Griggs courier., 1891-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Manson hospitable in his New Jersey
home?" "Very." You find everything
In your room when you go there, from.
an assortment of neckties to q ouinina
| pill Truth.
-Brightly-"The newspapers have
said great many hard things about old
Millionaire, but they must admit there
Is one thing to his credit" Evergreen
''What's that?" Brightly-"His bank
balance. ."-Philadelphia Press.
Sick and Dyeing. Elsie-"I Dc.
clare if Eunice's hair doesn't get lighter
every week since she was engaged to
Will" Josephine eyes He hates
dark hair and she's just dyeing for loue
OF him." Elsie-"I knew she was love-
sick, but didn't think she would dye
for nybody."-Detroit Free Presa
Better than Azure Blood.-Pater-
$50 you don't like Mr.. Fahrweste?"
Daughter-"I don't He's too coarse.
don't believe there's q drop of blue
blood in his veins" Pater-"Never
you mind that He's q mine owner,
and the contents of his veins are ores
that assays twenty thousand to the
ton" Daughter IN wed hi,n."-
Pittsburgh Bulletin.
In the woods near Plantsville,
Conn.,, day or two ago Mr.. Elisha
Newell found a nest of four gray squir.
rels that were only a few days old. Sha
took the little fellows home and gave
them to her house cat, which had re.
Gently been deprived of her kittens The
old cat welcomed the strangers affec-
tionately. and is bringing them up in
the right way.
-Wool-'Have you been in the new
restaurant, where they weigh you when
you go in, and again when you come
out and charge by the pound for tho
ditference?" Van Pelt - mo; is il
. good place?" Wool-''You beti I
went in yesterday-had Saratoga cl,ipA
dry toast and crisp bacon-fve cents.
To-day had corn beef and cabbage
and English plum pudding, and went
brolke"'-Smith Gray & Co.'s Monthlyl
This is a record-smashing year.
Mrs. Georgia A. Brown made notable
divorce record in Oakland few DAYS
, ago. She filed her complaint on Tues
day morning, the summons was served
on Wednesday,, on Thursday her hus-
band put in frivolous answer and ON
Friday the answer was stricken out.
The case was referred testimony was
taken, and the decree was granted ON
the same aftereoon. Time, three and a
half days.
Persons unacquainted with tho
qualities of swamp gum have no idea
of the wonderful things that can be &C.
complished with this wood. When
boiled it may be handled almost like
paper. 1t is used extensively in lower
Delaware in the manufacture of berry
boxes, and boiled gum log fifteen
inches in diameter may, by the use of
proper instruments, be literally drawn
out into ribbons 1t cuts like cheese,
and may be tied into bow knots, or
bent into almost any conceivable shape.
The common plant is as much (,
matter of speculation as the coming
man. Prof. George L. Goodale, of Har-
ward, says the first development is in
the direction of the seedless. There il
no good reason, he thinks, why there
should not be seedless raspberries, seed
less straw berries and seedless blacl1-
berries. He also expects pluma,
peaches and cherries without stones.
This OF course, means artificial propa-
cation, and that. according to tho
professor is what the world is coming
to. Slips instead of stones will be used.
Near Higate, about forty miles west
of St Thomas, Canada. was discovered
the largest skeleton of any extinct ami
NAL yet found. 1t belonged to the
order of mastodon Riganticus. and
measured % feet from end of tho nos
trils to tip of tail. The tooth only of
one of these huge monsters Of prehis-
toric times was dug up recently at Fall
ing Springs, near Bellevue, Miss,
which weighed fourteen pounds twelve
ounces, and had the skeleton been dis
covered it would probably have been
found to be that of an animal 80 feet
long.
Close to the circular boundary that
separates Pennsylvania and Delaware
is the graveyard in which legend locates
the famous ''ticlking tombstone" 1t is
the graveyard of the London Tract
Quaker meeting house. known in local
parlance as the London Track Tho
region was settled more than two hum
dred years ago by Quakers from Lon
don. The present meeting house goes
back we'll into the last century. The
tombstone, according to local legend,
gives forth constant ticking sound
The possibility is that the ticking il
caused by the trickling of subter.
ranean stream along hidden deposit
of limestone
The magnitude of the figures con-
cerning the operations of the railways
of the United States in 1890, presented
in Poor's Manual, is indeed wonderful.
When it is remembered that the total
revenue of the United States for the
year ending June 30, 1891, was $780,, $780,
600 the vastness of the earnings of tho
railroads (sl,oss, 900. .ooo) may perhapa
be better appreciated The net earn
ings of the railroads (s341, 900, ooO) almost
equal the gross receipts of the United
States; and then as to traffic, it is hard
for the mind to grasp the figures. About
100000 passengers a day, and every
day in the year, almost 2, ,0O0, 900 tons of
freight per day and an averag. of rev.
enue train mileage of over S, 600, 600 per