The Forrest City times., 1890-08-02
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.
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px.ss loscs s5 per cent of It's weight whsn baked.
 .sY,cs; he'e a harem scare 'em sort ot fellow.n- n--Plunder
 The word 'ftsp only occurs once in tne whole of the Bible
 Tobacco raising has ocen trieo ID oeo'' gia with great success.
 London consumes over one hundrea m'iis ion pounds of butter year.
 Ono hundred and fifty million corkscrews are made yearly in New Jersey.
 .Are the sultan's wives afraid of himf' asked a lady of Turkish missionary.
 A happy mcdium--the summoner or spir. its when business is good. -Washington Post The heiross who would buy . husband must have legal tender heart Chicago Globe.
 An EuuIishman was shot dead at Genoa | on Monday by a sentry for not replying to ! a challenge.
 A halter As wilkesba-re, Pa. has made
 straw hat with the brim fourteen feet in l circumference.
 1 A cargo of alligator hides arrived at | Galveston. Texas, a few days ago en route from Mexico to New York. Mrs. Henry Mullen, Of Middleton Cor
 ners, Ohio. has given birth to the second pair of twins within a year l 1t tichies a mans vanity to ask of him ' favor that he knows you could demand as 1 A right Milwaukee Journal
 Tho barge office in New York City is now
 kept open on Sundays for tue reception of the incom ng throng of immigrants
 A tea trust has been formed In Tohic,
 Japan. "for the purpose of restoring the
 declining ten trado ia that country" Tu kish engineers say that the river
 Euphratss might be male navigabie tho year round by an cxpsn1itnre ef Sioo,oJl
 Mrs. Anna Roush. If Le,art, Ohio, has
 iullv two thousand living descendants. She
 was born Ia MorSAntowa, Ia. Juno 1, iss'-
 A coIorcd woman of Adairsvills dropped dead from heart disease ITO the effects of
 nppiying snuff to her gums with tooth brush,
 In selecting the names Of jury to try q man for n,urder down in Georgia the name , of the murdered mau was drawn out of the box along wtn the others. Speaking of brief names, ihcre is family 5 in Franc, named IS, one in Belgium named , c, river in Holland called tho tnd a , village in Sweden named A.
 Tue explanation Of the peculiar density of thunder clouds Is saii to lis in the fact , iha, tho eapor is partially condensed into ! drops by the elec.r teal action. ,, A colored thief at Bridgeport, Conn, . l jumped iulo the canal, and the policeman who was chasing him followed suit and orrsxtad Tho f,sila.y in tha water
 Shade is such rare thing in Pasco. Orc , l con. tl,a, ths Pilot remarks: Tn, shade ol the radish and lettuce leaves is noticeable, 1 and has cooling effect upon all passers- by Ii is said that from the summit of Noun, , Blanc one can sec the Iyroi, portions o' I France, Germany and Austria, tho Mcti iorranean and italy as far us the Apcn- hines
 7 A Georgia youth who answered tinclos- I ing quar,er) an advertisement of how 'c make money without work got in reply . 3 pie-e of paper inscrieed Catch suckers 1 as We do"
 Q At Chi.amba, Africa. the young pcopl, : have asked the missionary to raise iias r Saturday evenings that they may know | that tho next day Is Sunday and como Il the meetings.
 . Out in Nevada telegraph poles in lov places, where water stands i'll winter, arr < said to have taken root ani are coyeret | with loiage Ihs poies ara cotton woot [ and werc planted with tho bark on them.
 A diver, who was wording at tho fouada
 tion Of a railroad bridge new Bsisc City
 Idaho, gave a sguai to he Aeisted quickly
 K hen he got to ths surface he held fast
 sixty.dye pound salmon tAat hs aad caugh ! by tho gils
 y Precious stones are much moro widei ' distributed than formerly Iaere ar Fl many families who own jewels to the valu a. of half million, while few wealthy peo Il pe had even sloooal invested i'll diamond Id ten years ago
 d dispatch fsom Ohio tsiis of ons of tn $ shortest courtsnips on record. The grcoi IT was a guest at a Cantoa hotel tie becam | infatuated w.th tho cook on tho day oi hi II arrival. proposed. and eeiug aeceptei mai Il riei her Ut once yt Mrs Lille Usscreaax Blass Is one ,t the best.looxing of the women suffragist' X She is tail. and sa~ has dchc1teiy pose ol head and soft grny ~Nes Her hsir Is turf te ing gray, but her hands aud her tnros ,e have the pretty p,uai saess os YOU b