The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-27
VARIETY.

AIAH,ls Of 0re aFo given q Nogaleot A.
T., b tho shooting Of small Anna
A cYNlcAL Englishman. who has been
Spending some time In New York City, sayo
that half tho citi1ena are honest md %.
yutabis people, aaa tho other half sre pol'
1etans.
A PnrLADEInlA oculist advises tho
sparing use Of opera glasses. He claims
t&at they have . tendency toward weaken
ing tho optic nerves and laying the founds.
ton for blindness.
TIE English skylarks, imported by ci0-
sens Of Brooklyn, N. Y, several years agos
and which wcre missing for . time. hsve
established themselves In tho interior Of
Long Island, and arc incrcasingin numbers,
apparently acclimated-
Tn. most youthful bank president in this
country, If not in the world, Is J. n. Bailey,
Jr., who was recently made president Of
the Minnehaha National Bank, ut Sioux
Falls, D. +. He is an Illinois boy, barely
out Of his teens. and has already shown
oapability a. . 6nancier.
TIE Fish Commission car reached At
lanta, Ca, the other day whom . singular
incident occurred. Change Of water was
found necessary, and artesian water WAS
supplied. Inside Of an hour 5000 young
fish werc dead, and q three million eggs
arc supposed to be killed.
A LETTER received at the Baltimore 4
Ohio railroad Offices at Baltimore the other
day, and referred to the passenger depart
ment, was from q man out in Wyoming Ter
ritory. He wrote to say that some years
ago he stole rides on the road to get West,
A~A That hn h0o noN~ nvnorionOoI n Nhon0o
Of heart and wants the company to send
him Q bill for tho stolen travel
IT is reported from Detroit that . lad six
teen years old, has such a mania for thrust
ing pins and needles into the right side Of
his face and neck that it has become
necessary to send him othe lunatic asylum.
At the time Of his departure he had from
thirty to forty pins buried to the head in his
cheek, besides an unknown number Of
needles that were out Of sight.
SAX DIEGO, Cal, is soon to have one of the
most important and perhaps b~est-endowed
charitable institutions in the Union. It will
be an orphans home for both sexes, COM
bined with an educational and technical
school; the endowment amounts to $S,00Q.-
600, and was subscribed by Bryant Howard,
e. ". Morse, Judge NJ. A. Luce and c. 8.
Hamilton, all of San Diego. The city has also
given one hundred acres Of land il the city
limits worth nearly 100000.
AT Prendergrass, Ga, n cat-bird was
seen by . little boz to dart down to
the ground for something. and at once
began iluttering and struggling as if
to free itself. This cca, .Ercd !0r per.
haps o minute, when tho struggle ceased
and the bird settled down iao;ioniess. Tho
little fellows curiosity beng aroused, he
went to the scene anu found the bird nearly
dead and piniOnei by ! h. e black spider.
The insect had seized is w.lgci foe by tho
tongue and bitten tho ED oi it OF. Tho
bird died.
CoLoRs used in sealing wax arc said to
express . certain signi.i 4ince. White is
used for weddings; black, Jra5 aid purple,
for mourning; lavender is c1ndolcnce; DIN
ncr ~invitatians are scale with chocOi:te
color; blue denotes consI.ncy; green cx-
presses hatred; vcrm.lIion siyniics b:si-
ness; ruby or cardinal denote, the most
ardent lore; light ruby 80 rose is affection
alto remembrance: pile grsen Is ~i:no,encc;
yellow indicates jealousy; ye!iowish green
signifies grief cDd disappointment; dark
brown, melancholy aud reserve.