Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-12
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 I'm not much of literary man my self" said the cashier of the big pub fishing house, filing out another'check, "and yet my writings are more sought after than those of any other man about the establishment. Chicago Tribune.
 --uincGe Dicl1-';Weli, Rob, are you getting on any better in arithmetic2s Rob-'I should say so. The boy that sits with me knows his lessons always" Inter Ocean.
 Where ambition can cover it's enter prises. even to the person himself, un- der the appearance of principle, it is the most ineurable and infexib1e of passions.-Hume.
 -Freddy-"Have you-haw such & thing as-haw-a full dress cigah?" The Tobacconist-''No sir; but we have some in very elegant wrappers. Pink 'Un. London
 -At the Police Court. Magistrate "Tell me under what circumstances you committed the robbery Prisoner '.l nder eXtenuating circumstances, your worship. .'-Tit-Bits.
 
 the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may ppen.-Herodotus.
 On anniversary days the Chinese place food on the graves of their ances- tors. In day or two it always disap- pears and of course the spirits of the deceased must have devoured it.
 The East Indian ship worm will in a few months destroy any vessel by eating out the interior of the beams and blanks. They will be left mere shell that can be shattered by the fist.
 Hundreds of experiments have been made to determine whether toads could live when inolosed in blocks of stone, >and in every case the toads died before the end of the second year.
 Since the beginning of this century no less than fifty-two volcanic islands have risen out of the sea; nineteen disap- peared, being submerged, the others remain, and ten are now inhabited.
 Young girls in Greece and Italy worshiped Diana until they were of age, when they dedicated their girdles to her by hanging them up in her temple or grove. and turned to Aphro- dite
 Five Tear Old -Boy-'We've got lit, tie chickens at our house." Clerk. "Have you and when did you get them?" Five Year-Old - Why, our old hen put hair on nestful of eggs and made ehichens of them"
 Prof Milton Whitney, of Johns Hopkins university, has determined that in an ordinary wheat soil there is at least ten thousand million soil grains in a, gram about pint, and ill some of the finest soils this number has reached twenty-four thousand millions
 An Egytian shoplseeper had a deity to whom he offered sacrifice every morn- ing and whose duty 1t was in return for this reverence to stand in front of the shop during the day, q sort of celes- tial barker" and direct the attention of the people passing by to the shop and it's contents
 There is an exceedingly able woman in Boston who can report speech de- livered rapidly in German, she first translating the speech into English and then recording it in stenographio characters. Such celerity of thought is only approached by the tradition re- spectine Kossuth, who is said to have thought in Hungarian, translated into Latin and retranslated and uttered at a rapid rate the choicest English, born of a study of the Bible and Shakespeare.
 Persons accustomed to see only one form of macaroni on their domestic tables are astonished at the many varie- ties shown by macaroni dealers. There are at least forty forms of the articla, some of them interesting and artistic, as the maearoni and egg. in which the l paste has yellow hue, is formed into discs two and half inches in diameter and stamped with various ornamental devices. This retails at ten cents a pound. There are halfa dozen others ! quite as distinctive.
 When the postage stamp was first resolved upon the post office authorities , issued prospectus and offered the sum of g., 800 for the best design ane plan for stamp. It is said that ne fewer than 3,70o designs were sub mitted by the artists, men of scienc. and the public generally to whom tn, proposal was addressed. The penny stamp came first. and in July, ls40, 1 two- penny stamp was issued, and sub sequently complete series ranging il value from half-penny to five shil linqs,