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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Police Cases.

John DOebler, who was charged several
weeks ago with committing an assault and
battery on Mrs. Barbara Saylor, but who
avoided arrest, was taken into custody by
Offic.r COyle last evening and gave bail
for q hearing before Alderman McConomy
tomorrow evening.
Sarah Gumpf, for drunken and disor
derly conduct, was committed to prison
for five days by Alderman Samson.
Jonathan Appleton, aged II years, was
arrested for malicious mischief, on COM
plant of his mother, and committed to
Jail for 4 hearing before Alderman Samson
on Saturday next.
Jacob Hcrzog, aged II years, was ar
rested for assault and battery on a son of
VIM. X. Keller. lie was held to bail for
a hearing before Alderman Samson on
Saturday.
Prof. Aust, the musician. has entered
complaint against Herman Hirsh, charging
him with turning stream of water upon
him from pavewash. Mr.. IIirsh is held
for a hearing.
Cyrus Limebach was this morning CON-
mitted to Jail for five days by Alderman
Spurrier for drunken ana disorderly con
duct.
Henry McCloskey, for similar miscon-
duct was committed for 10 days.
William Butler and his wife, Nan, of
Middle street, both Of whom are we'll
known, have been arrested for keeping a
disorder.y house. Nan is also charged
with being drunk and disOrdcrly. They
gave bail for hearing before Alderman
Donnelly, of the Seventh ward.
Mary Croft has been held by Alderman
Barr to answer ut cou,t the charge of sure
ty of the peace, preferred by Mary Foehl
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Alotne.s. Motnsr,,. mothersu

Are you disturbed ut night and broken Of
your rest by sick child suffering and crying
with the excruciating pain OF cutting teeth
If So, go at once and get q bottle of MRS.
WiNSLOW's SOOTHING SYRUP. 1t will re-
licve the poor little sufferer immetliately-de-
pend upon 1t there Is no mistake about It.
There is not a mother on earth who has ever
used 1t, who Will not tell you NJ once that 1t
will regulate the bowels, and give rest to the
mother, and relief and health to the child.
operating like magic. 1t is perfectly safe to
use IN all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and
Is the prescription OF one OF the oldest and
best fcma' physician and nurses in the
United Suites. Sold everywhere; 25 cents a
EOttie. marIlydAwM,W&S
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Special NOTICES.
Suicide and dyspepsia.

most remarkable cure for dyspepsia
" Wells Health Renewer." The greatest tonic,
best bilious and Liver Remedy known. 81.
Druggists. Depot, John F. Long 4 Sons. Ian
caster.
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
rcvives the dropping spirits invigorates and
harmonizes the organic functions; gives clas-
ticity and firmncss to the step, restores the
natural lustre to the eye, and plants on the
pale check OF beauty the fresh roses of l1fe's
spring and early summer time.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Itching ftIos-SylnptOms aud Cure.
The symptoms are moisture, like pcrspira
ton. intense itching, increased by scratching,
very distressing. particularly at night, as II
pin worms were crawling in and about tho
rectum the private parts are sometimes at.
tected 1t allowed to continue very serious re-
suits may follow. DIR. Swayne's AL lIiealing
Ointment is a pleasant sure cure. Also for
letter. itch, salt rheuln, scald head, Erysipelas,
barbcr's itch, blOtches, all scaly, crusty, cuta-
neous cruptions Price 50 CENTS three boxes
for sl25. Sent by mail to any address Oh re-
ceipt OF price IN currency or three cent post
age stamps. Prepared only by DIR. Swayne u
Son. $50 North Sixth street. Philadelphia, PA.
Sold by all prominent druggists.
inne1:l- l-imlM " S&wt
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
STARTLING COINCIDENCE.
Grandcnild Dies at Its Grandmother =


Grandcnild Dies at Its Grandmother .
Funeral.
On Saturday afternoons a startling Incl
dent occurred at the residence of VIM.
Fisher, No. 24O West Vine street. His
wife died on Thursday, and her funeral
took place on Saturday. Just as the
funeral service at the house had ended, a
three-months-Oli child of Mr.. Fishers
daughter (Mrs. Joseph Weaver of
Quarryville, who was present to attend
the funeraD was seized with convulsions,
and in few minutes was a corpse. The
black badge of mourning, which had been
for two days upon Mr.. Fishers door in
token of the death Of his wife, was re-
moved, and replaced by white Grape, in
token of the death of his grandchild. The
child's funeral took place this afternoon.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
A Big Snapper.

