Richland beacon., 1888-04-14

Z I GNV ' that"ppeared twice
L. too heavy for him.
The fellow dropped the handle of the
banner on the pavement and looked up
with broad grin.
"a dollar day." he said.
'1ts not much"
"That's so, but'-and he clutched the
handle a little tighter-"it's a hundred
cents better than dom nOthin'."
MR.. WILLIAM KNOX, of Santa Monica,
Cal. who hay become rich through the
boom out there, wants a wife, and SEN
sibly goes to the newspapers 10 help
him. In letter to the San Francisco
Examiner he says that at night he
wouldn't feel so lonesome" if he had
some good woman to ''kind of cherk him
up little. "The boom has made me
rich, he writes, "but as far as women
is concerned it amt the same with dirt.
There amt 10 boom in wimmen. In
fact, it beats me how scarce they are in
this glorius land. Any poor girl who
may wish for a home in Southern Cali
fOrnia can have one by addressing to
William Knox, who is in want of wife
between the age of 25 and 30 years. The
first who calls will have the home for
life. She will have good, hard work
ing man. She will have good, honest,
sober man, and man who is never seen
60 inside saloon. What more do a wo-
man want?"
ANOTHER curious feature in Chinese
life is reported in the native press. A
difficulty having been found by good
looking humpbacked girl in procuring
a husband, the gO-between discovered
that an Identical difficulty prevented a
certain humpbacked young man from
getting wife. She accordingly ar
ranged a match but rs each party was
Of eligible quality in other respects,
each of the respective parents insisted
upon obtaining q surreptitious view of
the amorous one on either side. The
go-between accordingly arranged that
the girl should be interviewed as she sat
at her spinning wheel with her hump
deftly inserted in a hole in the mud
wall, while the man vss introduced rs
he WAS conducting lone water buffalo
and leaning over its neck with his rain
coat negligently thrown over his back.
The marriage took place, and it then
became too late for Regeneration, as it
had been indorsed by law.
JOHN J. FLANAGAN, the late city editor
of the Utica Obserrer, was city editor of
the Utica Herald at the time of hanging
of Earl in Hamilton county several
years ago. The Observer says: "The exc
cutiOn occurred in an inaccessible part
of the mountains, and Flanagan was the
only newspaper man present. In order
to get back to the city with his report
he was obliged to charter a special train.
Even then it seemed impossible for him
to reach Utica in time for him to get his
story into the newspaper. Here the
condemned man Earl, who had learned
of the reporters predicancnt, came to
his rescue, and agreed to be hanged two
hours earlier to allow Flanagan to start
for home. Flanagan had an elaborate
account of the hanging for the next days
paper.
A PRoJECt is on foot in Milwaukee to
build an old settlers and pioneer club
house. One of these old boys is said to
have expressed a general sentiment when
he said: "Im in favor of hum or n
meetin' place for us old fellers. 1 don't
want none of yer new tangled club
houses, but q sort of place WHARF We kin
get together agin and swap yarns and
whittle. That's what want morn any,
thin'-a place to whittle in. I've been
alOOkin' round, but its fact, just the
same, that there amt a place in all Mil
waukee WHARF man can set down and
whittle. Gentlemen, when you are
talking over all this business put me
down for a club house, or whatever You
call it, an, remember what I've told |
you, there amt no place to whittle."
A CURIOUS freak of memory is that of
forgetting words of poem or speech
which has been said over great number !
of times. The leading lady of play
which has been performed 700 times !
cannot remember her lines, even by the
most violent effort, and only complete |
rest of a day or two would recall them. !
Another actress of a play which had a
great run had to be constantly prompted |
toward the end, rehearsed every day,
and yet was constantly pursued by ter
rible consciousness that what she was
saying to the audience was simply
gibberish.
The politest and most accommodating
people in the world live right here in
Mobile, says letter writer. II saw
something to-day never expect to see
again" said a gentleman yesterday. II
saw street car stop in order to allow q
lame negro, who was q passenger, order
and receive a flask of whisky at corner
grocery. The storekeeper came out to
the car for the purpose, and the goods
were afterwards wrapped mp and deliv-
cred with all the deliberation due to so
q commercial transaction.
Then the car with its 10 passengers
moved on"
WHAT looked like the largest, straight
est, soundest, and longest walnut log
ever foated down the Cumberland
reached Nashville the other day. 1t be-
longed to q green-looking countryman
who gave good reasons why he must sail
it Immediately. 1t was such q fine log
that despite the owners anxiety to sell,
it fetched almost its apparent value. In
due course of time il was taken ont of
the water, and proved to he sycamore
log with walnut bark tackled all over it
in the most artistic manner The green
countryman has not been seen since.
THERE is naughty little girl in Balti-
more who takes pleasure in giving police
men trouble. She begins crying on the
street. says she il Lost, and gets police