Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ADVERTISED by a New York importing
Aousr-A y Sun
A woman seventy three wears old
was an applicant for a divorce in Hart
ford Comm, the other day.
An Illinois debating society is
about to wrestle with the question,
Which goes the fastest after being
broken. a colt or a ten dollar bile
Chicago Mai.
There are no fewer than sixty-four
volumes of the German B BILE for the
blind. 1t costs twenty-five dollars.
The letters are in haut- relief and the
paper very thick.
Don't eat raw chestnuts in the
dark. How would YOU Ike to be a
poor. dear, deienseless. fat little worm
and be crushed TO death by a munching
giant?-iittSbwgh (Pa) Bulletin.
The pract cal printer who becomes
an ed tor is apt to be. above all things,
a good paragraph.st. The best schools
for ed tors and reporters are printing
Offices. s.-Current Fact. Cincinnati.
Two New Haven boys, with guns
on the r shoulders and pockets filled
with knives and pistols. were arrested
in Bridgeport Recently on their way to
the West. where they were going to
kill 1ndians.-Harttord Post.
OF five hundred and fifteen cases of
consumption at the Roval Inlirmarv.
London. sixty eight per cent. is of per
sons following indoor occupations.
One man cured himself by taking long
morning and afternoon walks to his
business.
The Venezuelan Congress has con
ferred the order of The Bust of the
Liberator Bolivar upon each member
of the New York Seventh Regiment of
Veterans who took part in the unveil-
ing of the atatue of Bolivar in Central
Park in June, 1894.
A ghost, after frightening number
of people almost to death at Derby,
Eng, was arrested BY policeman and
found to be a sixteer-year old boy. He
had been employed by a landlord to
personate 4 spirit in order to drive
away an undesirable tenant.
A young clothing clerk of Spring
field. Mass. who advertised for pleas
ant rooms. heated by steam. and suita-
BILE for young man who wants to be
near the city, received letter the other
day asking him to call at 249 State
street. He sought out the number
promptly and found it was the jail.
Springfield Republican.
The Minneapolis Tribune boasts
that minneapolis had a truly metro
politan fire last night-one worthy of a
city of over one hundred and thirty
thousand inhabitants. If this does
not incite the jealousy of st. Paul to
burn itself down in the effort to dis
tance Minneapolis, the rivalry between
the two cities has been wildly exagger-
ated. PittSjnrgh Dispatch.
There is n degree of mental care
which creates alertness, watchfulness.
and always goes with successful men.
There is another degree of mental care
which is pretty sure to kill, especially
those who have passed the middle mile
stone of life. 1t is the worry over mat
tiers that are past all mend ng. The
insane asylum is full of patients made
in this way.-Sdn Francisco Bulletin.
AT Whitsbeth. Eng, lately. two or
three oysters were put away In an
earthen pan. and during the night a,
couple of young mice inserted their
hungry mouths within the open shell of
one of the bivalves. In the morning
the mice were found fast held by the
oyster. and the whole party was con-
in = jocaI n,nsaun nv p"0'' '"' -
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Lion hunting. we suspect. is carried
on very nearly always at the expense
OF the Ion IN one way or another The
brilliant pianist, the rising young
painter. the literary hero OF the hour.
who permits himself to be shown of as
one OF the ornaments OF this or that
fashionable lady drawing-room. must
feel now and then very much like the
fiddler who 10 paid to play while the
gentry dance.-N. y. fedytne.
A man who believes and strictly
adheres to the adage, Mind your own
business, is employed IN the New York
custom House. During long illness.
OF his wife, to whom he was greatly at
tached, he carefully refrained from let
ting any OF his fellow employees know
that ANYTHING was wrong at home, and
when she died and he had to lay off to
attend the funeral, he announced the
fact by leaving note to this effect on
his desk: tone to Auburn on busl-
ness. ". !. Herdfd.
The new winter oyercoats for the
police have stripes on the
sleeves. indicating in all cases where
such is the fact that the wearer has
served IN the nited States army, and
also the length OF service on the police
force. A single strip OF narrow red
braid encIreilng the sleeve above the
wrist uesignates the veteran soldier,
and a light blue braid stripe IS con
[erred for each three years OF police
service. One member OF the Reserve
Corps, who has been patroiman for
twenty-seyen years, has quite row OF
'trlpes.-fhhddetphtd fresS.
Music is becoming more and more
and the countries thai
were thought to possess musical kpowl.
adge par excellence are OBLIGED TO ad.