The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-08

en- toothpicks, that they may be used at
the next meal, as Is done by a st. Al
bans. VT, housewife, the average man
will discard it for the reckless extrava-
gence of the community where napkins
are used mt every meal and butter may
be had at dinner.
1t was not many years ago that the
best American dictionary defined the
familiar word ''boil' as 'circumscribed
simultaneous Inflammation character
lied by pointed pustular tumor and
suppurating in central core; per-
uncutus" What was simple and famil-
lar was made ludcrously complex. In
the Imperial" the same word is dis
posed of satisfactorily as San inflamed
and painful suppurating tumor."
Some time ago gray squirrels placed
on the Boston Common killed the song
birds. Neighboring cats made nocturnal
warfare on the squirrels Next day the
policemen killed the cats. Then the old
maids who owned. the cats event for"
the policemen. Il was like 1.-The House
that Jack Built" a regularly ascending
series. How the war came out the Bos-
ton newspapers never reported.
There was servants ball at the Angel,
and Mary Jane went. Pretty early in
the evening she founded in with an in
famed countenance. 'Why, Mary
Jane" said the missus, ''surely it's not
all over yet?" mo, mum, but I've been
insulted! AS was comm out of the
supper the bakers young man he says
to me, Il hope, miss, says he, your
programs not quite FULL and me that
had eaten hardly anythink''
There was once in Georgia most re-
markable old man who, at the age of
one hundred and one years, became the
father of boy whom he lived to see
cast a ballot: This son is now seventy
five years of age, is as full of vim and
energy as person in the prime of life,
can split rails as well as anybody. and is
said to be able to outrun any man of his
age jim the world. His oldest brother,
were he living, would be one hundred
and fifty years OF age.
Experiments lately made at Leipsic
with cuirass made of steel, the formula
of which is not stated, indicate that the
new material combines both tenacity
and ductility in the highest degree. The
steel plate of the cuirass in this case was
only .06 inch thick and lined inside with
layer of wool; and of eleven rounds
from Martini breachloading rifle, fired
at distance of 175 yards, only two of
the bullets pierced the metal, and even
these were completely hattened and
stuck in the lining
The whistling craze is spreading
among the women of Texas so rapidly
that it is now estimated that not less
than 30 per cent of the entire female
population whistle like hooking birds.
A young lawyer recently went from
Palestine up to Jefferson to call on his
affianced Thinking to surpris him she
slipped up behind him as he sat in the
parlor, clapped her hands over his eyes
while she whistled the "Mocking Bird
beautifully. He was so disguised when
he saw who it was that the only words
he uttered was: "Good-day."
The brightest and best of the after
dinner stories with which Oscar Wilde is
RECALLING his Partisan friends is that old
chestnut" about the sign. ''Please
don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his
BEST" which he claims to have seen
hanging over the piano in a Leadville
dance hall. This entertainment resur-
rection sets the company in II roar, gives
the hearers n high opinion of Oscar as
an observer and thinker. and prompts
one distinguished Frenchman to remark
that 'there is freshness of originality
about the man that is absolutely fasci-
mating"
"Macauley." the New York CORES
pondent of The Rochester Democrat and
,.saTa g.
delight in collecting autographs, the
most successful having been the late
William b. Sprague, formally of Albany.
He was a collector for more than sixty
years, and there were few noted men of
modern days whose autographs are not in
his collection The latter is now in the
hands of his family, but deserve place
in some public institution" 1T is not
generally known" says The albany
Argus, "that several years ago the fam
lily of DR.. Sprague disposed of his valu-
able collection of manuscripts, including
some of the very rarest specimens, to a
wealthy Philadelphia collector"
Two policemen in uniform recently
called ut the house of a gentleman in
Boston, who was giving fancy dress
ball, and insisted that the company must
separate. 'Not at ALL" said the host;
"this is private house," Every well,
SIR" said one of the policemen, "here
are my orders. and I must take the
names of all who are present. "Do so,"
responded the host. The policemen
went to work and put down all the names,'
making everybody supremely uncom-
Portable. Directly they had done so one
of them walked up to a table and pour
ed himself out a glass of champagne.
"What right have you to, drink my
wine?" roared the host. II supposed,
when l was invited" responded the
policeman. that refreshments were in.
cluded." and, amidst roar of laughter,
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