The Forrest City times., 1888-09-08


 LANDvoIGT S vADAKIS, Prop'r.. FOREST CITY, ARK.
 RIDER HAGeARp. General Edwards and General Arnton have rented Q well-known salmon river in the west U. Ireland for the season.
 YoUSG Emperor William has prom ised that the production of Wagner's operas at Bayreuth shall continue. and the harmony of tho empire is threatened.
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has a cousin in the grocery business at Lawrence vile. Pa, and this cousin has son. Elmer E. Cleveland. who is member of the Allegheny base ball club.
 THE death of Cleopatra has been in- vestigated by Dr. Grand-Marais. of Nantes He finds evidence that she was not bitten by viper, but was suf- IOcateu D1 CarDOnlc ONiue-
 GAL BRYCE is credited with having already persuaded" the Cincinnati Enquirer into Q hearty support of Cleveland by the threat of starting an- other democratic paper in Cincinnati
 PERHAPS. "says the Omaha Herald, 'tho young man who suicided after he had tried to kill the girl who had re- jccted him did the wisest thing he could" But he might have commit ted suicide in the first place.
 LADIES who have not yet loft home for their summer vacation nor decided where 10 go are in formed that Newport is one prolonged dinner party. Saratoga a race course and Bar Harbor summer school of Irritation
 Mas. MARSHALL o. ROBERTS. who is said to De about to marry the Earl of Arran, the impoverished proprietor of vast estates in Ireland. is but little over 90. She has S3.00o. 900 in her own right and the income of S3, 900. 900 besides.
 A PATENTED material said to have all tho properties of good lignum vite is prepared in Leipsic. by NJ. Stookhardt. from ordinary soft wood. Tho wood is first impregnated with oil, then subjected to great pressure. caus- ing considerable increase in density.
 AFRICA seems to be getting to be the same kind of human trap that the polar regions used to be. Stanley goes in after tho Pasha, then Prof. Jamison goes in after Stanley. and then Smith goes in 10 find Jamison and Jones follows to find Smith, and thus it goes.
 THAT old bunko racket of raking in a "fiver" on the proposition that it is proper to use the word transpire in- tcrchangeably with perspire has just reached Troy. N. '. Any man who can be caught with that time-worn chestnut would be capital man for gold brick fellows to work on.
 X 12-YEAR old Philadelphia boy fishcd on the big trestle bridge over Newton Creek the other day when a train came along. He hung down over the creek from the ties and lot the train pass over his head and thus saved himself. A small boy will do anything to get chance to fish.
 IT is the severely grammatical and perennially scintillatlous Dansville BreeEe which observes that mo man can jam hatpin clean through his head and make it come out on the other side as the women do." But who ever saw a woman 'come out on the other side of tho head" like hat pinp
 THE Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at An napolis are turning out soldiers and sailors faster than the government can absorb them. During war the soldier can force death to clear for him the path to renown; but in times of peace death holds the key 10 promotion. and aspiring soldier and sailor alike must wait upon him.
 LIEUT.. ZALINsKI has so much i'm proved his pneumatic dynamite gun that it will now throw with accuracy 600 pounds of blasting gelatne a dis tanco of two miles It is claimed that if one of these 600-pound shells is dropped within fifty yards of the larg- est iron -clad afloat it will blow the vessel out of the water. The days of iron-clad are numbered
 IT would appear that the days of :he voluble and ubiquitous ''lghtning-rod man" are numbered. Science is against him and his ingenious arguments. and the number of rods manufactured are diminishing year by year. The Eiec- tric ReUse'o prophecies that the day w,ll come when lightening-rod on a house will be regarded in the same light as horseshoe over a mans door,
 BRETHREN" said a Tennessee preacher. "don't put Ponuus Pilate down as bad man. He wasn't bad man; he was only weak one. He himself would much rather have re- leased our Saviour. but he couldn't re- sist the pressure of the Scribes and Pharisees and the howlings of the rabbie. He didn't have any backbone Rrathrnn if Gan Andraw IanLSnn had