Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-05-28
News Notes.
Rlpc cI.errie. IN Califoruia.

Street cars gre not considered re-
! spectacle In Vienna. :
A. Omaha has become the gambling
J headquarters Of the West. ~.
. Cincinnati 10 raising money for the
family Of Captain: Hall. /
Twenty men arc to be hanged IN
Georgia within two months~ =
The coal fields OF China cover IN
area Of 400, 600 square miles.
! The Navy Yard at Philadelphia 10
being removed to League Island. :
| French druggists put nutidote
labels Oh packages containing poison.
! A La Crosse man committed
suicide because his wife's hair was
red.
California has wheat field OF ss,-
900 acres. :. "a }
Duluth, the "zeni,h City,n is still
frozen up. :,
Baltimore's $4,000, 900 tunnel will
soon be completed.
| The question of the day IN the
iSouthis "Who burnt Columbia l''
! "A hint 10 takers at the table
Sare your breath to blow your soup.
| WEATHER MEM.--ltats and mice
don't like it much when it rains cats
and dogs.
California introduces sardines into
her streams, in the hope of raising
whales.
MATRIMONIAL.-It is no good
nowadays for q man to offer lis
hand, if there's nothing in it.
Spectators are holding on to largo
crops of cotton in the South. Hence
The scarcity of money. ...
They are getting up grand ex-
cursion TO Polynesia ut San Frahcis-
Co. ~'' &
London IS preparing for a visit
from tho King and Queen Of Dem
uark.
Nebraska is to have colony of
several thousand jews from Rou-
mania.
A man in Chicago announces hims
self is the Methodist candidate for
constable"
Tho liibcrnian citizens Of several
Western towns demand that the
Irish language be taught in the pub
lie schools.
The public men of England set o
good example 10 the people in
uniform attendance on Sunday wOr-
ship.
The proposed Canadian Pacific
Railroad through uninhabited. re-
gions is not u success on tie London
market.
1t is stated that during the past four
wears the Spanish forces in Cuba have
put to death $4,000 Cunan prisoners
Of war.
A GAINESVILLE, Iowa, juror got
drunk, fell out Of the panel. and was
fined $50 tOr contempt of court.
Grea. Britais has its Modoc war.
An army of $1,000 Asbantces are
marching against British Guinea.
The Loni lana embroglio is consid-
cred i'll Europe more complicated
than the Observation-Disclosures question.
The Bender family, of Kansas,
ought to have kept q hotel near the
Lava Beds. The Modocs would have
been among the tribes that were.
A severe frost in the latter rart Of
April has destroyed nearly all the
buds in the French vineyards, and a
serious elimination in the grape yield
Is anticipated.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
zlys no more desperate and determine
ed fighting has ever been done by any
people in all history than has been
lone by this mere handful of Modocs.
A jilied swain spitecully says:-
Eve did not know ia much as her
daughters of the present day. Had
they been i'll her place, instead of be-.
ing deceived, they would have de-
;eivcd the devil"
"Molly," said a lady to her SER
,ant, 81 think you'll never set tho
liver OH fire." "lndadc, ma'am," in.
,ccently replied Molly, "I'd never
,e after doing anything SO Wicked
ID be burning up all the little
ishes."
Witty Aberdeen has a shopkeepcr,
Who recently took it into his head to
AVE q holiday, shut up shop, and
wrote OH the shuitcrs-''AIl flesh Ia
,rass, and grass is hay; We're here
o-morrow, but we're gone to-day
isliug."
Many persons use the phrase, "He
5 brick" without the least idea
hat it is supposed TO be of classic or.
gin. 1t is said that King Agcsilaus,
!sing asked by al Ambassador from
.pirus, why they had no walls for
sparta, replied, "We have" Psint.
ng to his marshallcd army, he said,
There are the walls Of sparta;
very man you see is a brick"
The following ancctlot9 is related
4 Whitfield, and,contains admoni-
ION against self-glorifcation lIc
ad just finished one of his sermons
sheh man came reeling up to him
nd said. "How do you do, Mr..
lie replied, 81 doa't
now you, SIR" "Don't know me.
Why, you converted me. SO manv
ears ago, in such q place." "t
houidn't wonder" replied MrN
Whitfield, 'yoR look like one OF
ny converts; for if the Lord had
onvcrtcd ycu, you would have boon
sober man." 49,
Mixed up Apologies.
IL Ssno