the old papers in tic eoun-
ty clerks Office at Freehold, N. j., is
the death sentence of anegro named
Cesar II reads: Therefore the court
doth Judge that thou, the said Caesar,
sl...ll return to the place from whence
tho, camest, and from thence to the
place of execution, when thy right
hand shall be cut off and burned be-
fore thine eyes. Then thou shalt be
hanged by the neck till thou art dead,
dead, dead. then thy body shall be cut
down and burned to ashes in fire,
and so the Lord have mercy ON thy
soul. Cnsar ~ \. Tribune.