Nevada County picayune., 1889-01-16
MISC C=LLANEOUS.

This Fl. .....!.g. wuen # is known that the ccr rmtc of the graves are alwavs at none. -N 0. Pieag"ne.
 -Stali-ti.s latatr puhI;aa2d in En- g,and show that l,, world has 700 Cr,rsnsss w,... 5e p,090 OF o"er. of whom 2lor.-.-e D ..a4lat.d, 100 in the Euited Satss, +..I E"a3"Hr, 70 in Frame jq :.. ,.J in iaiia and l2j in o- r..
 gr,.... ..ei a't Two men -iaa.i .. a,r ,..aes.lt ends of a slack wir. reet,.l paes each other, going by on 8 ',...l steP A woman actually dauca- .ls wire, all man lrots across it .I 8 companion up- right OH his s,it" fs.
 The larret l,.ard in the world which fs also -.. i Il I continent is Australia. twenty five hundred miles in len %. east to west, and measures l.925 mi as from north to south. Its area is 2,294, 287 square miles.
 A naw idaa r tricyeling has been invente. r.aF -lmea aho has been travelin.. wit E.. u lie through France on a mse,tiae ,el with a bamboo mast on which a sail can ba hoisted. The wind has sometimes kept him moving, even on up-srales, without using the pedals.
 A weaver with a mathematical turn of mind, who won twenty thousand francs in a lottery, racked his brains by arithmetical aud geometIical calcu- lations respecting the number of louis, five-franc pieces. and sols which he could spread over a given surface Finally the poa" fe'lcw aad b. taken to an asylu ].
 A lady IT. driger. angry with his horses for some faacied ofense, ab ut lasn them severely. She in- te pte him by inquiring the way to a certain street., tD a certain man 8 house, both of which she kaaw very well. But he driver. t5o gallant not to answer the lady'a questions, had op- porto, ty for his tempe. 70 cool. and restoleu the whip to it's aoc.let without striking a blow.
 Time, twentieth century. Place, at the polls. First Female Noter-"How do you do, Mrs. x? Who are you going to vote for for governor?' Second Fe- male Voter 70, have not decided yet The Republicans have put up Mir. A. TheF say he's very popular, and sure to be elected. But Mir. B. his op- ponent. he doesn't s,cm to have any friends c. all, poor f"itaw; guess I'll vote for him" Fira; ,'anale Voter ''So will l. .n- Yankee Bdaie.
 -"What will it cost n ,, Uncle Ras- tus, to have my coop Eaitewa5hed?" "I kain tell yet. sch, til. m tkes an estimate ob de size and dimenshuns. !" That night the owner was disturbed by a loud noise in the hen-cJpp. Hi, therer he sho lted from m upper window, what arc you doing there" Its Unc. Rastus," was the reply, "and he's fggerin oa d. size an di- menshuns ob de coop. '-iarper's Be- zdr.
 --"This is the darnde-t place l ever was in," exclaimed the bueolic gentle man at the theatre. live been look ing around for the last aalf-hour and cant find the door," ID mt you see the sign on that door?' a, ted the gen~ tlemanly usner. E.i.. '}ats Latin. and means the p'a'' 'y... you 90 out. Then why in timt G'a't 1t say so? l don't know nothing about dead lan- guages. Cause a feller can't read Latin, he's got to burn to death in case of fire, eh?"-Bo>t5, TrrqScript
 -"Men," said tle captain of the steamer to the frightened passengers huddled about him, ii is true we are not gaining on the @i5, but we are only fifteen miles from land and if necessary we can throw overheard 2,0O0 tons of freight to tighten ship. There is no occasion for alarm. We have several hundred casks of rum in the hold that we can -" "No occa. sion for alarmw exclaimed tall Ken tuckian, turning p.'e with apprehen- sion. "Captain, du you intend to throw that rum overboard? ?'- CaicagO Tri6- ulle.
 The average age of locomotives is about twelve years, yet many, through proper habits of living. taking their meals regular anl aToiding all intoxi- eating beverage, attain quite re- spectable old agr The oldest run ming engine in Gcrupay has been on the road since lslj, and is couse- quently forty-threc years old; quite a Mcthusclah. in fact. With regard to its habits if has always confined itself strictly to watr' though it has been addicted ta smoking all its life. l, is sad to seq a locomotive grown prcma- turely o!d by g'ttiagon trains and run ming all night, but thoy are often met within collisions. TecaS Sittings.
 Flagstaff, Me, is an interesting town for two reasons. II always has Miles Standish among its citizens, and the Standish farm covers the ground where Be4elict Arnold encamped on his Quebec expedition, and where he erected a hago!aE. from which the place received its name. C. W. Stand, ish one o' the leading men of the town, is the only remaining son of Miles Stan3ish, who was the eighth direct dcscant from Mics Standish. the captain of Plymouth. c. w. Stand. ish only brother, Milos, died seven years ago. but he left q son Miles, now twCntv-two years old. and G. w has a