The Van Buren press., 1893-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Visitor-"Bobby, do you love tho
new baby still?" Bobby-"Yes; but
he's never still. l."-Philsdelphia Record.
In the Same Boat.-''How are you
fixed%' asked the pole-cat. "Just one
big cent" said Jerry Hardups. Same
here" said the skunk.-Arkansas Trav-
eler.
Before the Venus of Milo.-Smith-
ers-(reading sign, Hands Off')-"The
poor idiots! Do they think any one
could look at that statue and not know
the hands were off?'
What is it draws such great con-
gregations to hear Rev. Longtext?"
IA smoky chimney" "How could that
be?' "Well, because he isn't able to
preach over fifteen minutes on account
OF It, Inter Ocean.
-Ecce Homo.-Managing Editor
"Confound 1t! Who can swear tho
loudest in this office? want some one
to help me- City Editor-"The re-
ligious editor just stepped out, but he
will be back in a moment. Truth.
"A Good Excuse.-Father-'T guess
you'll have to wear this blue flannel
suit OF mine. l can't afford to get you
. new one" Son-"But it doesn't fit
me-" Fathcr-''That's all right Say
1t was made in London. "-Clothier and
Furnisher.
-Reassured. Snake Charmer II
feels kinder rocky t'day, Grimesy, an
/ feel leery of doin' me turn" Mama
ger Grimes-Wot yer want ter do?
Bust me show? You goes on, an dc
orkcstrer plays St. Patrick's Day on
de orginette, an de snakes are dead
easy fer ye. See?'-Puclx.
Every deliberative civil body in En-
gland, even down to the town councils,
is provided with mace, which is
brought forth with solemn ceremony
and placed on a table before the delib-
eratfons begin. In one or two city
councils candlestick is added to the
mace, and acts passed in the absence
of these objects are supposed to be IL.
legal.
TO see the worlds fair and walk
through the buildings the grand total
is something in excess of 11s,0O0 feet,
or nearly twenty-threc miles. This es-
innate does not include state, govern.
ment or private buildings; the plai-
sance is ignored and no account is taken
of the long jumps from one building to
another. A walk of about forty miles
is necessary to do the whole thing up.
One of the ''lighter' attractions at
the Columbian exposition is interna-
tional swimming matches every Friday
afternoon. The course will be half
mile. The first came of recently, when
four Dahomians, two of them women,
three South Sea islanders, one woman.
Bedouins, Egyptians, Cingalese, Java
nese and American Indians partici-
pated. Over $4,000 people witnessed
the race, which was quite exciting.
Floating islands are by no mesna
rare, but an unusually queer one Is lo-
Gated in Cranberry lake, near Arden,
N. Y. Some years ago, in order to keep
the island from floating down the
stream, it was attached to the main
land by a hawser, in nearly the Same
manner as an ocean steamer is tied to
dock. The old hawser still remains
tied to u tree, and is the object Of much
interest to visitors.
1t Is estimated that the number Of
bodies embalined in Egypt from B. G.
5000, when the art is supposed to have
been first practised, to A. d. 700, when
it ceased, amounted to 420, 900, 900. An.
other estimate places the total num-
Der Of mummies at TAI, 900, 900, but this
Is based upon the extension of the be-
ginning of the practice to much
earlier date. The traffic in the mumr
mics IL very profitable to modern
Egyptian dealers.
Among the crowd of refugees who
endeavored to leave the town Of Bruns-
wick, Ca, few nights ago In alarm at
the outbreak Of yellow fever was .
poor, old and enfeebled man with lit
tie dog as his sole companion. When
told that the dog could not be adj
mitted to the car, he decided to remain
behind, and the next morning he set
out with his dog to walk the forty
miles that would take them, he be-
lieved, out of the reach of the scourge.
The first policemen in New York
were appointed in 1858. The force was
then called the rattle watch, and had
nine members. The wages were fifty
cents a night, lone or two beavers and
200 or 300 sticks of fIrewood," and the
captain of the watch collected 81 =
month from each house to meet the ex-
penses. After o'clock till daybreak
it was the duty of the watch to call ont
the hour on every street corner. They
were to arrest anyone "heard to bias
pheme the name Of God. +" or anyone in
any way insolent or unreasonable in
his behavior"
The expression, ''deaf as an adder
Is from the Psalms Of David, where u
appears in the following form: Their
poison is like the poison of serpents.
They are like the deaf adder that stop
peth her ear, which will not hearken
to the voice of charmers, charming ever
SO wisely" East India travellers tell
us that there is . widely prevailing
supposition in the east to the effect
that both the viper and the asp stop
their ears, when the charmer is utter
ing his incantations or playing his
music, by turning one ear to the ground
and twisting the point of the tail into
the other.
-Donnybrook is on the outskirts Of
the city of Dublin, but Donnybroolx
fair ground is NO longer the friendly
fighting ground of former days Once
the tents made Of wattles, with patch
work quilts or blankets or old petit
coats spread over them, held rows Of
tables made of doors placed on mounds
OF clay. The benches, too, rested ON
the same uncertain foundation and