Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-03-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

In Dakota.
Tho very latest fashion In dinner
plates Is square In shape, beautifully
hand-paintcd.-N y Graphic.
AT Dallas, Tex, when Edward
Thompson asked James Cooper to pay
what he owed him for board, Mr.. Cooper
drew pistol and shot the impertinent
Mr.. Thompson dead.-DetroH Post.
A family in Port Jackson, N. Y,
was poisoned recently and became Sc
riously i'll from eating head-cheese,
which was thought to have been poi
soned by being made in brass kettle.
The Governor of the Chickasaw
Nation, in Indian Territory, has in
formed the Legislature that II is useless
to make any more laws while those al
ready in existence are not enforced. -
Chicago Tribune.
Swimming, according to Mr.. VIII
c. Beckwith, champion, is n lost art in
America, and that a new feeling in its
favor may be awakened il is proposed
next year to give six-day swimming
contest in New York City.--N T.
Times.
Cornelius Tobin, of Boston, killed a
woman in 1877, while drunk, and was
shut up five years as insane, and then
released. The other night, in order to
get rid of the ghost of the murdered
woman which haunted him everywhere,
he took poison and died. Boston Tran
script.
Prank Rivers. of New York, COM
pleted great bar-room feat In Phila-
delphia the other night by walking
around on the head of a whisky barrel,
which was ended up for the purpose,
from seven o'clock to midnight, five
hundred people going to see it.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Several New Workers were notified
that the Liars Club would hold its an
nual dinner at the Astor House, Sunday.
and were invited to attend. When they
responded in person Mt the appointed
hour, they found that the club had lived
up TO its reputation, as there was to DO
no Liars Club dinner for anybody
T. Sun.
The New York Herald says the mon
ument of Canonicus unveiled at Provi-
dence recently, is the first monument
ever erected by white men to an Indian.
Mistake. One monument to Uncas and
another 10 Miantonomoh. both at Nor
witch, Conn, have been standing forty
years, Gen. Jackson, when President,
laying tho cornerstone Of the former
Detroit Post.
The New Mexico town of Shakes
pcare was ridded of scoundrels, two
years ago, by the hanging of few Of
them and the flight of the rest. Russian
nf ho 10 haI
been very bad mana horse thief, q
highwayman and hummer. The Sheriff
of the county has received letter from
the American Consul at ST. Petersburg
making it clear that Bill was son of a
Count Tclfnn.- Chicago Inter Ocean.
Rev. DR.. Samuel L. Appleton, Of
Philadelphia, solemnized marriage,
and the groom, who was short OF money,
proposed to send him an educated par
rot. The doctor assented. Have you
cage?" the groom inquired. The doc
tor had not. The groom could get one
for $3.50, That settled it. The doctor
gave him the $3.50 to buy the cage, and
that was the last he saw of either groom,
bride, parrot, cage, or his $3.50. Phil.
ddelphta Record.
on the obtuseness of many people who
run after fashion without regard to how
it becomes them, says: 1T is now again
becoming fashionable TO arrange the
hair high on the top Of the head, which
looks well on tall, stately woman OF
symmetrical cranial development; but
among the first we see adopting it are
short women, with perhaps a dumpy
bulk and width of head in the middle
region from ear to ear.
"A little girl fell from the bridge
across the Yantic River, near Norwich,
Conn. recently, and would inevitably
have drowned If Mrs. McMahon, n wo-
man seventy years of age, had not
sprung in after her. They both sank
after struggle, but as they rose again
the heroic old woman succeeded in
grasping rock with one hand while
with the other she still held the child
and thus kept both their heads above
water until they were rescued. The
child was then unconscious, but she was
soon resuscitated. -HarJord Post
AS well-filled stage was being
driven over the Jim Grow trail toward
Downieville, Cal, the iron which held
one of the whiflletrees to the doubletree
broke. letting the former fall upon the
heels of one of the horses. The fright
ened animal sprang forward, and in
second the whole outfit was off the
grade and on its way TO the river, some
sixty feet below. There were In the
stage at the time seven persons. beside
the driver-four grown people and three
children. The stage rolled over several
times, utterly demolishing the top and
smashing one wheel. Strangely enough,
no ono was seriously injured. San
Francisco CAL.
Lang Zip, laundryman at Oil
City, Pa, Is going back to China to be
married. He has never seen nor had
any correspondence with his intended,
and knows nothing about her whatever.
But his Celestial mother has arranged
everything for him. She has picked out
a wife for him. and he will see her for
the first time on the day of their mar.
riage. Zip has been in this country
four years, during which time he has
become Americanized to an extent, and
says he would prefer to see the prospect
i've Mrs, Zip before the wedding day.
lie says. however. he will marry hcr,
and if he likes her style will "Blinget
her black to Mearica" with him, but il
he does not he will come back without
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