Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-11-20
or GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Deadwood paper tells OF man
there who has made thirty Thousand
dollars gathering up and selling empty
beer and liquor bottles.
Sir Richard Sutton. the English
breeder of Short-horncd cattle, has lost
his valuable herd Of Jerseys through
that fell agency, pleuro-pneumonia.
Tho sting of humble bee contains
only one-fifticth part of drop of poi
son, and why u boy jumps up and dowr
and takes on SO about it Is more thar
medical science can explain.
The proprietor of celebrated res
taurant out West Is described by ,
local journal as being, in appearance,
and dress, combination of an English
lord, United States Senator, an Am
erican poet and French painter.
Daniel Webster's Marshicld estate
is now owned by Walter Hall, of Bos-
ton. 1t contains four hundred and
fifty acres and supports fifty cows, five
horses two yoke of oxen and several
head of young stock. -Boston Journal
"A new poet sings "1he Whistling
Buoy is Anchored at Sea. The
whistling girl, however, continues 10
| float about in fancy free to the envy
of the boys who can not properly
puckerto whistle a tune. Chicago Inter
! Ocean,
Archibald Ford has met nine dif-
ferent Kings and Queens, but when he
walks up To peanut stand with his
nickel he gets no better measure than
those of us who have simply gazed on
the coat-tail buttons Of United States
Senator. - Detroit Free Press.
Probably the largest grape arbor
in Central North Carolina is Soup
pernong arbor on plantation in
Sumter County. 1t has seventeen
hundred posts, covers nearly an acre
of ground, and every year it bears an
abundance of Scuppernongs.
The Boston Record throws off the
following editorial enigma; IF five
generations fed on canyass-back and
terrapin are required to produce n
Maryland beauty, how many centuries
of beans and brown bread are needed
for the evolution of n Boston BELIEF"
"A spottcr in Guelph, Can, swore
that he had drank ginger-ale and
whisky in certain saloon. Al the
trial the bottle was produced, the wit
ness tasted the contents and swore that
they were gneer-ale and whisky, aud
then the defendant proved that the
drink was ginger-ale and pepper sauce
and was acquitted.
People who are quick to "take up
remarks and to resent supposed insults
are kept pretty busy by the world. An
old man, who was before Judge Cow
ing in New York, day or two ago,
admitted that he had been arrested
about one hundred and thirty times on
charges of assault, and explained that
he was mot going to let anybody call
him names. ~ T. Mail.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the burial
place of Washington Irving, which is
directly across the Hudson from Nyack,
n. Y, has become so crowded that the
adjacent property has been purchased
to enlarge the grounds. The addition
is a forty-onc acre lot on the north
side, and cost thirty thousand dollars.
The cemetery is visited by thousands
of strangers every year. Troy Times.
Samuel Gilbert, of Georgetown,
N. j., stored one hundred and fifty
bushels of potatoes in the attic of his
little house preparatory to barreling
them The other night while his fami-
ly was at supper the floor gave way
and the potatoes came down on them,
breaking Mr.. Gilbert's arm and Mrs,
Gilbert's leg, fracturing her shoulder,
and injuring a daughters arm so that
it will have TO be amputated. N. y.
Sun.
"A laborer while digging well at
Norristown, Pa, struck quicksand |
and became fastened. He called for
help, and ropes fastened to windlass |
were lowered, but as they pulled he
cried that they were tearing him limb |
from limb. He was finally rescued by |
means of graphing hooks placed un-
der his feet, a crib having been lowered |
around him. When extricated he had |
been in the quicksand seventeen hours.
-NorristoWn HcraH.
There is a valley in Chautauqua |
County, N. r., called "No-God hol-
low, and this is the way it came by |
its name; An evangelist went into the |
valley and worked very earnestly for
some weeks, and apparently without
any good results. One day in speak
ing to one of the residents of the place
he said: II do not believe there is
God in Chcnango valley!' This was
picked up, and since then the place has
been known as mo God hollow -
BaDato Express.
"A sixty-year-old widower of
Albany, N. T., who has selected q
young woman of twenty-six years for
his second wife, was chaffed so much |
by friends about the great expense he
was liable to incur in taking SO young
a wife that he thought 1t would not be
amiss to sound the mind of his intended,
and did SO. She named over the num-
Der of dresses she would need and
capped the climax by insisting that the
first two wears must be spentin Europe.
The match is now oil. albany Jour
nal.
Gratifying evidence of the advance
Of woman in England appears in the
statement that of about thousand
students, from the Liverpool region,
examined in science and art at South
more than two hundred
were women. Two young girls passed
in magnetism and electricity, twelve in
chemistry, and two in agri-
culture. One lady, who passed the
examination last year in
construction and drawing.
was again successful in "a more ad.
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