Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-03-16
GLEANlNGS,

INSTRUMENTATION
More billiard tables are in use in Ven
ezuela in proportion to the population
than in the United States.
American furniture is coming into
! Use in Scotland ''because it is so COM
Portable and easily kept clean" says
Consul Wells of Glasgow.
A San Francisco grocer had woman
; prosecuted for theft, though she was
, , ninety-siX years old, and what she stole
, was a handful of snuff, worth ) cents.
The Oldest person ever arraigned for
,, murder is a woman seventy-hve years
, of age, now on trial in Paterson. n. j.,
, for poisoning. Herinditference denotes
, her familiarity with crime
Here is the portrait of Gambetta at
nine years of age. drawn by one of his
schoolmasters: "Leon Gambetta is a
dirty little pig of violent character,
but intelligent and witty
The people of Santa Fe. New Mexico.
whose town was first settled 1888 years
ago, are making arrangements for q
grand tertio-millennial celebration in
honor of the event.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, work
of 10000 pages, is to be eclipsed in size
by the works of Samuel Arden Smith.
who is going to write 4 complete history
of the Smith family.
Central Park. New York. is said to be
in such an unhealthful condition that
100000 must needs be expended to
remedy the evil. The sewers and drains
are defective.
The new Produce Exchange now build
ing in New York will contain about 49,
100000 bricks when completed. and will
be the largest brick building in the
world.
A busy doctor sent in certificate of
death the other day, and accidentally
signed his name in the space for Cause
Of death" The registrar says he wishes
generally.
London Truth: 1.-The masher Gin
America) is the man who. in the ROM
any or gypsy language. has the 'masha-
va or fetching eve The mash is the
maiden who quails under the wicked
orb
In the opinion of Professor Hutton, in
his recent lecture on the growth of the
locomotive, the honor of first utilizing
the traction engine in this country be-
longs to the engineer, Howard Evans,
and the event dates back as far as 1904.
One of the most attractive places in
the country to-day is that Georgia town
where an epidemic is carrying off the
eats by the score. The nature of the
epidemic is unknown, and the citizens
have made no efforts to ascertain it.
A man in Blacksburgh, Va, imagines
himself horse. He runs wildly through
: the streets, beats himself with switch
and increases his speed at his own COM
mand to ''gee up there" Hehas "gone
to grass, as itwere, in theupper story.
. Just as the Rev. Elisha Blackshear, of
Thomasville, Ca, pronounced James
: White and Delilah Aderson man and
wife they fell into the arms of the attend
ants, dead. They were both affected
with heart disease.
Verdict of Baltimore Coroner's Jury
over dead colored woman: s.We find
that she came to her death through nat
ural causes-cramp collie, produced by
eating sausage for breakfast-and in the
opinion of the jury the sausage was
good
The practical Joker evidently is abroad
in Prince Edwards Island Recently,
while 81 lecture was being held there,
the door and windows of the hall were
nailed up from the outside, and the au-
dience had to climb out through the
second story windows.
The New York San assumes the re-
sponsibility of the interesting statement
that ''women, childless in Europe after
wears of marriage, often have families
in Australia" California is not, then,
the only country which has a glorious
climate
The wife of the Rev. George Barkers
was bitten by rat while guest at the
Markham House, in Atlanta. Ga, one
night last summer. Inflammation set
ting in, she suffered greatly. Her hus-
band now brings suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the proprietors of the hotel.
An Auburn sportsman is said to have
SeaRe<tiSl iil llutiltuSG owl VI IIiC dICIlC
species while hunting in Broome Coun-
ty, New York. 1t is nearly white and a
huge-looking fowl, being so completely
enveloped in feathers that the long,
sharp claws and hooked beak are hard
" visible,
Under the head of .Bodily Deformities
in Girlhood," it is remarked in the Pop
u'ar Science Monthly that ''the ingenu-
ity of an Edison could not devise ma
chine so favorable to the production OF
flat-foot as the tight-fitting, high-heeled,
long-topped boot at present worn by
girls.
There is power even in q small hair
pin. A New York woman produced a
strange one in court, which she had
found in her husbands bed. and di-
vorce was readily granted. The whole
neighborhood had previously testified
against the brute. but the hair-pin did
the business.
Louisville is making great prepara-
tons for an industrial exhibition to be-
gin next August Residents have sub
scribed S250,0O0 to put up n building
covering thirteen acres, and the rail !
road companies likely to be benefited {