The Columbus journal., 1883-05-09
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"A word in season: Why not send
DR.. Mustard, of the Delaware State Sem
ate, to the Sandwich Islands.vM Y.
Graphic.
Sir William Thomson follows DR..
Thomas Reid in ascribing to man six
senses instead of five, namely, the sense
of force, of heat, of sound, of light, of
taste and of smell.
"A statistician says. that 1900
American women visit Canada every
year to smuggle a sealskin sacque.
There is no doubt that this man has
been jilted.-Rochester m ~ Demo-
crdt.
The great dry-goods stores Of New
York. as we'll as those Of Paris. are COM
PEELED to watch for female kleptomani-
acs. The number of otherwise respect
able women who steal is. said to be
astonishing.-N. Y. Times.
The Fruit.Growers' and Forest
Tree Association of Canada, have passed
q resolution favoring the extripation of
the English sparrow. 1t was shown
that the bird was slaughtering Canadian
song birds. besides proving destructive
to farmers.and fruit-growers.
"A little prattling child in Denver
wandered out in the street, asking plain
lively for some one to "please come and
wake up my mamma" Finally two men
accompanied her home. and found her
mother dead from heart disease. -DenUer
Tribune.
"A bullet shot from a pea shooter
struck New Orleans lad in the head
and penetrated the brain. The pea
shooter is composed of forked stick.
two strips of rubber. two bits of twine
and patch of lesther. What q New
Orleans lads head is composed of, is a
matter of conjecture Chicago Herald.
The Boston Courier imparts the i'm
portant information that n person 'can-
not decide a knOtty question with tie
vote" But if you give foolish talker
rope enough he will soon settle the
matter to the satisfaction of all parties
concerned. gravely decides the New York
Commercial Adrertiser.
After hard run a policeman at
Seneca Falls, N. Y, discovered that the
laughing man whom he had caught
dressed in a striped convict suit was
only going to a masquerade ball. 1t
was a good joke, and it will be long
while before the officer can put in loaf
ing enough to make up for the exertion.
Utica Herald.
The man who told a Cleveland
Herald reporter about a trance trip to
Heaven in 1888, in which he encountered
the shades of John Quincy Adams and
DR.. Chalmers. has been taken to task by
patch, who says that j. Q. A. lived until
1913. and Dr.C to much lat er date.
The lesson pointed out by this trifing
circumstance is that rom ancers should
be well posted on dates and deaths.
Oxford Mills can boast of the best
married man in Eastern Ontario. HIS
name is Robert Murphy. Six months
after he buried his first wife he married
his second. His second wife was dead
only four months when he married
again. His third wife died only five
months ago. and a fortnight ago he
again entered the matrimonial state by
bringing home bride No. 4. Robert is
very persevering.-Almonte (Ont.J Ga
zette.
For fifty-one consecutive years
William Stanford was an occupant of
the County Jail at Richmond. Va. and
for eighteen of those years he was
chained by the leg to the floor of his cell.
q raying lunatic. He was released in
1877, harmless imbecile, and few
days ago he died. His last words were:
'.Dear mother only utterance he
had ever been known TO make concern
ing his youth, some eighty years ago
Washington Post.
james McHardy. the oldest inhabit
ant of the Braemar District. Scotland,
died recently. in the ninety-ninth year OF
his age. In his early years, when flax
was grown in Braemar. he followed the
trade of a heckler, but during the greater
part of his life he worked as a sawyer.
His wife died six years ago at the age of
ninety-seven, and their married life ex-
tended over the long period Of sixty
eight years. Their family consisted o.
three sons and six daughters, the Oldest
seventy-ive and the youngest about
sixty, and. as far as known, they are all
living.