The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-02-02
PEN AND SCISSORS,

ward Island lately. Navigation has
been free, cows pastured and robins
singing.
| The New Hampshire Cattle Com.
missioners have issued a circular to
the transportion companies prohibit
ing them from bringing in cattle from
Massachusetts, unless they have an
order from the Board.
The original act of the Gillian Con-
| gress Opposing President Balmaceda
has been placed in a glass case and SO
suspended that both sides of the docu-
ment can be read The case is hung
in President Months study in the
Moneda.
The centenary of the partition OF
Poland was appropriately observed by
the Poles. The people abstained
almost wholly from going to theatres
and balls. A few mobiles who at
tempted to give their usual New Year
balls had all their windows broken by
Poles.
Judge Holman, concededly one Of
the most interesting figures in Ameri-
can public life, is actually more than
seventy years of age. One of his
favorite EXPLANATIONS is: "Oh, my,
my!" Another is: "This will never
do; oh, no, it will never dol" The
latter exclamation invariably gives
log-rollers spasm Of pain.
DIR. j. H. McCollum, of the Boston
Society for Medical Improvement,
says the death-rate in New England's
capital was, in 1890, 22.7O per 1000,
while New York's was 245S, Glas-
COWS 25.21 and Philadelphia's 20.76.
But people have said that Philadel-
phians don't know when they are dead
sometimes.
Boston has lost one of her oldest
and most skillful physicians, in the
death of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch.
lie was more than a doctor, excellent
as he was in his profession; he was a
philanthropist who was warm and
active in his sympathy and work for
every reform, no matter how unpop-
ular it might be at the start
Mr.. j. T.. Trowbridse, the poet and
novelist, has returned with his family
from his three years. visit to Europe,
and is again settled at his charming
home in Arlington, Mass. He is now
GA years of age. He is one who re-
members his own boyhood so well
that he knows exactly how to reach
the heart of universal boyhood in his
storiesl
A Point Pleasant girl, who was re.
peating the Lords Prayer at her bed.
side, was annoyed by her three.
year-old brothers teasings. When
she got as far as "give us this day our
4 ily br,ld," The boy made an extra
bad break, aud the girl said: "Par'
don me a moment, Lord, till l spank
my brother" and, arising from hel
knees, she gave the boy a sound
thrashing. Then, kneeling, "forgive
us our trespasses as we forgive those
who 'respasS against lis. Exchange
The trustees of the Boston Publ,
Library are publishing in their Quar-
terly Bulletin copies of the hitherto
unpublished papers that have been
accessible only to special students il
that institution. The January mum.
Der has ten letters from Earl Percy
afterwards Duke of Northumberland
written from Boston to relatives in
England during the years 1774-177S
His comments upon Yankee character
are anything but complimentary.
The Gar has ordered that certain
regiment of horse guards stationed at
Charhof must pay the widow of a
merchant murdered in that city a
yearly pension of 5000 roubles. The
merchant met his death at the hands
of members of the regiment and the
Gar has made the officers responsible,
saying that they were to blame for the
loose discipline that made such crime
possible. 1t is noteworthy as "a good
deed in naughty world" of Russian
injustice.
When Mr.. Cleveland's train reach
ed Biloxi, in Mississippi, one of the
loungers at the station, a typical back
woods specimen dressed in misfit
butternut suit, tapped on the window
Of the eXPresident,s stateroom and
beckoned him to come out on the plat