The Forrest City times., 1890-03-08
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 In Iceland there arc no prisons and no police. Only two thefts in 1000 years.
 Horses arc curried by steam in Chicago.
 q l50 horses arc cleaned in two hours.
 The highest salary paid a clergymea in New York is eo0,00o, which is earned by Dr. John Hall
 England is said to have one COW to sis persons, France one COW to 31s, and Amer ica one COW to 1 X persons
 "Thc French have Q saying that woman who buys her complexion will sell it" French maxims are not always true.
 Queen victorias regular mail is about $40 letters per day She is ready to dis criminate quickly aud answers but few of them.
 Neither tho Pope nor those of tho dig nitaries who arc nearest to him in the Vatican can speak or read the English language.
 A former Marion county, West Virginia, man now residing in Iowa has returned to Fairmont family book he borrowed over forty years ogo.
 A farmer of Upshur county, West Vir- ginia, who owns number of guinea hens, found nest where they had been laying containing Ss7 eggs
 The first apple tree planted in Ohio they say, can be seen alive and vigorous on Jerome vincents farm in Marietta. It was planted In 1iS9.
 A bed of rock salt, over 100 feet in depth. has been struck by gas prospec,ers at Wads- worth, Ohio. The salt is 2,60o feet below the ea-ths surface
 The four-year old son of K. c. McPhar- ustead Greenville, Tex, accidentally bit his own tongue, producing wound from which he bled to death. A novel feature of tho coming exhibition in Edinburg will be working ship rail way, in which the vessel will be immersei in water while upon the car. A South Chester resident has received a letter from a friend in Tacoma, Wash, where, hc says, it costs 50 cents to get shaved and q for a haircut
 Rice, New York suicide, left this mes sage. "It has come to pass that rum won't drown sorrow any longer" There is big sermon in thas short sentence. The highest individual taxpayer in Bos- l ton is Joshua Montgomery Sears who in 1889 paid $5o,a5155; next is Frederick l.. Ames, who contributes sta lG,6s The Lancet says that the human body can pe embamed so as to show identihca- | ton three thousand years after death. That may be 30, but who is to do the identifca- l tionl
 Explorer Stanley, in letter to ono of his friends, says; My hair is likc snow from Ruwenxori, but it is tho crown of busy [ tt t,,-fsh tha gift of time
 White mahogany is exceedingly rare but I sparingly introduced az borders for tables and delicate frame work of upholstered uits. It has a soft enamel like gloss and is very costly.
 Tho project Of tunneling tho English l Channel Is still chers he'd by a company of 1 British capitalists, who have expended | sioa,o ,oao on experimental works which arc not yet completed.
 i Henry Schumacher, a farmer at Lowhill near Allentown, attempted to shoot wild 1 turkey, when the cap missed fire, but he exploded the folwing piece with amatch and killed the bird
 The Chinese government has just or 1 dercd new edition of tho famous cneyolo- 1 pcdia which was originally compiled during tho reign of kicn Lung. The index alone 1 fills twelve folio volumes, Albert Galatin Morton. of Amesbury, Mass, was born in isos, began preaching in is2s, ard has occupied his pulpit regu- 1 lariy ever since without in single in- stance writing out sermon. N hat arc supposed to be tho first playing cards used were recently found in the Pnmpeiian excavations and arc now in the possession ot collector in Philadelphia. Tho cards are perfectly square The oldest banker in the United States is q woman. Her name Is Deborah Powers. aud sho is at the head of the firm of h. Powers X Sons, Lansingburg, N. |. Mrs. Powers is ninety -nine years Of age, 4 single lemon tree in Caloosahatchie, Fla, has on it over 5,ouc lemons, many of which weigh a pound each. IL is predicted that Florida will soon become the greatest lemon growing country in the world. A four year old son of William II. Wood, of Center Square. Montgomery county who swallowed . carpet tack 10 March lsss, coughed 1t upa few days ago. His throat allied continually in the interval A lady at Tisusvillc, Fla, has a novelty in the way of roses. One of her many va. rieties bears bud which is green when i. blossoms. In tho bud 1t is so nearly the color Of tho foliage as to bc hard to distin guish.
 The earliest known will has bccn discov- cred by Flinders Petri at kahun, or as the town was known 4.5oo years ago. Iilahun. The document Is so curiously modern in form that 1t might almost be granted pro bate to day.
 Henry Waters of Salem, Mass., who has made a personal search among original records, says he found that George Wash ington was descended from Lawrence Washington, Parson Of Perley (Bucks County, Eng.) in i6Sa.
 The most costly book in the world is n Bible In Hebrew. An offer of it's weight In gold was oncc made, and |, was ascer- tained that this offer amounted to slo., which was refused and the volume is stiu in the library of the Vatican.
 Talnage knows where to make himself solid. lie recently said: "f could preach \ whole sermon on tho cverlas ting blessing Of good newspaper. A good newspaper is the grandest temporary blessing that God has given to the people of this country"
 John c. Whittier is getting well along in years, but he is still able to earn money with his pen. The beautiful poem, Tho Captains N cll," which recently appeared as a souvenir of tho improved New York Ledger, brought the venerable poet clean sl,0oo.
 Pomboiano Is the name of a plant found ia Mexico, tho root of which is said 10 con tain substance analogous to but more powerful than quininc in it's antiperiodtc action. It has been found to cure rebelllous intermittent fcvers that had resisted tho action Of quininc
 Sonuini gives an account of dog that about lj5o, 'to the knowledge Of all Paris, remained for more than two years beside the tomb of his master in the Cemetery of Inc Innoccnts, If carried to distant part of the city and locked up, he would return