The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Basic Stag. the refuse Of steel
works when freed from iron and e.
duced to powder. proves to be a va6l-
able fertilizer.
do they miss me Mt hsme?" is
the favOrite sOng of the BurliigtOnian
whose wife AID grown up daughters
are fond Of pe4ging plates and chunks
of coal at him.NB"rlhngton Fra Press.
Some laborbus statistician figures
It out that in each minute in the United
States, night AID day. all the year
round, twenty-fOdr b~arrelsOf beer have
to go down 12.Ogt threats. and 4.S3O
bushels of grain ha'e come to bin:
William Penn. when laying out the
city of Philadelphiain 1852. is said to
have modelled it on adesign Of ancient
Babylon. and expressed q desire that
Philadelphia should b a green oun
try town. which would never be burnt
up and always Wholesale"
Sacramento. Cal. is sirtually acity
without laws. In u triA q few days
ago the fact was brOughe out that the
ordinances now used web never Or
dered or accepted by the CAS Trustees.
or appeared. rs required bylaw. in any
newspaper. and there is no record to
show that they we're adopted
-UncOnth Young Man-"Iay I kiss
you. Miss JOnes?" Miss Jona (indig-
nantly)-''What do you mem. sirs?"
U. Y. NJ. (surprised) Don't you
know what a kiss is yet? Will. you
are the funniest girl / Yer saw. Guess
you'd better study the dictionary
awhile. Good evening."-7oIsb Bee.
well. James," said the chisopo-
dist. I'VE must keep up with the times.
Look at this new sign" Capital"
exclaimed the assistant. THAT will
surely catch the public" Then he
went Out and tackled up a sign that
read: ''Corns Removed While You
Wait."-Detrojs Free Press.
According to the Engineering and
Mining journal. thu Panama Canal uses
about 100000 tons Of coal a year. and
buys almost exclusively the best So
called ''smokeless" Welsh coal. Ow-
ing to the great number of engines ut
work on some sections of the canal and
the heavy atmosphere, the ''smOke
nuisance is very great. and the use Of
anthracite has been suggested.
"A nine-year-Old girl. spending the
summer in a country clearinghouse.
was q favOrite with her fellow-bOarders
on account Of her beauty and spright-
illness. One of them was SD devoted
that his attentions became annoying to
her. One day she said to her mother.
DO you think Mr.. Brown ought to call
me a puny devil?" why, no. my dear.
of course not But are you sure he
dido" He called me an imp; and I
looked in the dictionary to see what it
Home Life. -
"A true story Of the perplexity Of q
graduate Of the Boston English High
School W a word that he found Oc-
curing with vexatiOus frequency in the
Of work that he read re-
DO you know" he asked.
''who Ibid. the author. was? I've been
reading a book that has lots of ex-
tracts from his writings in it. and I
find his name in any encyclo-
The young nan was told that
he was q relative Of the distinguished
Anon. who has written some of
most beautiful things in the En-
glish language.-Boston Transcript.
"A lawyer living in a town near
Conn.,. states a fact which
we'll illustrates the thrift and frugality
which characterize many Of the old
which have not been touched
by modern extravaganza and love of
In that town three estates
have been settled within a few months
sggregating property to the amount of
100000. and yet he says if all the
furniture of those three
antilles had been sold at the best pos
'ible price the amount received for it
would not have amounted at the put
'ide to e $500. 1t is too often the
labit nov to have thOusand-dOllar
for hundred-dOllar estates