Nevada County picayune., 1890-02-05
MISCELLANY EOUS.
The greatest of all poetry is girls

The greatest of all poetry Is glrl first love letter.-Merchant Traveller
 There are some drugs which are aid to be worth g. coo bottle, and the druggists say they don't make much on them either
 Some genius who has evidently plenty of idle time on hand, has dls- covered that famous beauties are all born in summer.
 It is said that reaches may be ex' terminated if powder thoroughly mixed. consisting of thirty-Seven parts of borax nine parts of starch and four parts of cocoa k libcrally sprinkl"d Tn the cracks and corners of their rendez- yous.
 The Lewiston Journal says tho woman who b5UEh; a paper Of needles when she wa, married and set up house. keeping, and forty years after had used only half of them. may have been relative of an ArOostook man who moved 10 Massachusetts while ago. He sent back the other day for his cap, which is forty-four years old. and which he had left behind. He said he felt lonesome without it.
 An American electrician who hap pencd to visit the Paris patent office claims to have uneartbed the fact from some old records that barbed wire ls not an American invention. He says the invention was first conceived and pat ented by a IF anchman. Louis Francis Janin. about five years before the first patent was granted by this Government.
 Peter Jennings. an old sailor. re- gently turned ID in San Francisco and claimed to have been passenger many years ago with an old pirate, who on his deathbcd. divulged the secret hiding place of Ss50 oo0 treasure in Spanish doubloons. The place is Wall Island in the Pacific Ocean, three degrees south of the equator. He has succeeded Tn interesting eastern capitalists to look for the treasure and the moncyed men went to San Francisco lately for the purpose of organizing an expedition to hunt for the doubloons.
 It is said that one $500 share in the New River Company. which was founded in 1912 to supply the Clerkenwcu dis trict of London with water. sold recently at auction for S6l4 o01. The last annual dividend on the share was Sl3.o00. Inc purchaser was an insurance company, which took the stock ae a permanent ln. vcstmcnt. The great disparity between the price paid and the earning power of the stock may throw some light on the eagerness of English capital Co seek in- vestmcnt in American enterprises.
 A good story k told about young Rorkland. Me. couple recently married. They were pleutifully hc,howercd with rice as they left for the noon train after the wedding. but on the cars they as- samcd the air~ If an old married couple, hoping to escape detection. They got out at the Union station. Portland. and as it was raining the graem spread the protecting folds of his new umbrella over his bride. AS the umbrella went up. two quarts of rice which had hocn carefully slowed within came down, The hurrying throng saw the rice, the blushing couple. and caught on.
 A very queer custom in Oconee County. south Carolina, k the manner of burial so often praeuced. Instead of elaborate marble hcaistoueS or other such memorials 70 the dead the Caro- linian will build over tac mound a shed or small house to protect the grave from the inclcmcncy of the weather. At first one Is likely tO take tbesa little strurt- ures for baby houses. In the ease of the better class of mouHtainerr he will paint this wooden maUsoleum. The less favored will content themselves with a shed arrangement. which is made by driving two forked 7:lrk~ in the ground and then placing on tacSe a rail, whirh forms a ridEa pole. ur"nwhich the plank is laid. shedding to Inc ground.
 A San Erancis.e paper illustrates the contempt Of Cal'fU"niau- for pennies by the following. "filyc me silver for this. please. " said aa Eastern tourist yesterday as he duHred double hand ful of one cent pies r- on the counter oi prominent none, broker. Il don'' want them. They're not worth count ing. wouldn', give fifty cents on the dollar for them, WAS the reply. II never took them 5ut oucn. and then had to. X fellow 0Nrd mr five dollars, and. after rcpratcd 1uHS, offered pey- ment in copper~, l Id gnantyr"fusnd. The next day he cane in. and showing a copper cent in HsT aand. asked ms to give him credit for hat amount upon the debt Ilo kaut tha. up, making a uaymcnt of one cHHt every morning, noon and night -thtec cents every day until accumulated a rirar box full Of copp"rs. They're here yet, and they'll stay here until some one comes along who has more tipe than money. ,,.nrl,t rnnnt tN.--n