Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-07-26
UNIDENTIFIED PARAGRAPHS.

Arizona produced more than l1,OOO,-
600 pounds of copper last year, and will
probably produce about %, 100000 pounds
this year.
Shot goods are very fashionable this
year. Husbands who wish to be in style
will continue to come home half-shot as
usual.
Tight jackets, if made too tight at the
waist, must have wrinkles in the back.
Moral-Don't have your jackets tight at
the waist.
Michigan apparently is not much pla
tronized by the circus. A horse In tina
Safe died of fright the other day on see
ing an elephant.
"My Daughter Paints" is the title of
new novel. And she probably powders,
but it is mighty mean man who would
thus give the girl away.
A Massachusetts, man has been sued
for 5000 for offering to kiss a lady. Ii
he had succeeded she probably would
have had him indicted for murder.
"Old gold is the prevailing color in I'M
dergarments," saysa gentlemens fashion
paper. 1t is not, unfortunately, the pre-
vailing color in pockets.
A 12-year-old California mother has a
baby which weighs only little over a
pound. 1t is expected she will do better
when she is older.
The floods have damaged the Texas
railways to the extent of $3,OOO,OOO, but
water judiciously applied to the stock
will pay the company back fourfold.
Tons of dead fish are floating in the
Yougiogheny river, between Mckeesport
and Bradford, Pa. They are thought to
have been poisoned by sulphur water.
Mexico has several industrial schools
established by the government for bring
ing up the youth of both sexes and all
classes without expense, to skill in en-
Payments.
Mounted orderlies in the Italian Army
now use the bicycle, and in other coun-
tries in Europe it is used by mail-carr:-
ers, messengers, telegraph boys and many
others.
The female members of the Connecti-
Cut CdlNdtlOh "Nol JSt'NyC NPOAi
which is the inscription: Dead to the
World" and those who have seen them
don't wonder at it.
White feas aie the latest Georgia sen
sation. Now is the time to sit down or
the geological whitewash business. Nc
one but darkey could ever get rid o
white fleas.
A man recently rode $50 miles on {
bicycle without dismounting. Hi
| friends would have done humanity {
favor if they had kept him at it a few
hundred miles more.
| The most successful crazy quilt We
made has been built in Chicago insan,
asylum. In matters of this sort san,
ladies show very little sense in compel
ing with lunatics.
Clara Morris, the actress, has discharg
ed her gardener because he kissed tn,
kitchen girl. The girl objected to beinl
kissed because it interfered with he
work"
James Adams, of Baltimore, has beel
confined in an insane asylum for disturb
ing prayer meeting by jumping up an,
shouting amen at most unreasonable
moments"
Why couldn't our forefathers have "fi
into the Revolution" along in cool wealth
er, say just latter haying," as well as +
make the Fourth of. July come whel
lemons are $11 box?
One significant fact is that the Tribune
the solitary Blaine organ in New YorI
is more anxious than anybody to hav
the Chicago Convention nominate any
body but Cleveland.
Mrs. Absalom Wright, of Peoria, Ina
Just presented her husband with triplets
and now the poor man would like t
know what crank "would rather b
Wright than President"