The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
-'Pshaw: so You believe ho wen
fishing just because he said so do
your" "No; but he brought home a
Jug fun Of whisky. Inter Ocean.
"A Slight Mistake. TURNER GLOW
did Weeks come TO write poetry2'
Wells Gle had dyspepsia, and for o
long time thought it was Inspiration
Truth
PANT know a girl who can do the
scrpoutine." Nau-"Thats nothing;
know girl who can step into a trolley
car without climbing up on her hands
and knees. ."-Broolxlyn Eagle.
The Beauty's Friend. Tim so glad
TO hear you are TO marry Jack CrWsus.
It's really a golden engagement for
you" The Beauty-"E Exactly so-it's
my fftieth. Kate Fields Washington.
-Footpad Gimme your money!
Mr. Lushforth (disgustedly)-"Do you
suppose | would be goin' home at 9
o'clock If had any money? You are
the biggest churnp ! have met in -
month Of Sundays. indianapolis Jour
nal.
"A strong man i'm Vienna made a
wager wi In an American that hc could
stand under litre of water while Il
fell, drop by drop upon his head, from
a height OF three feet. At the I2Oth
drop the strong man gave up, the pain
being intolorable.
While the western movement Of
population in the United States for the
century aggregates 5J5 miles, the cS-
trsme northern and southern variation
Is "A little under twenty two miles, and
the finishing point of the line is only
some six miles south of the starting
point.
lew negroes but believe that the
left hind foot of graveyard rabbit is
a token of good luck and the super
stitiou is spreading among the white
race. A hrln in North Carolina, which
makes a speciality OF rabbit skins, has
received an order for 100000 Of such
feet.
To check the growth Of the fish
cries of the United States, and to pro-
mote those of their own colonies, the
British government issued an order in
council, July, 1888, prohibiting Ameri-
can fish from being carried to the
british West Indies, which had been
before the war one of the best markets
for the New England trade in fish.
-Foreign-born residents constitute
45 per cent. of the population of Cleve-
land, 42.5 of New York, ~ of san Fran
cisco, Al of Chicago, 40 of Detroit, 35.5
of Boston, 35 of Buffalo, 33 of Milwau-
kee, 32 of Brooklyn, 80 of Pittsburgh,
2j of Philadelphia, 81 of Cincinnati and
St. Louis, IA of New Orleans, II Of
baltimore, and one-eighth of one per
cent of Washington.
There are $4,000 Scandinavians
(Swedes, Norwegians and Danes) in
the chief cities of the United States
o., 800 Tor just half of them in Chicago,
10000 in Brooklyn, TO- 600 in New York,
6,5OO in San Francisco and 4, 800 in Bos-
ton. There are six times as many Nor
wegians as Swedes in Milwaukee, and
four times as many Swedes as Norwe-
gians in Boston.
Enthusiastic patriotism has made
its record on the map of Westchester
county Immediately north of New York.
w dhtutAN anu W dhtLtlu lltlRubN are
named in honor of the home of Wash
ington's first ancestors in this country;
Washingtonville is the Harlem station
of which Wakefield is the postofice,
and Immediately adjoining is the city
of Mount Vernon.
The effort of the legislature of the
state of Illinois to prevent ticket scalp
ing has met a serious check and II APP
pears the law is futile, if not uncon-
stimtional. Recently a decision was
rendered in the circuit court, sitting
at Chicago, by Judges Tuthill, McCon-
nell and Dunno, in the case brought
against several ticket brokers last Oc-
tober. Six brokers were indicted under
the Illinois law, and the court dis
charged them.-Buffalo Gazette.
On account of the varying distance
Of the moon from the earth, she ap-
pears to us somewhat smaller at GER
tain times than at others. If she
passes between the earth and the sun
when at the greatest distance from the
earth, her disk w,ll be smaller than
that OF the SUN. and the eclipse viii be
annular Ii the passage occurs when
the moon is nearer the earth, her disk
appears larger than that of the sun,
and the eclipse is a total one