Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-11-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

was uncovered 3y recent cloud burst.
-''Pcals of gigglcs and ripples of
snickers' are said to have been evoked
by = comedy recently played in Con-
necticut.
1t is reported that there is skipper
who has been so often across the At
lantic that he knows every wave by
sight. T. Telegram.
A scientist says that thinking men
live thirty three years longer than men
who don't think. We always knew
that il wasn't eating that prolonged
our life. -Milddelphid Press.
Philadelphia papers estimate from
the assessors list of voters, numbering
229, ,092, and accept the basis of four
voters to every seventeen inhabitants,
as by the last census, that their city
has now population of 973,6il.
A six-year-old girl in Florida
dropped her kitten down well over
fifty feet deep, and Mt her earnest en-
treaty her father lowered her down by
the well rope. She got the kitten out
all right and was pulled up again
damp, but happy.
The strength of hand and wrist
necessary to the professional presti-
digitator was illustrated By Hermann
the other day. He took new pack of
ordinary linen-back cards and broke IT
in two, then broke one of the halves
into quarters. = Chicago Inter Ocean.
Some American sent the Gar of
Russia glass paper-wcight with a
turtle in it, but the young man didn't
propose to have his head blown off in
that way. He ordered il soaked in n
tub of water for three weeks before it
was pronounced safe for use. Detroit
Free Press,
Three ladies and a young girl, the
latter but eleven years of age, went
into Xcnia (O.) store to get weighed
and their combined weight was 746
pounds. One lady weighed III pounds.
one 269, and the third POI, while the
ll-year-old girl weighed 1o5.-Clece-
land Ledder.
A whole army of bats invaded the
building of the Smithville (Ga.) News
one nj ght recently. and after putting
out the lights By the tlapping Of their
wings dashed headlong at the printers
and made things lively for them for the
space of an hour or so. 1t was not
until after their leader was slain that
they beat retreat and answered to roll
call in the woods hard by.
--Allis Brown, colored man of
Nashville, Tei>a., succeeded in steal
ing enough furniture to fit up house,
to which he took his ncwlymade bride.
The stolen articles, which were after
ward found in his house by detectives,
consisted of every known household
contrivance. Among them were
handsome set of silverwarc, four COOL
clocks, several carpets and chairs, ele-
CANT sets of bedroom and parlor furni-
ture, and Bible. Louisville Courier
Journal
The other day Engineer Merritt,
on an cast-bound D., l.. & w. train
from nghampton, saw buck on the
track ahead of him. On one side was
q steep mountain, on the other thirty
foot cmbankment. Turner pulled the
throttle wide open and made after the
buck at full speed. The chase was
short The locomotive gradually closed
on the frightened deer, and at length
caught it, and, as it happened, held it
cntanglcd on the cowcatcher, where
the fireman killed it. N. Y. Sun.
Hon. ii. j. Cookinham went to
Bsby Lodge, in the North Woods,
taking with him deerhound owned in
this city. The dog was taken on the
cars from Utica TO Boonvillc, thence to
Bsby Lodge, and thence to the south
branch of the Moose river, about eight
miles further into the heart of the
wilderness. He remained here but one
day, when he was put out for deer
He probably found none, as he re-
tnrned to the home of his master in
Utica the next day. How he found
the way is marvellous. Utica On ~
Press.
1t was Sir Walter Raleigh who
gained the favor of his gracious Queen
by spreading his cloak upon a mud
spot so that Elizabeth could save her
boots a-wctting. Ii was lesser youth
who opened pew door for an old
lady, and afterward got 500, 900 for
his trouble. And now it is Richard
Lighttowcr, an English carpenter, who
has just received G25,000 in property
and Il, ,450 in money by the will of n
stranger 1t appears that he once
pulled this stranger out of the River
Tyne, but Mr.. Lighttower had forgot
ten the incident.
Mrs. Eleanor Moore died in
Georgetown, Maine, few day ago,
having lived five days more than one
hundred years. On her birthday,
October 4, she said to her son: "To-
day I'm one hundred years old. Can
il be possbleP II seems like dream.
The day before her death she repeated
several passages of Scripture, and her
last words, an hour before she died,
were: ''God bless you all. Good-by,
darlings. I'm going home. Three
children. fifteen grandchildren, twen-
ty-eight great-grandchildren and one
great-great- -grandchild survive her.
Among the visitors at Gettysburg,
Pa, recently, was Stephen Walker,
night clerk of the Office of the Pitts
burgh Post Ii was his first day oil
duly for over twenty-five years. Dur
ing all that time his holidays have been
the days on which there was no work
TO he done on the paper. In the former
days of journalism it was the custom
not TO issue any paper on the day fol-
lowing Thanksgiving, the Fourth OF
July, Christmas and other holidays.
Not TO lose day by so important an
event as his marriage, Mr.. Walker was
married on Thanksgiving day, 1868.