The Butler weekly times., 1889-02-13
OF GE.!EHaL E7EST.

All OSlflcn eSCdpcu lfoiI one Vi tiIc !
California ostrich farms, swan q river, +.
and gave the horseman q run of twen- |
ty-seven miles before he was captured. |
The following device is said TO |
have BEEN prominently displayed at a
recent Western church fair: Drop u
dollar in the slot and see the pastor
smile.''
1t is an alarming fact that the age
at which the habit OF smoking Is ac
auired has declined in the last five
years from twenty years and over to
between the years OF ten and five, the
latter being not uncommon.
People OF Cass County, Ore, have
been telling stories recently OF wild
man eight feet high. three feet across
the shoulders, with a beard reaching
to his knees and hands as big as wash
boards. He was captured by the
sheriff and proved to be poor luna
tic who had escaped from an asylum.
Herman Vickery, a burglar who was
killed while trying to escape from the
California penitentiary the other day,
had a queer record. Every time he
burglariZed a house he kissed all the
sleeping women in it. No matter how
great the risk. the rascal always went
through the bedchambers and kissed
every thing worth kissing.
The Portland OregOninn has dis
covered the species Of the fish that
swallowed Jonah \ specimen was
sent over to Portland from Yagurah,
which was nearly all head. Its ears
were situated at the back Of its neck,
and its mouth extended from ear 10
ear 1t was known as the Cutius cod,
| and according to the Cregonifn, was
evidently made to eat, rather than to
| be eaten.
In California turkeys are raised in
| hocks numbering several thousand.
! They are placed in charge OF q herder,
who drives them as he would Il fiock OF
sheep. They range over miles OF ter
ritory in q day. and live almost en-
tirely by foraging. When the grain is
cut and harvested the turkeys are
turned into the immense wheat anG
barley fields. and the birds do the
cleaning. and become fat and ready
for market at very little cost.
-Colored farm tenants in variou:
parts of South Carolina think tina
they will not be required to pay theiI
rents now that Harrison has bee,
elected President. Many of them ar
squandering their hard earned none.
in the purchase Of musical instrument
and other luxuries. In Orangebur!
County and other sections some of tn
small colored farmers are turning on
their stock to Craze at large, as the
think President Harrison will wipe tn
| fence law out.
"A curious incident in deer-huntin
| is vouched for by Il sportsman latel
returned from the Maine woods.
party Of hunters in sledge on LAX
;. Moluncus saw ahead of them a larg
e deer. Immediately there was rae
over the ice, the sledge speeding acro>
It the lake at rate impossible to tt
l. hunted animal. suddenly the sleds
q met an obstacle and stopped. 1t W;
" the deer. which had not only bee
overtaken, but had been impaled upe
one of the runners of the sledge. l
\ further capture was an easy matter.
A foreign correspondent notes Il
differences between an English and ;
y American girl in dancing. The Anne
lean girl is a nervous creature. She
as excitable as thoroughbred mar
When she dances her eye sparkles, h
cheek flushes, her face is lighted
and every nerve is at tension in t
thrill of music and motion. The +
| glish girl, on the contrary, does not
ter her amiable torpidity in the lea
d She does not smile. She is as gra
N as ever. She turns solemnly aroul
without a vestige of abandon.
does not dance, but trots.