Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-12-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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The National Women's Christian
Temperance Union has planted an oak
tree over the grave of DR.. Benjamin
Rush at Philadelphia and erected there
memorial tablet.
Travelling managers find they need
actors more than they need Autographs.
Starting out with several reams of pic
turc paper in one hand and bundle
of sticks in the other is not good
scheme N o. Picdyune.
An Indian doctor in San Francisco
rcjoices in the n me of Cherwiizmile-
znotarbocker Finite Meerkhan, and a
police justice almost dislocated his jaw
in attempting to pronounce sentence
upon him for practicing without IL
cense.
AT Nebraska wedding the groom
was delayed and his "double, and
who locked precisely like him. slipped
in and was married in his place with
out the fraud being perceived, re-
markable instance of double we'd
ding. Teas Sytings.
How many big. strong. active men
| in this big State of ours are striving to
get living without workP | mean
real, sure-enough legitimate work.
| This is one of the questions the census
| taker does not put to the free Ameri-
can citizen. - Gatreston (1er. NefS.
1t has been ascertained that there
are several spots in the Atlantic Ocean
which are over four miles in depth.
They are nice, quiet spots to which an
old whale can retire to smoke his pipe
and wonder over the general wicked
ness of mankind. Detroit Free Press.
In Greensborough, Ala, has been
organized a society of seventeen young
and pretty ladies, the principal feature.
| being to do away with the odious habit
| of speaking i'll of any one. Meetings
are held every week and each member
who has been guilty of violating the
| society's laws is fined one cent
George Westinghouse, Jr., the in
ventor of the Westinghouse brake, has
secured a patent for a new system of
distributing electricity for lighting
and other purposes, which it is said,
will effect a saving of ninety-tive per
cent in the distributing main wires
and greatly cheaper the electric light
-Bugdio Express.
When burglars entered the house
of Silas Andrews. of Manayunk, Pa,
the other night, and Mrs. Andrews
awoke and found them at her bedside,
she said "Gentlcmcn. the old man has
got two dollar bill in his vest pocket,
and there's a silver-plated sugarbo
in the pantry. Take the plundcr and
get out, and don't leave any doors
open after you" They thanked her
and took the money and left -Phtid-
delphid Press.
The other day Rev. Francis How
ard of North Washington, Me-, while
hunting for his COW in the woods, came
face to face with big black bear.
Though seventy years of age, the cier-
gyman Skinned up a tree with remark
able celebrity, and the bear, apparently
not caring to take the trouble to climb
after him, looked him over for while
and then strolled off. Thereupon Mr..
Howard came down and went home in
quicker time than he had made for years
before. Boston Journal.
Our New York fnanciers now re-
siding in Canada must look out that
the fnanciers there don't get the best
of them. One of these sharp Canucks
recently sold steer which he had
driven into town for twenty-five dollars.
Before delivering it he sold it again, re-
ceiving five dollars on account. Then
repeated the operation and received
twenty-five dollars down, and delivered
the animal. The last purchaser found
that the steer was under chattel mort
gage to fourth person.-M Y. Sun.
Eugene Tyler, of Adairville, KY,
is not quite as full of electricity as the
young man who sets things on fire by
looking at them, but he is pretty well
charged. 1t is said that after rubbing
his hands together quickly, he can
place them on mans shoulders and
control him completely, and that no
one has yet been found who can resist
the influence thus exerted. He can
also light gas jet by an electric spark
sent from his finger two feet away
from the burner Louisville Courier
Journal.
A young man of Griffin, Ga, anx-
ious to make a good impression on a
young woman, "A visitor, whom he was
taking TO church, displayed five
dollar gold piece, intimating that il
was for the contribution box. When
she expressed surprise at the amount,
he also intimated that it was his GUS
tomary contribution. But he forgot
that the custom then was TO announce
the amount of the collection, and was
shocked TO hear IL given out as three
dollars and scventy-five cents. He had
substituted a copper coin for the gold
one. atlanta Constitution.
DR. Engram, of Buenavista, Ga,
visited negro woman who had con |
gestive chill. He thought she would
die very soon, but prepared some
brandy and ammonia 90 inject hypo- |
dermcally for temporary relief. When
be returned to the patient she was
pulseless, her heart had ceased beating, |
she was dead. As an experiment, he
says. with no expectation of the re-
suits that followed, he inserted the
syringe directly over the heart, and
pressed it slowly until he thought it
touched that organ, and injected the
brandy and ammonia. Very soon the
heart began beating feebly, before long
the pulse was perceptible, and at last
accounts the woman was getting well.
IN. I. San.