The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-03-17
THE ADVOCATE.
SCISSORS AND PASTE.

At the Johns Hopkins University is
thermometer valued at $4,000. The
graduations on the glass are so fine
that It Is necessary to use microscope
to read them.
Reports from 36S districts, covering
threc-ffths of the United States, give
196,026 votes in favor of woman rep
resentation in the Methodist General
Conference, and 1854 against it.
Mr.. Window, like Gen. Grant and
Secretary Manning, was great smo-
ker of cigars, and his excessive use OF
tobacco is supposed to have aggrava-
ted his heart trouble. lie was disin-
clined to take any physical exercise
and disliked walking. Even IN going
the short distance from the Treasury
Building to the White House he was
accustomed to take u carriage.
A young lady at Wellesley COLLEGE,
Massachusetts,, received the following
valentine:
DEAR VALENTINE -
Tue love feel for you-Dcar girl!
would not cast away,
1t cheers me in each lonely hour
With Hopes illumined ray.
And though the flame so brightly burns
That naught on earth can smother,
Fate has decreed we shall not we'd
For Pm Your LOVING MOTHER.
The moon revolves around the
earth, and the earth, carrying the
moon with il, revolves around the
sun. just SO in a tripple-star system
we behold ono star revolving around
another, and the two together revolv-
ing around third. The rcsemblan-
ces goes even further, for the smallest
star of the t.sSee revolves around the
second in size, and that in its turn
around the largest.
"Pride, deah breddern, am sin
which doan pay, no mattah how va
look at it. / knew an old niggah
once dat was so proud dat he nebbah
looked at anything but the sky; one
day he stepped on banana skin an
landed on his back so hard an heavy |
dat his spine wuz all shook out OBJ |
joint, an now he moves along, wifi
stick in each hand, doubled up like a
boy in de green apple season, an
spends his time countin' de cracks in
de sidewalk"
The President of Michigan Uni
versity has given notice that during
the next fifty years no more new col
leges will be needed between Lake
Erie and the Rocky Mountains. In
the State Of Ohio alone there are thir-
ty-four PUBLIC colleges, yet that State
is but little better off in this respect
than Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and |
several others, Many of them are I'M
worthy Of the pame 4ShisA tpey bear x
md, as President Angel say, o. ea-fiing
would be better promoted if ns5ifse =
we're fewer of them,
1t is a singular fact that we are ln-
lebted to Pompeii for the great in
lustry of canned fruits. Years ago.
when the excavations were just be-
ginning, party of Cincinnatians
ound, in what had been the pantry OF
he house, many jars of preserved figs.
)ne was opened, and they were found
o be fresh and good. Investigation
bowed that the figs had been put into
he jars in heated state, an aperture
eft for the steam to escape, and then
called with wax. The hint was :
AIKEN, and the next year fruit canning
vas introduced into the United States, y
he process being identical with that ''
q vogue at Pompeii twenty centuries "
go. The ladies of America who can =
omatoes and peaches do not realize Il
hat they are indebted for this art to
hose who were literally ashes few y
ears after Christi American Drug "
list. le
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