Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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once written the Had and Odyssey.
7 John Wells, q Colorado man, sat In
o chair In his cabin the other night &c
sore with rheumatism that he could moi
stand. A big mountain lion looked In
ut the window on John, and the sight OF
the beasts fiery eyes sent such q chill
over the man that he got up and
skipped for upstairs and hasn't felt @
twinge since.
Said tired-loolsing book-agent To
me after had given him chair on the
front porch: ~ am not afraid they will
set the dog on me when see flowers in
the window. There is something In the
care Of plants that makes people kind
hearted. They may not buy my books,
but they always give me kind word.
Popular Gardening.
One defect in public school teaching
is the failure TO train the pupils in read
ing handwriting. Itwould be an excel
lent exercise and no little fun If the
teacher would occasionally bring q
bundle Of business mems script and set
the children to puzzling out Just as they
will have to do a little later in life
Augusta (Me.) Farmer.
III. s. Beers, of Brool5field, Conn.,,
has clock that is said to be over two
hundred years old. When the British
went through that section in Revolu-
tionary times they took the two heavy
lead weights that run the clock to use
In the manufacture of bullets, and left
four six-pound iron shot in their place.
The shot are still used as weights.
-Housekeepers will appreciate re-
cent invention for Smelling peas. In
this machine green peas in the pod may
be introduced in quantities, and the peas
are cleaned and eXpeditiously separated
from the pods, irrespective of size. The
machine is provided with means for
discharging the pods and the shelled
peas separately into convenient receipt
acles.
An old hen in one of the suburbs Of
Chicago has been trying, with all the
earnestness Of her nature, for several
weeks to hatch something from ball
of Irvine, piece of corncob and piece
of dry putty. Her owner has given up
trying to dissuade her from the job,
and is now awaiting the result of the
incubation with as much anxiety as the
old hen herself.
-''Girls," said bachelor named Per-
ry, at corn-husking in Missouri, the
other night, ~ want wife. If any ofyou
will have me please stand up" There
were eighteen girls in the crowd, and
every one stood up, and then seventeen
young fellows pitched into Perry, and
eighteen girls began pulling hair, and
the party broke up and sadness reigned
supreme.-Detroit Free Press.
Turtles are numerous on the west
coast of St Helena, and some of them
each weigh as much as $50 pounds. An
English steamer once took on board q
dozen of these sea monsters, intending
to deliver them alive to a provision
dealer in Liverpool. But before they
English water one Of the turtles
was taken sick and was thrown over
board, after having been branded with
the name of the ship. Next year the
same steamer came across the same
turtle on the coast of st. Helena, more |
than 1000 miles from the point where |
the homesiclI creature was flung over
board.
If there is any thing practical about
those people who weld fortune to bad |
luck by pawning what they happen to
have saved or bought, it is the growing |
custom of selling pawn tickets before
their value ceases. 1t used to be the
rule that If man or woman could not
redeem what he or she had pawned, the
Foods were lost. Now there is one large
storekeeper on Broadway anc host of
smaller ones all over the city who buy
.hese tickets Of those who know they
IAN not raise the sum the pawnbrokers
nave loaned them. These buyers call
jewelers.. As they try to
ret Us good bargains as possible, 1t Ia
low their rule to advertise pawn tickets
'or private purchase. The list of such
grow larger every