The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-07
I MISCELLANEOUS.

-WeIt, Wuat 90 you WANT asked
the aeronnut of his assistant, who had
begun to whimper "i want the carth!'
walled the young man.
First youth lat railway depot
Travelled faro" Second youth-"Not
yet. but expect to before stop. lam
going west to seek my fortune" First
youth-"I just got back. Lend me o
dime, will you?"-Kansas City Journal.
In sinking plumb lines down shafts
the accuracy of the work is often scr-
ously impaired by spiders attaching
their webs to the lines and drawing
them toward the wall, often with suili-
cient tension TO introduce material er-
rors in the position of the plumb hobs.
Tho wounds made by the new small
calibcr army rifles close quickly and
heal readily, showing wonderfully little
destruction of tho soft tissues. Tho
next Improvement will probably result,
it is said, in the bullets being cascd in
hard metal so us to prevent spreading
and liberation.
There must be myriads Of fish liv-
ing in the depths or the sea whose form
and characteristics we can mover even
guess at, for should specimens be sue.
cessfully hooked they would burst into
pieces before they could be brought to
the surface, being relieved of the extra
ordinary pressure upon which they cX-
list.
st Charles, Mo-, is in n worse posi-
ton than any of the towns in Massa-
chusctts. 1t has two willing and wait
ing young women to every marriage
able man in it's population, and when
1,oc 1,f, al fnl1 o..
for an evenings walk he has generally
TO carry his grandmother along to sec
that he isn't cloped with.
Can you manage typewritero"
asked one married lady of another.
Can manage Il typewriter? | should
say SO. made three leave my hus-
bands Office within the last two
months, and the last is SO homcly that
John is almost afraid of her. The man
agement of Il typewriter is an art, but
I've got it down fine ''-Dcmorcst's
Magazine.
A Brunswick. Ga, newspaper makes
this effective and pathetic editorial ar
raignmcnt and appeal. which would
seem to be worth several columns of
particularized condemnation: Ladies'
and gentlemen. as you pass down New
castle street will You please look at the
court house. Is that such Il building rs
Glyn county ought to have in Bruins
wicll?"
-Why?-Swect Girl-"Oh! papa, why
arc there so many poor people and we
are so rich?' Rich Father-''My child,
it is nature: nature is full of such in
cqualites. Everything is uncqually
distributed my dcar-for instance
in the sea there are Millions Of dollars
worth of salt, and not single cents
worth of peppcr-Why?"- Demorcst's
Magazine.
The accomplishments and acquire
ments of Ilicronymus Lorm, Gcrmany's
blind poet, are remarkable When it is
known that ever since the age of fifteen
he has been bcrcft of the senses of sight
and hearing. lie was born in Austria,
but when IL young man was driven from
Vienna on account OF his political writ
ings. Going to Berlin he made himself
widely known and influential.
"A farmer near Columbus, Ga, has
two turkey hens and one gobblcr Tho
hens made nests about seventy five
yards apart iii melon patch and went
to setting. The gobbler got lonesome
and concluded that the proper thing for
him to do was to set also. lie got an
equal distance between the two turkey
hens, squattcd over a guinea water
melon and set six weeks before he was
discovered.
President +. r. Webster of the Mar
in county (CaL) Country club has
started Il remarkable immigration
scheme. y subscription paper has been
circulated among the gentlemen far
mers, and it is proposed with the pro-
ceeds to import from Germany 200 pairs
Of skylarlls, bulliinchcs. nightingales
and thrushes. 1t costs about $3.50 to i'm
port Il hundred pairs of these birds, but
Napa, Sonoma, San Matco and Sacra-
mcnto counties are pursuing Marin
county's example.
The late Calmann Levy, the Paris
publisher, wasacquaintcd with nearly all
the famous French writer's for the last
half century, and his house enjoyed al
most monopoly of the dramatists. IIe
was the last of four brothers who were
associated in the book trade, and he in
herited Il fortune of SS,O0O,O00 from his
brother Michael, the originator of the
firm. The average annual output of
Calmann Levy's presses was 1,724,0O
volumes and 1900 600 periodicals, and
he kept going II paper mills, 80 print
ing-houscs. IL bindcrics and various
other factories and workshops. liar
pcr's Weekly.
"A post mortcm on the remains of
Charles G. Barowsky, who died recently
at Sioux City, Iowa, revealed the re-
markable fact that ne had lived for the
past twcntyninc years with a bullet in
his brains. He was shot with revol-
unr lnrinr the. WIFE. hut rccOvnrnd