The National tribune., 1888-08-09
PERSONS AND THINGS.

"A man Of small OaIiber Is the greatest bora
Washington Critic.
- Men will work harder for days pleasure than
they will for a weeks wagos.-P Philadelphia In
9tfTeT.
"A farmer who saw his family arrsyed 10 dashy
new hats exclaimed; There go my wife and
daughters with so bushels OF oats apiece on thsiF
heads -D0J1HSgttBe AetVs.
- The French census reported $50 persons who
were tUO years old or over. bat NJ. Levssseur, who
has been investigating the matter. reports to the
Academy OF Sciences that 81 OF these we're only
believed TO be so by their relatives and that
there were only l6 whose age could be proven 20
be over 100 years by authentic documents. He esti
mates that thereare not over 50 ccntensrsus in tho
country.
Sham battlehags tattered and torn to repre-
sent the real article the latest product Of French
ingenuity, and are said to have deceived large
numbers OF curiosity hunters and patriots.
There is a man In Atchison who builds an ad-
dition 70 bis house every time daughter gets
married In anticipation, he says, Of the time when
she viii bring her husband and children home 70
live with him.-AtcAts0n (RGn.) Globe.
A man who was struck by two-ineh stream
from fire engine the other day has prepared a bill
for the Legislature requiring ali FIRE companies 20
eonhne themselves TO the use Of soft Wstsr.-BiT-
in0toB Free Press
just been taken TO the Ohio PeuiteutaFy 20
ls years sentence for murder. has been put to
work with thread aud needle patching prison gar
ments. He says he mo hkee squaw work
- The news of the result of tho last Engiish
Derby was telegraphed from England to Australia
In one hour and four minutes which Is belived TO
be the fastest time made between those points
Judge II. Clinton Cowles, who has iust died IN
Empire, Colo was familt1.ly known IN the West
as the " Trail Blazer" He q New Yorker by
birth. and was the pioneer % man Of law in the
unsettled territory. He the favorits Judge Of
the old-time miners, and one thought OF appeal
ing from his decisions.
1t cost the Emperor Of Austria $4,000 to en-
terrain the Gar Of Russia FOR thres days. The
pTicesat the Hotel Hapsourg evidently as nigh
as anything We know OF in this country, II not
higher.
Uncle John Robinson, the veteran Snowman,
"a very III at his home in Cincinnati. The old man
Is 81 years offs age still his mind remains clear and
his memory good he zays the cause Of his disease
is drinking all the bad whisky that he had to
drink IN Ids early days, when there q great
deal OF rough-and- tumble fighting.
The Governor Of ths Danish Colony Of Green
land receives by the ship which brings him his
annual supplies, copies Of the daily papers Of Co
penhagen for the yeaT preceding. he arranges
these papers in the order of their dates and then
quietly and calmly reads paper each day, Just as
though It was fresh from the press. He Ia some
times strongly tempted TO peer into futurity by
residing some papers ahead when he comes across
interesting news; but he Tesists the temptation,
matter how anxious he is to know the fate Of some
measure. One day paper for each day is his rule
and so at the end of the year he is thoroughly IA
miliar with the news OF the preceding year He
says he Is just happy As though hs pulled each
day's paper of the press.