VIM. S!.ober, of Slackwater, caught a
10 pound snapper at that place with the
hook and line. When Mr.. Shober drew
the turtle to the surface he could not land
it and was compelled to call J. McHenry,
the crack shot Of that place, to his as
sistance, who shot the snapper.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Colored Woods Meeting.

A colored camp meeting by the A. NJ.
E. church of Springfield was held in Det-
wiler's grove, near Mount Joy, yesterday.
The attendance was very large, the SER
vices Interesting and the order good. The
camp will continue through the week and
over next Sunday.
Brother Keels of this city will hold .
woods meeting at What Glen on next Sum
day and he expects q large crowd. do
subjeck of dc summer will 10 answered
later.''.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Schenaberger shot at another whose name
we have not learned. He missed the man
he shot at, but his bullet entered the leg
of Wayne Ulrich, inflicting painful, but
not dangerous wound. The bullet has not
yet been extracted, nor has Scbenaberger
been arrested.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

III lou Arc SICK, Ne1U
the Ki!ncy-Wort advertisement in another
column, and it will explain to you the rational
method OF getting well. Kidney-Wort will
save you more doctors bills than any other
medicine known. Acting with specific energy
on the kidneys anu liver. 1t cures the worst
diseases caused by their arrangement. Use it
Mt once In dry or liquid form. Either is equal
ly efficient, the liquid is the easiest but the
;iry IS the most ccOnomical.-I Interior
aul.lwl&W
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Nearly Drowned.

NJ. McHenry, Of Slackwater, while out
boating yesterday with his two children,
was caught in the storm. One of the
children fell overheard and was nearly
drowned. 1t was rescued with difficulty
and is I" all right now.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
"I Don't Want . Plas.er,"

said Il sick-man to Il druggist, can't You give
me something to cure me?" His symptoms
were lame back and disordered urine and
were sure indication of kidney disease. The
druggist told him to use Kidney, Wort and in
o short time it effected complete cure. Have
You these symptoms Then get box or bottle
tolay-before you become incurable. Itis the
cure; safe and sure-Rnorrile Republican.
auS-lWd&W
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

The careful, tidy housewife. when she is Civ.
ing her house its spring cleaning. should bear
i'll mind that the dear inmates of her house are
more precious than houses, and that their sys.
regulating the stomach and bowels TO prevent
and cure the diseases arising from spring ma
laria and masma, and she should know that
there Is nothing that will do it SO perfectly and
surely rs Hop Bitters, the purest and best of
all medicines. See other column.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Frank Bardal, North Bennett street. Buffalo,
says: IL have tried your Spring Blossom as
a family medicine and have never come across
anything to do SO much good In so short
time In cases OF indigestion, dyspepsia and de-
rangement of the stomach !; 1 strongly recon-
mend it." Price 50 cents. For sale at II. b.
Cochran's Drug Store ls7 North Queen street,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Observation-Disclosures 6.OOO head; ship
ments, 4.3lO head fair demand and steady |;
good to choice shipping s6 sOQ6 50; common to
fair packing dull and weaker ut $6 OO06 45;
light, u 20Gl6 ~; skfps and culls, - 5O96.
head market steady; good to choice shipping,
$5 1895 20 common to fair dull and weaker ut
81 5OQ5 %; butchers steers. $3 1894 25; cows,
81 2jST3 IS bulls and mixed, y sO43 50; stock
ers' and feeders, s2 65l3 10 Texans, $303 IS.
Sheep-ReceiptS, 200 head market steady,
with u fair demand; common to medium, s.
N4: good fat. 81 HOI4 Is.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
l52 NORTH QUEEN STREET,
lJELLMUTH LADIES' COLLEGE.


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Is the % Re IN 5 E % aSs sa % ass af
O ibr end andM
ssS9 A.Gn HISS % the P9 @g % soc %
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Meeting of Firenen.

