Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-06
General News Items.

Titusville, Pa, makes sausagcs by
steam.
Hailstones recently fell to the depth
Of ten inches ut AuOka, MINI.
Black walnut breakfast cruets are
the latest table ware in London.
Six watcr-spouts lately danced as
minute for half an hour on Lake
Eric.
Seals are called "ocean hounds" )"
from the way they chase the salmon.
French opera, after run of fifty
wears, has been abandoned III New
Orleans.
There is to be an extensive "hegira''
of New York young ladies to the
South this winter.
Five gambling places in Germany
have closed for good, with S325, ,0OC
profits for this year.
Of Chicago's $1,000 school popula,
ton only $4,000 are enrolled.
Bcar-killing is lively around Fort
Smith.
Mr.. Townsend. lately shot in the
duel ut Atlanta,is improving.
Gardening around Paris Is danger.
Gus, OH account OF uncxpludcd bombs
in the earth.
| Seven. of Chicago's aldermen have
been indicted for corruption during
the past year.
| A silk manufacturer at Lyons has
lately sent out a pattern card in which
there are 1913 shades.
Mrs. johanna Sims of Bryan
county, Ga, recently died in two
hours from the bite of q rattlcsnakc
Large quantities of oak slaves ar,
shipped from Owcnsboro Ky., I,
Europe, chiefly France, where the,
will be made into wine and brand,
casks.
Samuel Denny Of Salem, Indiana
has q trowcl that was once the prop
erty of Daniel Boone. 1t is roughly
made tool. and was used by DAME
Boon i'll building the chimney Of tn
first log-cabin ever erected in Ken
lucky.
An engineer named Lampkin killet
another named Jones OIL the Mobil
aud Ohio road the other day, and
after doing SO, detached his engin
aud attempted to escape. lie wa
overtaken and captured.
John Mcclure, Fort Smith sher
id, having charged Il Liberal mcctin;
at Greenwood with an armed squa,
and driven the speakers out of tn
town, has commended himself to tn
powers that be. Governor Hand
ley Immediately pounced Oh him an,
made him registrar OF the county. l
is not every day that such fool Cal
be found.
The Qwensboro. (Ky.) Monito
! publishes this singular fact, whic
accounts for the existence ofblind fis
) in Mammoth cave and other place
destitute of light: "Mr. Josep
: Slaughter, of this city, placed thrc
. perch fish in the Jail we'll two year
: ago. On cleaning out the well o
: Monday, he recovered one ofthen
but singular to say stone blind, all
: its dark natural color bleached to n
: most transparency. Otherwise til
AbptiSohCo hS44 w 40 dS Iuis Vi
c US when first consigned to its dar
a and damp abode"
Professor Agassiz has been electe
: one of the eight associate members
|. the French Academy Of Science, {
fill the vacancy caused by the deaf
!, Of Sir Roderick Murchison.
s A statement is going the rounds {
y the press to the effect that Hon. Hel
u ry a. Wise of Virginia has never bee
interviewed by newspaper man ,an
v that he never intends to be. That
d u mistake. While Mr.. Wise was goy
erpor of Virginia he was intcrviewe
half an hour by Daniel Pratt, Jr., th
,s| Great American Traveller, who WI
= at the time editor Of the Gridiro,
= The result Of the interview was III,
n Wise called Pratt fool.-(Bosto
= Herald.