The Red Cloud chief., 1888-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The young fellow who has expccta-
lions finds no difficulty in sailing about
on his heirship.- Binghamton Lea,ier.
Speak If y man Is 20" snd him.
If you find him in Canada. forget that
you knew him in the States.-N. q.
! Hcayune.
Cork is the latest material proposed
for making railroad cars. The idea is
that in case Of collision it would simply
bound of the track.
-Jones-'.Fish are spoken Of ~ the
fishcrman's harvest. Why is that?:'''
Smith--''Bccause the fishermen have to
pillow the waves to get them EoSton
Courier.
"A new lubricant that is corin"
into use'in Germany is mustard oil. 1t
remains fluid ut the low temperature Of
fourteen degrees Fahrenheit. and will
Keep unchanged for years.
The champion meanest man is the
husband who placed his pocketbcok in
. m~ouse-trap. so that his wife could not
get ut it in the early murnin" without
liberatin. a mOuse.-Baitin,ore 4Ameri-
can.
Silver. generally a very desirable
metal. is a source Of great annoyance
to the manufacturer Of white lead. for.
if present in an apprcciable quantity. it
spells the color Of the finished product.
owing Il the well-knOwn blackening
effect Of light upon the salts Of silver.
Generous man ION ferry boat)-
THAT is rich. Funniest thing I've read
in some time breads it to \ sOur-lOoking
ma next him.) Don't you see any
thing funny in that? Why don't you
laugh?" Sour-lookips Man III you'd
spent three hours scratching the hair
of your head irving to rake out that
joke. you wouldn't laugh much"
What was the biggest school Of
mackerel You yer saw" asked n sum-
mer boarder Of old Captain Glostcr.
1.-The biggest school of mackerel l ever
SAW" repeated the captain. shifting
his quid and hitchins up his trousers.
''Well. ma'am. the biggest school of
mackerel l ever saw was off the Banks.
away back in 81. But. ma'am. that
wasn't nc school Of mackerel. 1ha;
was u university"
"A MOurnful Reiection.-A Texas
man was left $1,000 by the death of IN
uncle in New York. He drank deeply.
and went through the property in two
months. While engaged in the COM
pletion of one Of the railroads in Texas.
he received notice that he had fallen
heir. this time to 5000. ALLOW me
to congratulate YOU" said one of his
fellow-wOrkmep. Congratulate moth
ing!" said the man dismally. 1T looks
very much rs though there was some
Kind Of a plot ON foot to kill me off,
Tsxas Sifiings.
The annual royalty exacted BY the
Bell Telephone Company from its bust
ness is $l4 per set IF instruments. 1t
sells nothing. In New York State. at
least. in addition to these royalties it
also exacts from its licenses a further
consideration in the form Of a donation
of t~hirty-five per cent. of the capital
stock Of its licenses. 1t also exacts q
upon all extra territorial
and telegraph business done by the
Of fifteen per cent. on the
and fifteen per cent. Of the
An easy-soing couple live in Spring.
field. Mass. They are young. have
been married about four and = half
years. and have three children. The
husband has left his family three times.
and each time the wife has sold the
goods and returned to her parents.
back her spouse every time he
returned. and helping refurnish. Fur
thermOre. she lett him twice. when he
in turn sold their common possessions.
They are o living together again as
if nothing had occurred out of the
usual way.