The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

The more house n man builds on tho
and the more he will have to lose
when the storm comes. Rams Horn.
A man who formerly acted as fire.
man to a locomotive refers To his recol-
lections of that time as ''tender remin-
sciences"
Pine weather for corn remarked
the passenger ~clinging to the strap.
The car lurched and 'There goes my
entire CROP" groaned the passenger who
was sitting down.
MIR. Bullion-"You are far too young
to marry my daughter. You are only
eighteen" Tom-"Yes, sir, but Miss
Julia Is thirty-four. 80 the two of US
would average about r~ight."-Jester.
Not Good for Shaving. -Rastus lin
need of a shave)-'Kin you lend me a
razzer, I'm goin' to a party tonight"
Gawge-"Cert; here's one wild teef on
IT, il kin cut jess bully."-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Physics Class. -Professor--"Speak.
Ing of transparent objects, glass and
water are transparent, because we can
seesthrough them. Now, Mr.. De Kid,
~ yOu SANC Nv uIOViICT CAdulDLcg D0
Kid-"Yes, sir; n hole"
Likely He Had.-"Papa," asked
little Ethel, after a season Of deep
thought, did you have any idea that I
would go right along living with you
and being your daughter the first time
we were Observation-Disclosures
journal.
The announcement Of q forthcom-
ing English wedding contains the re-
quest that the old custom Of throwing
rice and flowers should be dispensed
with. Throwing n slipper after the
bride is an old Saxon custom, but
throwing rice is oriental, aud in En-
gland dates only from the time of the
Indian nabobs.
The government tract Of land at
West Point contains about @ 100 acres:
most Of which was purchased in 1900,
from h son Of one Of the original
patentees; the rest was purchased in
1924. Jurisdiction was coded by New
York to the United States, over n part
of the tract in 1926 and ovcr the re-
mainder i'm 1875.
1t isn't what you see but what you
feel that will make your work interest
ing. You can look at a thing and see 1t,
but that's nothing. You can look at
something which may give you an emo
ton. That's feeling. Facts don't amount
to anything. Cyclopeiias are full Of
them. It's an individuals expression Of
them hat is interesting.
In 1922, James l., then king of En-
gland, made strenuous efforts to intro
duce silk culture to supersede tobacco
growing into the colony of Virginia,
but with no great success, though con-
siderable silk was produced. In 1649
there were $1,000 white inhabitants and
800 negro slaves, and the colonists had
q large amount Of live stock. Tobacco
Mt that time was the colonial currency.
"A European correspondent informs
us that a Russian expedition is now in
northeast Siberia for the purpose of
bringing back a mammoth which has
been discovered there frozen in a per.
feet condition. The writer adds that
he has strong hopes the naturalist in |
charge Of the expedition may discover
the eggs OF Rcss' Rosy Gull (Rhodoste.
thia ~rosea), as yet unknown to zoolog-
ists.-Science.
Queen Victoria's Hindoostanee
doesn't come to her with It hard dig.
ging. She actually has n Hineoo secre-
tary, a fact unknown to her American
admirers. His name Is Munshi HaHr
Abdul Karin. and If his pupil were not
q queen he would be called a tutor.
Mr.. Karin is a fat-faced, dark kinped
gentleman, who wears eastern raiment
and has a soft fringe Of black beard all
round his cheeks and chin.
John johnson, q newly rich man.
wishing to be considered Of a literary
turn, bought books right and left to
found a library. Among his purchases
was an old dictionary. This he sent to
be rebound. When it was returned it
had printed on its back the words,
'Johnson's Dictionary" This famili-
arity he could not endure, and he in.
dignantly asked the binder why he did
not put on his full name. John John.
sons Dictionary"
One hundred and nine thousand To-
comotives are at present running on the
earth. Europe has SO, O00, America 49,
600, Asia $500, Australia 1000 and AZ
RIGA 700. In Europe, Great Britain and
Ireland take premier position, with IT,
600 engines, Germany has 8 1000, France
II, 200, Austria Hungary, the second
largest Continental country, has 5000,
Italy 1000, Russia $500. Belgium 2, 900,
Holland and Spain 1000 each, Switzcr-
land 900 and the remaining European
1900.
AT a late fair in Brittany, France, a
monk from the Friestine monastery cx-
hibited a plain-looking table with an
chess board on its surface. The
inventor, or anyone so disposed, set,
the pieces for a game and then sits
along at one side of the table. How
ever cautiously he plays he is frequent
~ checkmated by the pieces from the
opposite side, which move automati-
across the board. No matter how
scientifically the player plays the
ghost-moved pieces frequently come out
ahead. No mechanism is apparent; to
oil intent the table is a solid board.