The Forrest City times., 1888-02-25
FACT AND FANCY.

An Ice bridge has formed at Niagara Falls overcoats for dollar are advertised in New York
 A Massachusetts man thinks ho can make copper from scrap ron
 Perry County PIl young man has died of his jaw coming auHingcd
 The capital prize at a recent fair In Norris town was won b. Mir Priz,r.
 Prohibition will rule In ali but about dozen towns of Arkansas this year.
 The Baptsts oi Nebraska have located their university at Grand IsianI.
 A Nsw Tor, boarIn- house madam has seized baby for her board bill
 Tue salt consumed in the United States i, ,aid 10 amount 10 i2 Uao,0 barrels per year. The hremen of PlaiuGe'd, \. j., resigned in body, becaus. rum selling is to be stopped. Manufacturing industries in Boston are re. ported unusually active for thls season of the rear.
 A great deal Of machinery is being pur. chased in lhe North for Southern machine shops
 Water furn shed by meter is now five cents lUOV EAiloas 4u VI hHsliilEtO'l '" bSA''N'Ois eight cents
 Twelve Memphs pastors have come out against MarIi G'as ,u ihe ground that "it tends oply to evil.
 A sweet potstn, nr turing four feet one inch in length and two Inches in diameter, was exhibited in East Gainesville, Ga, TO gently
 A Toledo baggagcman, who checked an old lady's trunk about seven years ago, hal just been left legacy Of <l3,0O0 by the gratc ful woman.
 Dr. Vaughn, of Michigan University, saw there are l0C0l cases of typhoid fever it Michigan snnualls, and that nine-tenths O the patients get well.
 Chill papers are almost unanimous In the opinion that the characteristics of the choleri which has been raging there is Of the deadliesi type known to science
 A Tennesseean began coon hunting when he was IS, and he is now 63. In the interval he has cut notch for every coon he has killed and the number is ',ie3.
 The last sailing vessel built for the Cnitee States Navy was lhe Constellation, completed in 1855 She is at the present time th, practice ship al the Naval Academy.
 Nothing has been said about the peach budl in connec ion with ,he recent blizzard. Wer, they all taken into the house in time, or ar, we to have no peaches and cream next yearl Capt John Tobn, of Kansas City elalmi eighty acres Of land in the heart Of Salt LaAe 1 City. Tob!n was an ola scout and claims tS have purchased he land from the Indians ir l 1850.
 l There is woman living at Hannibal, Mo, 1 who is so heayy sue can't walk, and Is wheeled about in a cart by an abe bodied attendant l She weighs 40 pounds and otherwise is in good health.
 1 Ata spelling school in Des Moines a'report- er on salary of S9 per week downed the whole crowd twice over. Among inc wors spoilers were two bankers, three lawyers and judge.
 The Mayor of Boston has dyspepsia, and o the three hundred remedies recommended hin all but two contained whisky lie can't SC, how it is that some people suffer so long iron this complaint
 A handsome young woman about twenty five years old called upon Boston undertake the other day and had her measure taken io coffin. The next day she offered the under taker S20O to bu her.
 A Birmingham (Ala.) man fired a revolv.l point blank at a necros head, but the bulle glanced of, passed through n thick wall, an' fell to the floor in an adjoining room. Tn negro escaped with slight scratch.
 The most profitable piece of fruit land fo its size in the United States Is said 10 be th speer & Ginn grove, near Sanford, Flor da It comprises four acres and half and thi years yield of lmes sold for Sl2,0OO.
 A Portland (NIe.) woman has read the Bibl through eighty-hye times. she is seventy-hv years old aud began when she was seven She reads from the same book with which sh began, and has read it st least once ever year.
 A German woman, probably none too well to-do. entered the express office at East Sag inaw, Mich, and paid s6 on a package ad dressed to ''Unser Fritz" at san Reno, ltaly It was some medicine for the Grown Prince throat
 An exprcssman In Boston, who, last week had package stolen from his wagon, at one began scouting for the offender leaving hl team on the street. While thus engaged second rascal appeared and carried on barre Of four