Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-01-14
ODDS AND ENDS.
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The dogwood t,ee Is known by its
bark.-[N. o. ficay une.
Sarah Bernhardt received 800, 900
for her engagement at st. Petersburg.
A new poem is entitled 81 Wonder
Why" Those who have read it do too.-
Enquirer.
The public debt decreased $12. 1885,
623 during December, aud $75. .107 ,094
for the year.
The health department OF Chicago
bought aud used in December vaccine
virus costing S.. .423 Is.
II a book case OF books falls on man
and kills him, can it be said of him that
he was booked for another world?
Senator Lamar was unanimously
re-nominated by tie Mississippi leg
islsture for the senate. Well done!
A male patient In the insane asylum
at Kalamazoo, Mich, fatally stabbed
DR.. E. A. Adams. the physieian i'm
charge. -
Those senators who were so very
strongly for civil-service reform a while
ago are very quiet now. SPEAK cut.
Mr.. Dawes.
Alexander H. Stephens is NJ the Ma
tional hotel. Washington, occupying the
room OF which he has had entire posses.
sion for fifteen years, aud in which Hen
~ Clay died.
At Louisiana, Mo-, John NJ. Shaw,
one OF Bill Auderson's guerrillas,
was shot dead by his brother, in q
quarrel over the division of their
fathers property.
Puzzled English immigrant: "Hi soc
by the press that they're to helect a
speaker for the 'ouse. Now, 'ow is thatP
Hi thought hall the members OF the
'ouse were speakers!
A Delaware dog trainer receives from
900 to 5000 for training setter dogs.
The republic will never amount to much
purps.-CCourier-Journa
John Toohey, of Minneapolis, after
q nights debauch, killed his wife aud
surrendered himself at the police
station. He has five children, aud
owns two houses aud farm.
A few days ago. during the funeral
of the pastor OF the Salem church at
Quincy, ILL.,, through some unknown
cause panic occurred. Ten or twelve
persona were seriously injured.
General Boulanger and the five re.
manning members of the French com.
mission to the Yorktown celebration,
after having visited every part of the
United States, has sailed for Europe.
The Dublin "Irishman" denounces
the American publications recon.
mending assassination and the use OF
dynamite. The Irishman is right.
There is no good to be wrought by
evil.
In the United States twelve manutac.
tories produce II, ,O00, 900 teeth annually
or one to every five persons. The
amount annually squandered on teeth Il
81 ZOO. 900. A half million OF gold
is used ever year to fill teeth.
81 want every man to vote as he
pleases," cried Malone; and then hs
turned out all the postmasters who
wouldn't vote for reputation. The
American politician is humorist OF the
first class.-CCourier-Journal.1
In his diary of European travel the
shah OF Persia says that an Engllshmal
who disobeys q policeman 10 Instantly
; put to death. The Englishman whe
reads the shah's book will knew how
his own book on America reads to Amer
leans. Boston Post.
Au OK team from Manitoba, with
goods valued At $4,000 was plnudereG
at the foot of the Pembina mountains
by American Iudians. A second
team was sent out about Christmas
and the owner was murdered BY
savages on this side of the boundary
line.
Representative Orth, Of Indiana, s
few days ago declined the second
place on the committee OH rulee
claiming that injustice had been
done him as an old member o.
the house. He ia hopping mac
with Kiefer, as are number o
other republicans aud pretty muct
all the democrats.
, In the case of Cadet Whitaker, i,
is said that Judge Advocate Genera
| Swain raises ths point that the pro
, ceedlngs we're void because Presiden
Hayes ordered the court-martlal with
/ out the required request from the de
| partment commander. If Whitaker
was white instead of black this fine
point would never have been found
! by the amiable general.
: Capt. Howgste, the republican Of
ficial who ia under arrest for the en-
bezzlement of 100000 from the gov
ernment. was allowed to leave tn,
Jail to spend New Years day with hil
friends outside of the Jail. If he hac
been a common felon this privilege
would not have been accorded him
1t seems that it was granted because
he is an uncommon scoundrel.
The periodical wedding among tn,
Studebakers at South Bend, Ind.
recently occurred when Miss Mar,
R., q daughter of P. E. Studebsker
was united to Nelson j. Riley, of st
Joseph, Mo. The guests numbered
five hundred aud four generations o.
the family were represented. The
bride was presented by her father
with one hundred shar es in the wagon
works company and a residence at
ST. Joe.
The New Years reception settled 9
} very important point in the view ol
the Washington fashionables. The
president and the cabinet, Brewster
excepted, wore morning dress black
trOck-0oats, instead of tull-dress coats
and. as Mr.. Arthur is supposed to en-.
joy the confidence of quite correct
tailor, his dress-cost reform will be
acquiesced in by Washington society
It's TO be frock-coat administ alton
mitigated by pale lilac necEtles.
AT Flushing, l.. L., Capt. Wilkins,
, prominet republican, has taken his
daughter from public scheol be.
, cause the school board decided that
colorei children should be admitted
f to it. He says "he believes in giving
the coiored children equal rights witt
the " bite race, but he does not be.
lieve in such amalgamation as mixing
up the whites and blacks in public
school," The resolution Of the board
has Great ell a war Of races in the dis
trict
Hangrnan's day seems to have beel
!. quite generally observed last weel
. throughout the United States. Iu St
Louis Cbss. Ellis was huuged for tn,
murder of Mack Sanders, and JOSEPH
M, kOtuysky for killing h;s sw,at