The Forrest City times., 1891-12-04
GENERAL NEWS.

The Bank of England employs over 1l0J people.
 There are es0 chess clubs in the | United States.
 A doctor says that one person in nine is eft-hauded.
 Bengal. it is said, has 4S,Gii widows under ten years of age.
 The first Farmers Alliance was fathc1 iH Texas in 1873. Tne Persians have different name fer every day in the month. In France they use electricity tp kill gnats, flies and other pests.
 The public schools in the United States have l2 500, cog pupils.
 As class tho Americans do r3re travelling than any other nation.
 Each of the l600 street cars of New York earned S20 day last year.
 Only one and ons-nalf per cent If ti'a population of India can read or wrIse
 A column of masonry in kap3aS marks tie exact geographical center of 1 the United States.
 The air is 50 rariiied in Leadyilie, l 1ttOs. tlltl AsfNN LGA-IiCA lANOs ltRtS Hi numerous however.
 A rattlesnake with two heads has | been cal ltured in California. 1t hds fangs in both mouths.
 ln two of the London clubs all gold and silver change is washed before be- l ing given to members.
 Thirteen Chicago policemen were discharged in one dgy recently from l the force for inc0mpetency.
 A Memphis man eue day recently rode mettlesome horse up steep flight of stairs in that cisy in safety.
 4 steam lift is to be employed hence forth at tue Pyramids, to enable the traveller to take it easy in. getting to the top.
 Persia still holds the position of owning the smalleut number of mer- chant vessels, it owns just one, yes- sel of S3S towns.
 The Lick telescope'reveals about 100, | GOO GOO, stars, some of them so small 1 that 30 600 0f them would scarcely be visible to the naked eye.
 The first thing Japanese does in the morning, is to take down the ell tire front of his house, leaving the whole interior open to view. Certain California sheriffs arc con- sidering the adyisablity of purchasing l b,oodhounds and training them to track l murderers and other criminals.
 A gentleman in Tacoma recently gave dinner to twentyeight people, the dining room being the interior of | the trunk of q tree on his estate. al. ,,, Ina xua,.II ie at Cherra Ponjee in the Kh*si-Iiils of month has ranged from 100 to 200 inches.
 A 5O-aere field in Manitoba is said ! to have yielded l766 bushels of wheat 1 this season, and another field of 27 acres is said to have produced 963 bushels.
 Britain pays for sending letters across the Atlantic about seYenty-live cents per pound, and Uncle Sam pays fer sending letters there about forty five cents per pound.
 Paris, with population of about g. 505 ,00O, has feWtr than a hundred He- groes within it's limits. It is claimed that the ce,ored population of all France l. less than 550
 When Missouri cabbage WIS cut open it Was found that the outer coat ing contained twenty eight perfectly developed httie heads iu a cluster, about the size of q walnut and nearly as hard.
 The three tallest trees in the world are believed to be 4 seqn0iA, near Stockton, Cal. wA.ch 325 feet high, IHd two eucalyptuses, in Victoria, Austrd- lia, estimated 10 be i35 aud 4JJ re- spectively.
 One of the poor commissioners of Kansas, it is reported. stors at the poorbouSe instead of hotel when busi- ness calls him away from home. lie saves hotel bills, and has time to in- vestigate the paupers,
 The fertility of the country at Great Falls, Montana, is shown in the huge vegetables harvested. X sugar belt weighing twenty-five ponds, 3 pumkin weighing l20 pounds, five pound potato, and a cabbage as large as washtub, are on exhibition in the city,
 There is an Ohio farmer who is like ly to become a pessiGist. According to dispatch. few days ago, while in Springfield, he was taken suddenly i'll. and drank some whiskey for relief. The liquor went to his head and he be- came intoxicated. While in that con dition thieves stole his team. Later in the day. while hunting for 1t, he was beset by highway robbers, who relieved him of $f0. To crown his misfortune, when he returned home he found that his barn had been destroyed by fire.
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 The Fort Smith, Paris and Darda- nelie railroad IS holding an immense