The Forrest City times., 1890-09-27
WINGED MISSILES

A good horse-meat dinner can now be had tn Berlin for cents. Americans will find no fault with tn price.
 An apple tree at Newbury, Ohio, though nearly a century old. Is still prolific boar CT of bright yellow fruit.
 The new cable to Bermuda got into bust ness at once. Its first weather. report brought news of cyclone.
 Charts have been prepared showing that the eye has 729 distinct expressions. con veying as many different shades of mean ing.
 James Carbaugh, collier, living in tho mountains near Mount Alto, Md, killed cighty-seveu coppcrhead snakes few days ago.
 Mrs. Maggie Ellis, . mulstto of Chatta- nooga, Tenn, has given birth to the small est child on record. It weighs thirty ono ounces
 A carpet used in . room of the mint, after being in wear some years, was burn. cd the other day in pans, and yielded e 800 worth of gold
 A man at Langhorn, Pa, Is fitting up a pigeon house to accommodate q thousand birds. It will be the largest stock of carriers in the country.
 A curious result of Tolstoi's last book has been the Imprisonment in Berlin of ono of his disciples for publicly dcnouncing christian marriage as immoral
 A flower has been discovered down In South America which only blooms when the wind blows. It ought to bc in Kansas where 1t could bloom all the time.
 Giauders broke out in . band of horses owned by Colonel Waters, of Miles City, Mont, and sixteen animals were killed to prevent the disease from spreading.
 The Atchison Globe says; 1t is a sign that her husband is making money when Q woman begins to get the lock on her face of looking at you without seeing you"
 It Is stated that tho German Electric company of Madrid has ia contemplation the installation of a plant for electric blow, ing on large property in the central part of Spain.
 Pauperism has declined in England and Wales, and is declining in Ireland In view of the failure of tho potato crop, how ever. the trouble is likely to increase in the latter country.
 Dr. Koch read before tho medical con. gross in Berlin paper in which he Is said to have declared that he had discovered a way of killing tho tuberculosis bacillus and of curing tuberculosis disease.
 Elizabeth comstock, an aged Quaker preacher living in Union Springs. ". Y., has visited In her lifetime i4s,0o0 persons, and nearly twice that many sick persons In and out of poor houses. on battle fields, ctc,
 A revolution is taking place in tho drink ing habits of the Japanese. Tho rico brandy called ''saki.n which has been 60 long their national beverage, is being sup planted by beer brcwcd after the German methoi
 A sycamore trcc near Newton, Conn, Is said 10 bc eighty Ave feet high and twenty. one feet in dianctcr.. while it's branches shade an area extending eighty feet from the trunk. It produces large and abund- mt white blossoms.
 Abncr DorsetL negro living In Hickory Mountain township, N. C., has the largess head Of any person in the United Statee Ao far as heard from It is thirty-two inches in diameter and gives Abncr . decided s'top-hcavy" appearance
 Some one mas invented m electric mouse trap. It consists of metallic cage con. taiuing cheese. The mice naturally ap. proach it for purposes of investigation, but the instant they touch the wires m electric current strikes them dcai.
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