The Forrest City times., 1888-01-07

m Forrest Ciy Times. BoRRsr uTY. ARK.
 THE London Times has eS00. GOO worth of libel suits on hand.
 AMMONIA is 60 called because Jupi- ter Ammon's priests used to prepare it.
 EvERY time you spend dollar fool ishly you are opening . paupsr's grave.
 IT is 256 years since the first Thanks- giving Day was celebrated in this country.
 KNG MILAN. of Servia. is writing . history of his campaign against sx- Prince Alexander of Bulgaria
 CHAUNcEr n. DEPEw used to run barefoot around Peekskill till Commo- dore Vanderbilt took fancy b him
 A SOLID cut-glass bedstsad richly worked. was lately made at Birming- ham. England. for . Calcutta million are
 Mir. ARCHIBALD FoRBEs is regainins health. and may spend most of the winter in Washington with General MeigA
 A CABLE to connect China, Japan Australia and the Sandwich Islands directly with this country. is in pros pect-
 GEN SPARES says his experience in the General Land Office cost him ol0.- 900 moro than his salary of e4ooo year.
 WAsHINGToN's inauguration e Pres idsnt on April 30. 17so, is to bs csntsn- nially celebrated in grand style in New York.
 PRINCE OSCAR, the second son of the King of Sweden. is studying painting ct the Paris Academic under the nsme
 WOMEN in New York are reported to be taking readily to the custom of dis pending with mals escort in theatre going and tho like
 I'm youngest college professor in the country is Willis H. Bocock. of Hampdsn-S Sidney college. Virginia He is only 20 years old.
 FUrY.NNE survivors of Dalsclava attended the annual dinner in London . few days ago on the thirty-shird an- niversary of the charge.
 THE English Church establishment receives about e20. 900. 0oc yearly q iithes Of this e15. 0oQ 900 goes for salaries of clergymen.
 Ma 6ruRGEos's face is said to re- call that of Chester A. Arthur. but is described as being broader and not co fine as that of the late President
 CHARLEs PATTERSON BoNAPARrk. of Baltimore, bears not the slightest re- semblance to tho famous Corsican family of that name to which he is re- iated.
 PRINCESS BEATRICE of England. it is rumored. is to be created Duchess in her own right 50 that her son by Prince Battenberg will inherit peer arge.
 ISAAC ELLIS, . Petersburg. Va. patriarch. has recently taken unto himself his eighth wife. Ellis is 75 years old, and is the father of thirty six children.
 SINCE October 20. 1886. four differ ent crops have been gathered in sue cession from one plat of ground at Starke. Fla. viz-: Rutsbagas, beana corn. sweet potatoes
 
 ALoNzo HALLIDAY. president of the Chautanqua County (New York; Agricultural society. got into . bear pen Wednesday to make some repairs. The animal rushed at him. bit . piece from his leg and dragged him to the ground. Halliday reached hatchet and killed the brute. saving his life.
 EASTERN sportsmen are advised to go to Whatcom, Washington territory. On the islands opposite deer are so numer- ous as to be positive nuisance de- stroying orchards and grain crops not protected by picket or wire fences. Quail. too. are very plentiful. Orcas island being fairly alive with the little fellows-
 THE area to be occupied by the new congressional library is larger than that of the German parliament, the Munich royal library, and the library of the British museum. The building will cover Ill, 900 square feet and the soil on which it is to stand has bsen sue