Arizona republican., 1897-11-12
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

The ballot box of the Fourth dis trict of the Thirty-first ward, Pitts burg. Pa., was stuffed" Not by the interruptions politician, but by an undesigning pussy cat! It appears that cat jumped into the. large empty ballot box and was unnoticed by the counters, and the work con tinued. When thla count was finished the ballots were thrown in and the box was locked and sealed. In the course of the night Alderman Fritz, while hunting for his cat discovered she was in the ballot box. A legal consultation had to Iba made before the cat could be released, and it was found that the ballots had been de- Stroy3d by the cats violent efforts to get cut of hlsr prison.
 The experiments Of MT. Carton, an English agriculturist on the earl of Vii clilsea's experimental farm at Sleaford, England, in applying the principles of cross fertilization, have bd5n a giIisat success. In the United States crosses of wheat have been eff 6eotive, but there has been no at uampt ito cross barley Or cats Dr. Goodtellow, an expert, writes that MT. Cartons methods of producing mar vellous permanent types of cereals are most u1ique and original, and that paratively useless cereals are converted thenaby into GhI7 most va,u- able food plants.
 Mark Twain and Verestchagin, the Russian artist, were present together at the Last sitting of the Vienna reichsfath, which eclipssd in disorde T any of the previous riotous sessions, and the proceedings will doubtless be graphically described some day by both humorist and artist Verestch agln Sketched the prominelt m;m- bers in their most striking attitudes And Mark Twain said he likened the scene to one he once witnessed at a wesdtn lynching, whlsn one gentle man was hanged summarily for steal ing another gentleman's horse
 Hugo Knie, who lived at Cresskill N. J., until last August, sailed fo1 Germany with the intention of gettins a wife, and as he was born in th Unit,d States he carried passport But Knie never reached Harsbe g which was the residence of his sweet hIlart, and it has now been ascertainee that he was Saized as soon as h. landed on German soil and hurried away into military service with regiment stationed on the Elbe, wher he will have to eNarve for three year unless the United States government succeeds in having him released h. making proper representations to tn GIsTmlan goVernment at Ber,in.
 Ut is said in dispatch from an en campment in Carbon county, Wyo 'If all the gold fields discovered f the last two decades were transferrei suddenly to the mountain gulches i this vicinity it would be difficult t conceivta a greater excitement tha has ba-n wrought in Wyoming by tn finding of a sevenHton boulder nea here. A honey-combed rock scarce larger in diameter than an Ordinar farm wagon wheel has driven tn state ''gold mad" A white quart surface float in Purgatory Gulch ha been found to contain S24,5S4, or S3 512 a ton. The gold boom caused b this discovery has started a gol camp and drawn hundreds of pres pectors here within few days Tn place is sixty miles from the nearss railroad on the north and is sepa1 ated from civilization on the eas west and south by mountain barrier for a hundred miles. Four mile tsouthwest is a mountain largely GOV cred with goldan float. Nine grea parallel dykes of mineralized quart traverse it, and the anxious prospect DTS are securing mountain and cano to find the veins from which tines immense boulders must have bee eroded ages ago."
 POINTS ABOUE PEOPLE.