The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

--FamineS caused by the failure OF tho
potato crop in ireland occurred in 1914,
1910. 1929, 1881 and 1876.
After being separated for eighteen
years farmer in Washington County,
Pa, has found his son by means of a
wedding notice.
-Boy-"Say, mister, please give me
five cents worth of castor oil, and give
INC very short measure, too" Druggists
-Short measured Why?" Boy-''Why,
I've got to take it myself. "-Broolslyn
Life.
"a Missouri constable overhaulcd a
tramp ON the highway and demanded
his surrender. The tramp pulled q TO
volvex, and zach man fired six times ut
distance of ten feet and nobody was
hit. Being mutually Disguised, each
went his way.-Dctroit FREQ Press.
William Bachelor, wealthy and
eccentric resident of Coshocton, O., re-
Gently died When the will wns pro-
bated it was found that he had cut off
his nephew without cent because the
latter's wife had at one time objected to
his smoking in her parlor
The fretful porcupine Is said to hive
on inordinate fondncss for chewing
leather which it regards as one Of tho
daintieet of csculcnts. jim Gibbons,
the blacksmith, of Stockport, N. p,
declares that n porcupine ate more than
half of his bellows in single night.
downtown Ctfzen-"O, we have n
fine class of citizens here. Our Jail is
empty and has been for month" Visi-
tor-"Ycs, l judged from the gangs 1
have seen around the saloons that your
jail was either empty or 50 full it could
not hold aay more. "-Indianapolis Jour
nal.
-Wooden-"Wcll, you can say what
you choose, l don't like Sneaker"
Edgcly-'Why, he's L very finc fellow,
polite and accommodating" Wooden
"fcs, ho is polite enough. no doubt, to
your face, but he's one of those Bellows
who will cut your throat behind your
back. boston Courier.
Pedestrian Chatting before McFad-
dens misunderstanding establishment
Look here don't like those chest
nuts got from you just now. Every
other one had Il worm in it." McFad-
don-"FuiS, an it's oblccged to we Oh
am for letting me know. Oil go over
me stock bcdad, an throw livery other
wan away, Oh will. -Ilarpcr's Bazaar.
Take back the heart thou gavcst"
"Why should l take it bacllp7 There
wns hush of expectancy and the lis
tcners leaned far out over the vcr7lnda
to catch the dying note of Loves lyric.
"Because," came the reply. waited
softly on the wings of cvening-'bc-
cause the boarders won't cut it." 1t was
the butcher.-Thc Epoch
Fill tumblcr with water, put a
siXpcncc i'll it, and, holding plate over
tho top, turn it upside down. The six.
pence will fall down on the plate and
appear to be shilling, while at the
same time siXpencc will seem TO be
swimming in glass. This can also be
done with twenty-five cent piece.-G.
Zen White, in Sunday Hour
November, 174O, was ushcrcd in by
one of the most furious and fatal gales
of the century. Between Boston and
Lynn sixty ships and upward lay
wrecked. At Whitby, the damage done
both at sea and ashore was incredible,
and from tho Firth of Forth to the
mouth of the Thames there was scarce
port or fishing village escaped without
damage and loss of life.
"A young son of Richard III. Damn,
Of Cambridge, was asked by one of his
companions if he didn't think the story
Of Jonah and the whale was funny. lie
replied that it couldn't bc funny bccnuse
1t was in the Bible. Speaking to his
mother about it later however, he told
| her what he had said, adding: sBut
honestly, do think it was funny, don't
/ you!"-Cambridgc Tribune
"A Boston girl at the metropolitan
Museum of Art of this city was going
into raptures over the figures in one OF
the halls. 80, Ethel! sec these wonder
full marble statues, thinl, of the ages
that they have watched go by, note the
beautiful brown tingc that age has
| givon thom. Beautiful" Their brother
five minutes latcr) "Why, girls, |
have been looking all over for YOU.
Come, let's get away from these plaster
casts"
Systems for distributing power in
cities from a central station are coming
/ more into use every day. Steam, cleo
/ tricity and compressed air arc the com
mon agents, but Paris has system which
! is the reverse of that employing COM
| pressed air. The motors operate by a
vacuum, created by immense air pumps
| at the central station. The cost per
horse power per hour is twenty-three
cents, about the same as with the ortli.
nary gas engine, when Illuminating gas
is used.
"A gentleman from the interior,
whose nautical vocabulary is more OK
tcnsivc than his actual knowledge of
things pertaining to the sea, while at
the house Of a retired sea captain, heard