Griggs courier., 1892-01-29
miscellaneous.

MISCELLANEOUS.
-Belle-'That Pruyn girls Fl ensh ID
atrociouas isn't it2" Blanche-"Yes, she
has the Hoboken ccent"-Epoch.
Guide Ito old maid)-..T There, my
dear madamel We have seen the organ
and the nave, now will lead you to the
altar" o. No, you dear, good man!
will you, really?"- ?"-German Paper.
The latest thing In hre-flghting
tools 10 gun which will fre metal
cap. carrying q small piece Of strong
cord. to the top Of the highest building.
The cord is used to pull up rope, and
the rope to pull up hose.
Living near the Tennessee City of
Memphis are seven sisters whose names
rhyme beautifully but do not scan. Tho
names are Nancy Emeline, Lucinda
Caroline. Mary Haseltine, Jane Pales-
tine. Lulu Paradine, Virgie Valentine
and Maudie Anna Adeline.
No ball-catcher, no matter how ex.
pert, has been able to catch q ball
threwn from the Washington monu-
ment The monument is 555 feet in
height, and ball dropped from its
summit acquires a velocity of 500 feet a
ground.
One of the men who helped save
the life of the Czarowitz of Russia last
year has become SO demoralized by
good fortune that he has been sum.
moned several times into court The
brave but weak Japanese receives an
annual pension of $1,000 from the Rus
sian government and small sum
yearly from the mikado
The root of q sort of turnip is used
by the Indians of Tennessee for curl.
GUS purpose-namely, to cure dogs of
the habits of eating eggs. This root
has very hot and biting flavor, and q
small portion of it is put into an egg,
which is placed in the dogs way. Al.
ter swallowing it hastily and without
consideration the animal will never
touch another egg.
Many kinds of grass seeds are used
to make -four for bread and mush of
excellent quality. Along the rivers in
Colorado and Arizona grass seeds are
collected in large quantities and supply
a much valued winter food for the In.
dians. They are ground into -four
mixed with water into dough and
cakes of the latter are baked in the hot
sand.
Two boys out in boat near Boston
Island, Booth Bay harbor, last week,
saw two big eagles fighting in the air
two hundred feet above the water. The
talons of one bird became entangled in
the wing of the other and both fell into
the sea. When the boys rowed up to
them one of the eagles showed fight,
and they were obliged to kill it, but the
other was captured alive and now orna-
ments Bath restaurant He is hand
some bird, and measures six feet from
tip to tip.
Some Maine parents have great
deal to answer for in the names with
which they have burdened their chill
dren. A French Canadian girl in Somer-
etcounty is staggering along under this
load: Carrie Annie Mary Louise Mel.
lie Susie Pooler." One man has named
his four daughters Asia, Africa, Amer
lea and Europe, respectively, while the
members OF an Oakland family are sev.
orally known as Taught. Orlando, The.
opevander, Serepta, Salonie and Serena.
.-B. F. Cummings, train dispatche,
Of Oakland, Cal, is in danger of fgur.
ing as an awful example in the anti-to,
bacco crusade. He was q moderate
smoker, but he abandoned smoking re.
Gently and took to chewing incessantly.
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blind. He recovered his sight after a
few days. but entirely lost his hearing.
Then as suddenly and mysteriously he
regained his hearing but became quite
dumb. He was in delirium for some
time, but finally he recovered complete.
ly. The doctorssaid his Affections were
due to paralysis of the senses caused by
the absorption of nicotine into the sys-
TEN through the excessive use of tobac'
"A Rhode Island woman has just mar.
brother of her first and fifth husbands.
She is forty-seven years old. Her wed.
lock enterprises extend over a period Of
thirty years, and she has children by
five of her worser halves The first
husband was good-for-nothing fellow
who was killed in street fight The
next was a Nova Scotian. who left
her with considerable property. Her
third husband was already married, 60
she had to relinquish him. She tried a
minister the fourth time, and after he
died she married the undertaken who
buried him. He turned out to be her
brother-in-law and after while she got
q divorce. Her sixth husband left her
In rage when he learned that five men
had called her wife before his turn had
come. The seventh is some years
younger than his wife and appears to
be considerable of wit.
What Wears Out the School Girls.
A lady recently told me that her
daughter who was attending school was
nearly worn out with her studies; she
told me how many books the daughter
was studying and how many hours she
was poring over them in school and at
night, and that it was too much for her.
asked the mother to examine hel
daughters school satchel and see If II
did not contain other than school books.
She did so, and gave me q list of several
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