Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-03
ODDS AND ENDS.

A GAINESVILLE woman hHS worked on
a crazy quilt an hour u 10y fort lir
teen years, and the quilt is not finished
yet.
A Pennsylvania farmer wants the
governor TO set apart a sparrow day
when a wholesale onslaught may be
made on the obnoxious birds.
One of the cooperative stores in
Salt Lake City pays 3 per cent. divi
dends a month TO the stockholders.
It is a very interesting fact that the
Protestant Episcopal church has in the
Nebraska Dcanery 1880 Indian com
municants, with nine Dakota Indians
in holy orders.
The family of Richard Wagner re-
ceived f2, 600 sterling as their share of
the profits from the recent perform
anceS at Beyreuth.
Opportunity is in respect to time, in
some sense, as time is in respect TO
eternity; il is the small moment, the
exact point, the critical minute, on
which every good work SO much de-
ponds. -Sprat.
The Irish Pasteur, McGovern, in
whose family tradition has handed
down a successful cure for hydropho-
bia, recently received El2 from the
Newry board Of guardians for curing
four patients sent 10 him by them.
Lizards present a strange phenome.
non. Their tail. brittle and easily
broken, lives for a considerable
length of time after being separated
from its bearers body; and, more than
that, the lost tail is in a comparatively
short time replaced by another, SINH
lar TO the amputated N
Fire prooiing material of all kinds
is now as economical in cost as il is
serviceable and ingenious in charac-
ter. There isa building in Chicago
constructed wholly OF terra-cotta.
Foundations for the new and great
library Of congress are now building.
Gen. Casey, the engineer in charge,
has about So, 200, 900 allowed him for
the structure. The library will be
large enough 10 serve for ninety years,
and with small additions forl2O years.
A large and ,ery important discov-
cry of uranium is reported in Corn
wall. 1t isa true assure vein, the ore
containing an averaged of I per cent. Of
the pure metal, going up Is high in
many places as thirty per cent. The
market price OF uranium is Sl2, 900 a
Ton.
An English paper gives this expla-
nation of "A familiar phrase 'by hook
or crook" About a century ago two
celebrated kings counsel llourished,
whose names were respectively Hook
and Croke pronounced "Crook').
They were generally opposed to each
other in all important cases, and peo-
pie said: IF you cannot win your case
by Hook you will by Croke." Hence
arose the idiom which is now so firmly
grated into the English tongue.
The distance in miles at which an
object upon the surface Of the earth is
visible, is equal to the square root Of
Il times the height of the observer in
feet above the surface, and, converse.
ly, the height in feet to which an OBJ.
server must be placed to see a distant
object, is equal totwo-thirds the square
the distance in miles.
In the steeple of the Congregational
church at Bingham, Somerset county,
Me there banUs an ancient hnll that
has been swinging in various belfries
100 years or more. On its outer sur
face is stamped Revere, Boston," ana
it is supposed TO have been made by
Paul Revere. who, after the peace Of
1853. established a foundry in Boston
where lac cast the first cannon and
bells manufactured in Massachusetts,.
The old bell hasa good toneand seems
likely 10 last another century.