The Forrest City times., 1889-12-28
WINGED MISSILES.

DO crpsscr than ever.
 Aionarchies aud kingdoms are passed. Republics are tho fashion
 A hunter at Pocatello, Idaho has dcer's horns with forty-two prongs
 Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger iA extent than the United States.
 British capital is developing the resour- ces of South Africa at a remarkable rate
 It is said that there aro forty-cight languages and dialects spoken in Mexico.
 There arc moro newspapers published in Pennsylvania than in all British America.
 Foot ball thinks it is going to ''get the hcelsn of base ball as national game. It looks so.
 Froude is writing life of Lord Beacons- field. A fictitious subject will just suit tho pen of the romance historian"
 Clara Louise Kellogg has grown so fat she never expects to grace the stage again. She never did become thin characters.
 According to tho recent statistics from the propaganda in Rome, thero arc no less than 2ls, ,o0o, 900 Catholics in the world.
 The number of persons who wrote Beautiful Snow" was estimated by tho late Richard Grant White as twenty four.
 It is estimated that the output of coal for the present year will not greatly exceed 35.- o00,0O0 tons against 3s. l45, 1ls tons last year.
 Who would have thought tl Phiiadel- phia, the symbol for slowness, is said to Do the greatest novel reading city in the coun- try.
 A Philadelphia pony has whipped mountain bear in fair fight There is a good deal of animal pluck about the good old city.
 An Aibino, Pa, coon, without a gray hair on it. has been captured by John Bark Icy of Monroe county, Ohio. The animal has pink eyes.
 young man blowing on a ranch ncae Galt, Cal, found ovor Si,6oo, His employer kept all but so ot it. and loft the plowman to plod his weary way in the field. L.awlessness in parts of Georgia attrlbut ed to the whites has been traced to negroes, who, acting as regulators have been settling old grudges against black enemies. An otter, n muskrat and mink play to- gether on the banks of crock at Scranton, Pa. The farmer who owns the promises won't let his boys trap or shoot them. The artistic wealth of the Paris muniei.
  pslity in paintings, sculpture, eugravings. etc, is estimated at 2i5 million dollars out sde of the great troasurers owned by the nation.
 Alphonse Daudot's novels have won a fortune for him. but his plays on tho stage have been failures. md this jealousy of Sardou's success is set down by his critics to be intense.
 young woman of Crescent City, Cal. picked mp large pebble on tho beach some l timc ago and sent it to lapidary in San Francisco, who pronounced 1t to be an cm- erald worth s.,ooo
 The hanson cabs sent over from London l to Paris during the exhibition have been n great success A largo number have been 1 bought by private individuals. '.Lc han som" has become chic.
 A live lobster, bali rcd and half green, tho dividing colori lino running lsngthwiso i his whole body, is now on exhibition in Port land, Me. Fishermen say that specimens 1 liSc this arc very raro.
 Tho boys of the college for tho blind of Worchcster, England. indulge in crickot and arc reported to play very fair game. The bail used is made of wicker, with bell inside of it. which rings when il Is thrown.
 The latest fad in icwclry is small, open face watch set in the handle of d cane, i thrco or four inchcs from the top It is wound and regulated after the fashion of stem .winders by turning tho knob or head of the cane
 i3nenos Ayrcs will erect monument to l tho French revolutiouist, Cambaceros, at a cost of saG.ctn The spanish races have \ good deal oE respect for the fellows who
 have overturned things They believe in revolutions.
 Tho nataralIsts of this country, who started out Co raiso among themselves . fund for monument 10 John James Andu- bou, having seoarci about si,tso and n large collection of promises, have concludei to appeal ta the public at large, Recent widespread failures in tho tea ! trade In China have had a curious effect on ruined merchants. Five of them have taken refuge in monastery in preference to meeting their creditors One committed suicide and many have disappeared. Talk about ship building rcviving in America It Is as yet nero circumstance compared to what Is going on over on the other side. Ship building Is so active on the Clyde that In many oT tho yards work is carried on at night by means of electric [ lights.
 Tho Norwegians aro said to oo the long. est lived people in the world Official sta tistics show that the average duration of l life in Norway is is.A for tho men, 5l.9 ! for the women aud 4a1s for both sexes. The duration oI iifo has increased of late ! years.
 Tho Now England Farmer says that everywhere in cities fruits and oatmeal arc used on the breakfast table, while In the country the farmer still compcls his wife to keep him supplied with pies ad lIbitum, aud, worse than chat, to make pork the principal meat diet.
 A remarkable discovery of gold has been made in Montgomery county, North Caro- lima The orc yields a largo percentage of puro gold The place is owned by three brothers named Sanders. It is said that one man is two hours work got out 2,eoo pennyweights of purc gold, An enthusiast speaks of Blackmores II I.orna Doonoi as the most attractive romance, the most fascinating in it's touches of both nature and human nature ever written in English and perhaps Tn any language Iris a fne story. Artists and publishers have taken kindly to it. War was tho business of the Bourbon French. As they have no opportunity in France, they have sone elsewhere for oc- cupation. Prince Louis Napoieon, son of "Pion. Pionn and younger brother of Prince
 Victor, has received his commission in the Russian army and will go on duty in the Caucasus.
 Tho newspapers of Illinois and Now York should not let the old worn out land of Italy go before them ia admiration Of Christopher Columbus. Tho newspapers of Italy are raising subscriptions for monument to thu bold old navigator. New York, however, builds no monuments, 1t soliots for them.
 Ono hundred thousand people would make q good siEed city, yet this number of
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