Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

Excuse haste and bad pen," was
the message left behind by a convict
ON escaping from & western state
prison.
The United Kingdom fisheries en-
ploy 250, 600 persons. The money
value of fish landed in a year is near
ly Is, 100000.
A Portland man has invented new
color. He says his dog is ''subdued
brindle" How would a subdued brin-
die bonnet dot
II you want poached eggs 10 look
particularly nice, cook each egg in
muffin ring placed in the bottom of a
sauce pan of boiling water.
Louis Goulon, a laborer in a French
mill, is 62 years old, and has a gray
beard three yards long that he wears
wound around his neck. His beard
and mustache began TO grow when he
was 12 and at IA he had beard foot
long. II is still growing.
A wad from The Brookville, Fla,
Crescent, found in the body of a mur-
dered man in fernando county, fitted
the piece torn from that journal so
closely that it led TO the detection Of
The criminals. Newspapers are the
best detectives all round. The accused
finally got of. but il vas not The Cres-
cents fault
An English company which has
been formed TO work tlie ruby mines
of Burmah report great success. They
have put new machiie into opera
ton, and from ton OF gravel have
taken ] 500 carats Of ribies, all of
commercial value. The deposits cover
an area of lao square miles.
In one block on Main street in Bat
tie Creek the other day a reporter
saw three one legged men. four one
armed men and two other men who
were so lame they couldn't walk with
out canes. The reporter went home
and wrote up the item, stating that
Battle Creek is one of the greatest
railroad towns in the United States"
London's nicely paved streets are so
slippery that steps have been taken TO
find means of roughing them. Two
societies-the society for Promoting
the Safety Of Horses and the Horse
Accident Prevention society-have
been formed. They propose plans 10
keep the streets clean and well sanded.
In a swamp north of the town of As
tor, Fla, John Wilson cut a huge cy-
press tree. and was surprised 10 find
therein an alligator seven feet long.
The opening in the tree being not half
large enough TO admit the reptile, IL is
presumed il got in while young and
subsisted on small animals that there
in sought shelter.
Talking of relics, here is batch of
them owned in Talbot county, Ga. /:
II. NJ Hollis had apair of geese hatch
ed in the spring Of ls41. The goose
was killed by amink about ten days
ago. The gander is now living. Mr..
Hollis showed us piece of home made
hard soap that was made in the spring
Of 1s4l by his mother. r. A. Mizzel
reports that he has hen Is years old
and she lays every day. That hen has
borne much fruit William Adams,
the bachelor, has a peacock 35 years
old that has mated with a turkey hen.
A. w. Miller, Of Uniontown, is the
envied possessor of an object Of con-
siderable curiosity and veneration,
viz. Hebrew Vhekel, said TO be be-
tween 1000 and 5000 years old. Il is
a rare thing TO see one Of those ancient
coins, or pieces OF money, Of the kind
for which Joseph was sold into Egypt
This rare old coin, an heirloom, has
been in Mr. Miller's family for several
generations. II was brought from Je-
rusalem by one Herr Isaac Abrams
away back in the distant past Mr..
Miller values this little shekel at $500.