The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-27

AhE OdPdueSo HdV6 voluntarily con
tributed over So. 100, 900 to provide TO
the defense eff their coast.
IEXAs continues to collect a tai
from drummers, Notwithstanding tn,
decis on Of Federal court that such 9
tax is unconstitutional.
A NEW cab company Just started il
New York bases its claim for patron
age on patent hanson with a tor
that lowers to suit the occupant.
IHE Chinese journal, King Pan. was
founded in gil, or 976 years ago. 1t
has q morning, noon and evening edi-
ton, and is edited by six members oil
the Academy of Science. 1t costs the
reader half-penny.
LORD Salisbury recently sold his
property between the Thames embank-
ment and the Strand for 81, ZOO, 900.
by the increase Of value of house prop
erty ia London, he is now one of the
richest men in England.
A MAN who is sad TO look almost
exactly rs Mozart did is making money
in London BIZ exhibiting himself at
fashionable parties and musical enter
tainments. He also appears in tab
leaux Of the great musician life. The
man charges $50 an evening.
THE subscriptions to the National
Purse. to be given to Edw ard Bur.
CESS, the designer of the Pur itan, the
Mayflower and the Volunteer, has
reached $40 IT'S. %. and a check for
that amount has been sent from New
York to Mr.. Burgess at Boston.
PROBABLY the best lookout point or
natural watch tower in the world is
Caddo Peak, in johnson County, Tex.
1t is beautiful truncated cone, rising
300 feet above the level of the surro und
ing country. and from the top of it, on
clear day, one can see a distance of
400 miles up the meandering Brazos
River
In Spanish paper printed at Ma
anzas, Cuba, appears the following
advertisement: photographs of the
most beautiful woman in the world.
Sonora Frances Folsom de Cleveland.
the lady Of the White House, the idol
Of 60O00,000 people, the wife of the
President Of the United States. Call
for the 'El Rayno Verde cigarettes. "
In Sir John Lubbock's recent Lon
don lecture on ''Savages and Their
Manners, he gave an amusing in.
stance of the way in which writing is
puzzling to savages. in South Amer
lea, Oh one occasion. a native was
sent by missionary to friend with a
note and four loaves of bread. The
native ate one loaf on the way, and
was amazed that. the note discovered
his theft. On the next occasion that
he was sent with four loaves he sat on
she note while eating one of them"
FERRETs, the 1.-THE, sharp toothed
little animals which are trained to hunt
rats in New York houses. get their
first lessons in vermin killing at the
age of three months. 1t is their nature
to hunt and kill. Trainers consider a
ferret's first encounter W tn rat of
the utmost Importance as touching his
future usefulness, so they provide
half-growu rat for the first fight or
pull the teeth of an old rat in order to
give the ferret sure victory. If de-
feated, the ferret is timid ever after
ward.
INDICATIONS now point to the exis-
tence Of submarine volcanic crater
between the Canary Islands and the
coast Of Portugal. From cable-lay-
ing steamer in 80 degrees % minutes
west the water was found to measure
1900 fathoms under the bow and 500
under the stern, showing the ship to
be over the edge of very deep de-
preston in the ocean bottom. The
Weli-knoWn great inequalities in the
bed Of the sea Of Lisbon are thought
to be due to submarine chain of
mountains.
y SCHLEswIG boasts of a spinsters' in
surance company. At the birth of a
girl the father inscribes the child's
name in the books of the company and
pays certain sum every year When
bis daughter reaches her twenty-fourth
year and is still unmarried she Is en-.
titled to certain income and to a
couple OF well-furnished rooms in a
house belonging to the company.
which i inhabited By other sp.nsters
who have become members. In case
she dies or marries all her rights are
'"rieited and the-money paid in revert,
: the company.