The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS

The stamp window Of any post
Office is a sort of Lick observatory
Rochester Post Express.
A Marietta CO., horse died OF
lockjaw the other day. the result Of
having had q corn burned OF two
weeks ago.
What r your charges. doctor?"
Three dollars . visit" well. We
don't want you to come on a visit bat
just stay ten or fifteen minutes."-Puck.
"A natural curiosity is TO be e
on a street in Columbus. Ga A small
oak tree is growing from the limb Of .
chinaberry tree. and the strange freak
attracts the attention Of all passers-by.
The constant increase in the mum
Der Of steam yachts indicates that
pleasure-sailing is going where our
mercantile marine business has already
gone largely-into steam.
"A New York policeman preferred
charges against q woman who at
tempted to stab him with a hair-pin.
But for his stentorian efforts to escape.
she would probably have bruised him
with her bangs. Atlantic Constitution.
"A stone has been discovered in
Japan which has remarkable qualities
as a cement material. and can be-
worked up for a much less price than
the imported article costs. The cement
will bear q weight of 400 to 500 pounds
per square inch.
The family Of W. F. Strouse. Of
Shamokin. Penn. have odd luck in
birthdays. His wife was born on
Christmas. his second daughter on st.
Valentine sday. his third on the Fourth
OF July, and his only son on Thanks
giving day
"A negro was convicted Of robbery
at Walker. Ga, the other day on very
circumstantial evidence. He stuck his
hand through a window. and q woman
lit q match and looked at it. She ex-
amined . negro's hand in court and de-
clared that it was the same that had
been thrust into her room.
"A Summerville. Fla. paper says:
We have . man in our country who is
thirty-ive years old who was never
more than forty miles away from home.
never rode on q train or steamboat,
never wrote Or received a letter, never
subscribed for . newspaper and never
voted.
1t had been noticed Of late that
many OF the suckers and catfish in the
creek near Marshall's paper mill in
Kenneth Township, Chester County.
Pa, was found dead or stupid. and
upon examination it was found that
the fresh water leeches get into the
gills o. the fish in large numbers and
sap their blood.
The province Of Ontario. Canada.
is possessed of the most extensive de-
post of rock-salt which has yet been
found or the America continent The
salt was first discovered at Goderich.
about twenty years ago. at q depth Of
N thousand and ten feet. by q boring
which was made for petroleum. The
salt-measures extend over an area Of
twelve hundred square miles
"A farmer Of Northeast Pa.
drove . stake by each Of two hills Of
corn in his garden recently. and then
stretched up the longest leaf to mark
its height The next morning. at the
same hour that he had measured it the
day before. he repeated the operation
and found that one had grown over
four and the other five inches.
"A wild woman of the mOuntaius,"
who lives ON Blue Mountain, Mary
land. was arrested the other day. after
giving the daughter of Senator Butler.
of South Carolina. q severe fright The
old woman is q well-known character
in those parts. She is described a. be-
ing but three feet tall. and her face the
acme Of ugliuess. She has led her
strange life in the mountains for years.
and her name is a terror + all the chill
dren in that region.
"A weasel came down the hill and
went into a house in EastOn q short
short time ago. No men being handy
seven women Of the neighborhood
armed themselves with pokers. canes.
ETC., and entered the room. There was
a faint squeak in n corner. and seven
women jumped on chairs and screamed.
Their screams 80 terrified the weasel
that il ran out of doors and was killed
by q sick dog that was lying out in the
sun.
-Dennysville. way down on the
eastern Maine coast. is one of those
''old towns with history" The town
has no debt; the village has not had q
dwelling house, barn, store. church or
schoolhouse destroyed by fire for more
than eighty years. and at the late town
meeting Peter E. Vose. Esq. Wa re-
elected selectman and treasurer, after
q service OF twenty-seven years in the
former and twenty-three years in the
latter position. During all these years
no person but Mr.. VOse had ever writ
ten a word or made . figure in any
town book excepting the town clerk's
bOOk) or drawn an order.
AT Castle Garden there are many
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