The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25
CO INSTITUTION PARAGRAPHS

TrineeSS eugene, OF Sweden, sacrificed her
jewels in order TO build hospital upon an island,
where cripples might be nursed and healed
st. Paul, Neb., has Frances Folsom Cleve-
land club oftwenty-five young women. Their dress
uniform is white, with rcolored sashes and sailor
caps, with their club name in golden letters
One of the oldest bits of bric-a-brac is a
dog -pincer" an instrument once in use in Wales
to enable .the beadle to seize and eject unruly
bad-behaved dogs from church during services
The National Society of French AntiQuaries was
sho wn one of these the other day by the learned
Celtic scholar Gaidoz
Precious stranger Ito Texas bartender)
the Wolf! There's only one of me and this is my
Well, Pm the father of triplets, and every day in
the week is their day to howl. So you Just howl
siftings N''- W :" NO WA ''"''N' -''''''
Lithium is the lightest metal known and is
worth $3.50 per Galliun is the cosliest metal
known and is worth $3.50 per ounce.
Wonders are being continually accomplished
by electricity. French electrician thinks no will
soon be able to produce thunder storm at will
The capital of Russia, st. Petersburg, found
ed by Peter the Great, is decaying city In the last
seven years its population has diminished fully
$4,000 The old monarch must look down with dis
gust upon his descendants.
Passing the commission house of shomo Bros ON
yesterday, the sidewalk was blocked with rows of
barrels for shipment. Said Mr.. shomo;
"Think of it. Here are five barrels of potatoes,
two barrels of onons two barrels of apples and two
tubs of butter, being shipped to Tallapooss, Ga.
The potatoes are from Virginia, the apples from
Louisville, the onions from Ohio, the butter from
Elgln. Taapoosa ought to raise everything of this
sort she needs and ship thousands of dollars worth
to Atlanta. And yet she draws her potatoes onions,
apples and butter from four distant states The
butter was ordered to Tallapoosaby telegram"
A Winfield, Kan, married man wrote
love letter to young girl and she turned it to
local paper in which 1T was printed verbatim
A Scotch beadle took his sweetheart to a
graveyard and showing her dark corner, said:
"Mary, my folks lie there. Would you like to lie
there when you die?" 1t was grim way of propos-
ing, but Mary was sensible Scotch lassie and &C
cepted him.
A Chicago man who gives his whole mind to
advertising. has devised q pair of boots, whose
wooden soles hold small automatic press, with
which the users name and occupation can be
printed all over the sidewalks These boots would
be dangerous things for men to wear on oil oc-
casions.
A man in a small New England village has
just been brought up before the church for encour-
aging the use of protane language. He owns dog
which he had named Damage" and, of course, all
the young people in the village naturally called the
dog DAM" to the great scandal and annoyance Of
the church pillars.
A fair damsel at Elk Point ate twenty ears
of corn for supper one day last week and went to
eampmeeting in the evening. That's the sort of
girls they have in Dakota.
In California the fruit growers place at in
tervals around their vineyards, orchards gardens
stacks of porous bricks soaked in petroleum
other inHammablo @lte ial that makes dense
smoke. AS frosts usually occur on still nights the
pail of smoke hangs over the place and avert them
by acting as kind of blanket. The fires are
kinded when the mercury drops into the thirties