Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-02-26
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The Office Of the London Times is
valued at $25, 900, 900. z wFar 71 mw WHY
AL hut six members Of the Utah leg
islature are polygamists-
4 There are ii 900 900 young whitefsh
4 in the Detroit hatchery. sgad ei So
Ten miles from Bristol, Tennessee, a
valuable zinc niue has been opened. -
Thirty-fye million pounds of tobacco
were made last season in North Caro-
4 lima He6f El GfH en san~ 1saara anun
Mules kick fifty thousand dollars out
of Greene county, Alabama, every
I year. 1Af4 R&e a& 49M
After all an ordinary saw horse pays sf
better than the average strotter. = w
KonkerS Gazette. s @
Many a poor fellow gets the s'sack'' szs
| from his girl because he doesn't get the -
sacque.- Waterloo Observer.
A man is known by the company he
keeps. and a young lady is in the same ss
predieament.-Ne York Express. - ~
Cents have begun to appear in San
Francisco. Hitherto fve-eent pieces a
have been the least coin received. ~ -.smu
Although British savings banks pay
high interest, each year proves that the Nat
public prefer the three per cent. Of the
4 government. E4 B ,IE04 EHN
/ A movement is gaining some strength ..-
in vari 1us parts of the country to intro
duce hilarity in our public schools a1a
Givea caricaturing pupil a piece of chalk es
land chance at the blackboard when
the teachers back is turned and you Z
have q striking illustration of what ~
hilarity in school is.-NelO Haceys Reg
syer. &I
An Illinois schoolmistress was una
BILE to chastise the biggest girl pwpil, v,
and called in young school trustee to
assist her. The trustee found that the "a
offender was his own sweetheart, but ~
his sense of duty triumphed over his
love, and he whipped the girl. Not @
only did this result in losing. him a.
sweetheart, but her father sued him !or
damages, and got a verdict for $50 4
An oddly-eOnstructed will has been tT
Eadmitted to probate in Boston. 1t was
\ dateG at the -op of the sheet, and was
| signed by the testator and three wit
| nesses. The names of the legatees were a8s
placed in a column on the left hand side.
| and the amounts of their respective Leg
| acies opposite their names in a column =
on the right. 1t contained no attesting
clause or any words whatever beyond 2
4 this. rf
The Honesdale (Pa.) Herald tells of
Il Pocono mountain hunter who shot at
i bear and missed him. and was treed W
BY brl1in The enraged animal followed n,
n up the tree. in anticipation Of living
u high on human steak, took off the
hunters boet, and was about laying out
a curve on his unprotected ankle, when
the hunter bethought himself of lump e
! of salt in his pocket, which he took ont
\ and crumbled into the bears eyes. It
had the desired effect The bear went
roaring and groaning down the tree and as
shutfied away.
-l@ A singular monument is to be seen at
Simston, Ca 1t is aplain hewn grantee
shaft, without inscription, with several
4 pieces Of an old cannon laid on top. II
was erected to the memory of Mr.. Hop
/ kins Hubbard, who died and was buried
in New Orleans, and is on the spOtE
where he lost an arm in firing a Fourth
of July salute from an old cannon that
did service in the war of 1912. The gun
burst, and the pieces now on the monu-
ment are the ones that carried away his
limb. The shaft is about four feet high. a.
and strange to say the fragments loosely
placed on it by The hand of sister have
never been disturbed zni-TaaT