Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

sandwich papers and other rubbish we're
taken from the white House grounds
after the children's sgs-rolling picnic
on Easter morning.
"a citizen OF ST. Johns, n. h., lost
q number Of chickens recently, among
them . rooster whose Grow he knew
of the city, heard the rooster, insisted
upon an examination and found every
chicken.
"A numismatist suggests that GER
tain coin-say the ffty-cent pieces
issued during any administration be
stamped with tho head OF the President
of that date. They will thus serve as
an aid TO history, as do the coins OF an
oient days.
"A man in village OF Holland was
seen one day painting q heavy black
line on the gable-end Of his house. and
attaching TO IL date. say November
IS. 1882. Asked what he was about, he
said: II am moving my high-water
mark up to whore the boys can't scratch
itout again. am sick Of their pranks."
An old molasses candy woman used
10 ask her Juvenile customers whether
they wanted 'sticks or gobs." One day
her niece took her place, and put the
question in this way: "Wiil you have
elongated pieces or condensed masses?"
And the youngsters agreed that she was
stuck up.-Youth's Companion.
"A jackson County, Mich, woman
lost her husband. and 10 the first blush
OF her uncomfortable grief she ordered
n handsome monument TO mark the de-
partedls resting place. Before the
stone was completed the widow had
taken a new hitch on life and married
again. She refused to accept or pay for
the monument, and there was lots OF
trouble in the household.
"A vast sum was sunk in the tenn
porsry plant used in building the Forth
bridge. The engineers estimate that
$500, 600 was spent in this direction
alone In scaffolding. flooring, shedding,
etc., 1000. 600 cubic feet OF timber we're
used. From first 10 last /, 200 tons of mere
service bolts were needed to hold the
mass OF material together. Scores OF
rope and rams innumerable were also
among the temporary appliances EN-.
ployod.
"A otOEKlh tuAbOF ms III OAu NfVhAbo-
crate shoe, manufactured for the gov.
eminent in 1884, just before the wal
ended The sole is fully three-quartsrs
of an inch thick, ard is made of poplar
wood. evidently shaped with a hatchet
or drawing knife. The upper is at
tached to the sole with q strap of raw
hide. running entirely around the shoe
the leather being held 10 the sole with
large carpet tacks The upper is o.
rough cowhide, dressed only OH the in
side.
An old lady living at Lewisburg
Ore, picked up an Indian arrow heat
recently. that is quite a relic. IL i
black flint interspersed with quartz
pearl and emerald, and under the micro
scope exhibits roseate hue Of exquisite
beauty. The Mollalla Indians fort
years ago told the whites of a rock soutl
Of Mount Hood in the mountains, tina
shone with such intense brightness
as to excite superstition in the sayag
Areast to such an extentt that they fears'
70 approach the sparkling luminary
There Is not much credulity 10 be a.
tached to Indian tradition, but II th
stone from which this arrow head wa
extracted could be located gems of grea
value might be found.
The fruit Of the ccco-de-mer, whic
General Gordon believed to be the fol
bidden fruit of the Gardea Of Eden, ha
been exported to Europe. The nj
weighs twenty pounds and measure
twenty-five inches across. The palm 0
which it grows tlodoicea sechellaruu
Ia 100 feet in height, and is only to
found on the Seychelle Islands. HUI
dreds of years before tAe Seychells
were discovered these nuss we're washe
up on the Maldive Islands, and the wis
acres of those days told the people thi
this sea-borne fruit had grown on a SUI
marine tree. and that IL had a mysterio,
power of counteracting peisons. Hens
the name-coco-de- IL is probab
that Gordon met with illusions to tn
wonderfol nut in Arabic MSS, and afta
ward visiting Seychelles was struck
she beautiful and isolated group
islands and their double cocoanut