Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-19

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| in Switzerland, aud the Government has
lust refused to sell it TO the Austrians.
| RI is true the Swiss said, that the castle
is the ancestral scat OF the imperial
house OF Austria. but it is also q monu-
ment Of Swiss history, having been con-
quered by the Berne republican soldiers
in l415, when they wrested Aargau from
the Hapsburgs.
An Americas, Ga, young lady aroused
the whole household at her homo, few
nights since, screaming and yelling that
some one had kissed her while she was
asleep. Her father rushed in with q
pistol in one hand and light in tho
other, but could not find the kisser at
first. The daughter declared that she
felt the whiskers on her lips and the fel-
lows breath on her cheek and that 1t
was "soft aud nice" Just then her pet
kitten slipped from behind her pillow.
A few days ago, Ebenezer Peck, a
colored man living not far from Craw-
fordville, Ca, WAS out walking through
his cotton patch when he discovered
several silver coins on top OF the ground.
He procured a hoe and began digging,
when he found three or four more pieces.
he says he would have continued dig
ging, but he didn't want 10 spoil his cot
ton. Some of the pieces were dated as
follows: One 1772 and one l73, both
Spanish 25-cent pieces; one 1913.
Greek coin; one American half dollar,
dated 1918.
There comes from India acanine anec-
dote about a terrier who, when given a
bone, was sent TO eat it on the gravel
drive in front Of bungalow. Two crows
had sought often TO snatch the meat from
the dog, but had always been defeated.
Finally they discussed the matter in
neighboring tree, after which one of
them few down snd pecked at the dogs
tail, and while the terrier was attending
to this advertisement the other one came
AID seized the bone. So sayeth the
cbronicler.
The Milton Democrat says that last
Saturday Mr.. Newport Harris killed
large eagle. He saw it in tree near his
house and shot at it twice with a shot
gun, but the shot seemed to have no eff
feet. He then tried ii with rifle ami
killed it. When shot it fastened its
talous to the limb it was sitting on and
died with It's head hanging dosnward,
end Mr.. Harris felled the tree 10 get it.
1t measured SIX feet from tip to tip of its
wing, and its talons were about one and
half inches long.
The other evening, while journalist
named Graham, and George Curran, q
carpenter, both residents OF Chatam,
Ont, were having a friendly fencing
match, the point OF Graham's foil acct
dentally penetrated Curan's brain,
entering above the right eye. The
wounded man died the same night.
Graham was subsequently exonerated
from all blame by coroner's jury, as It
is supposed thar. during the bout, the
button on his foil was knocked oil, thus
leaving the point entirely bare.
awe may be fond of our dog, - said a
Buffalo lady the other afternoon as she
chopped the animals meat, because, as
she said, his mouth was 50 tired with
barking ut the neighbor's cat that be
could not chew comfortably. 1--WE may
be fond Of our dog, but we don't make
such fool OF him as our friend over the
way does with bis Towser. On one Of
those awfully hot nights we've had late
ly our friend got up IN the middle OF
the night to give the dog o cold bath be-
cause the animal could not sleep on ac-
count OF the heat.
The old French superstition about
luck attaching to the rope with which a
man or woman has been hanged has just
been sadly belied in the case OF a com
missionaire living in the Rue Baudelique,
at Montmsrtre. he had for some time
been the happy possessor OF bitot the
coveted rope. hIuch thinking Of bis
treasure made him morbid. Whenever
he looked at it be remembered the dread
full fare Of the young girl whom he had
cut down IN a neighbours house one
morning At last the fixed idea became
unbearable. He got his rope out, tied it
to a hook, and hanged himself.
An impromptu prize-fght took place
on Canarside dock between George
Abrams, boatman, and John Samson,
a 'longshoreman. 10th men were the
worse for drink, and became involved in
q dispute about the largest number OF
fish caught in Jamaica bay this season.
Somebody said that somebody else was
untruthful, and then at it they went,
when Officer George Hcndrickson APP
peared on the scene and arrested both.
Abrams bad a gorgeously tinted eye,
while 4emisOn was minus tooth, and
had an injured nose. The officer had
bis hands full parting the combatants
An English antiquarian has been
delving among old newspaper files and
has discovered what he Gays Is the first
commercial Advertisement ever printed
in q newspaper 1t appeared III tue
MercurfUS PokttictS, OF London, dated
September 80, 1858. Itruns as follows
That Excellent and by all Physitians
approved China Drink called by ell the
Chineans Tcha, by other Nations Iay
alias Tee. is sold at tho Suitaness Head
Cophee House. in Sweeting's Rents, by
the Royal Exchange. London" At the
date Of this advertisement tea had been
used in England about forty years, but
the price WAS extremely high, often
reaching eco per pound.
The greatest set Of rattles ever cut
from rattlesnske are now ON exhibition
in the Office Of the treasurer Of Lycoming
county, at Williamsport. The string
measures 81 inches and contains 40 rat
ties. The biggest string on record pre-
vious to this was taken from the big
snake killed near Westport last week.
That string measured inches in length
and contains Il rattles. The snake that
bore it was the biggest one ever killed in
the State, being feet long. The most
curious fact connected with the monster
Williansport set Of rattles is that it was
taken from a snake less than 3 feet long,
the rattles forming almost one fourth of
the reptiles entire length. II it is true