The Forrest City times., 1892-09-30
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stlll De a dedu peat, or He bdy noe make any and still be gentleman.
 From the best indications at present the convict lease system in Arkansas will be thing of the next legislature. Now that girls have adopted suspen. ners as d part of their apparel 1t will be in order for the funny man to speak of ''one gallus" gal.
 A feminine resident of Caribou, Me-, harvested forty acres of grain without any help from the masculine sex. She used machine reaper.
 William Sprague, was governor of Rhode Island and afterward United States senator, is now living in poverty. He was once worth Sl0,O0O,O0 Ninety-five per cent of tin-plate is sheet-iron. Five-sixths of the Welsh product is exported, and the Unite q States consumes three-fourths of 1t. One little Akron boy who was proud of his latest acquisition surprised his mother by saying: "l'm going out Of doors to show God my rubber boots. Samuel Moss, Essex, Mass, has been hungry all the time for thiiteen years. He drinks three quarts of water per day and eats hearty meals every hour.
 The society for prevention of cruel- Fly to animals in Switzerland has re- solved to banish cats from the republi- con the ground that they are killing on the birds.
 According to London daily there are about two thousand five hundred building associations, with over six hundred thousand members, ill the United Kingdom.
 The Australian legislature has passed a law taxing all married couples living with their mother-in-law; $500 if re- siding with the husbands mother-in- law, and $120 if with the wife's. According to an official report just issued of the 30 ATS people whose mar riages were registered in Massachusetts last year, 693 were men and 245 wo- men who had reached their hftieth year.
 Gerald Evans an undergraduate of Exeter college, died in the college from blood poisoning, brought upon him be- cause while playing foot ball he had received slight scratch on the face. L. c. Beecher, of Woodbridge, Conn.,, planted q hill of pumpkins last spring. From that hill he gathered seventeen pumpkins aggregating 678 pounds. He has sold them at cent a pound. With view of testing new toOth- pulling machine which he was about to purchase . Williamport dentist allowed himself to be operated upon, and tho lower part of his face was nearly torn away.
 The margarine act in England seems to have had a salutary effect npon tho adulteration of butter, for J. Carter Bell. the Cheshire county analyst says that of fifty-one samples only one was aduiterated.
 While fishing near Slaughter Beach, Del, d few days ago, a party of young men of Milford caught veritable sea devil, It was nearly feet in lenght, feet inches in width, and had an immense head.
 l General Stevenson's popularity was so great at Charlsvtte, N C., that a cir GUS showing there postponed it's show till after his speech and abandoned it's parade to loan it's band to the demo- cratic procession.
 During 1889 slightly over hundred millions dollars worth of gold has been dug from the earth on the four conti- neDts. The largest quantity came from l Australia, California and South Africa. Africa is looking up.
 As long as farmers have to buy everything that they eat, just so long will they remain poor. There is no earthly reason why a single pound of meat of any kind should be shipped here from the North.
 | There is no telling when the great cathedral of Cologne will be completed. The bronze doors are nearly ready. A foreign letter says ''the doors present the four ages of men, the four seasons and the wise and foolish virgins"
 A Watsontown, Pa., man saw ad- vertised "A Sure Cure for Drunken ness" He forwarded the necessary dollar, and received by return mail, written on valuable postal card in beautiful violet ink. the magic words: Don't Drink"
 An editor may print a thousand good things in his columns each week and never hear one word of thanks from any quarter, but just let him print one little exposure Of some little wrong or one uncomplimentary word to some citizens. and he will hear 1t storm and thunder in less than five minutes after tue first copy leaves tho press.
 The steamboatmen's superstition, that one boat sunk will soon be fol- lowed by two others is again verified. The Grace Velie sunk about ten days ago about fifteen miles above Arkan- sas City. On Saturday plight the HiK City sunk at Kleinston, just below Vicksburg, and the following night the Edna sunk at New Orleans Mem phis Ledger.
 A kitten become lodged in the fy- wheel of an engine in Portland, Ore. The wheel ran for six hours and half. The cat was taken out nearly hfeless but recovered. The fly-wheel made 250 revolutions per minute, and every turn pussy travelled seventeen feet. The engIue was i'll motion 390 minutes, and during that time the kitten travel ed d distance of 315 miles.
 An average waltz takes dancer over about three-quarters of a mile.A square i dance makes him cover half mile. A girl with we'll filled programme trav- els thus in an evening: Twelve waltzes, nine miles, four other dances, at a halt mile apiece, which is hardly fairly big estimate. two miles more; the inter- mission stroll and the trips to the
 dressipg-room to reuovate her gown
 and complexion. half mile; grand to- ! tai. eleven and half miles,