Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


 The finest champagne is produced by the juice from the black and white grapes being mixed together, the black giving body and strength, the white delicacy.
 Lots Wife.-The Sunday-School Teacher-'What can you tell me of Lots wife, MamieY' Mamie (promptly) -sNothing! Mamma says we should never speak of people behind their backs. Truth.
 A steel rail costs twice as much as an iron one, but the universal use of the former means millions to the far mers of the west. It has enabled rail roads to use larger and heavier cars, and the results are cheaper freights and quicker transportation.
 No Formalities Necessary. to this case of yours, my friend, said the lawyer, ito be perfectly honest with you - ''There needn't be any gulf of that sort between you and me, !" in- terrupted the client. ''I'm 8 horse jockey. .''-Chicago Tribune.
 There is one thing" said the new boarder, emphatically, .that will have to be settled before make up my mind to remain with you" And what is that?' inquired the landlady, anxious ly; the new boarder paid high price and paid 1t promptly. 1.-The coffee, " -as his respopse.
 -'Papa," said Willie, as he watched the colt prancing about the fields, "I don't believe he'll ever grow up to be a horse" Why not, my son?a asked papa. Because he behaves so like a jackass ''-Harper's Bazar.
 You are very independent people, j said the tourist from England. But you can't deny that you owe a great deal to Christopher Columbus. "0h, I don't know" replied the self-reliant young woman. This country made his reputation for him, you know. Indianapolis Journal.
 Hubby" she asked, with her most tender and winning smile, what is the difference between me and ar angel?o "A great deal" he answered with alacrity unusual to his sluggish mind. Then he wondered the rest o1 the day why she was so quiet and con fined the conversation almost entirely to monosyllables les.-Philadelphia Call.
 An Observant Youth It was Bob bie's mothers birthday-her thirtieth some said, though there were others who were disposed to credit her with three or four years mora. Robbie, too had his ideas on the subject apparently for at breakfast he said: 'How old are you. mamma2n ''0h, nineteen ol twenty" was the answer. .'Hunpl' said Robbie. s'Seem to me you're grow in backwards "--Harper's Drawer.
 The missionaries of Swedish socie- ties are publishing, at Kibunzi, on the Congo, monthly paper in the Fiote dialect whose title means Messenger of Peace" The paper costs twenty cents per year, and is printed in five hundred copies.
 The highest cathedral tower in the world-that of Ulm Minster-though finished some years ago, has been hid den by seaffolding until recently. The last portion of the scaffolding has now been removed, and the tower can at last be seen in all its beauty.
 The board of education of the Pres bvterian church has decided that 1t must limit the probable number oi students under it's care in colleges and seminaries during the coming season to nine hundred, and can not promise to give larger sum than eighty dol lars for the year.
 -"The other morning when was taking a walk before breakfast" said a citizen, ''I saw on the curbstone ir front of house ahead box filled with the ordinary refuse of kitchen, but on top of it was about a quarter of 6 loaf of bread-the crusty end of { square loaf which even from where was I could see looked all right; il might be stale, but 1t looked nice. an6 1t seemed a pity to waste it. But dear me, it wasn't wasted. Even while was looking at it a man ahead of me whom I had noticed particularly be fore, and who was now just passing the box, reached out and picked up the quarter loaf and dropped it into his pocket, all withoutstopping "-N. '. Sun