Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-15
MIscELLAMEoUs,

MISCELLANEOUS.
| Many WORKOUT pastures Of MAssos
chusetts are being planted with chest
nuts.
"A man at Los Angeles has COM
menced to manufacture perfumery Gus
OF California flowers, and claims great
success.
| Experiments are being made in
Philadelphia in the breeding of silk
worms from eggs Of worms bred in this
country.
The newsboys of San Francisco
have organized q protective union. Ten
! cents is to be the uniform price for .
shine, and destitute members will be-
taken care of.
AT the removal of . barber shop
in Geneva, N. Y, the other day, q
show-bill was taken down which adver-
tised a circus which appeared in that
place in 1857. 1t was entirely different
from the show bills of the present day.
"A movement is afoot in Philadel-
phia to erect q monument over the
grave of Corporal William H. Rhial.
who was the first soldier of the Ma
tional army killed when the rebels in
vaded Pennsylvania.
"A young man hurriedly left the
Northern railway train at Craigvale.
Can. one day recently, emphatically
kissed q young lady who stood waiting
for him on the platform, then rushed
back to his seat in the car and tran
gully pursued his journey northward.
Fred Sitton, of McMinnville. Ore,
had an adventure with bear recently
that was by no means pleasing. He came
across the bear and shot him four or
five times, when bruin turned on him.
run him up a sapling, and kept him
there for several hours, when his cries
were heard, assistance came. and the
bear was killed.
"A gentleman of Trumbull County.
O., was awakened ono night recently
from a sound sleep with a singing, bit
ing sensation in his leg. A search was
instituted and a discovery made. In
the folds of his wife's robe de chambre
a fish hook was securely caught. and so
deeply had it imbedded itself that q
slice of flesh went out with it-CeUe-
land Leader.
Stranger Cat the restaurant)-"Beg
pardon. sir. but You have spilled soup all
over your vest" Fogg-..I wish you'd
mind your own business. You've been
sitting on your lighted cigar for fifteen
minutes and have burned hole in your
coat-tail as big as my fist. but YOU
didn't hear me shouting it at YOU
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
We can not too highly commend
the determination of Rev. Sam Jones
to undertake to convert the Corncob
School of Philosophy. People who
boldly stand up and assert that the
Henceness of the Wherefore is due to
the Thingness of the Sweet Afterward
can not be reformed too soon for our
common safety.-Philadelphia Press.
"A barbarOus case of eviction lately
happened at Linlithgow. Scotland.
Miss Eliza Milne, teacher of the Doug
las Cottage School. was elected from
her house, and her bedridden mother,
nighty-six years of age, was removed
from her bed and placed on an easy
chair on the wayside.e She laid there
'or two hours and then expired.
1t is suggestive fact that at Luck
now, India. there is native press en-
DlOying nine hundred workmen which
ssues largely the sacred writings of the
dindoOs and MOhammedans. A native
firm at Lahore translates
European infidel publications as fast as
hey appear. and disseminates them in
he various languages of India.
Several years ago Louis Renneberg
vas found dead in his bed at Mononga-
lela City, and buried. But he wasn't
lead after all. for he turned up the
'ther day at his old employers and
Isked for work. He says that he re-
'ived after being buried and dug out of
he grave; but it is thought that he was
by medical students, who.
inding him alive, paid him to quit town
nd keep quiet.-Philade,phia Press.
The stingray is the natural enemy
f San Francisco oysters, and his APP
on the Atlantic coast is al
nOst as much to be dreaded as the five
ngered starfish that destroys the beds
feastern waters. The fish has power
nj pair OF jaws. with which he con-
iders it no trick whatever to smash the
hell of an oyster into powder, after
Thich he sucks the meat into his
tomach and discards the rocky debris.
N. Y. Tribune.
The citizens of Colletsville, N. c..
ave discovered IN excellent and an
asy way to catch suckers when thew
IN up the Johns river. There is
am at Collettsville. and the fish make
lany attempts to climb the waterfall.
askets are fastened to the top of the
am so that they will hang Just under
he water, and the suckers. failing in
leir- efforts to climb the falls, drop
ack into the baskets. Four hundred
ere thus caught one morning recently.
The occupation of Jsehne, the con-
cted ex-Alderman of New York. is
escribed thus: HE stands in front of
table on which rests a vessel contain
q starch water, and from basketfuf
shirts which have been washed and
rung ont, he picks out one and dina
bosom and wristbands in the starch.
hen he lays this shirt aside and re-
'ats the operation until there are no