The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-01-13

Bald heads never dye
Writ Of arUr- Slip Of the pen.
False issuesLCOmterfeit bank billa.
The lard manufacturers earn . fat
living.
Bobitailcd horses wear their hair
banged.
Gone to 'smash" The brandy it was
made of.
Marietta, Ga, has had shower Of
hot stoneA
1t lis the ilat who loves to have others
6atter him.
1t costs less to make friends than to
keep them.
The most precious canine Is the dia-
mond setter.
1t costs 80 q head to physic the
army Of the United States one year.
A Kentuckian was compelled by the
courts to pay 800 for kiss last
week.
And now they make cider of toma.
toes. Look not upon the tomato when
1t is red.
Mrs Lacey, Of Savannah. Georgia. is
cutting a new set Of teeth. She is 30
years old.
At Spartanburg, S. C., are living five
children of Poplar Smith. who fought
at COwpens.
There are eight men in Tompkins
county. New York. whose combined
ages amount to 7l9 years.
Prussia has 1.l95 millionaires, the
list including Bismarck and Krupp. the
great Essen manufacturer.
Penmen who delight in swinging the
big twisted capitals generally forget the
little commas and periods.
Mr.. A. J. Devoe, the Hackensacl,
weather man. says there will be much
rain and mild weather all winter.
The early bird has suspended its
wOrm-catching for the present, owing
TO the inclemency Of the weather.
About nine hundred soldiers in
Georgia have been supplied with arti-
fetal limbs. or their cash equivalent. ut
q cost of $69.S70.
Mayor Bigelow. Of New Haven.
Conn.,. the governOr-elect, was able to
lie at his Office last Wednesday. much
improved in health.
Miss Jennie Payne. a beautiful
young lady of Savannah. died in that
city from the effect of chloroform,
taken for tOothache.
"The bee that does the most buzzing
makes the least honey" says a new
philosopher, but the bee that does the
most buzzing is not a honey bee.
a Wilmotville. Ala. election be-. Civ
ing the winner the privilege of strik-
ing the other man a single blow on his
bare breast, killed the loser of the
wager.
An insignificant little barrel hoop
lying upon the sidewalk has been
known to yank a man right Of the
church and hurl him into the ranks Of
backsliders.
No newspaper man was ever presi-
dent of the United States, hut news
PAPER men have made presidents IF
several men who never would have got
ten there otherwise.
Lucy Stone says "Man's ears are full
of cotton and woman's bosom full Of
hope" Very likely; but all the cotton
does not find its way into mans ears, Is
Hope doubtless knows.
The Atlanta and Charlotte airline
railway has an agent i'm Switzerland,
c. A. Beidemann, who has already Sc
cured one hundred immigrants for
northern Georgia who will bring ut
least $4,000 into the state.
The sultan seems to have more dia-
monds than ducats. A cigarette that
he offered some one at supper being
declined, his majesty produced a snuff
box, set with superb diamonds, and
babe the person use that instead AMI
keep it.
Mrs. Schliemann helps her husband
in I'll his scientific labors, supeiintend-
ing excavations uncer his direction and
bravely disregarding sun and dust She
wears while engaged in this work u
plain, trim dress and jucket, and carries
stout umbrella.
Some of the Italian newspapers very
broadly hint that Garibaldi is an UNI
conscious prisoner. entirely IL the
hands of those who desire to use him
as mere instrument for the further
ance of their own selfish aims and
Wild ambition.
A Connecticut couple obtained
marriage certificate in Ledyard. and
went TO an adjoining town in the
evening to be married. As the rite
could not be performed there, the en-
tire party took lanters, and walked
through the woods across the boundary
line, where the knot was tied.
There Is q movement in India to
abolish the seelusiOn Of HindoO wOmen0
and have them brought into society
in the European fashion, but it is OPP
posed by the native papers on the
ground that the young HindoOs are
not moral enough to associate with UNI
married women Of their own race.
Mrs. E. B. Croker purchased block
Of land near the city cemetry in Sacra-
mentO, and has in course Of erection
a fine conservatory for tropical plants
and choice flowers. The expense will
be about $4,000, and. when completed
the poor will lie supplied with flower
to decorate graves without charge.
Mr.. Archibald Forbes. shortly before
coming to this country, visi ed the
battlefield of Se,..,n. aini found that
there was no evidence OF war to be
discernei. The deal had hcen taken
away. the graves ol!i!eEatcl. The
ONLY sign Of the '.i.ilr remaining WI
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