Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-05-12
FACTS AND HINTS.

Huge plates of glass are now cut by
electricity.
Last year 153, 900, 600 shad and about
so, OOO 600 trout fry were distributed
over the country by the dsh commits
sion.
An English firm has been using pc
troleum for fuel in a torpedo boat and
getting a speed Of tseDty-one knots.
The oil is carried in the vessels double
bottom.
Charles Mourse, aged IA, and Nellie
Shattuck, aged Is, OF 81. Johnsbury,
VT, ran away and got married. When
they returned to their lone the bride
got spanking.
Among some old paIers in London,
recently, genuine HE ness Of John
Bunyan as he appeared in his cell
at Bedford has Just been discovered,
for which the owner demands 1000
guineas.
In tearing down an old house in
Brunswick. Me-, large chamber was
found whose floor consisted of only
six boards. Each of them was over
two feet wide. Gone are the monarchs
of the Maine forestl
The Electrician reports a rumor
from Berlin to the effect that means
has been discovered Of using electric
tricity for ascertaining the true north,
instead Of the magnetic needle; that,
in short, the new means will be su-
perior TO the compass and is likely to
supersede il
Two men in Tioga county, Pa, who
had jointly bought a COW. quarreled
about dividing the milk, one claiming
that the other owned only the front
half of the animal. Subsequently the
owner of the rear half was lifted by
the cows horns, and he wants damages
of the front part The court will set
tie il.
A fee of $500 in good securities
has been presented by Mr.. H. N. Flag
Ter 10 DR.. George Shelton, Of New
York, in consideration of his faithful
ness and skill in attending the case of
Mr.. Flagler's daughter, Mrs. Bene-
dict, wEo died on her husbands
yacht off Charleston, a short time
ago, after long illness. This is de-
scribed as the largest fee but one, ever
paid to a physician.
Did you ever figure up how many
miles your faithful old Dobbin has
travelled An eastern Maine man has
done it and finds that in the thirteen
years he has driven his horse, she has
gone so, 900 miles by the record. In ten
years a pair of eastern Maine stage
horses have travelled 20, 600 miles.
Cigar boxes are supposed TO be made
Of Spanish cedar, but there is not
enough Of the wood grown for the
purpose, and nearly all the boxes used
by American cigarmakers are made
from West Virginia poplar. The
wood is sawed up into thin boards,
and the cigarmakers dye them brown
with cedar extract, which gives the
proper color and odor.
Renan, the author of the Life Of
Jesus" is described by a visitor as q
short, fleshy man, who looks like a
good natured priest with his broad,
clean shaven, Rabelaisan face, large
nose, small gray eyes and well shaped
mouth. He lives in an apartment in
the College of France. His favorite
companion is large Angora cat.
Some time ago Mrs. Langtry engaged
a chef at a salary of sl5 day, to take
entire charge and provide everything
for her kitchen. The chef, French.
man by the name of Broche, soon
found out that, owing TO the luxuri
Gus tastes of his mistress, the sum al
lowed him was entirely inadequate fol
the contract. He brought in a bill
for extra marketing amounting u
S225, which Mrs. Langtry refused Il
pay. He brought suit against her II
the New York courts.