Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1891-08-13
-Linas Kinder and wife are
visiting his parents of this place.

visiting his parents OF this place.
Send US the cash or a card
if you wish your paper'contin-
ued after the time paid for eX-
pires.
w. F. Kinder has been
unable to leave his room for the
last ten days. He has been
under the doctors care for
about two months, going to st.
Louis for treatment twice in
that time.
MFR. r. P. Wilson, one Of
Cape Girardeau s..young
lawyers was in Marble Hill on
legal business last week. Mr..
Wilson gave the PRESS Office a
pleasant call and contributed to
our exchequer. He will read
this paper.
"A threshing machine was
burned at Mr.. Mark Horrells
last week while the hands were
away eating dinner. Mr.. Hor.
rell lost about 230 bush
els of wheat. 1t is thought the
fire originated from a spark
from the engine.
The Imagination Of some
people is so lively that they
can taste wool whenever they
eat mutton. 1t has never crept
into the minds Of some people
that mutton is the most health
ful and perhaps the most tooth
some Of all meats.
The Liverpool Corn Trade
News calculates that the Euro
pean demand for American
bread stuits for the ensuing
quarter will exceed 100000
bushels weekly and that the to-
ia! demand for the year will
r4acn 10O, 900, 900 bushels.
|X-Cape Girardeau had q S10,-
900 blaze Sunday last, burning
the Post Office building, the
New Era newspaper establish
mcnt and Bierwirth's cigar fac
tory. This is the third ti.ne the
New Era Office has been burned
in the last nine months. Il is
thought to be the work Of an in.
cendlary.
Hall, Burford & Co. will
open up Il mammoth general
store at Statler's old stand in
Lutesville On the 10th Of this
month, Gail and see the new
store. The goofls will be new
and fresh right from the city.
Keep your eye on these col.
umns and they will tell you
scmethinS next week.
Mark Twain's tobacco &C
count must be a large one, for
he consumes over 5000 cigars in
a year. He is said to allow
himself 800 cigars a month;
that he can not Work we'll with
out continuous smoking, and
that when at the age Of "a he
made a determined effort and
left Off the habit for a year and
a half, he realized that "a weed
less life would not be worth liy-
ing"
An exchange says that
some go to church to weep, 9th
ers go to sleep, some 60 their
wives to please, their consci-
ence others 90 to ease. Some
60 tc tell their wees, Others 60
to show their clothes. Some go
to hear the preacher, others
like the solo schreachers. BOYS
60 to reconnoiter, girls go be-
cause they oughter. Many 20 for
sage reflection, precious few to
help collections.
what is it to make the
bes: of things: 1t is to rob lif'
Of half its cares and to double
its pleasures, to Increase its
brightness both for ourselves
and others; it is to see the light
shining through the cloud
where Others see only black
ness; and finally, it IS to make
this workaday world a garden
of delight Instead of u place OF
WEAKNESS, and life Il thing to BE-
enjoyed instead Of simply en-
dured."
\--Rev. J. G. Hembree has
BEEN engaged in prolracted
meeting at Brush Greek, in
the south part of this county,
As is the custom OF such ooca
sions, dinner was served on the
ground, Just as the people
were ready to partake Of the
good things the ladies had pre-.
pared to eat, there was a large
rattle snake appeared in their
midst. The snake was about Is
inches in circumference, and
had 7 rattles and a BUTTON.
Harvard is two hundred and
fifty-five years old and has
graduated seventeen thousand
students. a little more than
halt of them are living, Hsr.
vnr1's oldest living graduate