Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


Miss Emily Faithful says of Amcri-
can women: II am satisfied that most
of them have pretty good time of It."
-"The Siamese system OF hazing,"
says the Rochester Post, sis TO allow
each Siamese college student to have
two wives"
The wives of most of the Mollie
Maguires hanged in Pennsylvania few
years ago are keeping dram shops in
the neighborhood of their husbands
old homes.
Tho ninety Mormon missionaries
who are working mainly in Tennessee
calculate that the South will afford
them about seven hundred converts this
year.
"A man has invented chair that
can be adjusted to 800 different posi-
tons. IL is designed for a boy to sit in
when he goes to church. Exchange.
els it crime to be a womanP"
asks Mrs. Blake. Certainly it is! Mr..
Daniel Maguinnis will please rise and
propose his favorite toast: "Success TO
crime. - Boston Post.
Canary colored diamonds are much
sought after at present, as, indeed, are
all curiously colored stones. Pink dia-
monds are another of the fashion of the
moment.
"A Kentucky school-mastcr got a
verdict of seventeen dollars the other
day in suit brought against the trus-
tees for damages from cold caught
running after them to get his pay.
"A man ninety-nine years old, living
in Unity, N. H., without using spec
tacles, recently shot four squirrels with
an old muskct which once belonged to
a soldier in the revolutionary war.
Candy and corrosive sublmate are
kept on the same shelf in Nebraska
stores. If the child lives. il is candy; il
it dies, it is corrosive sublimate. One
of the simplest things in the world
Rochester Post-EgpreSS.
1t is the boast of q prosperous
merchant of Athcas, Ga, that he started
in life as the C!ccassian beauty of a
side-show, in proof whereof he exhibits
enhancing photographs of himself in
short petiicoals and pink stockings.
AT lrku,Sk, Siberia, they sell milk
by the block, each block having stick
frozen into il for convenience in carry
ing. You can get milk with stick in
IL in this country, but the stick docs not
always make it easier to carry.
-lmportations of macaroni are SAID
to be Increasing very rapidly, but whcth-
or the fact is dine 10 n growing love for
it among our people, or to the large
number of Italian gentlemen laboring
on railroads, we arc not prepared to
state. N. \. Sun.
Edward King advises Americans
who visit Europe this year TO provide
themselves with passports, give political
gatherings wide berth and deny them
selves the pleasure of denouncing the
established institutions of the countries
through which they pass.
An elcvatcd-railroad locomotive
dropped hot Goals on horse, and the
horse hurt boy. IL has cost the road
$1,000, in spite Of the claim of the rail
road in court that the owner of the
horse ought to pay damages for not
having = horse that would stand still
when hot Goals fell on him.
Major Gale Faxon bought u horse
from the pastor of an Austin church,
and shortly afterward the following
conversation was heard: you have
swindled me with that horse you sold
me last week. "How SOP" asked the
clergyman, very much surprised.
"Well, only had him for three days
when he died" That's strange,
owned him twenty-three years and
oil har Il
knew him to do that while owned
him."
Melancholy tidings for Jumbo come
from London. His former mate. Alice,
has never betrayed the slightest sign of
grief since the day of his departure, and
now even the children are forgetting
him in their admiration for lingo, a
charming young elephant not yet five
years old, and not quite four and half
feet high. lingo is precocious beast,
and already PAGES the garden walks with
load of children on his back, in bland
expectancy of buns.
"A Sunday paper recently rcpub-
lished the Clcary-Wceden prizc-fght,
fought in March, 1876, near Newark,
Del, and the story was read by two
young bucks named O'Brien and Law
Ter, residing at Jackson's Patch, near
that place. They became so animated
over the account that they repaired to
an adjoining grove, made ring and
began fight. The mill was lively and
hotly contested until the fourth round,
when LAWYERS arm was broken. This
ended the fight in o Briens favor. The
youthful pugilists are only fourteen
years of age and heretofore bore no en-
nifty toward each other. The fight was
witnessed by quite large gathering.