The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-07-09
Sharp Sayings.
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 There is Il fence Tn the ae>tcrn part of this country 200 miles hong. What a place for politicians to roost
 After all. did the Revolutionary heroes do Il good thing when they wen battles from England, See how ike blazcs il costs this country to celebrate cin.
 fabulous sums. Herod the younger once paid S4oo.ooo for three lectures that pleased him. Mrs. Seosllle sht have made !; 50 lecture Tn those days.
 \ Jackson. Michigan. man got drunk and killed his wife. policeman and him self and the man who had the day before resigned hs position as coroner went ai most dclIrious with remorSe.
 .'le,." said,he college president. as he gazed at the bood-thirsty scrimmagc in progress on the campus. " II must be some bitter las, fight They re ne, violent and savage enough for a game of football.
 \ Vermont man stepped his subserp- ton to a religious paper because the jok,s in the funny departmcn were not on Bibli- saI A religious paper to be religious in every thing.
 The greatest poe, known in history is Mr Augustus Snodgrass. an acco mt of whom Is ta bc found in the work, ef Mir (. Dickens. Though Il poet. NIT. Snod- grass had the huwlins good sense never to write any poetry.
 The most startling parasols exhibited thus far are those ot vermilion satin. lined with old gold siik and trimmed with dou- bic rutiies oi old gold lace. The icrtulce are surrounded by Il wreath oi brilliant scarlet roses. mixed with small yellow sunilowers. X goat has to study Il long tune to decide whether the thing is in- tended 10 be butted or eaten.
 An old pair of trousers had been hang ing in barnyard in Reno. Gal. for some time. and they had become the home et a nest of hornets. .An Indian begged the tro. of the owner and Was gratlhcd II having his request granted. However. Ii is but simple justice to the Indian to state that he q dn't know the hornets were there. ar he would never have had the bad Judgment to put them on.
 Sand the newly arrived immigran, ai Castle Garden to the contractor: lis. sur. I'm open ior lob. Dye want me for congressman. or Il governor. CT what: :" want you to shovel sand on Il rlil- road =, was the reply: and the immigrant was wild with rage Js he had come here. moi to work. but ,o run the government and all the other immigrants felt that he hal | l., al, hm.
 ust as girl was about to drown her self in Athens. Ala. the other day.a man caugh, hc. She struggled. bu, he held her fast. " I'll give you ten minutes to think il over." he sad, and if you then wan, to die, I'll le, you dc it." When the time was up he released her. and she quietly went home. She was bound te live Ia get even with that man for inter fcring with her business.
 \ dispatch from fcrham. Mlnn.. say, ,ha, the mother ot young Tibhets. the boy murderer who was lynchcd there the other day. was the inStigaior of the crime. and cndcavofcd to induce hIm with another boy. io wreck tram on the Northern Pa Cihc railroad. Probably she wanted Ia make good man of him. and supposed that by urging him to do these things she'd succeed. on the principle tha, a boy never does as he Is asked.
 Darious Trimmer. of Berlin. N. Y.. k the owner of a vcry valuable cat \ trout brook runs through Mir Trimmer farm. and the cat brings Tn fine mess ot trout about three times week Tommvsswiil % ,o place in the creek where the water runs between two rocks Ner close tosc;h- q. Here he will watch for his prev. and the hrst trout that attempts to go through the- marrow place IS rounocd upon by the cat and carried in triumph io the house. He then returns for another. and has brought m as. many as siN good-sixcd trout in one afternoon. The only thing he neglects to do is to lie about wha, he catches.
 ! Con Sweeney. the Cedarsville. O.. saloon keeper. Is plucky man. some time ago an attempt was made to blow up his place i by dynamite. He narrowly escaped with his life. Shortly afterwards he received anonymous letters warning him 40 pull out. This he stoutly refused to do. and Tuesday night another a,temp, was made to elevate his establishment. and this tune the roem adjoining the one Tn which Sweeney and his son were sleeping was totally destroyed. He still announces his determination to continue business at the old stand. He says he has lived seven years with second wife. and no dyna. mite blowing up can scare him. -------- -t-o-s--------- The numerous suits for breach of prom ise recently instituted against old men by young women is having it's effect. Miss.