Nevada County picayune., 1890-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is no experience more he

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 than that of being shaved by deaf-and- dumb barber.-Washingt Capital.
 Now, really, what was the most as tonishing thing you saw ill Paris, MT. Spicer," asked Miss GushCr. and without & moments hesitation Seth answered, My hotel bill. ."-Boston Bulletin.
 "A lady drove lately to the front of a drug store and vigorously waved her hand for clerk. When he appeared she asked for bottle of anti-fat. While paving for it she said she had heard 1t would ''grow leanness' on person, and as she weighed 3s0 pounds she thought she would reduce"
 The Animals Institute at Knights bridge, England, founded in 1887 chic fly by ladies, undertakes that ant mals shall be killed or cured in the most painless manner. The only differ ence in the treatment of the donkey of the costeImongcr and that of the count ess is that the coster pays nothing and the lady pays the ordinary fees.
 During recent thunderstorm near Memphis. Tenn, negro was severely kicked by a vicious mule: and, just as he was picking himself up, a stroke Of lightning hit the mulc and killed him dead on the spot. Well. dar," ex- claimed the negro, "ef dis chile haint got pow'ful frens to 'venge his insults. den der,s no use trying to hab faith In anyting!'
 Akron has a "powwow doctor II is woman and she practices her pro fession only at night, going out stealth ily and digging up roots. Then she goes into the house. goes through some cere mony. comes out and digs hole in the ground. where she buries the mysterk ous medicine tied up in white rag This is supposed to effect a cure. It is said that lot of people have great faith in her treatment.
 The pet of family in New York is a venerable parrot of surprising lntelh- gence and loquacity. The parrot was presented to the family twenty-two years ago by a sea captain. It can call the members of the family by their first names, and can repeat the habitual ex' pressions used by these persons. Many of the family are now dead, but the bird continues to reproduce the words and phrases it picked up from them in their
 lifetime.
 Elephants have been known to live
 to the great age of four hundred years. When Alexander the Great had con- oucred Phorus, King of India, he took great elephant. which had fought valiantly for the King, and named him Ajax, dedicated him to the sun, and let him go. with this inscription: Alex ander. the son of Jupiter, hath dedi- cated Ajax to the sun This elephant was found with this inscription three hundred and fifty years afterward.
 The brave action of a woman is re- corded by the Philadelphia Press: Mrs. Hutchinson, the wife of Captain Hutch inson. of the schooner Jennie Howard, is a heroine. The schooner sprang a leak while at sea. and for a week the men were unable to leave the pumps. During all this time Mrs. Hutchinson stood at the wheel steering the vessel,
 not going below long enough to eat or change her clothes. A boy brought her the soaked biscuit which was her only food. When overcome she lashod her
 self to the wheel and slept beside it on
 the open deck"
 Come on," called bridesmaid tC | the bride, who was standing before a mirror, touching and retouching
 "they're waiting for you" "All right, responded the maiden, without moving
 Don't say all right, but come on What do you want to sec yourself for:
 You look beautiful" 70, yes, know that; brides always do.' Well, then
 what arc you standing before the glass for, when every thing IA waiting?' Be cause. dear, she answered. with provok' ing patience, ''it is wei! for one to in dulge in some reelection, before one gets married, you know. N. |, Ledger.
 It is quite possible tE1t one of these days the European railway passenger may hear the cry: "Ctange here foi ! Siberia China and Japan" It may be that in time one will be ale to step into the train at Paris or Berlin and trayel by the overland route right into the heart of Japan. The Transstberian Rail way from Europe is being cut to tho Russian town of Niadiyo,tG,k, directly opposite portion of the .Iapahese coast The Japs are projecting line 10 Mai,uru the harbor on their side of She water and a special line of Japanese steam CTS will convey passengers fHom one ter minus to the other. Japan is to be the new pleasure ground for tourists.
 A singular circumstance recer ly occurred at Wddcford, Me-, which c. minds one of the days when people bar tered in beads and wampum. Two mon one a small, slender person ard 'hC other Of proportions in the ncighborhfod od of 800 pounds. were employed by on< O the women in that locality to dig grave on her family lot. They worked rapidly and ere the} Ters aware, the excavation was so large and ecep that the fat mar was unable to ge, out of the hole. A machine was constructed, and after quitC struggle the big man was once more or top In payment for their services tho woman a short time after gave each O the two mon five quarts of gray beaus- enough to keep them out of the greand for quite a while fl it came to the worst TYPEWRITER GIRLS.
 They Are Getting to Be as Numerous al the sands by the Sca-Shore.