The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-12-24
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mic and rClnble business, receives iis nre.
mlums IN cash and promptly pays IT, losses
~ cash.
"A s%chOOl-boy going out Of the play.
ground without leave, one Of his masters
called After him, and inquired where be
was going. 81 am going Il buy a ha 'porth
of nails" "What do you want a ha porth
of nails for 2" For n h~alfpcnny.n re.
piled the y%oungster.
"A boy being praised for shrewdness
in replying, a person remarked that when
children were sharp It frequently turned
out that in after.life they became dull and
aud rice rersd. "You must have
been a very sensible child, Sir, | should
think, reioined the boy.
The method of making a bowl of
oyster soup that can be retailed for five
cents, four Of which will be profit, is
as follows; Take five Baltimore oysters.
photograph them, TO each photograph add
five gallons Of water, season to suit the
taste.
During the past year the Children's
Aid Society Of New York found homes in
the West for 1851 children, at an average
expense of S15 for each boy or girl sent
out. During its history this society has
removed over $4,000 children from New
York city.
According to the French chemist,
Lavoisier, the human body exhales about
three and one. half pounds of aqueous
matter daily. A large cabbage has been
forced to exhale twenty ounces of water
from its surface.
His Baggage
That seat is engaged" said pretty Young maid,
As | entered a carriage one day;
I whomY' "A young gentleman pouting,
she said
"Then, where is his baggage, | pray "
Her ruby lips opened like rosebuds in spring,
Her face in deep bushes was dyed,
AS mnttering Grossly, You hateful old thing,
why, | am his baggage" she cried.
A farmers boy, on Muscatine Island,
has a very large rat, which he has do.
mesticated aud trained to do various anus
ing things, among them, the getting upon
It's hind feet, and, at a signal from its little
master, attempting to crow like a rooster,
The rat will follow the boy as a puppy
does its master.
An Elmira farmer wrote to Horace
Greeley for advice as to the best kind of
bees to keep, and received an answer to
the effect that "husking bees were the
best, but in order to make them lay honey
probably he must use a china nest.epg.
and blanket his bees when they are not on
the nest, and feed them bran and mid,
dlings."
Al a recent examination, the question
was put to a class of small boys: "Whv is
the Connecticut river so called ?" when n
bright little fellow put up his hand. "Do
you know, JamesY" eyes, ma'am be-
cause 1t connects Vermont and New Hamp.
shire, and cuts through Massachusetts"
was the triumphant reply.
A Troy paper published two articles
recently, one of which was an obituary no.
tice and the other funny anecdote. The
headings accidentally got changed, and
when the paper appeared the editor was
Mortified to see the obituary notice headed
Good Joke;' while the funny anecdote
was preilXed with the caption, "a Sad
Announcement"
"A engineer on the Central Pacific
road woke up the other morning, and fail.
ing to find his false teeth, came to the cor.
clusion that he had swallowed them in his
sleep. He started to consult a physician,
at the same time complaining of a pain in
his stomach, His friends found the teeth
under his pillow. He "sets EN- up " when
asked "how's your stomach ?"
"A report just made in reference to our
netional cemeteries shows there are seven.
ty-three of them, and that in addition sol.
diers are buried in 316 local cemeteries.
The cost of collecting the bodies has been
$3,226,370. The number reported inferred
is 3l5,515, of whom 172,1t0 can be linden
titled, while the rest are unknown. Only
463 bodies remain to collect.
Under a new law in Ohio, the owners
of houses occupied as whisky shops are
responsible for all damages that may grow
of the traffic. In Mansfield, a few DAYS
ago, Mrs. Snedeker sought relief through
this statute. She had notified John Mad.
den, owner of a saloon, not to sell liquor
or permit it to be sold to her husband.
The warning was d~isregarded. Snedekcr
got drunk, and was injured on the railroad
track. Mrs. Snedeker sued for $500 dam.
ages, and the jury promptly gave her S275.
The case is regarded as a precedent of no
little Importance to property-owners.
Incidents and Accidents.
-" Pooling with a horse-pistol was
the verdict of a c%oroner's jury in Utica.
"A Bay City, Mich, butcher had the