Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-10-06
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they are having sensation in Mobile
about mans commit ng suicide by cut
ting off his own head, and then hiding it
so e1ectual.y that they havent been able
to fad 1t since. This is not so wonder
ful a circumstance as a friend Of ours re-
Iates, tha: happened at the Saute Ste
Marie, Lake superior, last summer. An
Indian there, who had lived unhappily
with fifty or sixty differen. squaws, deter.
mined upon suicide. Desiring that no
one should be able to identify any portion
of him, he cut off both his legs aud car :.
r'ed them about i've miles into the woods,
on foot and alone. He buried them, an d
then cat off both his arms, which he car.
red some five miles further aud buried.
ihen' c"'t'n., out his tongue that he
might he qnaoIe to tell any one whom he
"'gA' meet who be was, he proceeded
s"'er'l miles further, chanting bis death
song AS he went He finally cut of his
head, and after amusing him self for some
time kicking it about as q football, ma.
king the woods ring with the shouts of
merriment, be hid it in the trunk Of a
tree, and then digging a grave with his
own hands, he Ct in, covered himself
: "f, ''"" P'a"'S' very Hahi>om1 tOmO'
stone at the had of hi, grave with his own
hands. Where is 9r Nobi'c nan now2
The radicals tr,"mpnautly ask il We
have heard from Name. Yes, We have
heard from Maine. an! frequently too
We heard from Name when the British
invaded our territory in 1912, and the
governor of Maine declared that be would
not furnish a man or dollar to repel tho
invasion. We heard from Maine and the
balance Of New England in the "blue
lights which were burned as signals to
an invading foe. We have heard from
Maine and New England often, aud most
often as the enemy of American honor
and American liberty Are the radicals
sufficiently answered q Dubuque Herald.
|
Young man, do you believe in a fu-
ture state p
In course duz and what's more, I
intend to enter it as soou as Betsey gets
her things ready
"Go to. young man, go to-
"Go two? If it wasn't for the law
against bigamy, whip me if l wouldn't 20
a dozen. But who supposed, deacon, that
man of your age would give such ad-
vice to man just started in life."
Red river chap thinks he has found
Paradise. Hear him " No income tax !:
no internal revenue no spies to see If
pou treat a friend on Sunday; no special
police; no dog tax; no poll tax, school
tax or bounty fund. And to end with.
the Indians and half-breeds can't tell ono
greenback from another, so all Our ones
are tens
A chap inquired at the pos. Office id
Erie, the other day, for letter for '"En.
ry Hogden." He was told there vas
none. "Look ere he replied, a little
angrily, "you've hexamined the hodd
letter for my name. 1t don't commence
with hatch 1t begins with a ho!-
Look in the ole that's got the hos T.
when | goes a shoppir," said an old
lady, II alters asks for what I wants, aud
If they have it, aud its suitable, and I
feel inclined to buy il, andft's cheap, and
cant be got tor less, most alters takes
it without chsppering oil day, a. some
people do
A revivalist in Bi"ghamton. N. Y, On.
countered a large sized African, and
asked him: My good man, have you
found the Lord =" To which Sambo re.
piled in surprised manner: "Golly,
massa, is de Lord lost p
The entire fortune Of an English lady
who lives in great style, consists in one
of the advertising columns Of the London
Times
Nearly six hundred prisoners are on
the Dry Tortugas.