Nevada County picayune., 1890-07-09
MISCEllANEO

-Ffouie says: Character must hS hammered and forged, " but it does no follow from this that the pugilist and swindler have an ethical utility.-Phil adelphia Press.
 Tho ceiling of the Assembly cham ber at Albany. N. r.. is made of paPei maehe. It is a model of it's kind. and appears so like marble as to deceive the most expert eye.
 A man with penchant for statistics has computed that more than four mll lion miles of blood pass through the veins of an ordinary human being dn-'rg 8 lifetime of seventy years.
 The English sparrows have almost extcrminatcd the wrcnS, orioles and meadow larks. and in fire yrlrs more the keno goose will bc about the only native bird left Detroit Free Press.
 In Chester. Pa. tn" colorcd people have come to the conclusion. after a trial of eight years. that tho education of white and black children together does not work satisfactorily, and have asked for separate schools to be estab- lished.
 The village of Dafia. on the island of Lesbos. has a woman said to be 135 years old who still has the complete use of all her senses The same island con. tains three other inhabitants who are said to have passed their hundredtb birthday Apa, 11O years old: Khalil Apa. in his 18th year, and Aschil Baba. aged ll5. All three of these centcnarians. 1t is said, earn their living by daily work.
 The New York World has printed q census of children in two representative quarters of that city, Fifth avenue and Cherry street In BOO families living on the former street there were found nine ty-one children under 10 years of age, of whom six were born in the past twelve months. In Cherry street, which appears to be an abode of the very poor, 300 families furnished GG0 G0children under ten years and III under one year of age.
 They manage to have considerable fun one way or another in the Tennes- see Legislature. 4 Tennessee paper. re- porting the passage of an important bill. says: There was great enthusi- asm, some disorder, and somebody tied a sheep's bell to Mir. Collins, of Carter County. and he did not know where 1t was until he had attracted the attention of the house. Visitors then filed out and the house resumed it's usual appear ance.n
 Near Lincolnton. Ga. on stream known as Fishing Creek, in a shely- ing projecting just above the water in ,1,-. .l,.4t of mans bare foot All the toes are perfect. and in every respect the mark is as plain as if made in plastic clay or even putty. The stone is as hard as ada mant, and has been since the oldest in- habitant landed in Lincoln County, over 100 years ago. By whom and when was the track made Is an interesting query.
 It is a strange coincidence that several American clowns and at least one English pantomimist. have all died insane. Hitherto the general belief among professionals has been that the quantity of bismuth used in making up" particularly in America, where the hair is cropped close and the bismuth rubbed into the side of tho head, had q great deal to do with disease But one old pantomimist still living solemnly attests that, so far as his experience went, the bismuth not only left his faculties unimpaire1, but had the merit of healing sores and cracks in the skin. A newspaper man lately discovered remarkable family in Pennington, Me. Calling at the home of lona'han Scott Ellis hc found M~ f.lis, who is ninety-siS years old, sc"tvd hy the stove and reading d now-pep per without glasses. His wife's sister, Miss Lydia Ballard, who will be ninety seven years old in April, was scatct in rocking-chair near by and knitting vigorously. Another sistcr-in-law, Miss Hannah Ballard, eightyfour years old next October, was clearing mp the din. ner-tablc and washing the dishes. Mrs. Ellis died three years ago at the age Of cighty-cight. The old folks prefer to live by themselves and to do all tbeir own work, and Father Ellis refers to his sisters-in-law as the girls"