The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-05-21


Seven New York Romeos were ar
rested in one week for borrowing
money from their lady loves and then
refusing to marry them.
Jewish guides in Rome never pass
under the arch of Titus, but walk
around It.. The reason is because IL
COMMUNICATED victory over their
race.
The Sheriff of Worth. county, Ca,
arrested school teacher recently and
found a pistol in his pocket. The
teacher claims that the weapon was
used to keep his school in order.
People who live beyond their means
and are very tardy in paying their
debts, have been blacklisted i'll Vienna
by daring publisher. A book con-
tanning their. names has met with a
big sale.
There are doors in some old houses
of Holland which were III former days
never used except for funerals and
marriages. After the bride and groom
had passed, the door was nailed up to
await the next occasion.
A provincial English paper tells its
readers that Delaware chieftain
named Gas Addicks invaded the Prov
ince of Delaware, few months ago,
and has been holding the people in
subsection ever since.
Henry Arthur Jones' latest play
holds the record for length OF title. 1t
is ".rhe Triumph of the Phillistines,
and How Mr.. Jordon Preserved the
Morals of Market Pewburv Under
Very Trying Circumstances
Aleague has been formed in France
to assert the rights of pedestrians
against bicyclists. The members
agree never 20 get out of the way of a
bicycle they think that in case of a
collision the cyclist is sure to get the
worst of it.
There is clause in the New Zea-
land Local Option Bill providing that
every man convicted of being habit
uql drunkard shall be photographed
at his own expense, and every publ
can in the district in which he lives
supplied with copy.
The big statue of William Penn
which surmounts the tower of the
Philadelphia City Hall, faces the old
Penn Treaty Park This displeases
the citizens who get only rear or
profile view of the statue. So, to
please every body, j Chester Wilson
has proposed to put the statue on a re"
volving pedestal, which will be turn
ed around once every twenty -four
hours by means of clockwork.
In Altoona private soldier, OH be-
ing relieved from his duty asa senti-
mel, went up with firm tread to his
officer in command and reported HIM
self as having committed suicide.
Sure enough, on inspection he was
found to have bullet hole beginning
at he left nipple and ending under
meath his shoulder blade. Thirty
minutes later he was dead.
Eugene de Robespierre, lineal de-
scendant of the Robespierre of the
French Revolution, who is coal mer-
chant III the Rue de la Federation,
Paris, was summoned to the
court the other day to answer
charge OF having supplied customer
with short weight ton of coal. NJ.
Robespierre was able to show that he
had been unjustly accused.
An interment thirty years after
death took place i'll 1867 in Berlin.
The dece Ased was celebrated beauty,
Rachael Levin. She had ordered in
her will that her coffin should have a
glass plate in the top, and that it
should be constantly watched for
month, and then placed in partiru-
lar vestibule for thirty years; all of
which orders were scrupulously carri-
ed out.
A curious trade complication has
arisen out of the use of the water-tube
boilers in England. The Boiler-mak-
ers' Union and the Amalgamated Eli
gineers both claim the right to fit the
pipes for the boilers Of the new cruis-
or Terrible; and for the present each
association is allowed to work for