DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-04-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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The hen OF the United States was
worth to this country on her own per-
sonal account last year $500, 100000, ac-
cording to the bureau of industrial sta
tisticS.
"A London actor gave dinner to
number of friends recently at which, in
stead of noscgays, false noses were fur
nished to the guests, which they were
requested to wear during the banquet,
A man and his wife, of Carondelet,
Mo, in celebrating their twentytfth
wedding anniversary lately also cele-
bratcd the fifteth birthday of each. and
the birthday of each of their three chill
dren fall also upon the wedding ami
yersary.
An Indiana man. who was a soldier
in the Mexican war and who has recent
ly revisited the scenes of the conflict,
says that on the battlefield of Buena
Vista. where the armies of Taylor and
Santa Anna met, he was shocked to see
the ground thickly strewn with the
wbitened bones of the soldiers who fell
in that battle.
A citizen of Youngstown, O., recent
ly started for pleasure trip to Europe.
lie reached Buffalo, n. Y, when he re-
membered that he had not locked his
safe. lie hurried home. found a letter
in his office Offering him a large build
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lo'"ltOtrn o,aI aGv Who ii,s@ III Now
! orK lately visited two sisters who live
at Danbury Conn, staying with each
two days, and assuring them that she
had lost all her money, After she went
back to New York her maid returned
and informed one of the sisters that her
mistress had hidden $1,000 in an empty
butter jar in sister No. 2's cellar. In
vcstgation showed the statement to be
correct, and the 50. 900 was found, all in
81 bills.
A marvellous lace wonder is reported
rs recently landed in the United States.
It is a unique specimen of embroidery
and Irish lace, specially manufactured
for the great international exhibition Of
1851, at which it took first prize. 1t
took twelve girls twelve months to make
this perfect specimen of the old hand
embroidery and lace trade Of Ireland.
The cost was 8, 600 No work of to-day
is so fine and exquisite as the drawn
and embroidered border of this wonder
The main design is a chaDlet OF fern
leaves, cntwinod with the rose, the
shamrock and the thistle.
The pony is the horse Of hardships.
saws a horscman in an exchange. and
one that has sprung from some poor
country where he has ever been purely
the child Of neglect. he and all the pre-
deccssors of his race. In a rich country
I,c the horse regions of Kentucky, for
instance, his pony characteristics would
invariably run out in the course of a
few generations He is not a distinct
strain, as many would seem to suppose.
He doubtless sprang originally from as
| good strain Oh horSrH a. U"' "o'I'
knew OF at the tlrie' an" ms PrtS'IlC re-
duccd size ana ch"r"cIeFIStIc .ouEnneSS
have resulted unqucStlohaDly from local
| circumstances.