Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-30


 world for the want of little courage. Sydney Smith.
 Hector is Greek, the Stout De- fender Down to the time of Pericles it was much ill use in Greece.
 Plants are affected by various sub- stances, just as animals are; electricity will stimulate or stun them narcotics will stupefy and kill them
 Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely inter change of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.-Bacon.
 Two famous Roman tailors are mentioned; one is Alpheus, alluded to by Horace as most slsillful workman; the other was Helias, mentioned by Quintillian as tailor and philoso- pher"
 We should manage our fortune as we do our health--enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never employ violent remedies except in an extreme necessity -Rochefoucauld.
 -Gemelli Carrari a Neapolitan gen tleman, wrote a Voyage Round the World" without ever leaving Naples. His work is purely imaginary, though purporting to be veracious account of an actual journey.
 There Is wild flower, esembling an orchis, which grows in several parts of Turkey. It is an exact floral image of a humming bird. The breast is green, the wings are a deep rose color, the throat yellow, the head and beak almost black.
 Of the presidents of the United States eight have been of Welsh de- seent-John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Will liam Henry Harrison, James A Gar field, Benjamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams.
 The policemen of Dieppe are re- quired to be ready to rescue persons from drowning, and are supplied with printed rules for efficient service. One of the rules directs them to ''seize drowning lady by the dress, and not by the hair, which often remains in their grasp, while the lady sinks''
 A local boom in the matrimonial market is likely to be caused by a quar- rel between two justices in Rocks county, Kan. One of them announces his readiness to marry couples free of charge; the other advertises that he will not only do this, but also give each couple turkey.
 A rather unusual way of earning living Is pursued by man in Cincin- nati. He visits business houses and workshops, and sews on buttons for persons who need them. He receives five cents for each button sewed on, and is equipped with supply of but tons of various kinds.
 Fix me up like a dude said AL fred Hooking, at Central City, Colo rado, when he learned he was about to die. In obedience to his request all his jewelry was buried with him. A few days ago it was discovered that jewelry stolen. Among the jewelry was s4oO ring.
 --One secret of the willows marvel ious tenacity of life is to be found, perhaps, in the fact that it sends its roots long way in search of moisture. It was discovered, after an important aquduct had cayed in, that it's walls were cracked and filled for many feet with roots These roots, it was discoy. cred, came from willows at least thirty feet distant.
 There was much uneasiness in a Lewiston school the other day when the teacher said, with stern emphasis: 'I saw the person who was whispering then. am looking at that person now. Will that person arise before the school without obliging me to call names?" Two boys and four girls stood ID blushinRly The maator ia orooel