The Red Cloud chief., 1897-07-16
az GENERAL INTEREST.

lihN WV NfEt uliNth lEbln Iitlf own
country and took refuge on the island
during the reign of William the Con.
qacror
"A hollow celestial globe of copper
at Pembroke college, Cambridge, Eng,
was constructed in the last century "a
q lecture room, and will hold % half
dozen persons or more. The constella-
tions are depicted on its interior, and
II rotates on its axis.
-Gurlt has collected figures which
show that there is one death To every
three thousand administrations of
ch~loroform, while with ether there is
only one fatal case in fourteen thou
sand. Ether is dangerous 10 the lsngs,
chloroform to the heart
MIR Mullarkey's hired girl turned
on the natural gas In the cook stove
and applied a lighted match. but the
gas didn't burn. Then she emptied the
oil can into the stove, tried another
match, and made one Of the i"iveliest
explosions ever seen in the Ohio town
Of Bellevue.
Senator Blanchard. Of Louisiana,
Is one of the most skillful 'sportsmen
In the country. lie is "a dead shot with
the pistol. Mr.. blanchard was once
challenged tn fight a duel. but the
challenger, upon learning of his won.
derful skill with the pistol, withdrew
the demand for satisfaction.
1t was stated in q recent number
of ffradstreet's that 'Convicts from the
New York state prison at Dannemora
have constructed g. 400 feet of macadam
road and $3.50 feet of cobblcstoue gut
ter, set 5000 feet of curbstone and
made 1850 feet of earth sidewalk since
June ~ last"
Exhaustive experiments I'm the cul.
tivatioD of tea are soon to be made in
Russia. The ear is personally inter-
ested in the plan, and experts are ar
ranging for the cultivation of the plant
In the western limits OF the Caucasus,
where the temperature is much the
same as that in which the plant grows
In China
Richard H., of England, was about
as weak and effeminate as Richard l.
was fcrocious and lion-hearted. 1t war
during the reign of the second Richard,
quite appropriately, that long-pointed
toes were in vogue. Some of them
reached to the knees, 70 which they
were attached by gold or silver chains.
Several papal bulls were issued against
these long-toed shoes, but they contin-
ued in favor for more than a century.
-'In an east side street the other
day." said n New York stroller. III met
u man who was selling vegetables from
a push cart There was nothing very
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his selling vegetables from u push cart,
but there was something unusual and
attractive about the way in which he
had the vegetables arranged. He had
white and purple c~abhages and pars-
nips The %eabbages were disposed in
the semblance OF II checker board and
the parsnips were arranged around the
edge, with the big ends against the
sides Of the cart and the points point.
ing inward AS a border"
AT Madras, some time ago, a valu-
able lion, having incautiously allowed
Its tail to tray into an adjoining cage,
the tail was seized by an evil-disposed
leopard, close to the lions body, when,
rs the lion attempted to escape. almost
the whole of the skin of his tail was
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such an amour of inflammation that
the lions life was in danger. Surgeon
Maj. Miller, brothenof the late Prof.
Miller, of E%dinburg, the surgeon to the
governor Of Madras, volunteered to
perform amputation. The lion was
seized in his cage and his head covered
with u cap containing q considerable
quantity Of chloroform. He was then
dragged to the edge of the cage and
the tail passed through the bars, where
DIR. Miller cleverly performed his oper-
alton. The lion made q good recovery.
Dealers In curios have a way of
saying that amovar are not obtain.
able in New York, and travellers to
Russia sometimes import them at great
expense as interesting adjuncts to
afternoon tea William NJ. Chase, the
artist, has an interesting collection Of
these curious urns, and doubtless he
obtained some of them In the down.
town Hebrew quarter. They are not
especially plentiful there, but fire.
quenters Of the region occasionally
pick them up. An uncommonly beauti-
full one, an almost exact counterpart Of
one figured In the Century dictionary,
was bought in the Hebrew quarter for
seven dollars II Is worth at least fifty
dollars A needy Jewish woman named
hree dollars AS the price of her
samovar, but suddenly made up her
mind that she could not part with 1t,
although she declared that her child
was starving for food.
In the museum of natural history
In Dublin is the skeleton of a man, Q
native of the south of Ireland, who was
called the ossiied man. His body be-
came ossitied during his lifetime. He
lived in that condition for years. Pre-
vious to the change he had been q
healthy young fellow of superior
strength and agility, One night he
slept in n field after a debauch, and
some time later he felt the first symp-
toms OF the strange transformation.
The doctors could no nothing to avert
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