Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-10-16
NO. 81.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


mortgage on Il house weighs twice rs
much as an iron roof.--IHitddetphta
| CAL.
The funniest sight that San Fran
cisco man saw the other day was
building being moved which had over
the door the sign STATIONARY Store"
| The San Francisco mint employs
| at present three hundred hands. 1t is
the largest in the world, having coin
age capacity twice that of Philadelphia
and thrice that of the English mint.
Tho church bells in Oakland, Cal,
are rung at nine o'clock each evening,
and children found on the street after
the bells are quiet are arrested This
wouldn't be a bad plan for other cities
to adopt. ~ \. Sn.
Gents are not wanted in British
Columbia, says the British Columbian.
"Five-ccnt pieces are in circulation.
and we hope that no smaller changr
will ever find its way into this prov
incc. This is not land of coppers."
johnny baltimore, Of Glcn's Falls,
N. Y, was asked by aoanal-boat driver
to hit one of his horses that was shirk-
quick as flash the horse struck back.
and the result of the kick was COM
pound fracture of the jaw and ruined
face. T. Sun.
The oldest seaworthy yacht in Bos-
ton waters, and probably in American
waters, is said to be the Fairy. owned
by Edmund j. Baker, of Dorchester
Lower Mills. She was built in Boston
iifty-six years ago, and Mr.. Baker has
owned her iifty-iive years and has used
her every summer. Boston Journal,
The surprising growth of the
florists trade in this country is illus
trated by the increase in New York.
On New Years Day in New York in
| 1874 $500 worth of cut flowers were
sold. On the first of last January at
| that place 500, 900 worth were sold.
During the year the sales in New York
reached SS, 900, 900. N. Y. Herald.
Policeman Heaney, of Nanticokc,
Pa, was recently arrested on charge
of assault and battery preferred by ii.
Herskovicz, a banker of that place.
He was held in three hundred
dollars bail. which he found it
hard to get. and was about to
be locked up, when the plaintiff him
self came to his rescue and became his
surety. Pittsburgh Post.
German photographers haze sue
ceeded in photogrnphing proicctile
in the course of its flight, and some of
these photographs show the head OF
condensed air which precedcs every
shot. 1t is said to be this ''head"
which prevents even skllful riilemen
from hitting an empty egg shell when
hung on long thread. The air blows
the shell out of the way Of the bullet
OF late there have been narrowing
reports of famine and hunger in Lab
rador, but traveller who has just re-
turned from that country says there is
plenty of fish and soap grease there,
and that the inhabitants are as fat and
saucy as usual The Labradorians live
in cold and checrless climate, but
they do not intend TO get left on the
destitution for revenue only business.
-'It is probable that n great change
will soon be made in the way of dress
ing the hair, French hairdressers are
gradually taking the hair of the fore
head, which will abolish crimps, curls,
etc." says the New York Times. "As
this fashion is different from any thing
ladies have been accustomed TO seeing
for some years, it will naturally take n
short time for the style to become gem
eral.
Nineteen years ago a man in Du
Bois, Pa, lost his voice SO that he
Il ntx in, a xy bt A
ago he hurt his arm, and since then
had occasionally found relief from the
pain by placing it on large driving
belt that generated considerable cleo
tricity. Recently while doing SO his
voice suddenly and completely re-
turned and has since been good.
Phtiddeiphta Press.
LET her go. Gallagher" is New
Orleans product. and is gotten off on
drivers of street ears, who are called
gallagher. Visitors to the late cx-
hibition in the creole city were struck
with the number of that family en-
gagged in driving street ears. There is
a legend to the effect that the driver OF
the first street car run in New Orleans
was named Gallagher, which probably
accounts for the origin of the gag. N.
U. PIcdynHe.
AT the recent convention OF home
opathic physicians at Saratoga, doe
tor from Springfield, Mass, telling of
his success with diphtheria, is reported
to have said; II have cured hundreds
of cases with sulpho-carbolate OF soda,
and never lost one, while my neighbor,
a high dilutionist, has lost every case
he had Name him! Name him,'
cried the delegates, and the doctor did
name him, and now there are two
Springfield physicians that are bitter
enemies Troy Times.
Henry Donnelly. of New Haven,
neard cries for help coming from Mill
river, Pa, ran quite distance
NJ iuil speed. reached the water
IN time to see "a small boy sink
for the third time, plunged in,
breathless as he was, without removing
even his shoes, failed to get the boy at
the first attempt, divcd again, and just
macaged to bear the apparently life
less body ashore, when his strength
gave out. Donnelly was dragged out
fainting, the boy was resuscitated, and
so was his mother, who had in tho
meantime arrived and tainted. Hart
ford Post.