Griggs courier., 1890-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

| MISCELLANEOUS.
"A man Of 'smight''-The chap Who
doesn't know whether he really will oe
not.-Puck.
st. Joseph, Mo-, boasts Of being the
only city in the Union which has two
separate and distinct post-onaces within
its limits.
Tho total population Of Greenland
at the end Of 1883 was 10,291. There
had been 162deaths during the previous
year, of which 81 had been BY drown.
Ing from the native canoes and ten BY
other accidents.
-Pannikins: Warm minced meat OF
poultry in cream sauce and pile in the
center of . platter. Break each egg IN
. hot, buttered cup, and bake until the
egg Is firm; turn them out and arrange
around the meat-Good Housekeeping.
The largest tree in the world, 40.
cording to statistics lately published by
the Italian government, is . monster
chestnut standing at the foot Of Mount
Etna. The circumference of the main
trunk at sixty feet from the ground Is
212 feet.
The festive jack rabbit is strict
vegetarian and will not touch grease Of
any kind, nor will he touch vegetables
that are seasoned with grease. Orchard.
lists in Colorado take advantage of his
fasttdiousness and protect their trees
from his incisors BY rubbing the body
Of the trees with bacon rind.
"A certain Young Mems Christian
Association recently invited . gentle.
man to deliver an address. He did 50,
and fattered himself that he made good
impression on the audience, but was
somewhat taken aback when the chair.
man at the close of his address gave out
the hymn: cart thou weary, art thou
languid, art thou sore oppressed?"
The will of prominent attorney in
Cincinnati is peculiar document, and
two of the provisions have attracted
considerable comment. 81 desire that
no bar meeting shall be held for me, for
such occasions are utilized by lawyers to
explode their eloquence without cause.
! desire that no Grape be worn by, my
family for me, but If any member
choose to do so the same shall be
charged to his account"
Two young men were recently ar.
rested in Chicago for personating women
advertising for husbands. They found
many dupes throughout the land. Photo
graphs usually accompanied the replies,
and the swindlers then pretended that
the applicants were found suitable, and
II railroad fare was forthcoming they
would go and be married. The prisoners
were held for trial on charge Of fraudu.
lent use Of the mail
-"Arkansaw," the alligator slayer Of
East Orange, Fla, recently killed one
Of the "varmints" that had three of its
legs bitten of, portion of its jaw had
been eaten by a stronger kinsman, and
holes were found in him where he had
paid the penalty of pound of flesh
simply because his opponent was the
stronger. Arkansaw states that alliga.
tors feed upon each other to the extent
that regulates the supply to the de.
mand, and that If they were to cease
from their cannibalistic habits they
would soon abound in sufficient num-
bers to pile alligators four feet deep all
over the St. Johns river country.
An important addition to the data
which the recent discussion of the
height to which waves attain has
brought out, is reported from Portland.
A fearful storm was recently expert
enced at the Tallamock Light rock, and
''dornick' of basalt weighing sixty
two pounds was thrown up by the force
of the waves and fell on the roof of the
lightkeepers house, .110 feet above the
sea level, breaking hole in the roof.
The waves were SO high that the water
came down the chimney of the boiler
house of the fog siren in torrents and
poured out through the tubes of the
boiler. The chimney is about $50 feet
above sea level. The spray entered the
cowl of the chimney over the lamp,
which is $50 feet above sea level, and
ran in streams to the bottom.