The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-10-15
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Rskillfnl feneer.
Tnr Cape May hotel-keepers are
charging guests with puppies $40 per
week extra.
PooKErN ErNHANDKERCuIET dresses are
common in England. They are garments
70 weep over.
AN old thermometer is never very
popular Nobody wants to see 4 thcr.
mometer over 70.
The fellow who picked up the hot
penny originated the rcmark, "All that
glitters is not cold"
ELIAS Polk, the coIored carriage
driver of President Polk, still lives az
Nashville, aged Is years.
THE sale Of Edwin Arnold's "Iight Of
Asia hns been twentyfold greater III
America than in England.
LITTLE boy; mn, when yon 70 y
heaven shall you lei this house ~
When 90 70 heaven shall not think
about such things as that. Boy: But
when everybody Is dead what will he
come Of al the world?o Ma "Tho
world will be destroyed. Boy "And
all the houses, too?" Ma; Yes.
Boy 20 what an awful waste
THREr little girls had great FUN III i
neighhor's house at South Bend, Ind,
during the absence Of tho family They
first broke all tic window pancs. Then
they poured several gallons Of milk on
the parlor carpet. Finally, they cmpt-
led six dozen cans Of raspberries and
lluckleberies into 4 tub, and dyed all
the fine dresses they could find in the
juice
HERBERT SPENCER defines life to be
the definite combination Of heterogen-
eous changes, both simultaneous and
successive, IN correspondence with ex-
ternalcocXistence and sequences g. II.
Lewes aa IN series Of definite and sue
cessive changes, both Of structure and
composition, which take place within m
individual without destroying lis iden-
tity.
IHE railroad monopolies don't have il
III their own way, after all A lady in
Chicago suod the Central Paeifc for $40
damages for allowing 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 out
that ii was Japanese dog and never
Ind any hair.
The London EcoRoa,ist says hum
dreds Of thousands 81 sheep, ii not mill
ions, have died Of plague IN England,
and the Russian, Turkish, English, and
Atghanistan wars, as well as those of
Turkey, Syria, Persia, and the Trilan
country, have caused tens 81 millions Of
sheep 10 hc killed. III fact, wool-groN.
ing in Turkey, Russia, Persia, and India
has been almost given up On account oi
the wars and the low prices current for
the past five years.
WHmE trout-fshing in Holden, Mass,
G. g. Parker saw woodchuck and fox
running toward the buIrow Of the for
mer The fox reached the entrance
first, and, turning, faeed the woodchucb.
The latter turned to run away, when the
fox seized him by the throat, and life
and-death struggle ensued, the fox being
constantly on the aggressive, and in
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. RcvieW. While bath
ing in Bear creek, Lembert Briott,
stone-cutter, was bitten by water-moc-
casin. After being thus wounded he
made dive for the shore, striking the
snake from him, but lad Acarcelyreached
the bank when he discovered that the
snake was pursuing him. He made
good his escape, but upon reaching his
camp he discovered that he was bitten
on the finger, and, taking coal Of fire,
burnt the flesh Of his finger to the bone,
thus destroying the poison Of the bite.
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