The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

days ago. it tore open a medicine chest
and broke open q bottle of chloroform
The fumes stupefied the brute, SO that
It was easily killed.
No one likes a persistent talker,
even II brilliant Said clever hostess,
planning dinner which she wished to
be especially successful. II can't ask
Mrs s., though on some accounts
should like to; she talks so increasingly
that she soon depresses the company.
what is all the noise?" asked Miss
/ Silensweet's father. 81 was just trying
| . new song" she said, poutingly.
Don't let me disturb you, my daughter.
| am q lawyer and honor the instinct
which leads you to try your songs be-
! fore you execute them. Washington
| Star.
"A Blendentown, Mich, farmer
named Henry Windsor was moving grass
the other day when the machine ran over
. rattlesnake, cutting it in two. The far
mer jumped from his seat and stopped
to pick up the tail part in order to Sc
cure the big bunch of rattles as tro.
! ply, when the piece of snake with the
head attached sprang at him and buried
its fangs in his arm.
The Sandwich islands alphabet has
10 letters; the Burmese, 10; Italian, 20;
Rengalcse, 81; Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldee
and Samaritan, % each; French, %;
Greek, "a: Latin, 25; German, Dutch and
English, 20 each; Spanish and Sclavonic,
81 each; Arabic, 2s; Persian and Coptic,
80; Georgian, IS; Armenian, 8s: Russian,
| II; Muscovite, 43; Sankrist and Japan
ese, SO; Ethiopic and Tartarian have 2O3
each.
A collection of Eskimo works of
| art. made by Assistant Superintendent
Edwards of the cryolite mines at Arsuk
Fiord, Greenland, is described by John
! r. Spears, in Nature. 1t includes can
dle-sticks, cigar-holders, ash-receivers,
anchors, paper-weights, etc, made of
greensboro. The articles were all made
to sell to the Danish rulers, for the Es-
kimo themselves have no use for orua-
mental art; but they show considerable
skill in sculpture.
The wife of small farmer in Perth
shire, some time ago. went to chemists
in the Fair City" with two prescrip-
tions-one for her husband and the
other for her COW. Finding that she
had not enough money to ray for
both, the chemist asked her which she
would take. "Gie me that for the co.,"
said the wife, 1.-THE morn will dae eneuch
Tor him, puir body. Gin he were to dee,
/ could get another man; but I'm mo-
sac sure if / would sumo get another
COO"
Lieut. Frederick A. Ober, one of the
special worlds fair commissioners to
South America, has written that he has
secured in San Domingo photographs of
the bones alleged to be those of Christie
pher Columbus. He is inclined to ques
| ton that the remains are genuine. He
also had made . fac-simile of the his
toric cross Of one of the cathedrals in
that city from material that was put in
the building in 1914 These and many
other relics he will bring to the exposi-
ton.
In laying the foundations for new
:, eleven-story building at the northeast
corner of Broad and Beaver streets it
| has been necessary to drive forty-foot
| piles of hemlock into the swampy
| ground. To antiquarians the sight
of this watery hole in the ground
recalls the swamp in this vicin-
| ity and the canal which extended
through Broad street and by which pas
| sengers from Brooklyn and Communi-
paw were landed at 1.-The stairs" near
Wall street. It was famous skating
place for the Dutch lads of the old time.
IN. Y. Sun.
American naval officers are men OF
many clothes. and the official etiquette
of dress aboard ship is appalling to
landsman. Every officer must have
| four or five styles OF hats and caps, at
least as many different kinds of coats,
and even prescribed styles Of neckties
in considerable variety. The captain
ordinarily prescribes the uniform of the
day, but when flagship is within sig
| Mailing distance Of another man-of-war
| the admiral is the authority on clothes
| as on other things. To appear on deck
with the wrong necktie is to invite a
reprimand.
Frequent burglaries alarmed the
residents of Japanese village, as nc
clew whatever could be obtained re,
| garding the perpetrator. An ingeniou
| fellow. whose home had been plundered,
proposed that each villaser should
write the name Of the man he suspected
on slip of paper and put it in ballot
box. On the votes being examined, ii
was discovered that fifteen named one
man, and the rest were blanks. The
!, robber was SO astonished at the result
! of the balloting that he actually con-
fessed his identity.
Here is clever scrap from q letter
written to John Lothrop Motley by
Oliver Wendell Holmes: II sat by the
side OF Emerson, who always charms
me by his delicious voice, his fine sense
and wit, and the delicate way he steps
about the words of his vocabulary II
you have seen cat picking her foot
steps in wet weather you have seen the
picture of Emerson's exquisite intelli-
gence feeling for its phrase or epithet.
| Sometimes think of an ant-eater sim
Cling out his insects as see him look
| ing about and at last selling his worm,
! or adjective, the best, the only one
which would serve the need of his
thought"
-Lathly Nichols, of Thomaston, Me-.
whose diseased arm was recently am
putated, experienced some remarkable
sensations after the operation had been
completed After amputation the arm
was placed in box in somewhat
cramped position, and Nichols COM
planned CT a severe pain. Without his
knowledge the arm was placed in >
/ more natural position, whereupon he
expressed great relief. As the missing