The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-09
odd, and Enda.

Iangtrv, the @Jersey Lily" has In
vested another SIS, 900 in New York real
estate.
Sponge cake is cake that is made with
borrowed eggs.-N. Y. Graphic.
4 woman killed little girl the other
day by striking her with a sea shell.
Probably she stopped to coneh her.
i A frog fell into Connecticut milk
mans can Of milk the other day, and
when he. was fshed out he felt so blue
that he couldn't hop.
A fiddle with Tom Paine's name on Is
has been found slowed away in the attic
of an old inn at Bordentown, n. j.,
where Paine did much of his writing.
James Pawn, the novelist, allows
himself only the exercise of laughter,
This is a pleasure whichis akin to Payn,
as it we're.
France has the cholera, and the
chateau formerly belonging to Empress
Eugenie is being repaired for the accom-
modation af 500 cholera patients.
The University of Tennessee, by a
unanimous vote of the Faculty and
Board of Trustees, have conferred the
degree of Doctor of Divinity on Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage.
A school teacher in Lawrence, Mass,
| recently fell heir to $4,000 She i'm
| mediately bought a ton of pure, assorted
sp-uce gum, and retired for the rest OF
her life.
John Matloek, of Brandon, w. Va,
has run away with Emily Shaiier ana
| ten children. He would have taken
| Mr.. Shaffer also, but he didn't happen
to be at home at the time OF the EXODUS
Boston Post.
| At a dinner recently given by Mrs.
| Mackey in Paris, the table was covered
with a veritable grassy lawn in minia-
lture: the centre piece was replaced by
/ a small pond of water, in which fishes
lleaped about. Rare flowers took the
place of trees.
The great Baptist preacher, SPurgeon'
is fifty years old. His friends have
celebrated the event with regular Ju-
bilee. 1t is manifest that he has a
very strong hold on the hearts oil the
Christian world.
A Chicago girl left her slipper at
a newspaper Office in that city by mis-
take, and the nasty, mean reporters
mounted it on wheels and took ride
out into the suburbs.
A little fve-year old miss surprised
her mamma by themature remark: 'Eod
is everywhere, mamma; He's all over me-
and YOU mustn't spank me, cause II you
do, you spank God"
''Oh, yes, John Henry; writing funny
paragraphs is as easy as falling down
stairs. All you haveto do is to SIT down
and think out your funny things ana
write them down. You can write them
lust as fast as you can think them out"
Middleton Transcript.
| A limestone cave with beautiful sta
lactite and sCalagmite formations, Ike
that of Luray, Va, has recently been
discovered by chance in the department
of Ain. near the road from Geneva to
Lyons. 1t has been explored for SOO
yards.
The Princess Wilhelmine, who is to be
proclaimed as the successor of the Prlnce
of Orange to the throne OF the Nether-
lands, is only four years old, and lsthe
child of the second marriage OF the ageu
King William, contracted when he was
seventy years of age.
The first wife of the late Millionaire,
Singer, the inventor of the Singer sew
ling machine, is Just dead in New York,
aged sixty years. Singer, who was mar
ried FIVE times, left twenty-four children
and 100000. By his will his first
wife from whom he obtained a divorce
was left nothing.
Visitor Ito whom Shoddington is ex-
h;h;tin0 his pictures)-"Ah that's a
fine thing Il declared but it looks
like one of the old masters" Shod-
dington: "Old masters be blOwed! NO,
sir; that's brand new. / bought 1t
only last week, fresh from the easel
YES, sir fresh from the easel, sir"
''You are from the country, are you
not, sir p said dandy clerk IN q pooK
store, to handsomely dressed Quaker,
, who had given him some trouble. Yes
0Well, here is an essay on the rearing OF
, calves" "That," said Aminidab6, as he
: turned to leave the store, thee had pet-
ter present to thy mother"
, Here is a man who cannot get prompt
: service TO his bell at his hotel. The
other night he gave the bell a violent
l ring at midnight. Shortly after the
4 servant answered it. 81 don't want any
thing now" said the fellow, 81 ring now
t in order to get it on the file. Bring me
hot water at eight in the morning.
Fond Father-Welcome home, my
! son. Welcome home. 1 am very glad you
got safely through the examination, l
suppose things have changed good deal
since was therel Graduate-Aw
yeas, suppose so. Fond Father-What
d are the principle improvements they
y have made of late years. Graduate
J. Death death! Haven't you heard? Fond
e Father-Heard what? Graduate-Why
r Yale has changed its stroke.-Philadel-
phia Call.
It is a notable fact that the govern
ment of Gladstone is dependent for its
n social ministry chiefly on two American
y ladies-one being Lady Harcourt, the
T. daughter of Motley; the other, Lady
d Playfair, the daughter of Samuel kaS
sell of Boston. Mrs. Gladstone is not
W society lady, and devotes herself to the
The poor. Lady Granville doesinot en-
tertain commoners. Lord Harrington,
Sir Charles Dixie and Chamberlain have
no wives. Mrs. Fawcett has TO aid heI
: blind husband. The whole social work
falls on the two brilliant American ladle'
u unentioned