Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1891-01-01

g. L. Harris, Chris McCans
and Robert Harris arrived in
Marble Hill Wednesday.
See the combination offer of
the PRESS and the Cosmopoli.
tan magazine in another column.
The next legislature of
Kansas will have l15 farmers
and but three lonesome law
yers.
--Signor Succi, the Italian
faster, who began a fast of 45
days on November 5, ended his
fast Dec. 20.
-Muffle the children up we'll
when they start to school. The
wise man pays his doctor bills
at the clothing store.
| X-Poplar Bluff, Charleston
SikestOn, Bonne Terre and
Cape Girardean hay e recently
been visited by large fires.
"A man who plants AN apple
tree may not know that more
than 25O species of fungi are
lying in wait to destroy the
fruit.
If you find pencil cross on
your paper you may know
that your time is about out,
and that, without instructions
to the contrary, your paper will
be discontinued when the time
paid for shall have expired.
K-Mr. Rockwell, a merchant
of Latin, this county, is a few
hundred dollars loser. In the
early part of this week his
entire stock of goods and the
building in wich it was kept,
was destroyed by fire. The
building was brick. There was
some insurance.
-Hagey's King Heater is
the best stove made. 1t gives
double the heat of other stoves
and consumes only half the
amount of fuel that other stoves
do. Keeps fire from day.to- day.
You can only get them OF
August Bohnsack.
An Iowa woman has named
her twin daughters Gasoline and
Observation-Disclosures. The old
mans name is probably Peter
Roleum.-Boston Bulletin. The
man who marries into that fam
lily will strike oil.-Cape Cod
Item. We hope the babies
will grow up to be a parafine
eirls.-Boston Herald. This is
positively the very worst that
has benzine.
Not one farmer in twenty,
says the Rural World, has
enough potatoes on hand TO
carry him through the season
and from this time forward they
will have to pay high prices for
all they buy. He who fails
every year to provide for the
wants of his own family pur,
sues a short-sighted policy and
and needs a little new enter:
prise infused into him.
"A gentleman living at
Grandin has advanced a new
theory as to the shape of the
earth, and has published a
book or pamphlet in which he
explains his idea of the globe
on . which we live. Gilbert
johnson is the gentleman's
name. The theory of Mr..
Johnson is that the earth is flat
like a dollar and that it does
not move. Citizen.
We find the following 60
ing the rounds of the press:
When an animal is choked, put
a handful of gunpowder on the
roots of its tongue and hold its
jaws together. if possible for
half All hour. Tha gunpowder
relaNes the muscles and per
mits the obstlncting substance
10 60 either down or up. 1t
is dangerous to poke the ob
struction down the ANIMALS
throat.
Marriage license for Decem-
bel:-Geo. Campbell to Mary f.
Cole; William Wallace to
Marthy A. Zalman; Elisha j.
Kinder to Christena Schever
decker; James w Pitter to
Mary j. Steady; Estell r. Arthur
TO Sarah E. Miller; David l..
Shell to Mary E. Day; Henry l.
Fiknart to Sarah G. Slatler;
Oscar Brown to Sarah D. Bord
er; Abraham l.. Baber to Dora
Bass; Preston Scott to Minta
Revelle; }. Martin Ers,an to M.
Y Brown.
NOn the night of December
23rd. 1890, fire broke ont in
the Era printing office at Cape
Girarieau and before the sun
was above the horizon on the
next morning twenty-five thous.
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