This evening the American fire company
viii! hold meeting for the purpose Of
taking action in regard to reorganization.
The committee is expected to report.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
baseball Officers

The Friendship baseball club met in
their hall Saturday evening, and organized
by electing the following officers and
players:
President-TheO Wenditz.
Vice President-James Fellenbaum.
Treasurer-John King.
Secretary-Samuel B. Levar.
Captain-George M. Myers.
John King c., James Cosgrove D.. James
Burns 1st b., Chas. Currie 2d b, William
Chapman Sd b., George Myers S. S.. John
Davis l. f., Chas. Shay c. f., John Hook r.
f., Samuel Leyan, John Cogley, subs.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Go to IL. Il. COchrln's Drug store, 137 North
Queen street, for Mrs. Freeman's Netp Nd-
tiOnai Dyes. For brightness and durability nt
color, are uncI Iualed. Color from > to pounds.
Directions in English and German. Price Is
cents.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
R,npeold Rand Ex.cursion


to Atlantic City on Saturday, August 13.
Round trip tickets good for three days, s..
Petersburg, Mannheim, Bruckharts, Landis-
vile, Lititz and Ephrata, $2.75. Train leaves
Lancaster (king street) at 4:lO a. m.; Columbia.
4:l0; Mannheim, l45; Lititz. 4:55, See circulars
and bills. jy23, Onug2G,S,ll ,ll&2tw
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Caught In the Betting.

Geo. Rittenhouse, residing on Low
street, was caught in tho betting this
morning at the Penn iron works and badly
squeezed. He was taken to his home and
medical aid summoned
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
MARRIAGES..

WILLIAMs-MULLEN.-Au Z. 1851, by Rev.
F.. l.. Reed, Albert X. Williams to Rebccca s.
Mullen, all OF Lancaster, Pa.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

st. Michael's beneficial society is hold
ing picnic at What Glen to day. The at
tendance is very large and all buses run
ming to the grounds arc loaded down with
passengers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Delicate females find Malt Bitters nourish-
ing, strengthening anu purifying.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
An Excurs,on to this City.

The York MnnnechOr will run excursions
to this city on Monday and Tuesday, Au-
gust 22 and 23, to attend the ''SchOwben
Fest" ut What Glen park.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

3. natural beautifier and restorer Of the CON-
Cuticura Medicinal Soap.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Cattle Market.

PHILADELPHIA. August Seattle market
unsettled sales. $50 prime, Gs4@GAc; good,
5a064c; medium, 4ss@34c; common. lsS@
SIC; culls, 3H@i1ac.
Sheep market dull sales lOOO; prime.
SO JN; good, 511s.5M medium, 411@5; CON-
mon, 4N@Es;, culls. S0ic; stock ewes.
$2OOOc IS Lambs, Sake.
HOgs-Markct dull; selling ut s1z@9Zc;
sales 5000.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
Excursion Register.

ENCUfBlOH IN0SIbters
Il. OF U. to Reading, Tuesday, Aug ..
Saturday, Aug. IL. Ringgold Band Excursion
to Atlantic City via. Rea ting road, 81. Three
days.
Thursday, Aug. ls. Clark h Schmidrs ex-
cursion to Atlantic City. Two days. s.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
The Street Committed

The Street Committee.
The street committee of councils went
out to take a look ut the streets this after
nOcn.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

New York, Philadelphia and Local Stocks
also United States Bonds reported daily by
JACOB b. Lone, N. E. Cor. Centre Square.
NEW YORK STOCKs.
Stocks lower.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
New NGrR a Afkel.

New IORK. Aug. 7.-ElOur-State anO
Western rather more steady: moderate ex-
port AMI home trade demand Supernne state
ut - O0Q4 IS extra do "a 7545 10; chOics
do s. 1jG15 p: fancy do s W616 70: round hoop
Ohio S5 COOS %: choice do Is 3506 IS superilne
western - O014 -: common u, xOOsi OK.
ira =" 81 75G525; choice dO u 30l96 IS: chOice
white wheat 10. ut 35 354S6 - Southern
firm; common to fair extra 6 Il
at y !: good to choice do 81 :,OV7 80.
Wheat somewhat excited l1a@21sc higher;
II fair rs speculative M trading No. Red, August,
dO tGtOber, 81 Ss1a&ll 3i3s.
Corn h@l4c better and moderately uctive;
mixed western spot, 5o05y.:c 'io future,
5914@65c.
Oats firm and qniet state, i5ss5Oc; West
ern. All50c
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS,

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
y ceived ut No. g East King street, by j. L.
HOftmefer, President of Board Of Inspectors.
up to August 81. at p. M. TOR furnishing $50
tons OF Furnace and 50 tons of Range Coal
delivered at the Lancaster County Prison.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD.
AMOS KUTrER, Sec'y. aug33teOd
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08

Ono O'Clock quotations. of grain and prOvls-
ions, furnished by s. X. Yundt, Broker, l5x
East King street.
(HICA0O AuQ 4
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
LARKETA.
Philadelpnio Market.

