Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

"A New York grocer advertises his
business by stenceling his name and ad-
dress In red ink on every egg he sells
Miss Carter. California school
teacher. took half day ofs recently and
cleaned up $4,000 in real estate deal
before the sun went down.
- Sharks have t@eome so plenty In
the harbor Of Havana that sailors
boots thrown overheard will bring half
dozen OF the hungry monsters 10 tiae
surface to inquire what time the 81 ior
himself expects to tumble in.
A Scotch preacher in London re-
Gently. speaking of the frequent com
plant OF preachers for being dull. gave
his hearers this shot: THE fault Is not
that we are poor preachers, but because
you are mighty poor stuff to preach
10"
A Brewer. Me-, woman. while
hanging out her wash. discovered what
appeared to be a patch In hem OF a skirt,
and. investigating. found It to be u e.
bill, which she had long before sewed
into the hem FOR safe keeping and for
gotten
Scent pencils. composed of solidi.
fed perfume. are novelty. They arc
fitted In silver holders, have tiny
ring attached TO them for fastening 10
the wa'ch chain or chatelaine. and
when rubbed on the hands or any part
o. the dress emit delicate odor.
A mineral that resembles coal has
been found on farm at Southwest
Harbor. Me II burns briskly till near
ly half reduced. and when burning Is "a
soft and ductile as putty. When burn
ed out the substance is black JET and a
hard as flint. Rubbed with a woolei
cloth II will give hs. liant polish.
The millionaire railroad man
Colonel Peters. who recently died a
Atlanta. was the first person 20 bFin
the Angora goat from the Ural noun
tains TO this country He was grea
scholar. and said TO be one Of the best
read men In the South. In his yout
he wa an engineer on Georgia raj
road.
There WAS revival Of religion q
Moberiy. Mo. and among the CONVEX
sions was that Of man who had bee
a very hard case. When he went fol
ward in the church tomake IA professio
OF his faith he surprised the parson an
people by handing 10 the former
| bottle half full OF whisky and stun
shot He said that he proposed 10 n
4 nounce all his evils
: Two young men who keep bach
n iors' hall in Heard County. Ga, wei
: home late the oths' night Az the
: were about TO enter the house the
n heard low. gurgling sound, which $
n frightened them that they ran hall
. mile to neighbor's house. A pari
o from there armed themselves wit
n axes. scythes. piichforks and 9TH
:. deadly weapons aud returned to fiI
! that the noise had been made by de
e that was choking TO death on bone.
= A chimney in Middlesborong
}. England, was lately taken down bril-
Is by brick from the top downward.
o Ion chute, one-half an inch longer a
q wider than brick in its cross-sectlor
is dimensions. was first erected with
10 the iiue. II WIS air-tight and rose frc
an air-tight box placed at th botte
OF the chimney. The bricks we
dropped one by one through this chu
and were cushioned by the air so Ii
none were broken or injured. FRI
time to time the box Was opened a
.he bricks that had accumulated w
removed.
As possible theory of the oril
of the Mississippi. 1t is suggested Il
its erosion was accomplished by .mea
OF mighty cataract which began
down the river near its original mou
and by gradual reirocession dug out
yalley-like gorge which is so marke'
feature in the upper part OF its cour
and left the high blufI walls on eitl
hand. This view makes St Anthon
Falls the eyer-decreasing and recedi
remnants OF the once most stupend,
cataract the world ever saw. hayini
perpendicular descent OF perhaps
feet The time required TO cut the
tire channel il placed at 40O.0 yea