Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-12-22
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and it required four men to extricate ii
The saw-tish now to be seen Mt ST
Augustine, Fla, weighs eight hundre,
pounds and is fourteen feet long.
A Virginia physician says he ha
never known an iabitual consumer o
tobacco to have the typhoid fever.
The comptroller OF Texas recently pait
into the treasury &2S.0OO to the accoun
of the drummers' tax.
A Florida gentlemanis is alleged to hav,
refused an offer of Sl2, 900 for u twelve
acre orange grove planted five year.
ago.
Baker SAM" wood-haulerof Eureka
New, had put away, buried in . stall
the sum of $1,000 in $50 gold pieces,
and when he went to gaze upon his
treasure two weeks ago he found to his
utter dismay that all were gone.
An Atlanta, (Ga.) man studied the
habits and the health of chickens, and
upon the strength of his observations,
tried diet of white sand as cure fol
dyspepsia. In his case the remedy was
efficacious.
Greene county, Kentucky, boasts of a
citizen yet in the prime of life who is
said to be the father of twerty-seven
children, twenty-five Of who are living,
and fifteen of whom are married. He
also has sixty-fivc grandchildren.
Mad-stones appear to have market
value in North Carolina where local
paper records the sale of half interest
in one for $5, adding that q clouded
title lessened the value of the share dis
posed Of.
A lady performed in the presence of
DIR. johnson sonata on the pianofOrte,
and after it was ended asked the learned
doctor his opinion of it Madam"
said he, ''of all noises l think music is
the least disagreeable."
The fish pond in Benton park, St.
Louis. was stocked last spring with
twenty carp, and now there are three
thousand of them. A carp should be
two or three years old before it becomes
food.
No comment is necessary, but just see
what a man can do when quiet is as
sured: Morse, who invented the tele-
graph, and Bell. who invented the tele-
phone, had deaf-mute wives.
The butler of Queen Victoria's house
hold has salary of $500 and four as
sistants who do the purchasing of sup
plies and see that the widow is no:
cheated in weight and measures by the
tradesmen.
A Victoria B. c., man is in quandary
as to which he shall mourn the more
the loss of his wife or the loss of his for
tune of many thousands of dollars in
cash. which his spouse hid so carefully
before her death that subsequent ex-
haustive search has failed to disclose it. |
A beautiful white deer that makes
nightly visits to the cultivated fields |
thereabouts is one of the sights on FL
dalgo Island, Washington Territory.
Attempts to capture it have proved un-
successful and a superstitiolrs feeling
it has saved it from the hunts
mans hand.
Judge Studley, of New Haven, has
throttled the Connecticut blue laws. He
has discharged the managers of steam
boat who were arrested for getting up
Sunday excursions, on the ground that
something may be necessary and mer-
ciful in a crowded city which would be
neither in farming district
The scales for weighing gold IN the
assay office in New York are so delicate
that, when brought to balance with
two pieces of paper of equal size in the
pans, the mere writing of y name on one
IF the pieces of paper will add enough
weight in the paper to turn the scales in
is favor.
The body of every spider is furnished
With four little Jumps, pierced with tiny
roles, from each of which issues single
bread, and when 4 thousand of these
rom each lump are joined together they
make the silk line of which the spider
pins its web, and which we call spi.
ler's thread.
An Indianapolis woman has brought
somewhat novel suit against the estate
# dead man, who. just before his de-
Mise. cut and carelessly placed upon an
'pen common Il lot of poisonous vines
md shrubs. Four Of the plaintiffs COWS
tie the noxious vegetation and died.
Vow $500 is wanted rs damages.
In New Orleans lives Creole woman,
low ninety-two years old. who was once
he nurse of General Beauregard. She
ellis many interesting "reminiscences I.
bout the city, and takes great pride in I
he fact that one of the greatest leaders s
n the Confederate army drank from {
er breast the nourishment of infantile /,
fe. =
Prof. Pontick, of Breslau, has been t
learing up some of the popular doubts I
oncerning mushrooms. He says that I
IL the common ones are poisonous, but t
nat cooking deprives them of much OF c
leir poison. though the water in which t
hey are boiled should be carefully y
,rown away, and the esculent washed b
| two or three waters Dried mush.
'oms are only safe after four months e
eeping. fl
An English chemist, who had been !,
,lled upon to analyze several socks and q
ockings of red color, which had been c
'und to cause great irritation of the n
lin of the wearers. discovered the u
.use of the trouble in the tin salt used a
a mordant in fixing the dye. He sue 2
'eded i'll obtaining over twenty-five >
rains of tin in the form of the dioxide. "
hen acted upon by acid perspiration Z
e tin oxide forms IN exceedingly irri. 1
ting compound. D
The late Moses Williams, of Boston, +,
'queathed all his property to his fam I
7, and advised them to retain it invest.
as he had left it, rather than to ex.
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