Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-09
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 Harmony of Color.-Palette -''So Sincere got mad when you criticised his picture. I suppose he got red in the face, as usual?" Dauber-.No madder. Truth.
 The translation of Quintus Curtius by Vauge1as occupied thirty years The translator rendered every sentence five or ten different ways and finally chose that which pleased him best.
 A va1ise containing the manuscript of forty sermons was lost by an express company. The owner, Chicago cler-i gyman, made claim for the value of the sermons and received s417.
 The largest fresh water lake is Lake Superior. It is 400 miles long, 160s wide, and has an area of 39,000 square miles, or about half that of Missouri Its surface is 634 feet above sea level.
 A Clear Case.-Mrs. Farmer-'T think that young man from the city is 1 trifing with our daughter. 5 Mir. Far mer-.'Im sure of it. He's the most trifling man I ever saw" "-Detroit Free ! Press.
 -Drapers and others showing win dow goods liable to lose color by fading are advised to put yellow colored glass l in their windows, as the bleaching is caused by the white rays of the suns light
 | wl-s s1o 1 blowing open safe at Lebanon, H., used such big stick of dynamite that | the explosion startled the town. Every body seemed to have been awakened, and the burglars were easily captured.
 The most wonderful machine is that which makes pins. It measures and cuts the wire, points and polishes 1t, puts head on one end, repolishes the pins and puts them by rows into the papers in which they are sold.
 Prospective brides may be inter- ested to learn that there are thirty-two days in the year oh which, it is said, it is unlucky to marry. They are Janu- ary 1, }, 4, 5, ', 10, 15; February 6, r, s; March 1, 6, B. April 6, II; May 5, 6, [; June T. 15; July ,, 19; August Il, 19: i September 6, T; October 6; November 15, 16 and December Is, 16, r.
 -Thatnoble institution fin New York, ! the Children's Aid society, had under its charge during its fiscal year just l closed 34, 277 children. Homes were found for 1,940 of them, and 6, 227 boys i and girls were sheltered and fed at the six lodging houses. The expenditure for ! the the money side looks when compared with the amount of good done. Spring field Republican.
 A Bible, printed from the type called brilliant, which is the smallest size used in English printing, has been published by the Oxford University press. The volume contains 1916 pages, with map, and weighs less than three ounces. It measures three and half i by two and an eighth inches, and is hve-eighths of an inch thick.
 Careful observers have noticed that a tish hawk, after securing it's prey, will often rise very high in the air, drop the fish, quickly swoop down upon and seize it, and then fly homeward. The object of this, as explained by an old skipper in the Lower Bay of New York, IS to get the fish ''head on," as a hawk will never fly with the tail of it's prey foremost. So, if it has caught it that way, giving it a twirl it drops it and selzes it again with the head point ing in the right direction.
 A Deaf Mans Blunder.-A bride tells of difficult moment of her recant wedding trip. few days of it were spent with an uncle of hers, very deaf and very pious. When they sat down to dinner on the night of their arrival. the uncle asked tue groom to say grace. Muchsem barrassed, as he was unaccus- toned to officiate in this way, he leaned forward, murmuring request to be excused Whereupon the uncle. watch Ing him. only waited until his lins stopped moving to utter a sonorous
 Amen! In response. It is hardly nee essary to add that the blessing for that meal went unsaid. d.-Argonaut.
 A side show attached to c;rc,,s which showed in country town ;, west Virginia last summer had big sign: Only 10 cents to see the most wonderful thing in the world.' Per eohs curlous enough to pay the dime. found man sitting on a chair inside whiting piece of wood As he cut away, with an outward sweep of his knife, he remarked: Gentlemen. all ways whittle like this, and you will be in no danger of cutting yourselves" ;" This was the whole show. People who had been duped were so anxious to have company that they went out and advised their friends to go in, and it is claimed that the side show did more business than the circus.
 Sailing ships sometimes spend long Intervals at sea without raising a sail of any kind above their ever-chanrine horizons. Hence the unioue exneri. ence of the Lorton and the Cocker ' mouth ia WeI1 worth racoxains.s 1.],s..