Richland beacon., 1888-07-28
nj M'I}I,R 81

~ itti, III NlilNli td>C Nou Will IltNc W
report Just exactly what the speaker
says, and nothing else, it will take You
two or three Years to learn, But if You
merely want to report political speeches,
III which occupation You merely look
wise while you make hen tracks, and
then go the Office and write down the
speech from memory, making the speak
ers say whatever You think will please
the managing editor and hurt the other
party, about six weeks light study, with
intervals of recreation, Will be thor
ough university course.
a SHORT time ago young woman in
Gardiner, Me-, but II years old, took it
into her head to black her face, so no
one would know her, dress up as smart
negro boy, and go out for promenade.
What amusement she expected to get
out of the escapade it is hard to tell, but
evidently she did not expect what did
happen. She was arrested for one thing,
but when the police officers learned that
she was not a yong colored man bent
on burglary they let her go home. Since
then, Judging from the local papers, the
one theme in Gardiner has been her ex-
plot, and the one question asked, "Who
was she's" After everybody had fully
made mp their minds that fifty or sixty
different young women were each the
one in question, the masquerader, in
order to relieve the innocent from sus-
picIon, told the whole story.
A GENUINE hoop snake has been cap
tured near Des Moines, Ia, by George
Milton. a farmer. 1t is about 10 incEes
in length, is streaked with black and
white, with a spiked tail, which is of a
bronze color. On top OF its head, be-
tween the eyes, is small socket, in
which the end of the spike tail fits when
coiled up like a hoop. Mr.. Milton was
i'll the field ploughing, when he saw an
object like a hoop roll down and strike
his plough beam with its tail. He saw
that it was snake, and when it attemp.
ed to roll away he struck it on the head
and killed it. A Des Moines druggist
has it preserved in alcohol. This spe-
cies of snake is said to be more poison
Gus than the rattler.
IT used to he supposed that a person
who went to bed with the gas turned on
and unlighted was one who had not
kept up with the times; but now q new
danger arises, not from Ignorance, but
from too much knowledge. A lady
visiting in Saccarappa came near being
the first victim. She was used to the
electric light at her home in Boston, and
when shown to her room, i'll u fit of alb
sent -mndedness, attempted to turn on
the gas She succeeded, but it did not
light, and after. looking n moment she
decided something was the matter with
the dynamo and retired. The smell of
the escaping gas aroused some of the
other inmates of the house, and her life
was saved.
A SHOCKING accident recently occurred
at the camp at Auvours, France. An
artillery non. commissioned officer, hav-
ing chanced upon an unexploded shell,
removed the screw Of the projectile, and
scattered the powder with which it was
filled along the ground in long line.
lie then asked comrade, who was
Shading by smoking n pipe, to empty
its : wing contents on the powder.
The man complied with his request,
but, unfortunately, the shell had not
been completely emptied. The burn
ing powder spread to it, and the pro-
jectile exploded, literally cutting into
two the body of the nonsoammissioned
officer, who thus fell victim'so his own
imprudcnce. ..
WILLIAM DowELL, soldier of fi,o
late war, was rendered speechlcss during
his term of service, in which condition
he remained, with but short interval,
until recently. He is brick. mason, and
the other day, while working on build
ing, in Cincinnati, he was seized with a
strangling sensation, and fellOw-work-
man gave him smart slap on the back.
The shock seemed to dislodge an OBJ
struction in his throat, and Immediately
he coughed up strange.lOOking sub
stance, and this was followed with a
return of his powers of speech in all
their old-time fulness.
WHILE shearing sheep at Chesterfield,
Mimi, son of ID. Hisey noticed some
thing peculiar about the appearance of
a sleeps tongue, and calling his fathers
attention to the fact, the sheep was
caught and examined. Upon opening its
mouth it was seen that ring of some
kind WAS around the sleeps tongue.
After few moments it was taken off and
found to he solid gold ring, with a
handsome set, valued Mt about 81. How
the ring came on the sleeps tongue will
probably remain mystery, as it had
been there some time, being deeply en-
bedded in the flesh.
The SEXTON of tho Union Methodist
Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del,
has frequently found in the pews arti-
cles left there. On Sunday last. while
examining some of them, he discovered
n sheath knife disguised as fan. The
blade was fully seven inches in length.
1t is supposed to have belonged to a
young man who, in company with two
or three others. had been behaving quite
badly mt the church services on different
occasions.
Or the late Fred Vokes the 50. James's
Budget, of London, says: "1n his own
line Mr.. Vokes, who may be said to
have belonged to the better order OF
pantomimists, was extremely clever; in
deed he was the only man on the Eng
lish stage who could equal the French
pantomilnists in form of entertain
ment viii :h in this country is generally
! done ciumsily.
How women can manage to sit bolt
upright and not change a position,
looking neither to the right nor left,
during a sermon in chnrch passes the
understanding. A man will sit on the
picket fence all the afternoon to see q
ball match, but put him in q church
pew for three quarters of al hour and
he Will wobble all over the seat.
! The Archduke John OF Austria, the
cleverest member Of the Hapsburg fam
/ lily, has been restored to Imperial favor
/ He hos haon frarallinn ahoilf Z uror,a 70,