Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-13
ODDS AND ENDS

4 Maine man has raised 3 blue pig,
which hg Will exhibit III Jl7 state fair
II is said to have been a Boston wo-
man who, ou board Yacht 5pOSe Of
a motlcrly zephyr nae Ming thcrebya a
spanking breeze.
The smoke'oss powd 'Est Aus,riais
using make, such a fear Ui gHgll that
il VIII hIy" 10 De ab, & Gguol. Alta
recent practice shcolsegs I'd men faint
cd from 10.
The Ast1r library In Ea IDrl; city
now contains 25J.0yD gu umgs. The
new cgt.' .'0gge. i'm four .0lumes Of
1000 pages each, has jUt been COM
pIeted al great expense.
4 young woman Of Sou port puts
the most deliberate method tf suicide
on record. She walked inc lhe water
and sat down, After while she lay
down, and the tide rose AID carried
her oig.
Matthew Walton, of WyGElol coun-
ty, o., recently dug up the remains Of
sword. supposed 10 be the same that
George Washington presented 60 Col.
Crawford. one Of the heroes Ui the IN
dian war. Il was found near the spot
where Crawford was burned at the
stake lO7 years ago.
At Sandcrsville, Ca. last week VI.
IL Bird WAS engaged in placing a
spoke ia the hub Of a wheel when il
I,,.T.. g,.a.,,, FI, So. &c IA I,,..,,. -, II
a minnie ball fell out on the floor.
The spOkes came from North Carolina,
and il is supposed that the ball has re-
mained in the wood since the trying
days Of 1861 and 1866.
Tie late John Edward Redmond, NJ.
p, for Wexford, a great uncle of the
present Parncliite member Of parlia-
ment, asked a gentleman named De
vereauX for his vote and interest. II
had rather vote for the devil" was the
indignant reply. But in the event of
your friend declining 10 stand, sug-
gested Mr. Redmond, may counton
your support
The largest county in the United
States is Custer county, NJ. T., which
contains Sc, 600 square miles, being
larger ia extent than the states Of Ner-
mont Massachusetts,. Connecticut,
Delaware and Rhode Island, One
tenth of our present population could
find a means of livelihood in this one
county. and then il would not be so
populous as Belgium.
The idea of adopting a national
flower is claimed by Virginia L. Town
send, former editress of Arthur's Maga-
zine, who suggestedit it in a poem, from
which The Boston Globe took it up
and gave the subject widespread no
toriety. The golden haired beauty
should be crowned queen of Column
bias flowers and worthy 10 represent
her among nations.
There is a college for horses in New
York, where horses are trained for the
fire department service. The college
is in charge Of a veterinary surgeon,
DR.. Sheer. who says that in his opin-
ion horses and boys are very much
alike, both amenable TO kindness. A
whip is never used in the college.
The discovery of the curious ice
cave in Ashley valley. in the Rocky
mountains, continues 10 attract atten-
ton. Tom Mitchell, who has Just re-
turned to Salt Lake City from there,
says that in the latter part of August
he found in the cave section Of ice
twenty-five feet high and thirty feet
thick at the base. A small lake was
also discovered. One of the rooms in
the cave was over /, 200 feet long The
party who went in with Mitchell were
bound together much after the fashion
Of Alpine climbers.
The lower animals are said TO be
greatly terrified by earthquakes. and
their excitement beforehand is some
times sufficient TO foretell the event
No doubt they know well that some
thing terrible is taking place. During
the Toxic earthquake Of 1880 cats ran
about the houses trying TO escape;
foxes barked, and horses attempted to
kick down the boards con6ning them
10 their stables.