Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

Flattery is a sort of bad money to
which u vanity gives currency
Locke.
Petroleum is now solidiied by being
combined with soap. and it can he sent
as solid freight instead of, as former
ly, in tank cars.
An Easton pa servant girl on her
death b~eaueathed, of the IS, 800 which
she had saved, $500 to her church and
the remainder toa granddaughter of
her employer.
A Western Union operator in Ala
bama. while taking a message, was
shocked by a flash of electricity which
came from the sky. He died in a few
hours.
An Ohio church deacon exclaimed
'Consarn tall 10 Texas and the YER
dict Of the church investigation was:
Not guilty, but in bad taste"
Archaeological researches appear to
show that the islands and the coast Of
Norway were well populated in pre-.
historic times, but that the cultivation
of the soil did not begin until a late
date.
Adelar Fascettc, sitting on the bank
of the river at Chippewa Falls, Wis,
was taken with an apoplectic lit. rolled
into the river and was drowned before
the eyes of the friends with whom she
had been chatting,
The biggest barometer on the CONT
nent is being made for the Georgia
chronological school at Atlanta. The
tube is to be twenty feet long with a
diameter of three inches. Sulphuric
acid will be used in the tube.
Always deduct about forty years
from the age of a veteran claiming to
be 1 years old. Medical science has
no record of a person in this country
living beyond 102 years.
The richest genius, like the most
fertile soil, when un%cultiyated, shoots
up into the rankest weeks; and instead
Of vines and olives for the pleasure and
use of man, produces to its slothful
owner the most abundant crop Of
poisons. Hume.
Butter becomes rancid because of the
formation in il of butyric acid, by a
peculiar fermentation. As this i'll
smelling acid is volatile, and is driven
off at high temperature, rancid butter
may sometimes be used for cooking
purposes without o.fense.
George Rust, conductor Of an electric
street car ut Wheeling, W. Va. went
on topof his car To adjust the running
pulleys connecting it with the wire,
and, slipping, grasped the wire to
steady himself. He got a shock that
laid him out scnselcss, and was about
to be taken down for dead when his
face was accidentally touched by the
wire, and he was brought TO life again,
little the worse for his experience.
Opium is got by cutting the capsule
Of the poppy flower with a notched
iron instrument at sunrise, and by the
next morning a drop of the juice has
oozed out. This is scraped off and
saved by the grower. and after he has
a vessel full Of it it is strained and
dried. II takes a great many peoples
to make a pound of opium, and it goes
through a number of processes before
it is ready for market.
In 1885 Nh. Hurtz put his name
down as a subscriber for an etching of
Munkacsy's Christ on Calvary 1t
was not ready until 1883, and he re.
fused payment on the ground that il
had taken too long, and was sued.
The experts called in the case testified
that, considering the size and delicacy
of the work, three years was not an
excessive time for its production. Mr..
Hertz had to pay.
Rider Haggard, the novelist, will
visit Persia and surrounding countries
unattended. He is an experienced
traveller, and is used TO the ways Of
the Orient. When he starts off on an
expedition like the one he now con-
templates he always buys a small dog
10 accompany him. This is the only
weapon lie takes with him. He claim
that the carrying of firearms is apt TO
awaken hostility among strangers
He devotcs his attention 10 winning
the affection Of his dog, and says that
a faithful canine companion is the
best thing a man can have for a long