The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


1t Is a singular thing that a man
never begins to show his temper until
he loses it.
-lhe latest railway signal indicates
automatically the time that has elapsed.
up to twenty minutes, since the last
train passed it.
"A living man with three legs, .
living man with two mouths. and .
living man turning into stone. arc
among the curiosities announced in .
New York museum.
Nevada had a Dead Horse" post
ONCE. 1t was ordered to take a now
name and it took that Of Live Horse"
The department wouldn't have it, but
changed it to Rosedale.
An EnglishwOman Of twenty-six
recently advertised that she was de-
sirOus OF being married. and would.
therefore. be pleased Ito correspond
with a Christian vegetarian man."
"A yacht was recently launched on
the Thames by electrical appliances.
which enabled all the supports to be
removed on the pressing Of a button,
and the vessel glided into the water
without the slightest hitch.
The kangaroo is in danger of being
exterminated. Its skin is 50 valuable
that large numbers Of young kangaroos
are killed. and high authorities are Of
the opinion that, unless the process is
stopped. Australia will soOn have seen
the last specimen Of this interesting
animal.
"A Boston newspaper thinks Il high
time that the expressions 1.-The cOlOred
lawyer" 1.-The cQ@ored artist" and the
like were expunged from the
lar ~phraseology. and says: '.HOw would
it look. for instance. to speak of WASH
ington Flanders, Esquire. the red
headed bank President; or of Ulysses
Flaherty. the bandy-legged broker; or
Of Cornelius CrOnin, the cross-eyed cor
respondent Of the Concord Chrome
type?"
-Four years ago William H. Camp
bell. q good old-fashioned Democrat Of
SaxtOn's River, VT. was appointed
postmaster. His wife. who has always
been q Republican. has constantly as-
sisted her husband during these four
years. and 50 well has the Office been
that when he resigned
and Republican united in
asking the Government to make her
her husbands ~ces She has just
received her commission from the Post
master General, and her husband IS
now her assistant.
Twenty million dollars are what
somebody has estimated as the gross
amount contributed by the American
people during the last ten years for
the relief of suffering caused by disas-
tiers 0repidemics. Two million dollars
year make . large sum. In one-dol-
lar greenbacks, laid end to end. it
would stretch nearly from Washing
ton to New York City. The total sum
given in ten years would span the
greater part of the continent-Wash-
ington Star.
"a y" WAAAOAAuS 0C0CA1Cs S04u "
be very successful among religiously
inclined agriculturists, is thus de-
by the McHenry Plaindealer:
A pretty female solicits ten-cent sub
scriptiOns to q foreign missionary So
ciety, and those who donate are Q
quested to sign their names on q paper
with others who have kindly given
to the heather. Beneath
the paper the sucker signs is an ingen-
ious copying paper that transcribes
the name to q promisory note, and she
with a many notes as she has
names. which she gets discounted a.
soon as possible.
"A writer in q Florida paper says
the Seminole Indians: They have a
tradition handed down from their
which they believe-that
he Great Spirit first made the black
nan. next the red man, and third. the
white man. after which the Great
Spirit called them together and placed
before them three boxes, one filled
With books and maps, the second with
BOWS. arrows and tOmahawks. the third
With spades, axes, hoes and hammers.
These are the means offered by which
'Ou are to live; choose among them &C
to your fancy" The white
nan had the first choice. and chose
he books and maps; the red man took
he bows. arrows and tomahawks.
in Columbia County, Georgia, isa
luivering tree. Years ago. the negroes
II the neighbOrhOod say, q murder
done under its branches. Two
had accompanied . woman to
and after she had entered the
office they quarreled about her, and
me cut the other to death. The muir.
lerer escaped. and ever since every
limb. large and small. on the tree
rembles As ii in fear. or as a suffering
'nimal would culver. This occurs
'hen not q breath Of air is stirring.
70 negro in Columbia County can be-
induced to pass the 50 called haunted
pot alone at night. Prominent gen.
lemen say they have noticed the phe.
lomenon. but no explanation of it has