The Springdale news., 1889-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS


 learn usually does most of the talking. --Atchinson Globe.
 The London Enquirer says the United States has the best torpedo service of any nation in the world.
 A little girl sent out to hunt eggs. returned without success, complaining that lots of hens were standing around doing nothing
 This is funny old world, anyhow, but it is very hard to realize it when you are reading the comic papers, Somerville Journal.
 The startling fact has been discov- cred that 3, 265, 309 bushels of peanuts are consumed in this country every year. It is suspected that 25l,306 bushels Of them are slain in the upper galleries Of theaters. and that 216 401 bushels are eaten in street cars and court rooms.
 For heroism in one of the battles of the Mexican war, the Legislature of Missouri granted to Absalom Hughes the right to keep dram shop during his natural life without paying State, county or municipal license. Although over seventy years of age, he is still engaged in the business at Cedar City.
 -Merchant-"Ca you bring me few bushels of green peas, this morn ing?o Dakota Gardener-"N this mornin. My peas war jest blossomin' when left home an hour ago. But ef that ar cloud, drops an inch or two SOS ter keep otfen the sun, I'll be here with a load this arternioon. Time.
 The total production of gold and silver of the world in 1887. according to the report of the Director of the United States Mint for the year 1888. was in gold, $100 S26, 500; in silver Cat United States eoining value), $l25. .346.- SHOOT S226, 173. 110 in all. The real value of the silver was, however, much less, being about $94 1000, 900.
 An Easton man, homeward bound with a new carpet sweeper, was ac- costed by neighbor who is jealous to be thought agricultural. and who asked consent to try that mower on his lawn He tried it, and finding that he could not make the grass fly he passed it back with an expression of mistrust in es.these new patents. ."-Allentown (Pa) Register.
 A Baltimore woman dreamed of finding pot of gold in the cellar, and the next day she went down and began looking for it. She managed in short time to run across four large sized rats, an old key that had been lost for six months, aud q jug of whisky her old man had been hiding behind the potato barrels. She is firm believer in dreams now.-Peck' Sun.
 A nine-year-old son of Maine, liv ing eleven miles from Bangor, heard of the electric lights in that city. and teased his father to take him there that he might see them. The father said he hadn't time. 4 few days after ward the boy was missed. His father drove straight to Bangor. and at nine o'clock that night found him under an electric light, gazing in open-eyed de- light. He had walked all the way.
 An interesting innovation in tho method of catching cod has just been made by the French fishermen coasting of Newfoundland. They catch large periwinkles remove their shells, and use the creatures for bait. The cod, 1t is said, have bitten eagerly at the new bait and the owners of the French vessels have caught fish so fast that they were able to sail for France in the first week of July, instead of October as usual. In England the whelk has long been used for the same purpose.
 One of the most interesting uatur- al coriosities of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, is situated in Rose Val ley, about six miles from Trout Run. It consists of seven natural wells ex- tending almost straight downward to a depth unknown. Large stones cast in some of these wells go rumbling down, making coarse, rasping sound at first as they strike against the sides of the well, growing fainter and fainter until lost by the distance. Near these wells Is a cave, the mouth of which is large enough for horse to enter. Several gangways lead off from tho main eu- trance to large separate chambers, and from these other passageways lead off probably to unexplored chambers.