Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-20
TERMS: $500 PER YEAR.
INFORMATION IN BRIEF.

The champion shot of the world lives
in Santa Cruz county, California. Her
name is Lillian Smith, and her father
keeps no bulldog.
There are 2ls0O0' asses reported in
Venezuela. II seems a good place to
hire brass baEd and get up 4 political
tOrchlight procession.
A tramp was arrested in Nashville ly-
ing in an alleyway. Concealed in his
ragged clothes was over 81 900 in large
notes and goId pieces.
recently died in that city from arsenic
taken internally tor the purpose of beau
ufying her complexion.
The California Chinese ship quantities
of shrimp shells to China, where they
are much esteemed as fertilizers, espec-
tally for the rice crop.
People vii, not be surprised at the
number of doctors they see in the streets
when they remember that peaches are
coming in thick and fast.
All lunatics, says DR.. Hamilton, are
not liars. 1t is evident that the mud
singers in the present campaign do not
belong to that variety of lunatic.
A correspondent asks in an exchange
if it is proper to dance with a married
lady when her husband is looking on.
Proper enough, but not much fun in ii.
A Rhode Island lady is writing a book
on the abuse of drugs that will aim,
among other things, to establish the
suicidal influence of the habitual dse of
quinine.
The people of Durham, Conn, are ex-
| cited over the report that the town is
built over an immense coal bed, and the
farmers all expect to be rich in few
weeks.
1t is said, that s,OOO.G0o meteors pass
throught the atmosphere daily. That Is
almost as many meteOrs ~ campaign
lies One does about as much harm AS
the other.
There is a Girl in Turner, Maine, who
smokes, cheNs, shaves, swears and wears
Il mans hat. Her uncouquerabie pro-
ensity for ,cr cream is the only thing
that betIays her.
Candidate St. JOHN dyes his red NUS
! tache black, which leads an exchange to
remark that man who will soil under
false colors IN public will drink behind
. A New Zealand bailiG has fallen heir
: to an English ear.dOm, but it is believed
: his late training will prevent his beng
, ruined by the company he will now be
: thrown in with.
II is rilmored that many proposals of
/, marriage lave been made this summer
! | IN the sparkling surf, but that the love-
/ lv mermaidens nave thrown salt water
y upon them.
There were ten gallons of liquor drank
in this country last year for every man
: woman and child in it. 1t is believed
0 some persons have been cheated out OF
!, their share. To- 'H
Bishop Taylor the Methodist travelling
missionary, will probably accept the
\ steam Yacht that has been offered to hin
s tor his enterprise in Africa, India and
d South America.
= An economi, al tailor having large
: lot of dude trousers left over has made
N them up into gun cases. They require
{ ne alteration at all unless the gun bar
q rels are larger than ordinary.
A young wOman's back hair came
n down while dancing at a Long Brancf
= hop the other night, and she has no
since spoken to the dude who presume,
to call her attention to the matter.
1t has been discovered thatra onion
a l.are a, sure cure for snake bites, but it j
lhardly likely that the onion Will eve
take the place of the bottle as the -com
Il nanion of tho fisherman.
!, There were eighteen clerks IN tn
- General Land Office in 1880. NOD ther
= are 367. We believe there was NOR
81 government land in 1880. too, but pei
re haps there was less stealing.
\ 1t is safe TO assert that American co
ss leges annually graduate about 1,5OO joul
% nalists, and il is equally safe 20 asset
vi that the number in the course o. a fe'
ey wears dwindles TO $50 newspaper men.
no In London man tell In drunken {
sa and broke his neck. The jury found OF
'e that his grandfather had died of a brol
en- neck and brought IN as their verdic
DC aDied by the hereditary visitation, I
God"