The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-04
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Of GENEHAI TN EhESI.
lin Bangor Me-. says an exchange.
the electric lights resemble sunlight
50 closely that the people carry para
soils at night.
Three boys of Jackson. Mich. re-
Gently saved girl from drowning.
and the grateful father gave them
five cents. telling them to divide it be-
tween them.
You are a domestic servant?"
asked a lawyer of a female witness in
a Liverpool (Eng.) court the other
day mo. sir" she Indignantly re-
piled. Il am house maid"
OF the street accidents in Chicago
caused by reckless driving, the ice
wagons are responsible for the greater
share. while the butcher cart plays
second to even the baker wagons.
Bowie knives are being manufact-
ure as plentifully as ever, but they
are altogether for show. There is no
record of one being used for years.
The sight of one keeps the other fell
low off.
The fastest regular express train
in the United States runs between
Philadelphia and Washington. They
maintain an average speed of forty
five miles an hour during the entire
distance.
Cairo has a grocer named Tyler,
and the first question he asks a would
be purchaser is: "Do you snore?" If
the fact is admitted that ends the mat
ter right then and there-no purchase
can be made He has taken a VOW not
to sell even a awberry to man who
shores.
There are said to be fifty different
kinds of cycles manufactured for the
use of women. The most popular
kind is a safety machine with 30-inch
wheels and a goose-necked back bone
to allow room for the flowing skirt of
the ladies.
An alligator and an English spar
Ii,
Ca, the other day. The gator pro-
voked the fight by swapping at the
bird, which in turn flew furiously at
its ugly antagonist. aiming with pre-
cisOn at the saurian's eyes. The gator
finally gave up the contest and took
to the river
When the Seminole Indians, of
Florida. elect chief, they choose the
biggest fighter and most successful
hunter of the tribe. If there happens
to be tie between two candidates,
their method of deciding it is to have
each candidate place a live coal on his
wrist. The one who finches first
loses the office.
The Egyptians have always been
recognized for their ability in the man.
ufacture of perfumes. but due credit
was never given them before a vase
containing some Egyptian ointment
was opened at the museum at Alnwick
The perfume it contained still had a
pungent odOr, although it was more
than three thousand years old.
There is whistling well in Logan
County. Kan, which warns people of
approaching storms from six to twelve
hours in advance. 1t is 1876 feet deep
and sends out strong current of air,
which. as it escapes through the
apertures about the pump. whistles
in a loud, fute-like tone that is dis
tinctly audible to every person in the
township.
The total production of coal in the
world during the year 1888 is put by a
high authority at 43O.000,000 tons, of
which the United States produced
$50. 100000 OF the home product
Pennsylvania is credited with II. OOO.-
OOOO, or more than one-half. Little
coal is exported from the United States
except to Canada, which took from us
last year 3. $50. 600 tons.
-WOrkmen doing the grading on a
railroad near Atlanta, Ca, witnessed
the sight the other day of snake
feeding it's offspring. The baby snakes
were secure in the roots of an old tree,
and the mother, which caught flies by
springing at them, would, when pos
sessed OF fly. rapidly glide to the
young snakes, which came pell-mell,
helter-skelter to meet her. She caught
fly minute, and was watched Sc
curing them for over two hours.
There are some queer instances of
transliteration of names in the Prov
ince of Quebec. A suburb of the old
city of Quebec was originally named
Shepherdville, after an English resi-
dent of the name of Shepherd. The
French translated this into Berger
vile, which the English soon corrupt
ed into Beggarvile. Hope Cape was
turned by the French into Cap DIS
poir, which the English then trans
lated into Cape Despair Point of
Cliffs first became Pointe des Monts,
and was then Anglicized, first into
Demons Point and then into Devils
Point. Reindeer Lake became Lac a
la Renne. which was soon corrupted
by the English into Rainy Lake, and
then, strange to say, was corrupted
by the French into Lac a la Pluie.
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