The Benton weekly record., 1883-03-24
Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
In oats the heart is aided by rhythmic
contraction OF veins in tho wings.
A Florida lemon weighing more than
shree pounds is on exhibition in Boston,
Chicago counts among its citizens 81
who rightly claim to be possessors Of min.
ions.
A hunter in Custer county. Montana
killed 250 hufftloes and $50 wolves IN
six weeks.
Previous to l760, the French would NOT
eat potatoes, it being supposed that they
would cause freckles.
Buffalo meat has been 80 tlentiful At
i,eadwood, Dakota, us TO become almost
unstable at any price.
An Arizona paper has persuaded itself
taat the name OF that Territory is either
Mexican or LnGian for '' Blessed sun
n cooking range i'll a Montreal Kitchen
blew up several mornings since. bv reason
OF The freezing of the pipes, and killed
servant girl.
Desiring money 10 complete spree al
ready begun, a watchmakerin in Springfield
Mass, pawned all the watches he had in
hand to repair.
man drew a crowd at Westfied. Mass.
by going home with a fashionable honn,t
on his head, He was winning that article
on IL wager.
Black birch is coming into use as a SUBJ
stifnte for black walnut Where the l}nd
is high and dry, the woods firm, dark ard
clear, and can be easily stained. Ii is bue
little used now, and goes cheap.
A novel fight occurred in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, stable between stallion and
Il hul-dog. The con est lasted more than
an hour, and was ended by the stallion
picking the dog up with his tech and
throwing him out of the place.
The Greeks held garlic in such ahhorx
renee that those who partook Of it were re-
garded it as Erofane. The r mans, on the
contrary, gave it to their soldiers, with an
idea that it excited their courage, and to
their laborers to strengthen them.
A Tilted deaf and dumb girl in Detroit
finds an advantage in her infirmity. The
Young man hadn't learned the finger LAM
gnage, and so wrote the grand conundrum
on the girls tablets; she wisely preserved
| the scribbling, and now has it for evidence
in breaci-of-promise suit.
Among the Chinese no relics are more
valuable than the boots that have been
worn by magistrate. If he resigns and
leaves the city, a crowd accompanies him
tlom his residence to the gates, where his
boots are drawn off with great ceremony,
to be preserved in the hall of justice.
A Wisconsin farmer was caught Dump
ing a heavy stone from his load Of hogs.
between the public scales and the stock
yard. He declared that some enemy had
put the extra weight in his wagon, but
there was plenty of evidence that the same
Thing had happened every day for a week.
A Virginia paper says the William and
Mary College at Williamsburg has entirely
gone down. Last year there was only one
student-this year none. The president
has spleadid residence jast out of town
and the buildings are quiet and lonely
looking, and seem to hide within their
walls much of wisdom; bat this is all that
is left of the once proud seat of learning.
The style in cuffs varies according to To-
cality. In New York and Boston the
round-cornered are fashionable; in Phila--
delphia the square-cornered, and in Wash
ington and Baltimore, the cllop-otf corn
cred. In Chicago, it is said, the bigger
the cuff the more fashionable, while i'll
New Orleans diminutive wristbands are
the prevailing taste. In Boston neither
extreme prevails.