The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-11-08
CHIPS. and THINGS.

| YfOple who Ike so much 10 tnlK thelr nina
should sometimes mind their talk.
A California dairy contains 1900 cows, the
milk OF wblch Is churncd in butter by steam.
Fogty, Of the rcbclllous Indians in Honduras
have ,kjllcd by the British troops.
Pcopsl| - are always wishing for something
new .hould try neuralgia once.
George Jenkins, the negro wife murderer, was
executed at Washington last Friday.
A sleeping car was burnt on the Memphis and
Charleston Road one night last week.
Extending your front shop into the ncwSpn-
per- Is the latest definition for advertising
Snggle, says that the most thrilling tale he
ever listened to was that of II rattcsnnkc.
Much of Wisconsin Is brilliant with prairie
&st..
Dubuque, Iowa. pays ilrty.fvc thousand dol
lars year for school teachers.
Thaycr county, Nebraska, has discovered that
it, farms lie on beds Of coal.
II Is cstimatcd that 800 buil,lOrs have been
killed In Kansas in the last month.
Three hundred bushels o. onions were raised
In Prnoh,cot, Mnine. upon half mn acre of lamb
OF the three hundred mining claims IN Cali
lornin only two ARE ut present paying stockholl-
crS u cent.
| The Baldwin Works Of Philadelphia, have
made itty-two locomotives for the Northern Pa.
ciiic Railroad.
According to II law recently passed by the
Portuguese Cortes, gambler, are permanently
di,frnnrhi.cd.
| 4 4 l. =
York, the other day with 10000 bu>hc, Of bar.
| ley.
New York has 1880 street lamps. notwth.
standing which. for ways til 1t are dark she is
ahead Of any other American city.
| a prosperous mrrchtnt has for his motto
"Early to bed, and early to rise, never get tight.
but advertise"
| The new hundred dollar grccnhack will soon
be in circulation. 1t will have u hearty wei
come irrrsp tive Of party
A .orm Of forty acres near Ocean Grove, New
jersey, has been sold for ninety thousand dol.
| lars.
The south side Of the Arkansas river i re-
0Ortrd lined for 40 miles with vast herds Of
elk. buffalo, wild horses and deer.
| The itrmzrr Of the Chicago Times mentions
an Indiana farmer who has raised II pumpkin
weighing 100 pounds.
The Michigan Central Railway Company ear
rird more than l,310,OO0 passengers last year.
and killed nobody.
Law is like N sieve; you may see through it,
but you must be considerably reduced before
you can get through it.
Base bali iSa greater antiquity than /, sup
posed. 1t was played in the Ark when the dove
twas put out On II n.y."
| The Court-llousc floor IN the county of ork
fell through, and several persons were killed
and forty wounded.
| Tue municipal elections thro lghoUt England
yesterday, resulted in heavy Conservative
gains.
| Forty acres Of corn were burnt by one loco
motive spark in Srdgwlrk county, Kansas, one
dry last week.
| The policemen of Jackson, Michigan. are for
hidden to smoke, drink. or sit on dry goods
boxes.
| Mr.. Stewards life was insured for the snug
sum of four hundred dollars, owing to which
several companies are among the chief moUrn-
cr>
A man At indianapolis stirred up the tiger ut
the mcnagr:ir with his cane. and came near be
ing hauled into the cage through space four
inches wide.
Gen. john b. Gordon. an able. true and gal
liant nin. is urged very strongly for United
state Srnator 'ya number of the most iniu-
ntinl II 'w>prp,r. in Georgia.
Gem Walker, superintendent of the Census,
recommends in his report to Congress thpt emu
m'ration> be- made every five. instead OF ten