Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-18
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

Superstitious people at Keokuk, Ia., were almost scared to death by whistling buoy which was placed in the river by the government. They thought it was a ghost
 The Texas steer which made lunge at q circus elephant in Texarkana never knew which came out ahead He got a whack from trunk line which knocked him stiff and cold
 In the lower portions of South Carolina it is not an uncommon thing for white women. and even little girls of 10 to 19 years. to be seen doing manual labor in the fields.
 It must be pretty hard for woman to lead ''in fashion" Out of 500 toilets and 750 hats surveyed on recent afternoon on Broadway. New York. no two were alike. while all were fashionable.
 What is claimed to be the longest chain ever made is in the imperial arsenal at Vienna It has 5000 links, and was used by the Turks to obstruct the passage of the Danube in 1529.
 The success of, the great worlds fair at Melbourne, Australia. has melted San Francisco to undertake a Great Pacific slope and international exposition" in the last narued city in year or two,
 One hundred years ago the Presbyte. rian church consisted of IFS ministers and 18,000 communicants The last min utes show that there are now 5,664 min isters. 8.438 churches and 696.757 com. municants.
 Denmark is an immense diary. The ex port of butter last year amounted to 45, 900, 900 pounds, and it's quality is said to have been excellent and wonderfully uni. form The business is conducted on sci. entific principles.
 An old observer tells that ones eye. brows are an infallible guide to his age No matter, he says, how young looking the person may be, if his eyebrows lack g gloss and do not lie fiat and smooth. he is no longer a young man.
 There are 493 mountain peaks in the United States more than 10000 feet ir height. The highest mountain east oi the Mississippi is Mount Balsam Cone. ir the Black mountains of North Carolina which is 6.67l feet high.
 Italian immigrants to New York live or nine cents day. They make soup witt bit of pork and cast off shreds of cabbage and serve 1t with black bread. Some Italian laborers who are receiving seventy five cents day are growing rich.
 Whereas six years ago all tho cartoons burned in the electric lights of the coun try were made in one room in Boston by ten men, there are now 150 tons consumed daily, and of this number 100 tons ar turned out in the twenty carbon furnace. of Cleveland.
 There Is new high wire act. Twt i men starting from different ends of { slack wire meet and pass each other, go ing by on waltz step. A woman act ually dances on the wire. and man trot across it with a companion upright oI his shoulders.
 A remarkable case of preservation is re ported from the old Blandford church yard, near Petersburg. Va. body wal exhumed that had been entombed owe thirty years, and was found to be in al almost perfect state of preservation was in an ordinary metallic case. According to Dr. Erasmus Wilson, tn great authority on hair any one who i threatened with badness. if it has no made too much headway, can check tn tendency by rubbing little mixed vase line and sulphur on the spot at night ant soak it with quinine every morning. The past summer was the wettest tha | England has experienced since 1879. an the coolest since 1860. In most parts 0 | the country the sun has not sholle nor than an average of to 4d hours per day instead of possible IA or 15. In Scotlan the daily average has been about hours
 The most powerful war ship afloat. tn Benbow, has just been completed an joined the British Mediterranean fleet She carries two Ill ton guns. beside other smaller guns. A shot from one o them weighs 1,S00 pounds, and when pro pelled by the fuli charge of $50 pounds o powder it can tear it way through whol yard of iron armor.
 It was so cold at the race meeting 0 the New York Country club recently tha young lady on the grand stand. wh wore vanished boots, forgetfully kep her feet together, and when she attempte to stand up found that owing to the coll and dampness her boots had stuck to gether, and she was helpless until he feet were pried apart.
 The points of an oyster are, first, tn shape, which should resemble the petal c a rose leaf. Next, the thickness of tn shell; thoroughbred should have she like thin china. It should also posses all almost metallic ring and peculia i opalescenL luster on the inner side. Tn hollow for the animal should resemble a egg cup, and the fish should be trn white and nut like