Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-23
ALL SORTS.

pure cu5seUN"Ss
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
recently discharged five hundred en-
ployes. This is contraction.
The last surviving child of John
c. Calhoun, the South Carolins states
man, died recently in that state.
Fifteen thousand houses are to be
sold for taxes in Brooklyn, n. Y.
We are on the road to specie pay
ments.
Delmomico feels the hard times
along with the rest. He complains
that people don't eat and drink as
they used to do.
The man who declared that humor
was free in Detroit because there was
a pressing demand for it, deserves
the severest censure.
The Scientific American says hair
should never be put in mortar until
few days before the material is used,
as the lime will soon destroy it.
There are nearly one million more
women than men i'll Germany. But
the police system over there is 80
efficient that the men are compara-
lively safe.
Franklin used to urge business men
to advertise, but if the merchsn,
prefers playing checkers aud sitting
with his feet on the counter it's his
own business.
Now we miss the gay moskeeter
And his cheerful song n night;
The cruel frost did make him peter
Out, and weaken in the 6ght.
Gone to meet the Kansas grssshopper.
A handsome youth being question
ed by a rather stylish lady a. TO his
occupation, replied that he was can
adjuster Of movable alphRbets." He
was simply q printer.
The late cyclone which submerged
Galveston and destroyed 80 many
coast towns, returned partial COLI
sideration by dredging out a very
good channel to the Galveston bar
Dor. | -H tE4t
And now it is predicted that the
oyster crop will be unusually heavy
and good this year. Wise ones even
20 80 for rs to declare that the season
will be the best known for fifteen
years. .0-.
Maggie Brayton, of Pella, Iowa,
! while swinging with young ma"
last Sunday fell out and broke her
leg. A young man who caunot hold
girl in a swing ought to be kicked
to death by a mule.
A college professor, reprOving a
youth for the exercise Of his fists,
said: "We fight with our head.
here" The youth reflected, aud re,
piled that butting wasn't considered
! fair at his last school. ....5 . -.
Who ever heard of a congregation
able to pay salary Of $1,000 advcr-
tisc fora pastor without avail? W,
admit the imcrcdibility af the state.
nlei,t, yet it is true in the case ol
Litchticld, Connecticut.
When one is in the act Of tipping
his hat to a lady whom he suppose,
to be an acquaintance, it requires {:
good deal Of tact to make bellcv,
That he Is scratching his head when
he finds she is stranger.
An indianapolis paper announces
tho death Of = dog iu that city from
the fever aud ague. Now that ih.
fever and ague has got to be so low
do wn as TO prey upon hogs. it is ab0u
time for all decent white people t.
scorn to have anything to do with it
| An old sailor passing through /,
graveyard saw on one of the tomb
stones, 81 still live" 1t was too
much for Jack, aud shifting his quid
} he calculated. "Well, Pve heart ga,
that there are cases in which q MAJ
may lie, but if l was dead I'd ow,
it."
1t may be that the iucivility of tn,
Far West is justly reputad, but tb,
fact that at the last Saratoga race
the grand stand was made cOmfOrta
BILE by cushions taken from the bench
es of a church is more shockingl,
lrreverent than any western instanc,
we can recall. g
A DetrOiter was called on az a wit
ness III a case before one of the justi
ces lately, aud when the oath was AL
said: 81 shall spoke nodding wha
quick as a minute !" He was so earn
est and solemn that the lawyers lie
him alone.
Said q wife to her husband "HoW
is it that you can't come home night
in some sort of season 2" The gentl,
retort was: "You got me in tho wa,
, Of it. Before we were married Vol
used to throw your arms about III,
neck at 3 O'Clock, and say. Dom
, go darling, It's early yet,' but now i
happen 10 stay out till two il is
terrible affair.
When we look around and see tn
large number of able-bodied men " b,
spend their money and their time a
the beer saloons, while their wives
: are stitching at home, or go out wash
ing to keep themselves and children
from starving, we naturally wondc
why more young men don't get mar
. ried, and marvel more that so man,
, young ladies do.
She testified before the nagistrat,
that "dot pilly goats shoost was a,
l-vcl. | vas Washing py some cl0d
inSs Of pig tub. und dem cote
COON up behind und-vell. she go.
someding behind my pack .und shum,
over der tub und sthand me on lu'
head up nit dot tubs bottom up, umt
der clodings sphilt shoost like me
uud dem gOtes wink at me nit vol
eye und va. his tails Of mind face
nnd walk out py his behind legs lik'
HAL uuu l Cdu OIL Nlc tOWn COOt
any more already"
Judge Henry has rendered an i'm
poriant decision on tbs "Humesteat
LAW of Missouri" He decided tia,
tue transfer Of a homestead by n hus
band to his wife If followed by con
tiuucd possession, is NO forfeiture O
the homestead, even against creditors
lie also decided that n detached tim
her lot is exempt under the Home
stead Act, provided it is used i'll cou
nection with the homestead, aud tn.
aggregate amount Of land does mol
exceed 160 acres, and 81 800 in value
l-[Macon Examiner.
Much has been written against tn,
usc of tobacco. but there are very few
cases where it can be charged fairl,
with abridgin. life. Iu consequence
of its power of relieving nervous OK,
cilability, Of rendering the mucon!
membrane of the air passages les,
susceptible to the influence of cold
and damp, and the cause, whatever
it may be. of iuflucnzs, it must, W h e,
used i'll moderation, rather tend Il
promote longevity. l have known
very aged persons who have beet
smokers for the greater part of a ecu
tury.-tDr. Gardner.
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