The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-03-13
GENERIE NENS.

Prior to 1876 the British soldier
had only two meals adaY, break
fast and dinner;ein that year sup
per WIS ad,ledst -
Samuel J. Tildau is saitl To like
house pets, and he has large va
riety, including Maltese cats, pugs
and st Bernard dogs.
In America every man has a
right to his own opinion, but no.
body who has an opinion seems to
recognize that right except as to
himself.
What astonishes the Pension
Bureau ii that thefe7are now on
the rolls the names of 1922 wo-
men, widows Of soldiers of the
war of 1872.
A young woman fills the posi-
ton of baggage mistress, station
agent and telegraph operator at
Chesteryille, ILL.,, and III addition
finds time to run Il lumber yard
and a dairy,au OAK o
Darling, kiss my eyelids down,
is the latest moonshine cong; and
he kisses them down, and up, and
crosswise, and all around, and
then Settles ON her mouth as Il
steady thing.
A man in Edenville, y. Y. has
established a eoonery, fer the pur-
pose of breeding and raising coons
for the New York market. He
will sell the meat ut the market
the skin to furriers and the tails
to brushmakers,
MY wife, remarks one bene-
diet to another, has the loyeliest
head of hair you ever saw. When
she lets it down it reaches in II
mass of ringlets below her waist. "
That's nothing" replied the 9th
Ell; when my wife lets hers down
it falls.to. the floor
eminent sculptor devoted
himself for many years to a
statue of the ideal woman. One
day an acquaintance spoke to him
of the long time he had given to
the work. well he said, smil-
ingly, since il takes Nature eigh-
teen years to make q beautiful
woman, why should | finish my
work more quiellly2'
Exercise is.a good thing, but it
is not indispensable. leopold
von}Ranke, the great German his
torian, is past 80, and he has
spent three-quarters of a century
in his library During all this
time he has devoted fifteen hours
a day to study and writing, leay-
ing the library to go the dining
room or his chamber. He is hale
and hearty, and has literary work
mapped out for years to come.
As late as l4l2 it was unlawful
in England for laborers, farmers
and mechanics to send their chill
,lren to school. In 1415 a law was
enacted in the same land of bless
ed privileges that they who read
the scriptures nj the mother tongue
should be hanged for treason and
burned for heresy. y At that very
date and for centuries before the
children of China were required
to read and write, and books were
numerous and cheap.
See here, young man with a
billiard cue in your hand and non
sense in your head, has it occur
red to you that four such deaths
rs Grant, Hendricks, Mcclellan
and Hancock, all happening within
six months, have left some mighty
big vacancies to fill and, that they
step ahead in promotion reaches
clear down to you? Stop fooling
away your time, quit intlaming
your stomach with whisky and do
something, if its only driving a
delivery wagon.
No sensible man should getmad
because a newspaper duns him for
money. A dun is not mn impeach-
ment of a subscribers integrity,
but is simply the outcroping of
the Publisher necessities. For
instance, a thousand men owe a
man from one to four dollars each.
He has to dun them all to getmon-
ey to pay expenses. Instead of
getting mad and quitting the pa
per because the publisher asks him
for what is honestly due, the sub
scriber shouhlsthank the editor for
waiting on him SO patiently, and
pay him up prompt like man and
in additi0nto arrearages, pay him
year in advance, just follow this
simple instruction if you want to
live happy and prosper. Ia.
Spring is coming as the poet
loves to paint her, floating through
the air scattering flowers; the trees
will soon be budding, the birds