The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-04
STRAY BITS.

soner NJ. Waterbury's society circus In
New York cost him about $4,000 for one
night stand.
Los Angeles, CAL, last year shipped away
SOS tons of fruit and imported from the
east 1,0al tons of beer.
The Chinese laundrymen of Pittsburg, Pa,
bleach their washes with chloride of lime,
and the garments soon rot away.
c. F. Brown, of Malvern, Pa, has just
taken the first drink Of water since October
last. He can go without water all winter.
At sale of Bristol China the highest
priced specimen was a cup and saucer by
Champion which sold for Gas. Its last pre-
vious sale was for ESQ.
A gold crown worth $4,000 has been sent
to Vienna by the Austro-H ungarians Of Bue-
nos Ayres. 1t is to BIO placed on tho coffin Of
tho late Crown Prince Rudolf.
The Philadelphia Call remarks that "the
downtown bobtail cars should bear the le-
gend: Drop q nickel in the slot and see how
much faster you could have walked home. 4"
DIR. Agnew says that healthy woman can
kill herself in about a year by horseback rid
ing, and all other physicians would prob
ably agree with him if they didn't want pa
tients
highway robber compelled George Fal-
E1outli, of Indiana, to sign check on bank
for $4,000, but George would have signed
one for $4,000 just as gracefully. He isn't
worth over s. oil told.
The returns for accidents OH the railways
of the United Kingdom during the year 1883
nj inf LII
anil 5!I injured, as against 25 passengers
killed and 53S injured in 1887.
Professor Paul d'Nuce, whoever he is, says
he can cause thunderstorm aud fall Of
rain i'll any district on two hours notice, aud
that he can have tho shower stop in fifteen
minutes or continue half day.
NJ. Adolphe d'Assier has made O special
study of tho great climatic cycle. H says
that the next leo period will reach its great
est height in tho year 1850. 1t is little
curly yet to begin laying in coal.
\ negro in Rankin county, Miss, who had
stolen mule, was given the option Of going
to the penitentiary or receiving hundred
asllcs on the back. He choose the latter,
taking the punishment like stole.
In the quaint old Anglican church of Capel.
made for lighting it at night, and at tho even
ing service those who attend arc in the habit
of bringing candles and lamps along with
them.
a New York pilot says that il one sailing
craft can sneak past another In distress with
out being signaled she will do it nine times
in ten. 1t costs the owners money to feed
rescued people, and they don't encourage hu-
name actions.
The winter in Iceland has been unusually
severe. When, tho other day, the first post
slip of the season broke through tho leo foes
and reached Rcajkjavik the first question
asked by tho natives WIS whether Prince
Bismarck was still alive.
The superintendent Of Louisville employ
ment agency urges boys who desire to take
up trades to learn cooking. He has found
that there is great scarcity Of good 1nals
cooks not only in Louisville, but also in every
city in the United States
A Pennsylvania hunter found cave in the
mountains tho other day which contained, as
he estimated, four tons of solid honey, but
the bees pitched into him and stung him Q
score Of times and ran him off before he could
arrange to gather, pack and ship
ot. refer S Ut itOme Is 10 Dc further elu-
bellished by fresh mosaics. At present the
cornice running around the nave and aisles is
merely canvas imitation, but Pope Leo in
tends to replace it by real mosaic, according
to the original designs by Raphael, Bramante
and Michael Angelo.
There are two idle supcrstitions about
cramps that come in the legs and start man
out of his bed quicker than anything elss.
One is to stick jackknife in the hcadboard
of u lied OH retiring for tho night, and the
other is to arrange the slippers very care
fully, bottom up, at the foot of the led.
Garden and Forestquotes tlissirnple method
Of testing the quality Of apcar: Writes namo
with pen and ink upon tho dry skin of the
fruit. If the ink is quickly al.arhnal lec::-::.