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the other watches cells.
, AsmaIl boy prayed dutifully for
! a strong stomach SO that he might
cat Unlimited watcrmclons.
Mrs. Cleveland says she just
! loves thogWhite House and hopes
I they won't change it at all.
The grand jury at Vicksburg,
Miss, has returned l22 bills, some
charging prominent citizens with
crime. -.-- .. .....
Its q careless farmer that leaves
his pillow sticking IN the ground
/ when he unhitches ut night, and
| drops his gear on tho beam OF his
plow-stock.
Dakota farmers arc making plans
to grow fax for fuel this summer.
1t is said that ton of flax straw is
worth more to burn than 4 Ton of
soft coal. 1900.
President Cleveland is four
years older than his mothcr-In-law.
How funny it will sound when she
says, "Grover, son, como to your
mammal
After all the excitement over the
gubernatorial campaign IN Gcor-
gia, there is complaint that the
people wont register. r=
Miss Susan B. Anthony claims
that twenty-six members of the
United States senate are in. favor
of women suffrage.
A toboggan slide has been open
ed ut Glen Summit, Pa, two thous-
and feet above the level of the sea.
The chief of police of Kansas
City, Mo-, has issued an order for
bidding the wearing of Mother
Hubbards on the public thorough
fares.
il 2 Dakota hotels outstrip all others
in the way of accommodations.
One of them advertlses an elegant
cemetery run in connection with
the house.
There are now 100000 carp in
the United States, the defendants
of thirty-fivo fish brought TO the
United States less than q dozen
years ago.
A mathematical calculation has
shown that-if the mHseles of man
were relatively as strong as those
of flea he nconld throw IL book
agent two miles. o.
The United States man of war
Juniato, now IN Now York harbor,
has been supplied with an ice ma
chine which furnishes about 100
pounds of ice daily.
An Albany, Ga, lady said that
during the war she paid $50 for
one spool OF thread, $500 for a
pound of tea, and gave S4OO for a
simple gipgham dress.
A New York journal says of a
recent bride that "she is defended
directly and colIateraIly from very
distinguished people, but primer
pally from her grandfather.
Seyenty-two members of con-
gress are Methodists, that denomi-
nation leading all others. In all
there are 1873 church members in
the the national Legislature.
Travellers IN France are warned
that they are liable to arrest for
making sketches or drawings in
the vicinity of any fortress or for
entering any military enclosures.
Old and questionable houses of |
ten form moro beautiful pictures
when set in living frames Of green.
than costly new and protentious
ones standing alone without relief
or background.
The young ladies in a Conncctl-
cut female seminary have written
scaled letters to each other, under
tho solemn pledge that they are
not to be opened until the day the
recipient is married.
Keep your tomato vines on their
feet. Drive in four laths TO the
hill, allowing them to meet at the
top. AS the plants grow tic with
wooden Irvine, as that will not cut
the tender branches.
Just SO long as women become
wives for any consideration,
whether of money or ease, or any
thing less noble than q pure love,
just SO long there will be miserable,
disappointed and ill-paid wives.
There are still 1900 Cherokee In
dians in Western North Carolina,
whore they hold $4,000 acres of
land by deed of trust. They are
urged to go to the Indian Terri
tory, and are considering the mat
ter.
No farmers wife ought to be too s
busy TO give an hour OF more, oc- {
casionally, TO few plants and s
flowers around the house. The
place will look more "home-lIkc"
and make moro favorable impress I
sion upon observers.
Citizens of an Illinois town made !
a kite seven feet long, and a few
days ago sent it 1000 feet into the 5
air. A MINDLESS was rugged. and
it required the power of three men
10 draw the kite back to earth
lgaiH. a
If hearty wish or moro power l
20 their elbows IN the way of doing :
honest work will help Congress TO {
get through its duties dccently and s
adjourn by July Is, we join IN 5
that homeIy grccting.-t j
Philadelphia Ledger, Ind. ii
Seven brave policemen in their
raves, sixteen lying helpless and Il
uffcring on their beds, and nine
cen others lame and halt and mn %
bile for duty. 1t is bad record %
o face in the presence of an honest +
ury of twelve men.-Intcr Ocean. /,
The passage Of the FItz John =
'orter bill thrusts upon the coun-