Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-17
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Rev. E. E. Wiley, Sedalia, Mo. cler- gyman, who lately umpired game of base ball, has been expelled from his local Chautauqua circle. He claims to have been put out on foul.
 San Francisco husband is asking di-
 vorce because his wife bleaches her hair and is obliged to paint her face to match her hair. He says her complexion methods give her a ''fast, giddy and sporting ap- pearance.'
 A New York paper says: ''Seltzer and
 milk is first class warm weather drink. D Better call it milk and seltzer. While wa ter of any sort is not injured by milk there
 is prejudice against watered milk.
 Governor Waite of Colorado, of blood to-
 the brides fame, thinks the presidents
 action was tuncon5titutional and iu-
 famous." There can DO longer be any
 doubt that the president was right.
 George Gould, the owner of the Vigilant,
 is worth somewhere between S25, ,000 ,000
 and S60, COG, GOO. If he doesn't buy or build
 boat that can carry the stars and stripes
 ahead of the Britannia he isn't the Ameri-
 can we took him for.
 Two members of the Yale athletic team
 have been arrested and released on the pay ment of costs at Oxford. Their crime was
 the touching off of fire crackers on the
 Fourth of July. That was really dread
 ful crime. To thus disturb the slumber of
 Englishmen was almost unpardonable. It
 should have cost the enthusiastic high. It was worth it.
 J. w. Moses of Megquier Hill, Me-, has an unusually intellectual cat called Isaac, who is very fond of fresh fish. Recently, while the cat was lying on the floor, member of the family said to it: stIsaac, do you want us to go hshing?" and then added, eff we had frog for bait we could go." On this old Isaac got up with knowing look and trotted out, only to re- turn in few moments with a good sized frog, which he had caught in a swale near by.
 A band of we'll meaning omen in Brook lyn have decided that kissing must go, that 1t ls out of date, and is apt to be ve- hicle for the transmission of bacteria. The flaw in this indictment against kissing is the failure to show that bacteria are neces- sarily harmful to the human race. As they have their places in the order of crea- tion, and did not get there by accident, it is an open question whether they may not serve beneficent end for mankind. At all events no arbitrary closure on the kissing habit would commend itself to public favor at this time.
 A petition bearing 60, ,OO0 names and rep resenting many religions has been pre-. pared for presentation to the Chicago board of education, recommending that reading book consisting of selections from the sacred scriptures, in use in the schools of Toronto, Canada, with the approval of both Protestant and Catholi; churches, or similar selections, be put in use in the pub lie schools without delay.
 Yesterday morning man went into music store and asked for "Ave Maria" "Which one do you want?" asked the clerk. "Oh, don't know whose it is,p he said. "Give me the best one.' "Well, we have one by Gounod, Liszt, Luzzi, Mas any one is good. ''Goshl'' said the GUS tcmer, "I didn't know there was so many. Give me Jerry Beene's.' Cherubini's was handed him, but about noon he came back dissatisfied. "This is no good on earth,' he said. "I can't make head nor tail to the tune" Gounod's "Ave Maria'' was given him, but 8 0 clock brought him back again. s'It wasn't Ave Maria at all 1 wanted,' he explained. "It was Sweet Marie '- -(lndianapolis Sentinel.) He wouldn't Ave Marie unless she was sweet.
 The recently published report of the ad- jutant- general of Louisiana has some in- teresting statistics regarding Louisiana troops in the war for southern independ- ence. The total original enrolment of in- fantry was 26, 243; artillery, 4024; cavalry, 10, O56: sappers and miners, 276; engi- neers. PIP; signal corps. 76; New Orleans state guard. 4933, making grand tatal of 55 920.
 There is a steady growing unwillingness on the part of lawyers to pay their bills on the first of the month, or, in fact, on any
 
 some cases this unwillingness amounts to R positive aversion. We infer so, at least, from a conversation between two boys that were accidently overheard in the alley. Fl say, Bob, where can l find you tomor- row?" "Lemme see; tomorrow is the lst, ain't il?'' "Yes.h "Wen, you be on the avenue tomorrow about 10 o'clock, and if you see boy of about my size flying | out of a lawyers office on all fours, it's | me. The boss is goingto give me alot of | bad bills to collect.'
 Atchison Globe: The only thing fit to | wear in summer is an umbrella. | Love is awfuly disagreeable and sticky l during hot weather. If you don't I believe everybody lives in a glass house, just throw stone. If girl has | once done wrong it is proven in a court | room that she never did right. The only help some people receive is from | a man who says occasionally that he is | sorry. The evidence seems to | show that you can make a Christian out of | B man by treating him nice, and Sf | woman by treating her mean. It | seems to be a fact that the young men who | get S40 month set the style for richer men | to follow. With the women it takes some | one with money to lead.
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