Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-08
CRISP AND CASUAL.

i The best mined cure we know of is
gold. Commercial Bulletin.
Miss Mary A. Murfree has been elected
an honorary member of the Tennessee
Historical Society.
Hand-painted hammock hats are very
much in fashion at Bar Harbor this SUM-
mer. Their price is only 81. Bangor
Wing.
Miss Ada Sweet has poem in the
Current entitled Summer in Tow H.
Her next effort will probably be christ
ened Some Are in Office" Minneapolis
Tribune.
Walt Whitman says that he is sorry he
does not know how to smoke. So are
: we. 1t might sort of direct his miEd
from writing poetry. Burlington Free
Press
A lady died in Cambridge this week
who was so much in love with her fam
lily name that she made her lover change
his to it before she would mary. Chron-
icle.
"What does Pittsburg need ?" is the
head of an article in a contemporary.
There is unanimous impression that
Pittsburg needs a new left fielder.
Chronicle Telegraph.
ooh! was it /, or was it voup" asks the
golder-haired poet, Nora Perry. If Nora
will refrain from making a noise, per-
haps between us we can shove it on to
the proof-reader. Buffalo Express.
Now that Niagara has been redeemed
it is to be hOoed the quarantine against
hackmen will apply as well to the liter
airy hack who writes letters about the
majestic cataract" Philadelphia News.
The members of the English aristoc-
racy who stopred their subscriptions to
t. the Pail Mall Gazette might consider
what happened to the men who burned
Rousseau's Central Social" 1t was
bound in their skins. Providence
Journal.
Bilkins, whose language is flowerv.
called his wife "a daisy" during their
engagement; during the honeymoon,
he called her "a pink" and now when
she meets him with a rolling pin, at 2
O'Clock in the morning, he calls her a
"A night blooming serious" Chicago
Rambler.
John G. Fremont, who is ~ years old
saws that he camped where Chicago is,
where Minneapolis is and where Salt
Lake City is before there was a horse at
either place. He also tried to CAMP
where Cleveland is. but was driven of
at the Buchanan's Mouth. Lowell
Times.
This is the season of the year when
Lucy and John come in ruehIIly from
the back piazza and try to explain to an
unsympatbizing audience how it is that
Lncy's fragile ITO pounds has broken
down the hammock that her pas solid
lS5 pounds swung safely in all the after
noon. Somerville Journal.
Coz. e Grand B. Cannon received from
ex-PIesident Chester A. Arthur vester.
day token of the latter's regard and
proof Of his skill as a fisherman in the
shape of AZ pound salmon taken by
Gen: Arthur in Matapedia branch of
the Restigouche river, New Brunswick.
Burlington Free Press
After all. "fun" is only relative. and
the stav-at-homes have not so much oc-
casion to-envy the happiness of those
at beach and mountain side. The NOR.
alizing comes from seeing two poorly
clad children dragging a dilapidated
sled over the brick sidewalks yesterday,
and having Just the best time imagina.
BILE. Lowell Jimes.
Men about to DC hanged almost invar-
iably eat hearty breakfast on the last
morning, and those who use tobacco
always top off with a final cigar. A
Philadelphia reporter, whose experience
embraces q executions has observed
that the doomed men are always careful
about their attire, and especis Nv anxious
about being well shaved.