The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-03-06
GENERAL NEWS.

A bill making gambling fell
eny has passed the Kentucky sch
ate.
The thawing breeze that follows
the blizzard is known in the North
vest as "ehiuook,
1t is reported on the authority
of dealer in musical instruments
that brass bands ara on the in
crease throughout the country,
Ex-senator Dorsey threatens to
turn upin the |. 5, senate again
from New Mexico, ss soon as that
territory gets on It's statehood.
Prohibition bar-room is the
term applied to a place lately
opened in Athens, Ga, for dis
pensing hot tea, coffee and ehoeo-
late at five cents glass.
A farmer near London, Ontario,
used a vaccine point for tooth
pick, and it took with the re-
suit of giving him mouth that
has since monopolized his atten-
ton.
John w. Maekey, the modest
millionaire, is credited with say
ing recently, Money! Money is
nothing; an accident 1T is brains
that gives a man true enjoyment
and dignity
In days gone by Canadian farm
ers used to fence their farms with
black walnut rails. Now they can
sell such of those seasoned rails
for as much in some eases MS the
land ineloSed by them is worth.
There is a man in Oakland, Cal,, |
so mean that when he is asked to
join in singing "Old Hundred"
churns off "Ninety-and-Nine" in
stead. He says he has got to
make one per cent, anyway these
hard times.
GLOW to earn $50 a week, work
ing at home, ON an investment OF
81 is the gist of an alluring all
vertisement that caught a man in
Bucks county, and he received on
n printed Slip, Fish for fools, as
| do, ' III response to his inquiry
of the advertiser,
A sad faced mother had a war
rant issued in New York on Mon
day night, as a last resort, in the
hope Of checking her sons dissi-
patton. She was on her way
home, accompanied by am officer,
when she suddenly paused, moan
ed, ooh, God, my heart is break
ing" sunk to the sidewalk and
was soan dead.
4 lady unable to read thought
she could impress her neighbor
that she had learned, and accord
ingly asked for the loan of book.
The neighbor, smelling a rat, "
lent her the Bible. Keeping it Il
few days she brought it back, and
was asked by the lender how she
liked it. She replied: 81 think it
was Just lovely; they got married
after all, didn't they?'
A terrifying spectacle Of some
sort, suddenly scared a number Of
men who were indulging in a mock !
administration of the Lords Sup |
per at Millersburg, Dauplin coun-
ty, Pa, recently, and one them, q |
patent medicine vender, who had |
been acting as administrator, was
scared literally out of his wits. |
He became a raying maniac, and
finally died, the account says, sin
the widest agony |
At the New Orleans Exposition
March 6, has been designated as
Little Rock ARK Day, and the
Mayor, City Council, Fire Depart
ment, musical societies, Gov.
Hughes and staff, and large num-
Der of prominet citizens Of the city
and State are expected to be pres
emit and participate in the exercis-
es. Cheap rate excursions from
all parts of Arkansas have been
arranged, and Commissioner Me
Rea and DR., Lewis, Assistant ex-
pect to make the 9th one of the
most interesting days Of the E1-
position. Rual aRd W0rhmoH.
Under the head of Hon. jeff
Davis Failed" the Globe Democrat
delivers itself of a villainous at
tack upon the fallen leader OF the
Confederaey. 1t quotes Victor
Hugo's language on the fall of
Napoleon III: This convict was
unworthy to face fate, and God
degraded as he doomed him" The
reason for the failure of Jefferson
Davis and the Confederacy are
better explained bya remark made
by the first Napoleon: God, he
said, sis always on the side of the