Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-08-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

1t is asserted that Paris shopkeepers
have raised prices fully so per cent,
but only 10 strangers.
II is an ancient belief that a change
in the body Of man occurs every
seventh year.
The man who boasts that he is ready
10 shed his last drop OF blood is apt to
be particular about the first drop.
A Huntington paper says: There are
villages in this county OF 200 or 300
inhabitants where il would be impos-
sible 10 find a soul astir on Sunday
afternoon. II is a universal custom
to nap"
An offensive trunk raised an excite
ment in the depot at New Oxford,
Adams county. Pa, the other day. On
being opened il was found TO hold
ladies' wearing apparel well stocked
with naphthaline TO keep off moths.
Australia is as cosmopolitan as the
United States At hotel in Sidney
the other week there were thirteen
different nationalities represented at
one table.
The size Of the canvas ON which
Millet painted "L'Angelus," the fa-
nous sll0, 600 picture. is 2lt by 25f
inches. The painting was paid for at
the rate Of S204.05 per square inch.
Lightning struck the house OF Col
L. n. Edwards of Oxford. Me-, knock
ing kerosene lamp into a thousand
pieces and taking a metal clock from
the wall OF the room and hurliug il
under the colonel's bed. Nothing else
in the house was disturbed.
Miss Mary Graham was awarded the
prize in political economy at the COM
mencement of Wesleyan university
at Middletown, Conn. Miss Lily b.
Conn in natural science, and Miss
Matte j. Beach in English literature.
A scheme for Matching partridges
for stocking Montgomery county,
Pa, is 10 be put in operation
by the Game Protective associa-
ton of that county. The eggs will be
bought in large quantities and Matched
III dflluClul llCuUdtoTS.
The present English national debt
may be said TO have commenced in the
reign Of William III, 1859 Eight
years after the date given il amounted
toabout e5, 600, 900 sterling, an amount
then thought TO be Of alarming mag
nitude.
A curious theft is reported from
Prague. A burglar having gained ac-
cess TO the cabinet Of we'll known
collector, broke open small but rich
ly chased steel Golfer fort of antique
workmanship, and, having taken out
its contents (about $50 in Austrian
currency. obligingly left the casket.
the worth Of which at moderate COM
putation is said TO be $l.250.
When Jacob Foss, of Green Bay, Wis,
died a few weeks ago eight different
men presented bills TO his widow, but
she had receipt for each one in full.
Her husband had filed away a matter
OF 1000 OF them, saying they might
come handy some day.
An invention has been made which
promises 10 revolutionize completely
the industry Of china decoration. BY
a process discovered by j. B. Bonnaud
It is possible 10 obtain in few minutes
the same artistic effects which cost the
hand painter on china days Of labor.
Landscapes, groups Of figures and por-
traits are produced by this means ON
vases, plates and plaques in their ma
tural colors. even 10 the most delicate
shades
The New Orleans Times Democrat
taking the data afforded by reports
from several of the states, estimates
that very nearly half Of the cotton il
now raised by white labor, whereas
thirty years ago not over 400, 900 bales.
or one-tenth OF the crop, was raised by
the whites.
The Railroad Age gives the approx
mate mileage Of railroad construction
during the first six months of the prss-
ent year, which IL estimated Al !. 50
miles, or lsm than half that of a.
same period q 1853. Moro than ~
Of the now oonstruction ID In the soulK
The Ass estimates The tota. uiI1a|
for thu year ct from $500 - I -
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