The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


These are the times when good
many of us have to sit down and think
to find out where we stand.-Troy
Times.
-Wiggs-"Why did Boggs leave his
last place." Woggs-"Because he
he couldn't take it with him. He was
discharged. philadelphia Record.
"A good swimmer and poor base
ball player are alike in one respect
they both strike out.-Rochester Demo
crat and Chronicle.
-Friend-sHas the landlord raised
your rent this month"; Tenant
sincerely hope ne has. for I've tried tc
and failed. Inter Ocean.
-''Miggs is lucky old chap, isn't
hep I'm what way?" Hes color
blind" what advantage is that?''
''He can't fell when he's blue. Inter
Ocean.
-Reporter-'I wrote The instru.
ment was genuine Stradivarius,' and
you changed it to one of the latest
makes" Desk Editor-''Well, doesn't
that express the same idea? What dive
want to advertise the Stradivarius
"A German paper states that in the
prosecution of a railway line it became
necessary to remove large cherry
tree; the proprietor demanded about
$1,000 for it; this therailroad company
objected to paying. But after some
legal work the owner was awarded
81, 100 for the tree.
"A severe attack of toothache was
endured by Simon Kintzer, wealthy
man of Hummelstown, Pa. A travel
ing tooth doctor CHANGED to be in the
neighborhood, and applied magic
cure" In short time the pain ceased,
the doctor received his fee, and depart
ed. In few hours the mans jaw be-
gan to swell, and in three days he was
dead from blood poisoning.
The lightship John, in Delaware
bay, obtained its odd name from that
of the ship John, of Nantucket, Mass,
which sank in 1897 near the spot where
the lghtship now swings at anchor.
The vessel was stripped by wreckers
from Bridgeton, n. j., and General
Logue, of Bridgeton, gave to the light
house department the figurehead of the
wreck. The fisurehead is now mounted
on the deck Of the lightship
After the death of General Packen-
ham, at the battle of New Orleans, his
viscera were removed, preparatory to
shipping the body to England. The
whole mass of the bowels, including
other internal organs, were wrapped in
cotton and buried in a box between
two pecan trees, which, although in a
condition at the time, never
after bore nuts, and We're known far
and wide as the cursed pecan trees
The body was secretly shipped to En-
gland in cask of wine.
Nectar in flowers is not honey.
This nectar is gathered by the tongue
honey bag, from which it is regurgi-
tated by the bee on its return to the
hive and deposited in the honey cell.
Even then it is thin and watery, and
does not become really honey until the
watery parts have evaporated. In col
Letting the sweets the bees do not con-
fine themselves wholly to flowers
They extract them also from fruits.
Varieties and hybrids of helianthe-
mum vulgare. the true rock rose, have
flowers, which range in
color from white through shades of
ed and yellow. At the Arnold Ar
these plants make a low
growth, spreading over the
ground in a dense mat of foliage, on
which the flowers are now appearing.
The separate flowers do not last long,
,ut they keep opening all summer,
md Mr.. Dawson, the propagation at the
thinks great deal of
hem.
"A most ingenious-general-in
Observation-Disclosures has been set |
Up outside one of the Melbourne rail
way stations. 1t is seven feet high and |
our feet broad, and will, it is said, |
i've reliable information on quite a
'aried range of subjects. Touch one |
lastic button and list of the best |
lotels in the city appears: touch an
ther and a theater playbill slides out:
third discloses to view list of the
omnibus routes, and another |
he cab fares to the various places of |
interest
One of the striking proofs of the |
dvance of good architecture is it's
doption into factory buildings. With
n year ornate fronts have appeared
n large number of structures that,
ntil the architectural enascence-call
renaissance if you like-would have
cen as plain. not to say ugly, as brick
nd mortar could make them. Factor
IS, laboratories, printing offices, stor-
ge houses, even stables, are becoming
Kings of tempered joy, and as to resi-
ences, churches, club houses, armor-
ramble about New York and
e glad.
The San Francisco Chronicle states
nat the yellow ruited fir, heretofore
eported only from the vicinity of Lake
Tebber and doubtfully from Mount
Whitney, has been discovered in still |
reater beauty on the slopes of Mount |,
hasta. Here the tree rears it's noble, |
early smooth shaft to great height,
nd bears its crown of gauzy foliage
IT above the head of other frs, the
'pmost, stratified branchlets decorated
18th upright cones Of large golden
'uit, vision of flaming glory which |,
| the autumn season can be seen miles
way, in pleasing contrast with the
,yal purple cones of the prevailing
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HUMOROUS.