Tombstone epitaph., 1891-03-15
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

Expectations people at Keokuk, la, were almost scared to death by whistling buoy which was placed in the river by the government. They thought it was Q ghost.
 The Texas steer which made lunge at circus elephant in Texarkana never knew which came out ahead He got a whack from trunk line which knocked him stif if and cold
 In the lower portions of South Carolina It is not an uncommon thing for white women, and even little girls of 10 to 12 years. to be seen doing manual labor in the fields
 It must be pretty hard for a woman to lead in fashion" Out of 500 toilets and 750 hats surveyed on recent afternoon on Broadway. New York. no two were alike, while all were fashionable.
 What is claimed to be the longest chain ever made is in the imperial arsenal at Vienna It has 5000 links. and was used by the Turks to obstruct the passage of the Danube in i529
 The success of tho great worlds fair at Melbourne, Australia, has melted San Francisco to undertake a Great Pacific riope und international exposition" in the last nGrued city in year or two.
 One hundred years ago the Presbyte. rian church consisted of IFS ministers and 5000 communicants Tho last min utes show that there are now 6, ,654 min isters. 6.436 churches and 69G, ,757 con- municants
 Denmark is an immense diary. The ex- port of butter last year amounted to 45,. 900 900 pounds, and its quality is said to have been excellent and wonderfully uni form. The business is conducted on sci entific principles
 An old observer tells that ones eye. brows are an infallible guide to his age No matter. he says. how young looking the person may be. If his eyebrows lack gloss and do not lie flat and smooth, he is no longer young man.
 There are 493 mountain peaks in tho United States more than 0.000 feet in height. The highest mountain east of the Mississippi is Mount Balsam Cone, in the Black mountains of North Carolina. which is G.67l feet high.
 Italian immigrants to New York live on nine cents day. They make soup with a bit of pork and cast of shreds of cabbage and serve 1t with black bread. Some Italian laborers who are receiving seventy five cents day are growing rich.
 Whereas six years ago all the cartoons burned in the electric lights of the coun- try were made in one room in Boston by ten men. there are now l50 tons consumed daily. and of this number 100 tons are turned out in the twenty carbon furnaces of Cleveland.
 There Is a new high wire act. Two men starting from different ends of slack wire meet and pass each other. go. ing by on waltz step. A woman act ually dances on the wire, and man trots across it with a companion upright on his shoulders.
 A remarkable case of preservation is re- ported from the old Blandford church. yard. near Petersburg. Va. A body was exhumed that had been entombed over thirty years. and was found to be in all almost perfect state of preservation. It was In an ordinary metallic case.
 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 lino and sulphur on the spot at night and soak it with quinine every morning.
 The past summer was the wettest that England has experienced since 1879. and the coolest since lS60 In most parts of the country the sun has not shone more than an average of to A hours per day, instead of a possible IA or l5. In Scotland the daily average has been about hours.
 Tho most powerful war ship anoat, the Benbow, has just been completed and joined the British Mediterranean feet. She carries two III ton guns. besides other smaller guns. A shot from one of them weighs 800 pounds and when pro- pelled by the fuli charge of $50 pounds of powder it can tear it way through whole yard of iron armor.
 It was so cold at the race meeting of the New York Country club recently that young lady on the grand stand. who wore varnished boots. forgetfully kept her feet together, and when she attempted to stand up found that owing to the cold and danipness her boots had stuck to- gether. and she was helpless until her feet were pred apart.
 The points of an oyster are. first, the shape. which should resemble the petal of a rose leaf. Next. the thickness of tho shell; thoroughbred should have shell like thin china. It should also possess all almost metallic ring and peculiar opalescent luster on the inner side The hollow for tho animal should resemble au egg cup. and the fish should be firm. white and nut like.