Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-10-23
Small Talk.

Mrs. Hyacinthc favors female suf
frage.
The streets of Boston arc swept by
q machine.
In 1888 George Washington weighed
209 pounds.
A Washington man has been ar.
rested for biting dog.
A Lake Superior man has written
his will OIL o very thin sheet of COP
per.
A Tennessee letter paints Andrew
johnson "a broad, Unconscious dem
agOgue."
The Erie Railroad is to become
narrower al a cost of $50, ONO, 900 or
2 5000, zoe.
stanloy's snuf-box, presented TO
him by Queen Victoria, carries sixty
diamonds.
A Stanton, Minnesota, woman
weighs $40 pounds, and her daughter
has three boy triplets.
The voting strength OF the New
York hayward has been increased
by 1900 new and loyal workmen.
The editor of the London Tclc.
graph has lowered himself in the
estimation of his professional breth-
rem by becoming a baronet.
o. f. Dalton, who served his
try through the war without rcceiy-
Ing n scratch. choked to death OH fried
beef at Evansville n few days ago.
The Cincinnati Enquirer's reporter
who attended the beastly gallows-
how i'll Columbus last week, thus
concludes his five-column letter.
"Don't send me to any more haug-
aBgs."
An inscriptions paragraplist ac-
counts for the fact that Peter was
cheerful while Paul was sad, BY
quoting Paui's assertion that .'Petcr's
Wife's mother lay sick of a fever"
a desperate gander-fight occurred
III Cairo the other day, and at the
close a noisy old goose that had
cheered the combatants OH escorted |
the victor to the flock to which she
belonged.
1t is in order for Mr.. William WAL
lace Harney, the Florida poet. to rise
aud inquire, "What is fame 2" His
remarkable little poem, "The. Stab"
is going the rounds, signed "William
Wallace Harvey"
Mrs. Boyce, %''daughtcr of the Judge
of the High Court of, Scotland" is
in Jail in Chicago charged with mur-
dering, by poison, Charles johnson.
She has fitted up her cell attractivcly,
and expects to have a hearing soon.
On Thursday q kcntuckian, at
Liberty, Mo-, but se~venty-three years
of age, led to the altar of Hymcn
Miss Eliza Routt, sister of Col. ii. l..
Routt. Seventy-one summers had
passed over the head of the bride ere
she became q wife.-[Leavenworth
Commercial.
Here is al extract we clipped out
Of one of the Introductory chapters
Of a thrilling tale in a New York
paper. 1t 10 good: .'She went to
the center table, where, amid albums,
ANNALS, and tho New York Sickly,
lay a copy Of the Holy Bible, and
taking UP the newspaper, began to
read. "1[Titusville Press.
The World publishes a sensation
story about the manufacture of dia-
monds, at n foundry in Brooklyn, by
q combination of various chemicals.
The author of the story saws fifteen
hundred pounds of diamonds have
been made, aud half Of them have
been sold for $ai,OOO,OOO. The story
has an Psychological appearance
tG.:ii. Gazette. !
A letter from Cincinnati to the
Boston Post says: "The fact can not
J." concealed Cincinnati is the Queen
C.:y no longer. She is only the Queen
Her youth aud freshness
have departed. Wisely she has re-
nounced the pomps aud vanities Of
the world; given. up the entertain
ment Of princes aud the gay delights
in which youthful creatures like
Chicago find food for their vigorous
if somew hat riotous blood, and has
settled down among the hills to q
useful and economical old age" |
Edmuud Yates, our English guest
who parts his hair in the middle and
lectures, will go home dissusted at
this biawsted country II he gets many
more suen notices o. this, which ap-
pears In q st. Louis Republican let
ter: "Mr. Yates had . lecture, with
q red on, which had been de-
liyered one hundred timesin London.
1t has a long drawn-out descriptionI
Of society people. Published Il would
be very milk and water stuy 70 read
elaborated by faint powers OF minie.
ry, IL was dull TO duIlness." |
There Is TO be o Cincinnati TX.
position" IN 1878. A Cincinnati ex.
position iss big show, IN which the
shopkeepers aud manufacturers re-
move Their stocks TO q barn, aud ii,-
wife ali the people Of the region round
about 10 come iu and pay for the
privilege Of looking at what they can
see for nothing at any other time.
The srrsnget1ent.w0rks 80 we'll that
the wonder is they don't run IL all the
time. They have q building that ac-
commodities sII ths business net Of
the .own, and by keeping IL open the
yssr through they eouid-saye rcnt on
separate stores,-fChiesgo Post.