Mohave County miner., 1891-01-03
WINGED MISSILES.

I0V yeafs-
The principal Of the public school At An
tsoSh, Fla, Is A. b. Hendry. Lad oi iouF-
teen years.
TIttle philp Sheridan is now 10 years
old. He is a warrior fn embryo ana ~
said 10 be the perfect counterpart 81 MS
father,
Yire has beer worshiped a. g divinity.
The Piatonists conioupded II WIN .n'
heavens and considered it as the diVlns
intelligence.
An illuminated vellum fan will last iof
aeu,uriez. Illuminated paints arc pody
water colrs that preceded tho discovery
Of oil paints.
His fortunate that not much artificial
heat 10 seeded In Mexico. All over tn&s
country The sios Of coal ranges from w
10 sis per ton.
shr Edwin Arnold is man Of unbound
cd hosyNaaity and gives hearty weicoms
70 any fellow eossntfymau Ia his oc'sutiiui
Japanese homo.
New machinery is to invade the brick
ward and save labor. A machine mas D'nh
jsy.uted that viii turn out 5000 bricks ia
ey6fs zen hours,
Don't be old foyy shout your time Inc
modern 'improvemenf' S 70 drop the IN
IN the abbreviation a. m. and y. @.y as tof
example, Q a., 4;oo p.
wild animals still roam through the
woods OF the East. A wild cat weighing
tsiytyfour pounds has Just been Killed In
the stats Of New York
Bkidcford Pool, Me-. has been invaded
by troop Of snowy owls from the Arcuc
wiids Thirty were captarcd last week
and sold Id Hssson for % each.
II took ten men aud boys to handle
drove of 200 turkeys that Butcher Amos
Mace drove through the town Of Chaifont,
fypcka county, Pa, few days ago
Senator squire, from the state Of Wash
ington, is quits a wealthy man. He has an
income Of over sl0,0Oo He ia one OF the
iatssst real estate owners In Seattle
DR.. Talmaggs titaslon 0f nautical orders
IA tacking ship, for sifniie in one Of his
recent sermons, is criticised by the Boston
Journal rs incomplete, In not Inaccurate
The music room In Chief Justice Fuller's
Washington home Is TO be decorated by
Mis-, Ads J. Bergen, who II Is said, Is the
first American woman employed on mural
adornment
A few, only few clubs arc prosperous.
According 10 the new club-boos OF the
Union League Of New York the income Of
that club for the last fscal year was near
iy saoo, 600.
Sorps man who has noticed such things
says. Few eggs are strictly symmetrical,
however nearly they may seem so, one
side balging out, though very slightly,
more than the otiier.
Potatoes soaked In sulphuric acid become
very hard Most Of the buttons on cIoalfs
and coats are made from potatoes after
they have been subjected to this suphurit
acid hardening process.
II Is reported in Zanzibar that the sultan
Of yitu and his followers have destroyed
an English mission station on tho Tana
river Several native christians were
killed by the sultan's people.
A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face Is complete security
against suffocation from smoke; IL permits
free breathing and. at the same time, cx.
ciudes the smoke from the lungs.
Great preparations are being made FOR
the removal OF the eighty eight collins
from the Berlin cathedral In this vault
the rulers and princes Of Prussia have
been buried for centuries past
The bark Of the birch is impermeablc u
water. From the bark In Russia kind OF
footwear, or bark shoe, Is made. It il
estimated that Is million pairs are annual
ly worn by the Russian peasantry.
The number Of species Of humnIng.
birds now known TO exist considerably
exceeds 400. The largest among them
measures no more than eight and one-hali
inches, and the least two and threc-eighths
inches.
In Chill weddings are not exactly gay
affairs. According to decree Of the arch.
bishop Of Santiago all bridemaids In Chill
must dress In black White gloves and
wells are permitted them, but no colors are
allowed.
The man thief suspects his neighbors
| and so bars up against them. The magpie
as though self-conscio us that its own
thieving habits may be initiated by It's
neighbors, surrounds its nest with hedge
of thorns,
The savage is like the civilized: he has
his weak points. Believing himself 70 b.
descended from, and therefore akin TO, his
totem, the savage naturally treats it with
respect. II 1t is an animal he win not, az
rule, XII or eat 1t.
The late President Grant once spoke ot
our western Cordilleras as the ''stront
box" Of the nation. He realized the fact
which many people are slow TO recognize
that the larger part of our resources II
west Of the Mississippi.
W. ID. Howells' new novel is called ''Ar
Imperative Duty" II will make its flrs,
appearance as serial in one Of the Harpe,
periodicals. A new work from Howclls 4
one Of the events In the literary world q
be considered Of interest.
There has been placed on exhibition a,
the Libby Prison museum in Augusta, Ca.
among the relics Of President Andrew
Johnson, the old book in which he kept ali
Of his accounts while ia the tailoring
business at GreenvilIe, Tenn.
To fell large mahogany tree is one days
task for two men. On account of the wide
spurs which project from tho trunk at IL
base, scaffolds have 10 be erected and ths
tree cut Oh above the spurs, which leaves
stump from ten to fifteen feet high-s