The Forrest City times., 1888-05-05
MINOR MENTION.

There are 10 674 parrlsters in France.
 Everything in fashion this spring is low except hats and prices.
 There are ,, 900 lawyers in this country who are fit to be Chief Justice-take their word Tor 1t.
 There is a town out In Colorado called 'Wagon Wheel" It has home paper called the Wagon Tongue.
 A highly cultivated and very popular pas- tor of Harrisburg bears the singularly inap. propriate name of Pfuhl-
 Kalamazoo has secured wholesale rate from hash house keeper whereby tramps are led at sixty cents dozen.
 A manufacturing chemist in New York stated the other day that the world takes about a ton of pills week.
 Vermont annually prodTces 25,0Oo,0oo pounds of butter, 10000 900 pounds of maple sugar, and 1000 900 pounds of cheese.
 The New York Senate has, by unanimous votc passed bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes, cigars or tobacco to minors
 At a temperance revival at New Albany, Ind, 5000 people have signed the pledge and pinned on Francis Murphy's blue ribbon. Mrs. Mollie Corwein, of shelbyville, Ind, Is suing for divorce from her sixth husband. She has already been divorced from the other i've.
 George L. Fnlman. a farmer living near Fulda. Minn., is the owner of steer that pumps by the use Of its horns all the water 1t drinkh
 IL Is said that sheets of tissue paper placed on the ground under the feet, and then re- moved, carry with them every trace of the scent. so that bloodbounds cannot follow the tracks.
 Burglars who were attempting to rob San Francisco residence dropped their booty and ran on hearing hoarse voice ask; What do you wantln The inquiry came from the pet parrot
 A citizen of Blskely, Ga, has novel meth cd Of hunting wild turkeys. He takes tame pobhler along, tethers it to a tree, then hides and waits for the wild birds to come up and make its acquaintance.
 An old musket that Is supposed to be relic of the time when Col Bouquet was com m,pder at Fort Pitt, was dug out of the bot tom of the Allegheny River near Pittsburg re gently in good condition.
 young lady at Claverack, N. r., has taught a cat 10 sit at the table, and with napkin abou. its neck to take meat from . nlste with 1t paws The animal has well developed thumb on each forepaw.
 Florida dispatch says: 'Already the wild persimmon, the peach, live oak and sweet bay are leaving out nicely; corn IS rom two to three feet high, while squashes and !. other garden truck are nearing maturity"
 "When held up to strong light" says an exchange. s'a fresh egg is very clear and the air cell at the large end is very small The smaller the air cell the fresher the egg, as the eeli expands as the egg becomes stale.n
 In cracking hickory nuts one evening ias week James Frye, a Vermont man, mashed his thumb. He jumped up and cursed God and man. and while raving he fell down anc died Buy your hickory nuts on the hall shell.
 some one who has been making up the re cords of the 2. 2.el9 female graduates of Ameri can colleges says that 99S are married | e49 are teachers. l33 are in other occupations and 5s9 are not engaged In remuneratiV' 1 work.
 Thev have A slrewd crane at Honesdale | pa Ii takes A bug in it's bill and holds It II inc water By and by a fish will make gras for the bug and the crane grabs the fish. Las weel, the crane was seen to catch several plckerel in this manner
 A Baltimore firm has till-tapper In m shane of a Maltese cat When one of th Arm opened the money drawer on Tuesda, morning out jumped cat belonging to him From the cash were missing go note an' two st notes, and other notes were damage' hv the cats teeth. Tsbby is accused of hay ing appropriated the money.
 novel craft is being constructed at Jei fsrsonville, Qnd.) shipyard for an enterpris in0 St. Louis citizen. It is to be hoatinI theater. aud will cost about s5o,0Oo Tn ho.t i. to be built fin the shape of house x,th fiat bottom, and is to be finished up I elaborate style, with stage boxes and all tn belongings of frst-class theaier
 Treuty-two years ago Eyander csmeror of TouIou, Tenn, wanted to marry Mar B.vne., and she wanted to marry him Il was thirty and she was twenty. Papa Bayie sald ..No,- and 50 the faithful lovers waited and waited, and few days sgo the old ma relented aud Evander. aged hfty-two, an Mary, aged forty-two, were married