The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
CONSTITUTIONAL PARAGRAHs.

Senior Silvestre Garcia Bango was recently
captured in Cuba by bandits. 1t cost him S. 600 to
regain his freedom. He says that such o tariff is o
tax.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, the Louise Mitchell of
Chicago, has taken the stump for Harrison and
Morton. Save us from frends!" is the melan-
choly cry of Chairman Quay
Editor Burbanks, of the New Orleans Pic
ayune, has eleven children seven horses, pack of
dogs, pet camel, six parrots, steam yacht, an
orange grove and S2,o0O00O in bonds, and yet he is
always growing about the weather.
Eugene Bloc, fourteen years of age, recently
committee suicide in Paris OF account of unrecipro-
Gated affection, He fell i'll love with plaster cas-
of Venus in his fathers house. and would stand gait
ing at it for hours. The boy neglected his studies
and his father grew angry and broke the statue into
pieces. Eugene went to his room, twisted q sheet
around his neck and stTangled himself.
General William T. Sherman seems to have
not the slightest fear of DEATH and talks oft some
times in an off hand way hat is extremely weird.
Not long after Sherdan's funeral Sherman was
speaking to friend OF the many prominent officers
OF the late war who had died. Il shall have to
hurry up" remarked Sherman, land die pretty
soon. or there will be nobody but militia to bury
me-"
In answer to the inquiry as to whether Corporal
punishment should be used in schools, a goodly
number of answers have been received. 1t seems
but few would be in favor of using the rod in the
old fashion way, and yet there are very few but
what would think it unwise to let the average boy
understand that the rod was not to be used at ALL
The Manufacturers Record in summing up the
last nine months work in the SOUTH and the com.
parsons for the length of time for three years
back, speak in fattering terms of the souths pro-
gress. The increase of new southern industries Is
wonderful and the amount of capital that has been
invested shows that capitalists of the world are
ard and
confidence
Hanson Craig, Of kentucky is probably the
heaviest man in the world His weight is given at
1872 pounds, and it requires thirtyseven yards of
cloth to make him suit. He is sixfeet four and
onehalf inches in height, is thirty-one years old
and weighed eleven pounds at birth. When two
years old he took $1,000 prize at the baby show in
New York, tipping the beam at 206 pounds ut that
time. His father weighed 115 pounds and his mother
122.
ellis Clayborne, Vermont farmer, offers
to sell his wife. In circular adqertsinga her
merits, he says: Height, five feet; age 80; form.
finely developed; hair, brown and luxurant; eyes
large and hazel colored; hands and feet about the
usual size; temper, d-n bad" The last quality is
undoubtedly the cause for this unique procedure.
A Chicago woman has been sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment for having poured kerosene
over her husband and touched match to him.
The gentleman was done to turn. Evidently, to
among really serious crimes, in spite of the fact
that the practice, should it become popular would
seriously interfere with that great Chicago industry
the divorce court.
After young blood in Schenectady had got
drunk, turned his mother out doors, smashed up
the furniture, drawn a crowd and wGlIoped po-
liceman, he suddenly remembered that the family
reputation was at stake, and begged that he might
not be arrested and disgraced Lots OF young bloods
are built after that style of architecture.
Pain in his Fte-Dr. J. S. Wilson whose feet were
cut of by q switch engine in August, was on the
streets yesterday in a roller chair looking the pct-
ure of health and contentment. The lower part of
his body covered with shawl and he was sur
rounded by his friends, who were delighted to see
him out He said, II suffer morefrom pain In my feet
than from anything else. although my feet were am
putated two months ago. can still feel the pain
and itching in my toes, and in the ball of my feet
although tell you they have been buried for two
months The nerves are still iritaied. suppose
this weird pain will wear off after awhile"