Richland beacon., 1880-10-23
NUMBER 43.
CTRRENT ITEMS.

THE Empress Of Austria is said to be
9 skillful fcnrcr.
The Cape May hotel-hcepers are
charging guests with puppies $lo per
week extra.
PockEr- dresses are
common in England. They are garments
10 weep over.
An old thermometer Is never very
popular. Nobody wants To see ther-
mometer over 20.
THE fellow who picked up the hot
penny originated the remark, All that
clittcrs is not cold.
ELIAS Polk, the colored carnage
driver of President Polk, still lives at
Nashville, aged 75 years.
The sale of Edwin Arnoll's "LiSht of
Asia" has been twentyfold greater in
America than in England.
LITTLE boy: "Ma, when you 60 to
heaven shall you let this house?'
when l go to heaven shall not think
about such things as that" Boy: But
when everybody is dead what will be-
come of all the world?" Ma: "The
world will he destroyed" Boy: "And
all the houses. too?" Ma: eyes.
Boy 80! what an awful waste y
THREE little girls had great fun in
neichl,or's house at South Bend, Ind,
during the absence of the family. They
/ first broke all the window panes. Then
they poured several gallons of milk on
the parlor carpet. Finally, they empt-
led six dozen cans of raspberries and
! hlckleberrics into tub, and dyed all
! the fine dresses they could find in the
juice.
HERnERr SPENCER defines life to he
"the definite combination OF hctcrogen-
co,ls changes, both simultaneous and
successive, in correspondence with ex-
,ternalcocxistence and sequences Il. II.
Lcwos as "a series of definite and sue
ccssiye changes, both Of structure and
composition. which take place within an
individual without destroying its iden-
tity."
THE railroad monopolies don't have IT
all their own way, after all. A lady III
Chicago sued the Central Pacific for s75
damages for allowing a locomotive to
scald all the hair off valuable dog ex-
pressed her from San Francisco. She
obtained Judgment and collected the
money before the company found ont
that it was q japanese dog and never
had any hair.
THE London Econon'i@t says hun
dretls of thousands of sheep, if not mill
ions, have died of plague in England,
and the Russian, Turkish, English, and
Afchanistan wars. as well rs those of
Turkey, Syria, Persia, and tho Tridan
country, have caused tens OF millions of
sheep to he killed. In fact, wool-grow-
ing i'll Turkey, Russia, Persia, and India
has been almost given up on account Of
the wars and the low prices current for
the past five years.
WHILE trout-fishing in Holden, Mass.
C.. G. Parker sew wOodchuck and a fox
running toward the burrOw Of the for
mer. The fox reached the entrance
first, and, turning, faced the wOOdchuck.
The latter turned to run away. when the
fox seized him by the throat, and life
snd-death struggle ensued, the fox being
, constantly on the aggressive, and III
about five minutes he had the wOOdchuck
hors de combat. He then took the car
cass by the nape of the neck and trotted
off into the woods.
AUSTIN (Tex.) Rcriew While bath
h ing in Bear creek, Lcmbert BriOtt, 9
s stone-cutter, was bitten 10y water-mOc
4 casin. After being thus wounded h'
{ made a dive for the shore, striking tin
4 snake from him, but had scarcely reached
!. the bank when he discovered that tn
0 snake was pursuing him. He mad'
l. good his escape, but upon reaching In
G camp he discovered that he was bittel
g on the finger, and, taking coal OF fire
o burnt the flesh of his finger to the bone
}. thus destroying the poison of the bite.