Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-18
CRISP CONGREGATIONS

supsrstitious people at Keokuk, Ia., were almost scared to death by a whistling buoy which was placed in the river by the government. They thought it was a ghost.
 The Texas steer which made a lunge st a circus elephant in Texarkana never knew which came out ahead He got wha, k from trunk line which knocked him stiff and cold.
 h the lower portions of South Carolina tt is not an uncommon thing for white women, and even little girls Of 10 to 12 years to bs seen doing manual labor in the fields
 It must be pretty hard for woman to lead in fashion" Out of 509 toilets and 150 hats surveyed on recent afteFnoY D on Broadway, New York. no two were alike. while all were fashionable.
 What is claimed to be the longest chain ever made ls iu the imperial arsenal at Vienna Is has 5000 links. and was used by the Turks to obstruct the passage of the Danube in I529
 The success of the great worlds fair at Melbourne. Australia, has melted San Francisco to undertake Great Paci6c slope and international exposition" in the last naiued city in 6 year or two.
 One huRdred years ago the Presbyte riRn church consisted of ITS ministers and IS, 900 commuRieants- The last min utes show that there are now :, ,654 min tsters. 6 4S5 churches and e96. 757 com municants,
 Denmark is an immense diary. The ex port of butter last year amounted to A5, 00o, eco ponnds. and it's quality Is said to have been excellent and wonderfully uni form Ths business Is conducted on sci sutific principles
 An old observer tells that ones eye erows are an tnfEllibls guide to his age No matter. he says, how young looking the person may be. If bis eyebrows lack a gloss and do not lie fat and smooth. be is uo longer young man
 There are 493 mountain peaks ir the United States more than 10, GOO feet in height The highest mountain east of the Mississippi is Mount Balsam Cone. in the Black mountains Of North Carolina, which Is cen feet high.
 Italian immigrants to New York live on nine cents a day. They make a soup wit h bit of pork and cast of shreds of cabbare and serve 1t with black bread. Some Italian labOrers who are reosi ving seventy Eve cents day are growing rich
 Whereas six years ago all the cartoons b0rned in the electric lights of the coun- try were made in one room h Boston by ten men. there are now 150 tons consumed daily, and of this number 100 tons are turned out tn the twenty carbon furnaces of Cleveland
 There Is a new high wire Ect Two men starting from different ends of a slack wire meet and pass each other, go. ing by on a waltz step. 4 woman act u8lly dances OR the wire, and man trots across il with e companion upright On his shoulders
 A remarkable case of preservation is re- ported from the old BlRndford church yard, near Petersburg. Va 4 body was sxhumed that had been entombed over thirty years. and was found to be in an almost perfect state Of preservation It was tn an ordinary metallic ease. According to Dr. Erasmus Wilson. the great authority on hair. any one who is threatened with badness. if it has not made too much headway. can check the tendency by rubbing little mixed vase line and sulpaEF oEI the spot at night and soak it with quiniae every morning The past summer vas lhs wg:teet that England mas experienced SlfiFe ls .S, aud the coolest since 1859. Iu u9Dst rarts of the country the sun has n"l sloIIe mora than an average of 1 tO 4 hours Ter daT, instead of a possible 14 or lJ- In Scotland the daily average has been about hours. The most powerful war ship aHoat. the Benbow, has just been completed and joined the British Mediterranean Icct She carries two III ton Gans. besides other smaller guns. 4 shot from one ot them weighs 1. 500 pounds. and when pro. pslled by the fuli charge Of $50 pounds 0i powder it can tear it way through whole yard of iron sFmor.
 It was so cold st the race meeting oi the New Ye=k Country club recently chat A young lady on the grand stand. whc wore vanished boots, fOrgetfully kept her feet together, and when she attempted 0 stand up found that owing to the cold and danlp pnsss her boots had stuck to, getheT. and she was helpless until bel feet 7ere pred apart.
 The points of an oyster are. first, the shape. which should resemble the petal oi 6 rose leaf Next, the thickness of the kbeil; q thoroughbred should have Q shell Ike thin china. It should also possess an almost metallic ring and pscnliaI opsieseent lusteT on the inner side Tho hoil0B for the animal should resemble aG egg cHp. and the fish should bs firm white aud nut like