Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-08-19
IN GENERAL.

An Albany genius calls a new sus-
pendcr which has been patented "the
conscience suspender." 1t owes its name
20 It's extreme elasticity.
A house in Missouri took fire recent
" at night, and the first alarm came from
an old shotgun hanging on the wall. It
got red hot and blazed away, and the
family had time to save themselves.
wise as serpents. viii do for the
maxim; but they have killed a big black
snake out in Port Jervis, y. Y, which
was curled up in hens nest busily en-
gagged in digesting porcelain nest-egg
that it had swallowed nobody knows how
many days before.
The wife of the sheriff of Morris
County, H., is small, delicate, and hab-
itually screams at mice; but when a stall
wart prisoner escaped from his cell. and
ran through her room, with revolver in
his hand, she tripped him, threw herself
upon his prostrate body, and held him
down until her husband came.
The true way is TO let a horse drive
himself" says Rev W. II. H. Murray.
4 horse We were driving last week was
evidently Of the same opinion that Mr..
Murray Is. We were going to drive, but
the horse came into the carriage and got
on the seat.-Biddetord Miniature.
Three sons of the Siamese twins,
Chang and Eng, are now living in Sum
ner County, Kansas They recently APP
peared at the United States land office in
Wichita in a contest in which one of them
was a defendant and the other a witness.
They are spoken of as intelligent, wide
awake citizens, and fully up to the spirit
of the times.
One of the Russian Grand Dukes is
married to a German girl of humble
birth. Society" at Moscow snubbed
her. So the other day the Grand Duke
caused q hotel where many ladies of
society" were accustomed TO sup with
their admirers TO be surrounded by the
police The ladies were called upon to
give their names and their addresses, and
then their husbands were sent for to
identify them.
Weston waited until all the other
pedestrians had walked themselves hoarse,
so 10 speak, and then, after having got
himself such a reputation that men were
willing to bet ten TO one against him, he
proceeded 10 turn his ten years of prac-
tice into cash. \ very grave doubt had
existed for some years as to whether or
not Weston was a native of this country
but recently that doubt has been cleared
up. He is an American.-Peck's Sun.
The Rev Henry Ward Beecher stat
cd in a public lecture upon amusements,
recently delivered, that in his estimation
1.-THE game of games was billiards" In
der proper restrictions he heartily endorsed
il. and was himself the owner of two
tables, one at his house in Peekskill and
one at his home in Brooklyn; these were
purchased with the intention Of keeping
MS boys from the Objectionable surround
Ings Of public halls, and the result had
shown THAT a billiard table, with chap
lain attached, was not bad institution. y
The society Of which Anthony Com
stock is the head has succeeded, after five
years effort and the expenditure of $4,000
in travelling bills alone, in capturing one
of the most successful dealers in obscene
literature in the cOuntry-William F.
Babcock of Hoosac, y. Y, who used
such methods of conducting his nefarious
business as to render his apprehension
extremely difficult Babcock was widely
known and generally respected in Rens-
selaer County, nobody susPecting the ma
ture of the business in which he was
engaged.