Year: 1874

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
a POOR old man committed suicide in
San Francisco because pictorial sheet
characterized him as an "old nuisance. f"
SOME people complain about their
children being non-observing, but we'd
like to see the child who won't observe
how the family pic is cut and who gets
the biggest piece.-Detroit Press.


BARRELS Of flour and fruit sent from
America to Queen Victoria are always
turned over to one of the married ser
wants, who has red hair and nose like
bugle in table leg.-DanJu,y Meas.


SALT LAKE seems to have lost its SAVIOR.
When the Saints first came to the valley,
says California paper the waters Of
the lake yielded one pail of pure salt to
three OF water. 1t now requires five
pals OF water to yield one Of salt.
A SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) gentleman con-
cluded to have bath the other evening,
and in the dark got hold of q chunk of
-blacking by mistake for the soap
more polished man than he was has
never been seen in the whole State of
Massachusetts.


A WILLAMETTE (Oregon) farmer want
ed hand to drive reaper, and his
married sister, who was there on visit,
heard him say he would pay $3.50 day
for hand. She stepped forward,
claimed the job, took the reins, and kept
it up for several days, doing frst-rate
work.


SATURDAY last hound belonging to a
man named Scudder, Of Fayette, Ohio,
was tied to the end of rear car on a
Canada Southern train during the stop
at Wyandotte. His owner had bet
that the dog would keep up with the
train and come into Detroit all right,
and the hound did. The train ran at it's
usual rate of speed and the dog did not
have to be pulled foot of the way The
amount Of the wager was $50, the bet
being $50 to $40 that the dog could not
win.-Detroit Free Press.


THE Lynchburg Meas, in a brief ac-
count of the game, rattlcsnakes and
other fer8 nature to be found in the Vir-
ginia mountains, mentions that in this
wild and dismal scope Of country there
are many wild hogs, which do not hcsi-
tate to attack the traveller, and they are
without doubt the most dangerous den
liens of the mountains. They are usual
ly found in herds Of from five to twelve,
and the sight Of a human being is the
only signal for attack that they require.
The intruder has then nothing left him
but to outrun them or climb a tree and
wait for them to leave


ONE cause of accident in blasting but
little understood and which applies to
powder as well as nitro glycerinc is thus
stated: "The blaster, not aware that he
is walking charge of electricity, pro-
ceeds to his work, inserting cartridge
after cartridge of nitro glycerine until
he comes to the last, which is armed with
the electric fuse. The moment his hand
touches one of the naked wires the cur
rent passes through the priming and eX-
plosion follows Let blaster before he
handles these wires invariably grasp
some metal in moistened contact with
the earth or place both hands against
the moist walls of the tunnel"


A NOVEL runaway has just come to
light. Two little girls, aged nine and ten
wears, arrived in Philadelphia a few days
ago on a trip from New York. They
were unaccompanied by any adult, and
were out on tramp, determined to see
the world. The little ones reside in the
metropolis, from which, having seen all
that was to be seen, they resolved to
make a tour of the globe" Their habits
dc coyagement were composed OF shawls,
dresses and bonnets, each gold watch,
tinger-rings, earrings and brcast-plns,
and about $50 in money They were re =
turned to their home next morning under
the guardianship Of an iratc papa. Can
this be beat?


A YOUNG man residing with his father
in Patchoguc, L. L., a few nights ago
heard noise in the direction Of water
melon patch and, looking out OF his bed
room window, saw man in the act OF
"hooking' one. He seized gun loaded
with small shot which he kept handy for
such purposes and blazed away at the
supposed thief. A yell followed and the
Young man was Mortified to discover by
the voice that he had shot his own
father. The "old man. came running
into the house with a big watermelon
under his arm which he had been select
ing for breakfast the next morning, and
it was found fortunately the entire
charge had lodged in the melon-not a
shot having struck the person OF the
supposed thief.