Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS,

ana That amt got no use Tor. -Ierfe
Haute Express.
Aunt Mary-"Poor Budget Does
your tooth ache yet? If 'twere mine,
dear, I'd have it out at once" Bulge
''If 'twere yours! Well, auntie, so
would I."-Harper's Young People.
Census Enumerator-''Well, have
finished big days work, and I'm
tired" His wlfe-'I'm SO sorry can't
help you. Now sit down, dear, and tell
me all you found our about our neigh
bors. IN. Y. Sun.
Editors like brevity, but man who
was recently hanged in Indiana suited
them too we'll. He made no remarks
about heaven, but nodded to the
preacher and said: 'rll see you later, I"
and then the trap fell.-BrooklYn Union.
Say, old fellow, are you really
relation of tho celebrated Prof. Drip"
"Yes, but somewhat far removed" "
''How then?" HE is my brother, but
you see there are ten sisters between
s."-Fliegende Batter.
"A dispatch from Ohio tells of one OF
the shortest courtships on record. The
groom was a guest at a Canton hotel.
He became infatuated with the cook the
day of his arrival, proposed, and, being
accepted, married her at once.
The 81" road companies in New
York are doing their utmost just now to
minimize the noise made by their trains,
and on some of the roads they have sue
ceeded, but they are still far from haV-
ing the noiseless trains which so delight
the heart of the traveller in Berlin, and
the service has great many lacks.
The great Bear River Canal in Utah,
for the construction of which 50, 600, 900
has been provided, is expected to be one
of the most extensiue irrigation works
in America. To get the river along the
side hill along Bear Creek canon and
% out on to the plain near Plymouth will
necessitate moving 22o, 600 cubic yards
of solid rock.
while passing along street in Des
Moines, the other day." relates the ST.
Joseph News, Constable Allen noticed
woman digging in garden and turn
ing up peculiar-looking vegetables
After she had loaded her apron and left
the scene the constable went over and
did little digging on his own hook, IN.
earthing several gallon jugs of whisky
1t has been estimated that were
electricity to come into general use as a
means for propelling street cars, at least
$4,000 horses would be thrown out of
employment. This is a serious consid-
Grafton, for were the street cars to
eschew them, what would become of our
decrepid steeds? In France this ques-
ton could be easily answered; but in
the face of our prejudices it is, indeed,
perplexing.
The Argentine Republic has nearly
1000, 900 sheep, yielding about 200, OOO,-
900 pounds of unwashed wool, which,
when washed, amounts to something
less than 100, 900, 900 pounds The flocks
OF the United States, although in 1880
numbering only 40,OOOO0O, produced
nearly 1856, 900, 900 pounds of clean WOOL
Thus the average per sheep in the Ar
gentine Republic was less than IL
pounds of clean wool, while in this
country it was nearly four pounds.
"A negro killed monster rattle
snake SIX miles tins side of Clover VAL
ley on the Union Pacific extension from
Milford, says a California paper. The
only weapon which the darky had was
in the form of earth clods, but he sue
ceeded in crushing out the life of the
RATHER, and upon examination found
the snake to measure ten feet in length.
with ninety-six rattles and a button on
the lateral extremity This would give
an almost phenomenal age to the snake.
making it about one hundred wears old
The skin and rattle have been taken
North to Salt Lake, from whence it will
be shipped to the East.
The laborers of the blacksmith
ZhuraVleff, of KEW, found conicaI
bomb and conceived the notion of using
1t as an anvil. They knew what the
thing was, but they thought it was not
charged, because they had found it w.
ing about freely. To make sure that it
was not dangerous, they tried it several
times IN the fire and it did not explode
Hereupon they fitted it up as an anvil.
But as soon as they tried to forge a
piece of iron upon it, it exploded with
tremendous force, tore off the roof Of
the building and scattered the walls
Luckily, the explosion tended onward
above the heads of the workingmen and
only three of them were SLIGHTLY
wounded by flying fragments.
1t is not often that there is any dis
pute as to the habits of the Southern
negroes. We see them on a minstrel
stage IN strange and uncouth garbs.
and we hear them playing on the banjo
and bones. All this is the purest fancy.
and it would be the widest imapination
II 1t had not been sanctifed bv the
4 drunken craziness Of circus performers
of the old Bob Ridley stripe. Think. for
instance, of a Southern negro poinp
around and proclaiming himself to be
old Bob Ridley or Jim Crow Did any,
body ever see Southern negro. slave
or free, going around the country in a
calico coat and buttons as big as wash
tub. with banjo on his back end sing
ing songs written by a white laan?-At-
lanta Constitution.
AT first sight one would sunnose
that the class above all others that
would hail with delight general strike
OF police would be the burglars. Curl
ousIy enough this is not SO, saws the
London Mercury. The professional bur.
glar is dead against such a strike; for
as he correctly reasons, though the DO
lice ceased to protect property, property
would not thereby be left unprotected
In fact, it would be protected all the
more by the owners themselves, and the
burglars special knowledge, ACQUIRED
from local observation of the habits OF