The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-05-26

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AccoaDfsa N tho United States
Commissioner of Education, tGl,
475 90 has been given by private
individuals fof educational pnr-
poses In this country within 10
years This does not inclub tho
recent gift Of Slater and diners,
amounting 10 100000
A RECENT visitor in Maine said
he succeeded in getting a drink Of
whisky without great tribnhtion
The bar was the vest pocket Of q
hotel landlord, and The liquo' was
poured out for him in a secret
room. After swallowing IL he
made a rush for the pur1p to put
the fire out.
The safety Of railrod travelling
Is forcibly illustrated il the state
ment that Of the 4l,l2t,2S5 passen-
gers carried by railroads terminal
ing in Boston, last yer, but eight
were killed, and that the danger
Of being struck by lightning is
greater than Of bein, hurt IN Il
railway accident.
IT is said hal the largest fleece
ever recorded in the United States
at a public shearing was taken n
few days ago at Lansing, at a meet
ing Of the Michigan Merino Sheep
Breeders Association. IL wasf from
a two-year.old ram, Diamond, own
ed by A. 7. Short, of Collwater,
was grown in 1858 days and weigh.
ed Al pounds and 8 ounces.
"THAsK Con, Kentucky wives
can now be protected exclaimed
the venerable father Of Phil
Thompson, when the foreman of
the jury said mot guilty. And
yet il may be seriously questioned
whether the wife's virtue that
needs the protection of a shotgun
is really worth preserving.
A MINNESOTA consumptivs went
to North Carolina to spend the
winter. While there che met an
old negro woman who told her
that dog oil was far better and less
dlsagreeable to take than cod liver
oil. The lady bought a fat dog,
had il killed and the fat rendered
into oil. II agreed with her very
well, was easier digested than the
other, and she says she is getting
well.
the Montana shePEerdess,n went
to Montana about a year ago and
bought a band Of sheep and ranch
near Okla, in Meagher county, pay.
ing therefor $4,000 cash. She has
managed her business entirely
herself, and now has ms good q
sheep ranch as there is in Monta.
ma. Her sheep and ranches are
said to be worth $1,000 more than
they cost her a year ago.
BARSuM, the great Snowman,
says that people, IS u rule, go 10 a
circus exhibition to see, and not
TO hear, and therefore, he does not
allow his clowns to talk as much
as of old. More money is spent
now upon q circus in a week than
was necessary in an old.fashioned
concern in two months. Barnum
says he has no head FOR details
he thinks, however, his show costs
about $4,000 a day to run.
TENNESSEE has passed a law
Furnishing by public whipping any
man convicted Of beating bis wife.
The whipping is to take place in
front oil the courthouse, and the
number Of stripes to be laid on the
bare back Of the convicted offender
will be assessed by the jury which
tries the case. The first indict-
ment under the new law was that
of Alex. Fuss, Of Nashville, who
beat his wife numerically with a
hickory sappling ten feet long.
THs taste for frogs legs is now
spreading rapidly in this country,
after a long period Of comparative
stagnation. One Of the largest
dealers in the country, Mr. J.. NJ.
Beck, Of Boston, has set a hundred
expert frog-catchers at work In the
New England States, and esti-
mates that the demand this sum-
mer will be double that Of last
year. An experiment Id breeding
bullfrogs in England Is about Ia be