The Republican., 1891-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

Press.
For a Loan.-Tom-"Have you seen
Newcomer" Jack - "Yes." Tom -
"Were you struck with him?" Jack
"No, was struck by him. l am ten
dollars ont. Yankee Blade.
The farmers in the Palouse country,
Washington, have straw roads, which
are pronounced excellent. They take
the straw after it is thrashed and scat
Ter it over the roads, and, after awhile,
when it is settled down, it makes a
road like papier mache, smooth and
iustless.
One day Mrs. S. w. Wallace, of
Butler, Fla, decided to tear up and
-enovate an old pincushion that she
irst made over thirty-nine years ago.
1t had on it nine coverings that had
been put on from time to time. From
the inside of the pincushion she got
ninety whole needles, besides several
broken ones and a number of pins.
-"Charley has had such bad luck
with watches, said young Mrs. Tocker.
He lost two because they got satu-
rated" Charley said they got soaked"
remarked her mother. II know, but
saturated is a prettier word, and means
the same thing. These rains are SO
penetrating; l suppose they got into the
works and rusted them. "-Washington
Star
Louis Paulsen, whose death has
been announced, was undoubtedly the
greatest blindfold chess-player that
ever lived. At one time he astonished
the chess-playing world by winning six
out of ten games played simultaneously
while blindfolded The other four
games were drawn. At one time he
played fifteen games without seeing his
opponents boards.
Biting the nails is an exceedingly
dangerous practice, as the bitter never
knows when to stop. and at any mo-
mcnt is liable to bite into the quick"
and cause blood poisoning. Even when
the utmost care is taken of the teeth, a
poisonous secretion is apt to collect on
them, and the entrance Of minute por-
ton of this into the circulation may
prove as certainly fatal as the pus on
surgeons Scalpel.
I'm telling big tree at Ivoryton vii
lage, in the Connecticut valley, the
other day, the woodsman drove his axe
into big round stone exactly in the
heart of it. With difficulty he exhumed
the rock, which weighed thirty or forty
pounds. How the stone got into the
tree trunk is mystery to all farmers
who have noted the phenomenon. Still
more curious is the fact that the stone
had not affected the trees growth.
No such splendid ceremonial as the
funeral of the late grand duchess has
been witnessed in st. Petersburg since
the emperor's coronation. The long
procession was seventy minutes in pass
ing given point. The emperor and the
imperial family, the court and the dig
nitarieS Of church and state and army
met the body at the station, and the
emperor walked behind the coffin for
four miles. The grenadiers who headed
the procession wore long cloaks of
orange and black.
The statistics of live stock in Mon
tana make a great showing. There are
lDl'J,O ,OUO SllCtD, fdltltC DIT OJO,UUU, dIl
average of $2.45; of horses there are
100000, valued at 81, 492, 900, an average
of not quite $50 per head. The assessors
found only G, 900 hogs in the state, and
they were assessed at an average of
S.. 80 per head. The cattle number 641,-
600, assessed at 81, ,G70, 900, or an aver
age value of Sl4.6S. The average rate of
II, +1o +ata i,
of market value. On this basis the
actual value of live stock in Montana is
over SIS, 900, 600.
Who says the Chinese don't grasp
the ideas of a huStling western civiliza-
ton? A Chinese laundryman in Tom
Green county, Tex, adyertises his es-
tablishment in the newspaper of the
county with display type and quarter
column humorous cut showing the Mel
lean man driving in donkey carts to his
store. In his adj Quong Sing kee makes
a citizen remark: The next time you
see me I'll be at the Chinese laundry,
where clothes are washed clean, and not
torn up and the buttons broken, and
where they are ready when promised"
"A childless couple in New York ex-
pend MIST of their sympathies on a
canary bird which is a crank on the
feather question. The little fellow, who
is seven years old, has always had an
aversion to his natural dress, and has
industriously pulled out every feather
he could reach. The result is that he
has now smooth, shiny skin which
looks like polished parchment, two or
three lonely tail feathers, and trifle of
plumage on his head and neck. In
summer he is all right, but the cold win
ter bothers him. AS soon as frost comes
he is clad in a warm flannel jacket,
which he admires immensely.
Mr.. E. NJ. Shepard, of Bridgeport,
Conn, has some young kittens whose
mother disappeared soon after their
birth. Deserted and cold, the poor lit
tie things made their way to setting
hen few feet distant and tried to get
under her wings. At first Biddy re-
sented this and pecked at them vicious
ly But the kittens persevered, and at
last she gave them shelter. When her
chicks were Matched few days after
this, the kittens at once became very
fond Of them. The hen seemed to be
pleased at this. and it was soon noticed