Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-05-06
NO. 1889
ITEMS OF INTEREST

tanned in the first freight train moved
in Texas for two weeks
The ground under clumps of china
berry-trees in the vicinity of Tampa,
Florida, is covered with intoxicated
birds almost every day, they having
become tipsy through eating too many
berries.
Minneapolis is to have twelve-story
hotel, with the dining room in the
tenth story, the Kitchen in the eleventh,
and the laundry and servants quarters
in the twelfth. 1t will cost $750.OO0
and accommodate 500 guests
Mrs. Buckingham. the richest wo-
man fruit farmer in California, has an
orchard a mile long, with row after
row Of pear, cherry, peach and apricot
trees. Pink SHOWS now hide the earth
under the blossoming beauties.
The attendants at the Congressional
bathrooms are paid out of the treasury
of course. Then to cap it all chirop-
odist, who is on duty, takes care of the
pedal extremities of such members as
happen to be afflicted with corns, bun
| ions and the like
The ostrich farm in California is so
famous that visitors come from far
and near to see the chicks, and willing
ly pay an admission fee. The ostrich,
however, becomes much excited at
seeing strangers, and often Injuries his
chicks in his nervousness.
Mark Cook, of Champaign. ILL.,
claims to be 10 years old, and gives
the date of his birth as September
18th, 1776 with nativity in Chatham
county, n G.. Of course he frequently
saw George Washington, and was in
the war of 1912, under Andrew Jack
son.
| Gen. and Mrs. Jessie Fremont are
now settled for at least a. year in
Washington, where both are hard at
work upon the Generals Memoirs
Mrs. Fremont acting as amanuensis
and doing most of the work in search
ing records and reports on file at the
capital.
A striped bass weighing 37a pounds
was captured in net set by Mr.. Rob
ert A. Johnston's coachman at River
dale, New York, recently. 1t is on ex-
hibition on Mr.. Johnston's grounds,
and is pronounced to be the finest
specimen ever taken in that part of
| the Hudson.
Constance S, the famous Holstein
heifer of the Record Farm herd,
died last week, of rupture of the stom-
ach She was owned by Mr.. VIM. M.
Singerly, of the Philadelphia Record,
and was valued at $4,000. Her record
of eighty-three pounds of milk in one
day has never been beaten by any
two-year-old.
The Texas & Pacific bridge over the
Trinity River at Dallas, Texas, is ninety
feet above the water level. A negro
walking across the bridge, recently,
was overtaken by train, and so
scared that he jumped from the bridge,
went plumb down into the water, and
after half a minute arose and swan
ashore unhurt.
The other day farmer sent to the
Government Redemption Office box
of burnt paper saying it was $4,000
which he wanted repaid him. The
charred paper was all tumbled to
gether, but an expert soon discovered
it to be nothing but common writing
paper in which few two-dollar bills.
had been burned and mixed.
The other day man was driving
near the railroad track in North Read
ing, Pa, when his hound, that had
been following him, ran on the track
Just in time to be struck by fast To-
comotive and hurled fifteen feet in the
air. He thought there wasn't enough
left of the dog to mourn over, and
drove on. Looking back after while,
he saw the hound trotting behind the
wagon.
| At dinner at Rondout, N. Y, there
was German, just arrived who had
not seen United States paper money.
A gentleman opposite took fifty
dollar bill from his pocket and endeav
ored to hand it to the German, but
dropped it into dish of soup. He took
it out as quickly as possible, and was
waving it to and fro to dry it, when a
big dog in the room snapped it out Of
his fingers and bolted it down with ap-
parent relish.
Thomas Howard, President of the st.
Louis Pipe Works, representing a
combination consisting of the leading
pipe foundries at st. Louis, Cincinnati
and Louisville, has purchased fifteen
acres of ground on which to erect
pipe and foundry works. They will
have capacity of 200 tons per day,