The southern argus., 1891-12-03
PASTE AND SCISSORS. -

II a member of the English parlis-
ment becomes bankrupt he is lncapaci'
tated from sitting or voting.
Thomas Hughes has written an in-
PRODUCTION for the English edition OF
Lowelrs poems, to be published by
Macmillan.
A red fox guards the barnyard of a
farmer in Butler county, Pa. and the
chickens and geese are perfectly safe
from thieves when he is around.
There have been seven marriages
among the female clerks of New
York weekly paper in seven years, and
they each occupied the same desk.
A Burlington (Vt.) barber recently
beat all records by going out and get
ting married while a waiting customer
was getting lathered by his assistant
DR.. G. F. Rand. of Washington. has
an army cracker that was issued to
him with nine others at Centreville. in
July, 1861, when he was a private in
the Twelfth New York Volunteers.
Frederick H. Seward. son of the late
William H. Seward, has finished the
biography of his father. He has been
engaged upon the work long time.
The buttonwood tree to which Mas
ter NARROW. of the ship Kent. lashed
the cable when the first settlers landed
at Burlington. n. j., in 1876. is still
standing on the river bank.
Tolstoi, who bitterly opposes all
marriages except what he calls angel
marriages" is the father of sixteen
children. only nine of whom are now
living. The youngest is three years
old.
The cannibal tribes near the Niger
delta, in Angola. aud in the Congo
basin are probably the only natives of
Africa who habitually eat human flesh.
They, however, are numbered by mill
ions.
Miss Helen Cloak. a pure-bred Ind
ian of the Blackfeet Nation. has been
appointed by Secretary Noble as a spe-
cial allotting agent in the Nez Perces
reservation. She is a well-educated
woman.
The duke of Cleveland is the ninth
British peer whose title has become
extinct since the present parliament
was chosen. But Lord Salisbury has
created twenty-one new peers since he
came into Office.
In person and attire the scrupulous
cleanliness of the Malay women is pro-
verbal throughout the orient Twice
daily she bathes. changes her gar
ments and washes aud rinses her lux
uriant black hair.
Baron Hirsch. the Jewish philan-
thropist. has signed a notarial deed
empowering his representatives TO ex-
lend e. 900. 600 for the purchase of
l4ud aud the location of colonies in
tie Argentine Republic.
A woman fell overheard in japanese
waters aud was eaten By shark. For
three years her husband has done
nothing but hunt sharks and up to
date has landed about three hundred
of them and Is still fishing
A Lewiston (Me.) lady has q needle
in her sewing machine that she placed
there in the fall of 1874 and has not
once been removed IL has done all
the family sewing since that date and
continues 10 do IT, although worn
rather thin.
DIR. Ignatius Hortsmann. who is
mentioned as the probable successor
of Bishop Gilmour ia the Cleveland.
O.. diocese OF the Catholic Church. 10
six feet three inches tall aud broad Ia
proportion he ID . handsome and in
terestiug man.
Over the shop door Of pork butcher
in q village in one Of the eastern eonn-
ties of EnglAnd may be seen n sign
board representing . man IN a black
coat brandishing a Ratchet. with The
inscription: ''JohR Smith kills pigs
like bis father"