Arizona silver belt., 1888-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

given by Mrs. Stockton. each guest was presented with a little cage containing a canary bird Chicago Herald.
 A suburban justice recently settled n case in which boy committed an as- sault with pistol, by committing the lad and ordering the pistol to be dis charged. Little Gia1lt
 The King of the Sandwich Islands has decorated King Malietoa of Samoa with the grand cross of the royal order of the Star of Oceana. Owing to his general lack of costume the latter mon- arch doesn't know how to pin it on.- Chicago Ne10S.
 An eighteen-year-old young man of Ritchie County, Ind, fell ill with measles. His grandmother, anxious to effect a speedy cure and "bring them out, placed him between two ticks of feathers, with hot stones at his feet and a live sheep alongside him. He died.
 An extremely useful cement for ex- perimental use is made from equal quantities of gutta-percha and white pine pitch melted together. The com pound should be without Jumps. It im- proves by remelting, and softens at about Asa-tamperature of boiling water. -Bosfsa Budgel1
 Deer in the sar West are fast going the way of the lufalO One dealer ii Jacksonville, cFe-. in two months bought 300 deer skins, and other deal CTS in Southern Oregon have bought as many. These were all killed for their skins only, contrary to law.-Spring- field (OJ Times.
 An explorer of prehistoric mounds in Ohio has found carefully wrought hatchess of soft coal associated with human skeletons and bronze ornaments. From the character of the material it is evident that these were meant to simu- late axes of flint, and were of no use excepting in burials.-Gold Rule.
 It is estimated that there is at least S5,OOO,Ol o invested in fast horses in New York City, exclusive of the animals kept for racing purposes. The claim is made that the owners of these fine creatures are entitled to special consideration from the city authorities, who are asked to lay out Jerome avenue as finished driveway. Boston Transcript.
 A dispatch from Algeria announces the death of the greatestlion slayer that the world has ever seen. Ahmed-ben- Ahmar, who was last year made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. He killed eighty lions and as many pan thers from the time he learned to shoot until his departure for the happy hunt ing grounds.
 The total consumption of cocoa is 8O,0OO,OO0 pounds per annum, supplied mainly by the West Indies and South America. France heads the list with 26,OOO,000 pounds; Spain comes next with 16,0O0,000 pounds; then follow England, 100000 pounds; and the United States, S,5OO,OOO pounds.-N 7. Post.
 A citizen of Little Falls, N. r., who has carefully measured the snowfull there last winter, says that he makes it fourteen feet and nine inches, an un- preeedented depth. The spot where the snow was measured was in a cedar swamp surrounded by trees, which was protected in such a manner that no snow blew in or out, and the figures are supposed to be accurate.
 At recent meeting in Baltimore of the Freedman's Aid Society, an or. ganization for the education of Meth Odist ministers among the negroes of the South, Secretary T. c. Hartzell said that the cOlored people are increasing more by births than the whites are by births and immigration combined. Five hundred eolored babies are born every twenty-four hours.-N 7. Sun.
 A double chicken of the Siamese- twin pattern absorbs the attention of the people of Rochefort, Me. It has two heads and two pairs of legs, but these several members do not agree when the chicken takes its, or their, walks abroad-one head and pair of legs trying to shape their course to the right, and the balance as persistently working for larboard course.-BoSton Transcript.
 The other day, at Buffalo. N. Y, while steam boiler was being severely tested, a terrific explosion occurred, and the boiler was hurled several hun dred feet into the air. In coming down it struck the side of a brick building and tore huge hole in it. What was very singular was that the boiler was not broken or shattered, but went up and came down whole, and nobody was injured by the explosion.-N r Ledqer.
 What is the origin of the name Rocky Mountains?" I find it in the narrative of Pierre Gaultier de Varen- ness, sieur de Ia Verandrye, whose three sons, the 1stl January, 1743, first sighted the magnificent range. They called it ''AIontagnes de Pierres >Brilli- antes," from the sparkling of the sum raits in q Then came the more pri .5f s-.z..sl9, ''Montagnes Ro- cheuses 5r Rocky Mountains, " and --our still more prosaic, Rockies. "- Montreal Gasette.
 The Louisville Jockey club has com pleted arrangements whereby in the spring of 1889 there will be run at the course race of. a mile and quarter for stake of $5O,0O0. called the West Ken lucky stake, perhaps the richest ever run in America. The summary is as follows; Fifty thousand dollars for yearlings, two and three-year-olds on January 1. 1886; $4O,OOO to the winner, $4 0l0 to sacopd o1d % 6OO to +ba third