The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


THE "Big Iniin" of America-Inge.
nuity.
TCoURTnISg aftsrmarriage Getting
divorce.
A HUCKsTER in Reading recently sold
wooden Imitation eggs. tsa.s
A TEACHER in Lawrence Furnishes
scholars by p1ttinga spoonful Of cayenne
pepper In their mouths.
THE English Judges promptly rebuke
any journal Of eminenee which presumes
to offer an opinion on an unfinished law
suit .,.-a Es,t
AN officer Of an English regiment in
Qqebsc, who insulted a young lady at the
skating rink the other night, was jmme-
diately shot by the girls brother Ia mere
ladl and fatally wounded.
VELpoPEDEs, says the Shanghai Meses
Letter, have ceased TO be novelty in the
streets of that city, and even the untaught
Chinese ponies have become so used to
them that they are no longer frightened
AN old lady who died in London, in
1894 bedueathed a considerable sum to
one church on condition that her eefiln,
in the church. vault, be busted on every
anniversary Of her birth. The conditions
have been carefully observed.
Two LITTLE girlish book-peddlers in
Philadelphia make neat living by SO.
HcitiDg gentlemen to purchase q volume
asythis Is my birthday,please They
tried a charitable newspaper man once too
often in the same week, sNa
DIR. J. I. DYER's family, in Gloucester,
Mass, after q recent dinner Of partridges
\ were all taken Ill with dizziness, fainting
and other sympt Of narcotic poisoning
II is supposed the birds had eaten some
poisonous berries.
L DURING the recent drawing for the mill
tary eonseription at MarseiIles, young
man drew a lucky number, which caused
| him such joyful emotion that on reaching
home he could not embrace his mother
when he fell dead at her feet
JUDY represents q young lady, who fal
been taken half a mile beyond her desH
nation Ia an omnibus, as addressing thl
conductors It's really too bad | tolt
you, when first got In, where / wisheC
to be set down Y Conductor" Well
! Miss, | let you oLt.as soon as ever ! toull
find 1t In my art to part with you"
A LITTLE four year old girl, whorec
I ly visited Boston with her mother, wa
greatly disturbed by the difficulty she e1
l perlenced In perambulating Washingto
street. Finally In despair, she exclaimed
;se@I do hope before | come TO Bostol
!. again that q good many Of these folks wi
be dead, for they do knock my new ha
round 30.
THE French chemist, Tardieu, extracte
2 the coloring matter from some imPorte
English red stockings, and introduced
t quantity thereof beneath the skin Of q do,
The animal died within twelve hours y.
8 rabbit similarly treated died ID eight hour
Q and a frog in four N, Tardieu adVisl
the absolute prohibition Of the import
n tion of red stockings
Z AN American confidence man, preEen
ing to be the youngest son Of Secretal
Seward, has victimized ceftain good peop
of the Austrian capital to the tune
several thousand horins. The bog
i Seward attempted 10 eapape from NienI
Y the moment bib dupes cot wind Of his trl
character, but he wee pursued, and will ]
i sent 10 q penitentiary.
III Ara late fire in London, while the 9
! gines were discharging their cOntsn
Y Y against the front of a house, an inscriptii
\ Oh It became nearly obliEarated. BY d
\ s0wI, \ reclaimed d witty Ifishraan thia
q 4 Queer tisne for 4 iOke. And who
= ioling9 gr0Wled one Of the hreme
4 Why, don't you see, honey, how you 8
Y playing upon Wordss" replied Pat
n THE military idea of honor has
v mafkable f0foei1 Belgium. Two conlnl
Y soldiers, recehtly under arrest, in The sal
n cen, played cslds ~ pass away the tin
ii 0ne 81 them lost The few soHa n bic ps
y aeasi0n, then his clothca, and finally aiak
a his life. He lost NeAi morning be y
found hanging 10 q peg in tlie wall,
W companion sleeping aefgnsly or tae pall