Feliciana sentinel., 1892-10-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"a peculiar Ooycott Is IN progress ~
Fargo, N. ID. The business men Of the
town have boycotted the Northern Pa
cific railroad because the company won't
build new station and hotel there.
They have issued a circular to all their
business connections asking them to
ship their goods over other lines.
AT a public sale in the armory,
Westchester, Pa, on August 4, Of the
effects of a deceased old lady, the auc-
tioneer held up an old collar box and
said: "Here is a pint of human teeth.
What is bid for them?' The teeth were
mementoes, gathered from the mouths
of scores of the old lady's relatives
They sold for one cent
A man at Peaks Island, Nc,
dropped nickel into the slot of a
phonograph one day last week, but the
machine failed to give out the promised
music Thereupon the man became
enraged, for nickels are highly esteemed
in the outlying peighborhoods Of Port.
| land, and smashed the deceitful phono-
graph into bits to recover his money.
The largest sample of gold quartz
| ever mined in Montana was taken out of
| the Mcintyre lode. Its weight is 1, 7s5
pounds. 1t came from near the surface.
There are other large samples, which
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| of 40 feet; one from the Musser shaft
100 feet, and another from the working
| shaft, 200 feet. All are destined for exhi-
! bition at the worlds fair at Chicago.
The young and the old are smart in
| the Pine Tree state. Ida Gibbs, the ten
year-old daughter of John Gibbs, of
| Brooks, Me, has driven a horse rake all
over one hundred acres Of hay fields
this summer, rlking the hay up clean,
and has. taken care of the hor ses be-
| sides. The town of Cooper, Me-, boasts
| Of a lady Of seventy-three who rakeS up
! after u moving machine as well as any
| of the men,
| A London paper, mentioning a recent
anarchist meeting, says that speeches
| We're delivered in Eddish This is
term employed to designate the queer
mixture of Hebrew, German and other
words that is called jargon in New
York. Jargon is SO extensively spoken
and read that it is profitable to issue
| several newspapers in that language.
The expression ''our esteemed iargon
contemporary is found occasionally in
the Jewish papers of the higher class,
and its use does not imply any disposi-
ton to speak slightingly.
-''Marshalls gold nugget will be-
| q. ''iI W. ~ lar ny HaAiioi
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80, =. California. The nugget is bout
| the size of 2 lima bean, and, on account
of it's associations and the almost in
| calculable wealth and development
| which have resulted from it's finding, is
regarded as an almost priceless treas
! urc.
| The Hebrew intellect is displayed
! 10 great advantage not only in finance,
| but in CHESS. MIR. Blackburne, the rep
resentativc English player, Was recent
ly defeated by Herr Lasler, a Hebrew,
and it is SAID that Il large proportion,
perhaps onc-half, of the recognize d
masters of chess in Europe are of
Hebrew extraction. Both in London
and on the continent Jewish PLAYERS OF
talent are to be found in great num-
berS. In the contest for trophy late
ly offered by London newspaper of
the four most successful players three
were Jews. The power of close and
accurate calculation, which is Z ctarac-
teristic of the race, makes them slillfu!
in the game of chess
| The streets and public grounds q!
Washington are shaded by OYER seventy
thousand trees, including eight hun
tred varieties and species. some ot
which are to be found nowhere else in
America. These trees have beer
planted by many industrious men, from
the first president to the present one
There are IN tue city 81 large ;.GC
small reservations. the latter being
formed by the intersection of the
avenues. which radiatc from the capitoi
aud white house, with the reyula,
streets. In all. these cover an aggrc
gate of 900 acres, all of which are GOV
cred with trees, the care of which