The Van Buren press., 1893-11-18
MiSCELLANE EOUS.

His Impression. -He-"Did you say
the furniture was Louis XIV?" She
Eyes. Why?" He-"The bills suggest
the Reign of Terror. brooklyn Lite.
II gave you ten cents just before
stepped into that store.p Blind Beggar
-"Well, you see, your new hat changes
you SO l didn't know you." Inter
Ocean.
Cure for the ady.-.Patient-"I
say, doc, when do you think I'll be out
of this?'' Doctor-"Well, can cure
you at once for cash or in week for
thirty ays."-Judge.
"A Farmyard Episode. do
you cut up such antics when you feed
your turkeys, Mr. Farmer?" "Oh! I'm
trying to make game of them."-De
troit Free Press.
Look a yer, yo', Sam Johnson
De hoss dat yo' sole me las night il
daide!' Sam-"Daide? Lo'd, dat'a
funny. He nevah did dat befo'."-N
Y. Herald.
Free Posthumous Advertising
Professor-s'To what did Xenophon
owe his reputation?" Student-"Prin.
cipally to the fact that his name com.
menced with X and came in so handy
for headlines in alphabetical copy.
books. Worlds Fair Puck.
Dentists are great users Of costly
metals. Besides gold for stoppings,
two-sevenths of the worlds consump-
tion of platinum is employed by them
In making the wires by which the
artificial teeth are firmly fastened to
the plate.
One OF the ugliest savage races on
earth are the "Canoe Indians" who
spend all their daylight time on the
water. At the bottom of each boat,
near the center, some earth is piled,
and on it a small fire of sticks is kept
burning for the partial comfort of the
occupants.
An English sparrow met curious
and untimely death in London recently
In trying to take drink Of water from
the famous Temple fountain. A gold
fish, 1t is declared by witnesses, jumped
up and seized the bird by the leg. A
second fish did likewise by the birds
other leg, and between them the spar.
row was dragged down and drowned.
-Philadelphia possesses collector
OF hcrshoes, Boston gatherer OF
bricks, New Orleans a collector Of
sugar samples, Louisville a gatherer
OF sample TASKS Of whisky, but Ne.
braska beats them all. She boasts OF
man who takes locks of hair shaved
from the heads of noted criminals
which he labels and indexes with great
care.
One of the best fishermen Of Glou.
cester, Mass, is a dog owned by Capt.
George Winters. He is of mixed breed,
half Newfoundland and half wolf, and
Is thorough water dog. 1t is fre-
quent occurrence for fish to escape
from the hook when at the surface,
and when this occurs the men call to
the dog, who jumps overheard and
dives for the fish, and is nearly always
successful in capturing him.
-Toothache is no longer q serious
thing to treat, and can now be stopped
In the course of two or three minutes
at tho outside, and often In half min
ute. The method is very simple.
Thoroughly clean out the cavity, take
small piece of cotton, twist it up into
. roll SO that 1t will enter the cavity,
dampen the small end and place upon
that three or four granules OF cocaine
about the size of small pin head,
press these, with the cotton, into the
hole up against tho nevve, and the
effect will be instantaneous. Every
throb will cease, and the sufferer will
think in few moments he never had
the toothache.
"A singular story II told by the
Abbeville, Louisiana, correspondent OF
the New Orleans Picayune. The writcs
says: 1.-TWO young men, after talk
on the road, galloped their horses of
IN opposite directions. Each thought
of something he wanted to say to the
other and turned back. They both
ran their horses and encountered each
other at full speed. The horses passed
unhurt, but the riders legs struck as
they passed and both were thrown in .
manner to the earth and hurt alike.
Each had his thigh broken. neither
more dangerously than the other"
About the middle Of the seven
teenth century, according to tract
issued at the time, hairy woman,
Barbara Urselin vaubeck, was ex-
hibited in all the principal cities Of
continental Europe. The tract above
referred to, which bears this extraor~
dinary title, barbara, the Human
Beare; True Relation Of Woman a.
Haire as Any Annimile,' gives the fol-
lowing account of her: Her name ID
Augusta barbara, and she is the daugh-
ter OF Ralthazar Urselin, and at this
time (1855) is in her twenty-second
yeare. Her whole bodie, even to her
face, is covered withe curled haire
verrie soft like woole; she has besides
a thicke heavie beard that reaches TO
her girdle. and from her ears hang long
tufts of haire Of the same yellow col
our"
There are 119, 300, 600 old copper
pennies somewhere. Nobody knows
what has become Of them, except once
In awhile . single specimen turns mp
In change. A few years ago 4,5O0, 600
bronze 2-cent pieces were set afoat.
Three millions of these are still out
standing. Three million Scent nickel
pieces are scattered over the United
States, but it is very rarely that one is
seen. OF 800, goo half-cents, which cor
respond in value to English farthings.
not one has been returned to the gov
ernment for recoinage or is held by