Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
OJT OF THE ORDINARY.

Americans pay 100000 a year for Pari.
millinery.
Great Britain eats hep entire wheat cror
In about thirteen weeks.
The Indians of the interior of Bolivia veal
shirts and hats made of the bark of a tree
which IS soaked in water to soften the
flber and then beaten 10 make IL pliable.
The night Waterman of the Pennsylvania
mouse of representatives gets SO a night
from the state for his services. He pays
another man 81 a night to do the Watching,
while he himself runs Il saloon in Philadcl.
phia,
a new cure for rheumatism has been dis.
covered in New South Wales. 1t is called
The whale bath. The treatment consists in
depositing the patient in the body of a dead
whale. Almost Invariably the patient is able
to climb right out unassisted.
Milton Stewart is building an ark on the
top of West rock, near New Haven, Conn,
in the belief that the world Is to be visited
by another deluge. Mr., Stewart makes no
definite prediction as to the date of its com
ing.
Even though the velocity of light is 1872.
600 miles a second, the distance of some of
the fixed stars of the twelfth magnitude is
so great that 1t takes 1850 years for their
light TO reach us. If you don, believe this
so ana measure it yourself.
Quite frequently mention is made of the
tional bank of New York, showing how
much above par some fancy stocks are
held. But there was u sale a few days ago
of some shares of the Nlissis Sippi River
Logging company which breaks the record.
The par value was $1,000 a share. yet a
single share sold for $li9,5eO. the six shares
sold aEgregating almost 1900, 900. 1t was sold
to close up an estate and by public auction.
The Norwalk COhio) Chronicle claims that
it was Mr., +. r. LOOMS, its editor, who
first applied in its columns, on May 10. 1881,
the term Nickel Plate 30 the railroad
thus popularity known, and that in con-
sidcration of his ingenuity Henry Monet,
the general passenger agent, sent to Mr..
LOOMS the first complimentary pass .ssued
by the company. This pass a ~subsequent
general passenger agent asked for that it
might be preserved in the general offices
Of the company, and a duplicate was issued
to Mr.. LOOMS.
The Ohio Hotel association will ask the
legislature to eliminate the requirement
that a dead-heat law be posted in every
room; to allow hotels to sell baggage left
by guests within reasonable time and APP
ply the proceeds on the bill of the departed
guest; to require prescnters of checks to
prove their innocence of intent to defraud
to eliminate the provision that If the land
lord allows a guest to delay payment he is
estopped from prosecuting for fraud, the
hotel men desiring the privilege of allowing
a guest ten days in which to settle a bill,
with the right to prosecute upon failure 10
pay at that time.
The smallest farm in the United states. If
not in the world, is to be found in Molina,
Ga. 1t is owned by a stock company OF SIX
men, and contains one foot of land. 1t IS
known as the doodle farm A few years
ago an exciting local election was to be de-
cided by vote of the freeholders. and a
politician decided one foot Of land to six cnen
Jointly, thus giving each of them a vote.
Six men can vote by virtue of owning one
foot of land between thcmi but the woman
possessing in her own right the largest
land cd estate in Molina has no vote. This
is one of the anomalies that the Georgia
Equal Suffrage association is trying to
rectify.
AS to whether republics are ungrateful or
not the case of Jack, an army mule, is in
point. Jack was born thirty-tiVe years ago,
saw a great deal of active service and was
finally turned over to the engineers remov-
ing the rocks in He'll Gate channel IN New
York har'bor. After working three years
was sent to Willet's Point, l.. l. 1t was a
long time, however, before his eyes could
get used to the light, but when they did he
when old age made him infrm. The govern
mcnt stood the financial strain OF feeding
Jack for these three years. but last week
gave orders that he be killed and it was
done. THIS will help TO cut down the an
nual deficit.