Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-20
ODDITIES IN FACT AND FICTION.


ODDITIES IN FACT AND FICTION.
The marriage of Arthur Plum and
Gertrude Apple was celebrated in
Atchison, Kan, last week.
Adam Higgins, or Montpelier, VT,
went to Arizona in 1857 to grow up with
the country. He Is now SIX feet seven
and is still growing.
DIR. William Waters, formerly Yale
tutor, was man of such great good
nature that the students dubbed him
"Minnehaha" Laughing Waters.
The egg product of the United States
is much more valuable than is gener-
ally supposed. 1t amounts to $780,,
900. 900 per annum, about one-third the
value of the wheat crop.
There were 2,143 Disbursements in
the city of Philadelphia last year,
which causes a cynical Chicagoan to
remark that the people wanted to get
into lievlier graveyard.
During the last three days of August,
1851, the sun was so hot in Southern
California that the apples were baked
ON the trees. They were palatable and
tasted exactly like apples baked over
fire.
The town Waterman of Upuquogue,
R.. fell asleep on post the other night,
and rascally burglar robbed him of
his hat, coat, bulls eye watch, staff
and lantern, and then broke into the
village store and cleaned it out.
Cucumbers, cleft lengthwise. are
used in some parts of Tennessee to ex-
ercise evil spirits. They are placed in
the sun and sprinkled with the dried
blood of toad killed at the full of the
moon at a cross roads. The spell is
regarded as infallible by the ignorant
blacks.
An infusion of willow bark and
quinine is used in the lowlands of
Missouri for the cure of ague and also
to cure the thirst for liquor. 1t is so
bitter that man cannot for week
tell the difference between the taste of
coal oil and pousse cafe. His rela-
tives take advantage of this and give
him water to drink instead of whisky.
The County Clerk of Vernon County,
Mo-, recently paid the bounty of S. on
a wolf scalp that measured fourteen
inches in width. As the average wolf
scalp rarely exceeds nine inches this one
must have belonged to an animal with
an extraordinary large head. 1t was
presented by boy who refused to give
any information as to where or by
whom the wolf was shot.
Marmaduke Mulcahey, of Little
Jigers Falls, Ind, has retroverted
peachy fuzz growing ON his face,
which annoys him by stretching his
skin as tight as the head of a drum.
Every time he opens his mouth he is
obliged to wink his right eye. As a
consequence he is ashamed TO speak
to the young women of the village for
fear this involuntary movement of his
eyelid might be misunderstood.
Beechi Bey, of Constantinople, has
succeeded, after five years of patient
effort, in teaching camel to dance ON
its hind legs to the music of a lutte and
the rafting of castanets. When
Beechi wishes to exhibit the skill of
his camel he cries in Aarbic, Hump
YOURSELF which the animal has
learned to understand means rear up,
which it does, at the same time shaking
its hump.
An unfortunate news vender in
Sacchez, Armenia, was discovered sell
ing English newspapers which con-
tanned severe criticism of the massa-
ores. He was Immediately seized by
the Turkish authorities, thrown into a
cell and kept there without food or
water for twenty hours. Then he was
taken out and logged, after which the
fingers of his right hand were cut off
This treatment, he was informed, was
simply hint of what he might expect
If he persisted in circulating defama-
tory stories about the Sultan S subjects.