PHIkADDLPHIA, Aug. a. Flour strong, tend
ing upwards Supernne, ., 2303 IS; e1-
trA - Goa 50 Ohio & Indiana family, At
6 OO66 50; Pennsylvania family Is 80
5N; 81. Louis do Is 0006 50: Minnesota
Extra 8 7306 Is: do straight, . S70e 81: win
ter patent . .so7 g: spring do u oo07 Is.
Eye hour at - 5O05 O.
Red u 70 Del. and Penn'a Red 81 Sol .;
Amber q asH0la9k
Corn firmer. fair local demand steamer 81 !;
sail yellow 60Qslc; sail mixed, eo00kc;
Oats quiet but firm; No. White Aic (; No.
z do 4sxQEsc: No. 3, do A0llHc; No. 3
Mixed. A69AOkc.
Rye at sc.
Provisions firm mess pork sls0ls 90:
Deef hams, III 5O03; India mess beet
Bacon-smoked shoulders sas,<c salt do
ss9c SMOKED ham+ l21l0lsSc; picked
Lard market anu prices firm: citv kettle
I'll s71a9l2 90 loose butchers at Sll0ll sc;
prime steam $ll IS.
Butter in good general demand and hrm
Creamery extra at ?l096c do good to choics,
I0Elc: Bradford county and New York
extra. 2s023c firsts. l90.lc.
Rolls steady; Pennsylvania l50l6c Western.
Eggs steady for fresh; Penna lie; Western
l50l6c.
Cheese quiet, best grades steady; New
SIC; do fair to xOOi, SA69Ac.
Petroleum dull Refined &c
Whisky duh ut 81 II.
. Seeds.GoOd to prime Clover dull mt 50
Sac; Timothy steady ut OO03 10; do FLAX
sat Il steady ut 81 ..
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-15

There are extinct suns. The fact
that there are such lends new weight to
the reasons which permit us to conclude
that our sun also is body which slowly
gives out its store of heat, and thus will
sometime become extinct. The term of
1000, 900 years which have given
may, perhaps, become considerably pro-
longed by the gradual abatement of
radiation, by the new accretion of fall
ing meteors, and by still greater con-
densation than that which / have assum-
ed in the calculation. But we know of
no natural process which could spare
our sun the fate which has manifestly
fallen on other suns. This is thought
which we only reluctantly admit. 1t
seems to us an insult to the benefcent
creative power which we otherwise find
at work in organism, and especially Ill
living ones. But we must reconcile
ourselves to the thought that, however
we may consider ourselves to be the
center and final object of creation, we
are but as dust on the earth, which
again, is but specie of dust in the i'm
mensity of space; and the previons du-
ration of ourrace, even if we follow it
far beyond our written history, into the
era of the lake dwellings or the mann
moth, it is but an instance compared
with the primeval times of our planet,
when beings existed upon it, whose un-
earthly remains still gaze at us from
their ancient tombs; and far more does
the duration of our race sink into in
significance, compared with the enor-
nous periods during which the worlds
have been in process of formation, and
will still continue to form when our sun
is extinguished, and our earth is either
solidified in cold or is united with the
ignited central body of Of our SYSTEM
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-15
W-~~-~--
Buying A Big Herd OF Cattle.

Tim Foley. the Leadville millionaire,
who used to live here, was considerable
of humorist in his way. He don't lay
any great claim to hilarity in literary
way, bnt he can tell you things that
have occurred to him personally that
would make you roll over in the tall
grass and howl with mirth.
Some years ago Tim had q bunch of
cattle up north, and learning that Frew-
en- Brothers had more money than they
wanted, he decided TO sell to them. The
Frewen Brothers were just over from
England at that time and hadn't learned
the wild, peculiar ways of these uncouth
people of the West. They came TO
Wyoming as civilizers, so to speak,
bringing with them the air OF refine
ment and culture from their foreign
home. 1t looked odd to the old timer
here in the mountains to see a pair of
bloooded cusses, with hollow, aesthetic
chests, and pants that were too short
Nothing could seem more queer than
two noble sons of Albion, with eye
glasses and dyspepsia, starting q cattle
ranch on the frontier, and the boys had
good deal of fun over it.
= Foley found out that the Frewem had
about n, 900 on hand that they wanted
to squander ON bulls, 80 he tackled them
and told them that he had about enough
to make the sum an even thing for his
herd. The Frewens were taken out to
the base of big hill and stationed where
the herd could be driven by them while
they tailed them. Foley fixed it so that
herd of hundred or SO, by iudicious-
ly revolving it around that hill, counted
up high enough to make 81 900 worth
of cattle, and then he told the herders
to drive them over the range behind the
hill.
This goes to show that by using a
500-foot hill judiciously it can be worked
in at q good price. Foley no doubt
worked that hill in at about $2,0 900 and
il didn't cost him cent either. iii we
could work off range of sand hills at
that rate, and get cash for them, we
would cease to write abstruse editorials
and make some money in this new and
attractive style for two or three sum
mers, and then go to Europe and visit
the crowned heads.
There are people who do not believe
the above story, and, in fact, we don't
believe it either, but we give it for what
it is worth.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-15

