The Minneapolis observer. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1890-1???, 1890-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
--calItornla peaches viii be eate


California peaches will be eaten
this season chiefly.
There are thirty-five men in Suffolk
still employed In making gun hints, or
"fiint-knapping, A. they call II, for tho
use of the remote savages, who have
succeeded to the long discarded lint
guns and pistols OF civilization.
The Oxford County Advertisers
nethel correspondent recently saw sew
oral leading citizens Of that town dying
kites on tho common, among Thorn be-
ing q prominent physician and justice
OF the supreme benoh.
Tho ancient lawgivers who won't 80
far as to make o periodical fast day a
religious duty knew what they we're
about" says the American Rural Homo,
In suggesting fasting as a means of
warding OF an attack OF dyspepsia.
Anvil you measure this picture
for mep" R--"With what2" A.-"Take
tho yard-stick. It's on the table" Il.
(measuring) yard; o. doarl o. dear"
A-''well, how long Is itP" B.--"I
don't know; the yard-stlck isn't long
enough. "-Detroit Free Press,
"A man was brought 10 tho hospital
ut Eastburn. London. who had driven
four nails into his skull three or four
inches doep lilo suffered from severe
headache and took that means 10 cure
IT, Tho nails were extracted with din
| Guilty,
Tho leaves OF tho pawpaw treo are
employed by the negroes In washing
linen. as substitute for soap They
havo also the property OF rendering
meat wrapped In Thorn tender. owing 20
the alkaloid papasa which they contain,
and which acta ~ solvent.
Teacher to class In arlthmetic)-
"John goes marketing. He buys two
and quarter pounds OF sugar at eleven
cents a pounds. two dozen eggs At ak.
teen cents dozen and a gallon and n
half of milk AZ twenty cents gallon.
What does II all maker" Smallest boy
thugging himself ecstaticaliy)--"Cust-
ard"
As the law OF Aberdeen required IL,
cab driver was prosecuted, convicted,
and fnod nve Hhlllings, or three days
imprisonment for smoking pipe on his
cab, not while driving fare, but while
he was standing ON the lookout for one
liy the municipal laws and regulations
OF Aberdeen tho smoking OF pipe by q
cab driver Ia criminal offonse.
lit appears that there arc forty-sever
, bridgoa OF upwards of 400 feet span II
/, tho world. Tho United States has bl
: far tho largest proportion OF those, OF
twenty nine In all. OF the total, nin'
are eantiloyor bridges, seven arch
bridges, four stiffened suspension
bridges, nineteen are truss bridges, tw'
tubular girder bridges, and sir draw
bridges.
AT charlottesville, Pa, 4 mad dol
attacked the little son Of Mira Gibbons
but before tba child was bitten IN
pet dog Of tho family rushed upon Oh
rAbid animal and put him 10 flight bu
not till after severe fight. In whic
thu family dog was badly bitten an
lacorated. Tho boy escaped withou
harm. Tho dog that so nobly sacrifices
itself had 10 be killed.
AN American missionary from Indi
says that there il a chance In Madra
and bombay for n pumbor OF bright
skilled American dentists. Madras In
city Of 900 population, and has not
single American dontisL People soms
times travel from there 10 bombay
nearly thousand miles, In order
have a tooth Allied. There Ia only on
good dentist In bombay, and he REFUSE
p 10 OH teeth with geld. using sort {
~ cement that IL not lasting. lie charge
:. $3.50 for pulling tooth.
Va While the public debt IL doereasin
~ In the United States the reyerse prose-,
y Is under way In Canada In 1897, at III
Va time OF the establishment Of the DomlI
" ion, It's debt amounted to s2e per he's
Of the population, and that OF tho Tn
~ ted States 10 500 per bead. To-day II
" United States debit, ON the same basil
Is about slt and that OF the Dominic
10 SIS That Ia 10 say, while the per CAPT
III indebtedness OF the United states
70 only quarter ~ great as IL was twent
Nv three years ago, Canada's Is more tbs
he twice IA large a. IL was thon.- St Lou
"A, Globe Democrat.
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