The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-11
Emily: WIN some of the sisters please inform me
where can obtain book on telegraphy.
CONSTITUTION PARAGRAPHS.

Curtis, the presidential candidate of the
American party, is tire most wealth of any of hls
competitors. He is set down at 100000.
milwaukee, can scarcely be spoken OF any
more as an American city. The Polish population
there alone is fully 10000 Is this the reason why
| the Milwaukee Journal says. "ro make the world
ideally happy half the people ought to be created
| dumb"
General Low Wallace has in his library what
is probably the last feter roken from the wrist of
slave. 1t was removed by a loeksmith from the
arm of a young mI1atto woman who ran away from
her master near Baltimore and sought refuge in
General Wallace's headquarters.
Occasionally Bill Nye drops into a caustic
bit OF philosophy. rs when he says: "The racing.
around-running about and never-stay-at home wo-
man is more foolish than the goose, as uncertain as
the wind, and generally Discontinued and UNI
happy being, having no selEposc and contributing
to the unrest of all about her being bore to her.
self and a regular nuisance to everybody ese."
The Chicago dead beat is said to be making
handsome living now by advertising for u wife
and requiring that all applicants inclosc a stamp
for reply. His mail has to be sent up in u wheel
| barrow.
| There is project on foot to change the
name of Elizabethiown, Ky, to Widowvile. Sixty
| one bereaved widows live there, and only three
| have been able 10 secure husbands in the last
| thirtyive years. What makes the situation moro
alarming is the fact that there are only six widow
ers, and they appear contented in their loneliness.
| Every morning during the complaining sea-
son the farmers OF Nebraska go out into cornfeld
larger than the whole state Of New Jersey. Every
noon during harvest they go In to dinner from "a
wheat field which contains 100 600 acres more than
the whole state of Delaware, aud every night Mary
calls the cattle home from pasture larger than the
state of Pennsylvania
Forty-one years ago young man of Rhode
Island asked young woman of the same state to
| e -
went about his business but he kept his eye on the
woman and from time 10 time renewed his suit she
refusing offer after offer. He perseyered, and hi
| constancy was rewarded short time ago when she
| accepted and married HIM. He was then ~ years
| old aud she 6l
| AT the campmeeting in Douglass, Massa.
chuseIs the other daya man arose and said that he
was a recently escaped convict from the Rhode Is
land state prison, that he had determined to lead
better life, and that as beginning he should go
back TO the prison and serve the remainder of his
term The prison chaplain was present and heard
him. and knowing something of human nature,
helped the convict in his good resolutions by tee
phoning for officers and capturing him before he
weakened.
"Mrs. Cleveland's frock,' says an observer
who recently saw her shopping in Washington,
twas OF cream-tinted China silk, sprayed with deli
cato blue and pink blossoms. 1t had straight,
full skirt and deep hem, plain round waist, belted
in with pale blue sash, which was knotted ut tho
back with In big soft bow with long ends. She
wore no hustle. Her hat of Leghorn shaded the
face and was trimmed with lightbiue gauze.
Smoothly fitting shoes and the simplest of iewelry
completed the costume"
"Brethren," said Tennessee preacher,
don't put Pontius Plate down as a bad man. lie
wasn'ta bad man; he was only weak one. -.
himself would much rather have released our
Savior, but he couldn't resist the pressure Of the
Scrbes and Pharlsees and the howlngs of the rab-
bic. He didn't have any backbone He wasnt bad,
but he was poor creaure-in fact, there was moth
ing to him. Brethren, If General Andrew Jackson
had been in Pontlus Pilates place that trial would
have had @ different ending"