The Forrest City times., 1888-01-14
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 Work Is good n','ile ne.
 Illiteracy is rapidly increasing in Louisianss Mars is slowly frightening as he ncars ou, earth.
 Mercury is now one of the low down morn ing planets.
 Aslrakan Is the only fur strictly proper in deep mourning.
 A lobster trapped In Nova Scotia Is guessed to be two centuries old.
 The Uuited States contains, in round num- bers, nearly 300,0Oi Indians.
 Many of the best dressed woven in New York have discarded the hustle.
 A cons Ignnent of 510 aIllgators was received by New Brunswick (N J.) doctor on Friday. A King in Central Afica refels to whisky and brandy us 'those sweet and soothing med. icines."
 A good farmer Is better than a poor doctor, and good horseshoer is better thar pocr bishop
 Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested.
 A Russian miser Is noticed as having learned to bark in order to avoid the expenee of keep ing watchdog.
 It is reported that the Chicago Tines is to be made a Blaine organ, with J. s. Clarksos of Iowa as editor.
 The great Memphis pyramid originally com prlsed s9, OPS, 0O0 cubic feet aud had vertical height of 419 feet
 When the country boys come to the city, fl they can only hold on to the old, sweet ways they can defy the world.
 A Hartford coin collector has a cent piece of the United States coinage of li99, which Is considered to be worth nearly $500
 little boy being reproved on Sunday morning for having a dirty face retortedi ''Well, I wored dis face to Sun'ay 'cool any how"
 When boy fills house with bugs he Is all right, provided he doesn't run after humbugs. He has the making in him of very great nat uralist.
 Tubac, small town in Pima county. Ari., claims to be the oldest settlement in the United States. It's town records extend back to 1539
 The Detroit Journal says that there are men in Detroit so mean and despicable that "their souls would rattle around in 1ea's ear like pea in bass drumn
 The longest street railway in the country is now in operation between Eliz beth and New. ark, N. J., the round trip being nearly thirty nrfles, for which the fare is twenty cents.
 All the territorial governors of Wisconsin are dead. Nelson Dewey, the first state gov ernor, is stlll living, as are also ex-Governors Farwell, solomon, Lewis, Farchild, Taylor and Ludington.
 Nearly S5Q0, 900 in deposits Is lying unclaim- ed in the savings banks of Boston. It belongs to 567 unknown depositors, not one Of whom has put in an appearance at this bank for mors than twenty years.
 The young sons Of John BurdIck, of Aledo. IT,, found thirty snake eggs and matched them in the sun. They now have thirty little spotted adders, all as tame as kittens, which they feed on milk.
 In business there are many who can moi rise, many who can not help descending many who of necessity fall, many who carr their bread, and many who only waste it whep once in their own hands.
 An Elgin, H., man preserves clipping from Virginia newspaper of only thirty years age in which an account is given Of the sentence of woman to two years imprisonment fo teaching a slave to read
 Great merits or great failngs will make yot respected or despised, but trihes, little atteL tions, mere nothlngs, either done or neglected will make you either liked or disliked in th' general run of the world.
 A farmer of Saline county, Illinois, lost . calf a .ong time ago, and recently, in drain ,,f la, far ha J Jfs covered the animals body ly!ng under water and completely petrilled. It seems to he pretty well understood fac that average American women of to-day, a least In cities, are much heavier and bette built than those of generation or two ago ! So much for Athletic sports.
 young lad living on the shores of Lal, l Geneva, in Wisconsin, brought down with | shotgun a magnificent specimen of the Ameri can eagle. The enormous bird measured min, feet from tip to tip of the wings. ] A centipede and a tarantula which wer, | found in bunch of bananas at Sacrament l on being placed in glass jar together begsr | fighting immediately. After a severe struggl, the centipede killed his antagonist.
 Peter Gruler, of oil City, is the champion snake hunter of Pennsylvania, and he make, a good living at 1t He captures live ratt 1 lers. eopperheads and blacksnakes with hli naked hands aud handles them with iInpu | nity.
 1 The tenement house commission of Phila lelphia is building houses which are to b. rented to people of very small means. Th, | apartments are to be free from the usual tene ment house evils of poor light, foul air ana | general tthiness.
 cannon used in 1876 for protection against the Indians was excavated from bed of eighi feet of gravel at Deadwood, Dak., Tuesday. ! It is said to have disappeared during the Ds kota flood, and this Is the first that has been known of 1t since.
 The origin of long lost letter writ ten bl i General Washington in an acknowledgment 1 of an address by the citizens of Newport hal just been found It Is written on both sdei of two-quarto sheets of letter paper and il still distinct and readable. Mrs Johnson Newman, of Jasper, Tex. heard her dogs bayIng the other evening, ana i going out of doors she found that they had driyeu a handsome buck deer into corner oi the fence near the house. Procuring an ax she dealt the animal two powerful blows on the head and killed t.
 Jabez Hurd, a hermit near Clinton, had no changed his clothing or taken a bath for year. until the health authorities descended upor his filthy hut the other day for the purpos' of cleaning 1t. Once inside the door thel laid hands on Jsbez, stripped him of hl' clothes, gave him thorough scrubblDg at thu pump and dressed him in a new suit. Hi brother threatens to sue the authorities foI malicious trespass.
 Mehemmed Bey, handsome officer in the Cireassian guard of the sultan of Turkey has recently been married to the sultan sister. The lady fell In love with the officer several years ago, but as he was poor and un distinguished, the late sultan would not per