Misceilanceous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 55, 19 October 1886, Page 4

Misceilanceous

A wo >< h it'Pittsbnig made a terrible mi«t*nk«.* ii.i* other day (snys an English joiirnnl ). She became greatly frightened «ln»n a terrible storm broke over the 1o» 11, and ran up to her bedchamber Tor a vase "f holy water with «hii'h to *:trtii,klt» herself. In the excitement <>f tin' moment «he seiz •<! a battle filled with unlnhttric- nci.l, »n>\ dashed the contents in her frtcv »nd over her head. !he phv. Mciinx who nttoiultttl h«»r aiy thit «hr wiM in all probability lose her eyesil'htnnd that her fiic» may br disfigured. Tiie acid had eaf<*n -nto the flesh before I * course was stayed. A Texas correspondent^ explains, how (■obit* of ihe fortunes are maSe/ini the Witle liusiriess in that' Staled All! the, t-q uipine.it that is required fa a /knowledge of how te erase' brands and 'A brand ? ingir»n. ..' \ piece of wet. bbmlcet/ hegays, ' was wrung out after being dipped ."in , water,,. A .common fryin? pan ;was thin heated nenrly red. hot. The jwet blanket then applied over the brand; and the red hot pan pressed Inird against it. The steam generated scalded the ihair clean off,, and the job was d«oe, jTlie s«th ■ j'l m is nribpted by horse thieves.^ -Then, again, these' fellows 'had «, kind of branding iron with which they could change a nnmber <-f biahils;;: .1- once h«-ard a Texan boast of si man who .started twenty years ago with only two cow 9 and a hrnndine iron, an I is to day worth ;100,QU0dols. I told him that J knew half a dozen men .in New >-exico who starting; with nothing but the branding, iron are to day worth 3<X),ooodols. THe branding iron has made the foundation of in.'ny respectable fortunes;' —^iNew > Orleans Times Democrat. . ■■■•