OF the $4,000 pilgrims returning from
Mecca, 800 were taken on board the
Calypso. They were slowed away like
cattle. Their habits, too were cattle
like. They covered every square inch
of deck, and every part of the hold fore
and aft. They were packed like sar-
dines-men, women and babies-smell-
ing of cocoanut oil" They were indeed
"a heaving mass of cocoanut oil, rags,
filth and putrid sores and misery" Ex-
cept to cook their messes, or to fetch
water, or to kneel in prayer, each never
moved out of the small space taken
possession of at the beginning of the
voyage. "Gaudy jackets and wraps were
on the strong and rich ones. The poor
were barely covered; they were skin and
bone AMI half-naked, with a rag round
the loins at most. They had each with
them cooking pot, some opium, a
handful of grain and q pot to drink out
of. During the fifteen days of the
voyage twenty three pilgrims died.
They died not of disease, but of priva-
ton, fatigue, hunger, thirst and opium
of vermin and misery" The dead
soon found place of repose at the bot
tom of the sea. The body had attached
to it piece of money, so that the next
world might be reached in not alto
gether destitute condition.
Mrs. Burton tells how much mute,
patient pain she was witness of among
the pilgrim, cargo. She often ''spent
the whole day, from light to dark,
staggering about the rolling ship, with
sherbet and food and medicine, treating
dysentery, fever, and diarrhea. She
found that the pilgrims died with mar
velous facility. ga few hours of colo
kill off half dozen like flies; they eat
rice, they beg a few Jumps of sugar, the.
lie down, and they give up tin
ghost" This tallies with the expert
J ence of medical man who used to &C
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-15
A Queer Maori Marriage.

A good clergyman, who was working
among the native population of New Zea-
land was anxious TO establish the sanctity
of marriage among them. Among others
who were candidates for the rlte was much
married aboriginal named Ngataparapara.
On arriving at the clause of the formula
where candidates for matrimony are d.
rected to join hands strange scene occur
red. No sooner had the direction been
given than whole bevy of inamoratas
sprang forward, two or three hanging on
by the hands and arms of the would-be
Benedict, with an equal number clinging
to his legs He was completely besieged,
pinned hand and foot, and confusion was
made worse confonnded by hugging and
tugging, by which the unfortunate fellow
was in imminent danger Of dismember-
ment. Seeing the turn things had taken
the priest naturally enough paused and
looked on in dismay. 500 on" cried the
hapless bridegroom, ''or can't you see for
yourself these abominable wretches will
have me dragged limb from imb" Still
the reverend gentleman hesitated, seeming
ly at q loss what to do under the circum-
stances. eff you don't get along" cried
the man, "and bring this thing to a finish,
there'll be another dozen Of them here IN
less than no time, and when they find |
haven't got topper left to hang on by
they'll drag off the last shred of blanketing
/ bave over me-" The situation was now
perplexing in the extreme, and there was
nothing for it but to hurry over the service
ard bring the comedy to an end. The
sequel TO the story is worth adding. In
course of time this much-married man
died, as did the seven-times married wo-
man of the gospels. The question then
arose as to who was his lawfully married
wife. Some five-and-twenty claimants
appeared before the judge of the native
law court, and the question to be deter
mined was had the woman who got hold
of the deceased's hand precedence over her
who merely tugged at his legs. As there
was considerable property left behind
counsel were employed by the respective
claimants, and it is said tina their learned
,lisputations on the respective Importance
of arms and legs left the unfortunate judge
in the dilemma of the man without q leg
TO stand upon.