Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-05
CLIPPINGS OF ALL SORTS.

The ice water fund Is a prominent
southern charity.
An English amateur has purchased in
Milan a Stradivarius, dated 1716, for
$4,000.
The gathering of buffalo bones has
again become n business at Manitoba.
Chicago recently ordered $50 carloads.
The English Volapuk dictionary which
is to be issued this year will be the first
of lis kind either in this countryaDr in
England.
People in Alaska at this time of the
year can see to read without artificial
light from . o'clock in the morning until
IL at night.
A Boston professor who has married 0
distinguished senior classic presented his
bride for a wedding gift with the works
of Plato, Sophocles and Dante.
The Oregon Alpine club will anchor a
copper box to the very apex of Mount
Hood. 1t is to be a depository Of record
to all making the ascent.
There is a coachman at Saratoga who
is attracting a great deal of attention by
his wonderful resemblance 10 the pictures
of the first Duke of Wellington.
Rarely has such a harvest been known
in Russia as that of the present year.
The granaries are already filled to over
flowing, and farmers are puzzled TO know
what to do with the surplus.
At an English dinner party the table
was covered with a white satin cloth, on
which were placed large sacks of white
satin tied with silver cords, from which
a wealth of white flowers seemed to be
tumbling.
A cynic at a summer hotel finds amuse-
ment in the number of broken dishes.
He says he expects to hear at least one
terrific crash of crockery every day in
the dining room, and during a visit of
three weeks he has not been disap-
pointed.
Pennsylvania has some girls worth
Having. In the haying season a gentle
man during a short drive counted nine
young women driving two-horse mowers,
and seventeen managing horse rakes.
The colossal statue of John Marshall.
who is reputed the first discoverer of gold
in California, represents him as a back
woodsman, holding a nugget in his right
hand, while his left hand points down.
ward. The statue will stand on Marshall
hill in Eldorado county, where Marshall
first found gold.
A Philadelphia boy, who was anxious
to follow in the footsteps of Buffalo Bill,
lassoed a lady in the streets the other day
and was held in $500 bail for his future
good behavior. The little fellow prac.
ticed on the hydrant for several days be-
fore he tried his hand as a public per-
former.
At Portsdown Hill, England, an ex-
tremely curious graveyard relic was re-
Gently found. 1t was a human skeleton
in a good state of preservation, which
was buried in the chalky soil of the local
ity in the second century. The skeleton
was six feet in length, and in its left hand
were found twenty-five Roman coins.
A remarkable funeral took place al
Binghamton. DIR. Wheaton, an old and
influential citizen. a believer in the
dogma of ''good cheer" died, after hav,
ing directed that no outward signs OF
mourning be assumed at his funeral.
Accordingly the friends of the family,
when they met at the appointed hour,
were astonished TO find the widow and
daughters of the deceased attired in the
purest white and wearing bouquets Of
flowers. The corpse lay on a sofa COW
cred by a many colored robe, and was
not removed TO the coffin until the last
moment.
A few days ago a fly flew into the ear
of John Lord, who lives near Athens,
Ga. He got the insect out almost i'm.
mediately and thought no more about il
until he was awakened in the right by 8
violent itching in the ear. The itching
became a pain, and that increased unit
the man was almost crazy. He sought q
doctor, who, with considerable difficulty,
brought out eleven well developed and
very active maggots, which had matched
from the eggs laid by that fly during il
brief stay in Mr.. Lords ear.