Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-07
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A Hartford man is shipping ton mont
Of ground oyster shells to Sydney, Austria
liza, as EGG food"
Practical anatomy is taught i'm some OF
the public schools of New Haven, Conn.,, by
the dissecting of dead cats and rabbits.
Paris photographers now produce all the
colors worn by the subjects in the first i'm
preSSions," which is usually lasting"
All attempts to keep a gorilla in captivity
even In Africa, have as yet failed 1t eithel
starves to death or dies of broken heart.
e, English swells are dropping the, prefix
Granville Dnsenberry Octave Pritton is now
the correct thing.
The merchant service of the world consists
of So, Isl vessels, which includes s, 433 steam.
ers. England owns 1854 sailing ships and
over 5000 steamers.
The Democrats at the coming Inaugural
plicity to the letter, will probably do so i'm
the spirit-Bourbon spirit. Siftings.
Some fifty gentlemen I'm New York have
formed club and hired large lot in Lex
ingtOn avenue which they nave fitted up as
a playground for their children, tobOggan
slide being one of the appliances.
"How did you manage to raise money to
go to the opera last week?" asked Brown of
Jones, who is very deaf. '.Pawned INV ear
trumpet" II don't see how you enjoyed
the, opera without your ear trumpet 81
took my opera glass"
California's first attempts at raisin produc-
ing were made about nineteen years ago.
The following year about 1,5O0 boxes were
made. Ten years ago the crop amounted to
about 40, 600 boxes, while this year it is esti-
mated at 200, 900 boxes. -
We are willing to take a certain amount of
stock in the newspaper accounts of Western
cyclones, but when an Arkansaw paper tells
about zephyr carrying bed quilt sixty-One
miles and then going back for the sheet, we
aren't there. Exchange. .l-
In the year $500, Joseph Cook saws, the
population of this country will be 3,2O0.OOO,-
600. Those who contemplate going to the
circus in that year will do well to buy tick
cts at the downtown Office, and avoid a rush
at the wagon. Troy Budget. e., -.---.
Onion sociables are the latest craze in Wv
oming territory Six ladies take IAN onion
into room ard each takes bite from 1T.
A yonng gentleman is admitted, and, after
kissing all If he cannot tell which bit the
onion the girls all kiss him. y. = Vii
The New Orleans Picayune says that a
striking feature in the wOman's department
of the exposition is the, display of beautiful
work made by aged wonreh. In fact the So
year. old ladies make more credilable show
ing than those OIL and 30. IN
Custom compels an Icelander to kiss ev-
cry woman he meets" says the Boston Post.
I'VE are glad We do not live IN Iceland. "
This shows the folly of a mans Judging
other places by his own. The Iceland girls
probably do not wear eyeglasses. New
York Graphic. - =
Tennessee exhibits at the New Orleans
Exposition wedding coat made by ANDY
johnson in 1899. The spectacle" made by
Andy johnson at his inaus uratiOn score of
years ago rs not ON exhibition, we believe.
IL was much tighter fit than the we'd
ding coat. Ncrristown Herald. A 'BJ
The BED ON which the Chinese lie, their
tables, pipes. chop-stlcks and part of their
food, the sails Of their junks, the props and
stays OF their houses, their lances, the sticks
them, the ferule OF their pedagogues. the
patton OF their conductors, etc, are all de-
rived from the valuable bamboo. &
There was court-martial held on a younp
ofilcer who had gone on a spree and had a
night In bar-room. The bar proprietor was
-Drought before the court and put in the wit
ness D0X: The prisoner was placed i'm full
View: witness, do you recognize the pris-
0ner? Yes, your Honor, and most of the
court" San Francisco Chronicle.
You have to work pretty hard, don't
your said goOdpatured old gentleman To
a car-drfver. well, l should smile, but /
have no cause to complain" "Why not?'
Because my boss is so liberal that he gives
luh a. l.
work in, while you poor bankers have to
crowd your work into about four hoursu
New York Journal
n, PTlnce Albert Victor, son of the Prince of
Wales, after visit to this country. pronoses
to return to London and study law. Eyi.
IDENTIFY there is level head somewhere in
the royal family. BY the time Victor's turn
comes around English monarchy NAV be
knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite, and it
Is Just as well for the young man to be pre-
pared with profession in case of emergen-
cies. Sittings.
The Tichborne claimant does not find ex-
hibiting himself in England very lucrative
business. The authorities have taken cog
nlzance OF his utterances, and as he has
oned down The violence of his speeches the
abundance upon his meetings has naturally
ALLEN off. He is now turning longing eve
0ward the rich fields on this side the water
thousands of pamphlets illustrative of his
tory are to precede him, and his friends saw
hat be is guaranteed very large profits by an
American Association.
A Boston inventor has perfected a snore
ure. IL is piece OF wire, bent in the shane
I double hair-pin. On one end is a small
Wheel, something like a child's pin-wbeel. ,
made of silk The wire is fastened over the
PIPER teeth when retiring. bringing the pin
Iheel in close proximity to the nose and
l0uth. When the sleeper snores it starts
ne wheel to revolving, and the points OF the
heels rays, which have fine. sbarn. starI
eedle ends, whirling around rapidly. tickle
&c Snorers nose and cause him to des.st. Z
he inventor has large orders from the nu-
erous sleeping-car companies, and has b zen
ade Past Grand Mojuk in the East i'm the
oclety Tor the. Suppression of Profanity. +
ittsburg Chronicle.