The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

SILK from paper pulpit made smootl
and brilliant, with about two-thirds tn
strength of ordinary silk and about tn
same elasticity.
-one OF the Berlin hotels was latel
roooed by two persons in the garb O
nuns They were subsequently, appre
hended and one of the women wa
discovered to be man.
"A bread-buttering machine for us
In penal institutions, operating a brusl
fed with soft butter, is a patent latel,
issued 1t is said to save butter an,
crumbs
"A Charlestown lady became Quit,
SICK the other day and vomited a small
i've hsh. She does not know when i
passed down her throat, but supposes i
olo SO with drink of water.
MIR. Wick, of Chelsea. ENGLAND |;
IN .ne latner OF peculiar infant prodigy
His daughter Nelly, four years of age
recently shaved five men inside of thirt,
minutes for silver medal.
What sort of restaurant is this
walterP' he asked the first of that ex
elusive set that deigned to approach
well, sir, know one man that's hoe,
coming here steady for month and he',
ilVlng yet. "-Philadelphia Times.
iell your master that he has made
= mistake OF twenty marks in the &C
count ne sent me-" "Impossible!'
why impossible? 1t is human to make
mistakes" Eyes, l know that. but m,
master is not human. Flieoendo plot
ter.
South Attica, Mich, farmers planted
mustard seed. They did not expect pine
apples or oranges, but they were wilt
wnen the plant came up and proved &
De western mustard, which is about fer
tlmes as hard to eradicate as the Canad.
thistle.
"A valuable find has been made nv ,
farmer at East Cape Girardeau, Mo. A
NIL on his premises is declared bv ar
expert from st. Louis to be composed
chlef1y OF the finest porcelain CLAW. +
Is estimated that there are at least .oO(
car loads, worth S125 per load.
-Dlstanced.- Yes, sir" began tbe
distinguished looking stranger 81 bavf
delivered that same lecture 200 consecu
tive nights, STRIP That's nothinc,', de-
clared Peckson. my wife often de-
MYERS 200 same lectures in one consecn
tive n1ght!"-American Grocer.
"A hve-year-old child in West Came,
is OF the following dimensions: HEIGHT
1eet; weight, III pounds; circumfer
ence OF abdomen, 421S inches; waist
o'79 inches; chest 81 inches; neck. Il
!nches; head, 2219 inches; thigh. q
inches; calf, 15I inches; arm. 11L
inches; forearm, 1917 inches. He is
very healthy, eats all he can get and is
1alrly intelligent. The parents are by
no means corpulent and their other
children are of ordinary size.
Samuel Elliott. of Newburv. claims
to have devised an apparatus by the
adoption of which the smoke nuisance
Will cease to exist. The process re-
moves from the products of combustion
all the black carbonaceous matter OF
coal smoke, and remarkable and i'm.
portant thing is the entire absence OF
sulphur in any form after the dense
volumes OF smoke generally seen issuing
from chimney shafts have been forced
into the "annihilator."
AT the palace of Bangkok a ner
forming leopard was brought in for. the
amusement of one of the Siamese
princes. In one of the princes retinue
was young girl of about fourteen wears
OF age. The leopard jumped on hel
breast. 1t was merely in play, said the
animals caretakers, who begged her no,
to be frightened, but in another moment
the leopard had seized the girl by the
throat, and she died in sight of the hor
rified spectators.
clearinghouse inmates soon learn
to appreciate tender meat, and will
eagerly seek the place where it is fire.
quently served. A Chicago man hit
upon an ingenious plan to secure q
clearinghouse where eating would be.
come pleasure instead of tiresome,
teeth-grinding exercise. He asked q
butcher to direct him to the house where
he sold the best meat The butcher
cheerfully did so, and the man was soon
thereafter installed in a boarding.
house where the delicacies of the table
are good and plen tiful.
1t is claimed that the rain which
falls in the interior of Queensland does
not all run to waste but is stored be-
meath the surface and that the supply.
If it can be utilized, is enough to last
through periodical drought The local
government proposes to devote large
sum to prospecting for water by artesian
wells. The artesian well at Barcaldine,
700 feet deep, cost $4,000 land yields 49,
600 gallons of water daily. Another at
Blackall, 1868 feet deep with six-inch
casing, cost $4,000 and yields 800, 900
gallons daily.
For year draughtsman named
Hazen, aged forty-two, with his wife
and six children, had lived in Paris in
great difficulty. Finally they resolved
to commit suicide and take the children
with them. They sent the latter out to
buy charcoal, and with the windows
closed Hazen lighted the stove and the
whole family lay down on the floor to
die. the mother clasping the youngest
child in her arms. They were found
two days afterward all dead but the
mother. Upon her recovery she said
that when asphyxiation began the cid
est daughter began to cry, but lest she
should excite the neighbors her father
threw himself over her face, and they
were found in that position.
"A year ago Mrs. c. B. Pomeroy went
from Newark to Canada to live with her
second husband, leaving her six-year-
old daughter in the custody of Mrs.
Julia Williams, of 457 Broad street, who
was to receive So week for the child's
board, says the New York Sun. On
Saturday fight a young man, who is the
child's uncle, called on Mrs. Williams
to take the child to Canada with him to
her mother at the latter's request. He
paid the child's board from last May,
hut ono was not Uivau nm tn him he