Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


 In a revival meeting at Walla Wal la, Ore., man confessed that he was 6 murderer and asked forgiveness. He re- fused to reveal the circumstances.
 An advertisement in the Media (Pa.) Record announces the location of piece of property up for sale as one and one-quarter inches from the town of Wawa.
 -'1 always return from Europe more in love with my own country than ever," says Senator Washburn, of Minnesota. Europe is nothing but an armed camp"
 Just what a full-grown black bear can do in the way of hugging was dem- onstrated in Maine week or two ago, when bruin seized barrel of beef, gave it a squeeze and crushed it in pieces. It was estimated to be a squeeze of two horse power.
 -Unacquainted with the game birds of this country, a newly-arrived Ger man, hsing near Scranton, shot a barn yard turkey under the impression that it was wild fowl. He took it home and had it cooked, and was about to sit down at the dinner-table to eat it when he was arrested for killing his neigh bor's poultry.
 A Saco (Me.) blacksmith is the latest convert to the belief that early rising is not always in practice what it is in theory. He got up dark and early the other morning, and had his fire blazing by four o'clock. The next thing he knew the Saco fire department had the hose turned on his blaze, and the neighbors were sreaming fire" at the top of their voices
 A family of Burnside, H., had been annoyed for many weeks by strange noises, and suspected that some noxious animal was in the house. The other night they discovered the intruder in the shape of huge rattlesnake, which had been aroused to fury by cat. There was intense excitement, espe- cially among the ladies of the house. hold, until the reptile was dispatched.
 There are various degrees of folly exhibited by individuals In the daily routine of life; perhaps no greater one could be adduced than that of search ing for an escape of gas with naked
 
 of mature age has recently had occa- sion to be impressed with the negli- gence he displayed in his endeavor to find the origin of an escape of gas in his house. Besides being badly burnt on the face, head and arms, he became aware at the same time of considerable damage done to his household prop erty.
 One of the Philadelphia institutes had pleasant experence the other day. Some years ago the managers admitted a pupil to it's school who was unable at the time to pay the regular fees. It was understood that he should pay at some future time, but no account was opened with him, and the incident had almost been forgotten, when the pupil returned to pay the money-ffty dollars. The in- struction he had received enabled him to get employment, and when he had saved enough of his earnings to meet his obligations he came up manfully and paid the cost of his tuition.
 Among the curiosities to be found in the Minnesota State Law Library are two volumes of the colonial laws of : Massachusetts, 176O to 1772. They are, of course, reprints, but Eye olden style" has been faithfully reproduced. The code of laws in vogue in those provincial days was truly very crude. It was then that the whipping-post was resorted to as a mode of punishment, but tits stipu- lated that mo man shall be beaten with above forty stripes, nor shall any true gentleman, nor any man equal to gen. tleman, be punished by whipping unless his crime be very shameful and his course of life vicious and profigate." Again the code says: '1f any man shall Blaspheme the name of god, the father, Some or Holy ghost, with direct, ex- presse, presumptuous or high handed blasphemie, or shall curse God in the like manner, he shall be put to death"