Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-13
Norton's Pharmacy is the place to hav
your prescriptions filled.
STARBEAMS.

young brother of Melba has blossom
ed out as a singer and will make his ap-
pearance shortly as tenor
Solomon, who was renowned Tor ms
wisdom, was a bimetalliSt. He went in
for both gold and silver and wanted
plenty of EACH
This weather is very trying on the wax
figures in the shop windows. Several of
them have shown signs of prostration IN
spite of their thin clothes.
A couple in New York who have lived
happily together for thirty-five years re-
fuse, although starving, to go to the poor
house, because they would be separated.
Col. ]. M. Wilson, commissioner of pub
lie buildings at Washington, says that
1,244,227 persons have assembled the
Washington monument without an acct
dent since 1888.
One of the objects which has been COM
pletely swallowed up in the silver contro-
versy is Theodore Durrant the young
murderer who is defrauding the gallows
at San Francisco.
The reading of COINS Financial
School, has had the effect of unsettling
the mind of a colored man living at
Rocheport, Mo. 1t is very seldom that a
negro takes anything excepting a water
melon or a 'possum SO seriously as that.
Several tenant farmers in the vicin-
ity of Lacon, ILL.,, have formed an organ
ization the members of which agree to
not pay cash rent for farm lands, but to
distributing the risk of farming between
the owner of the land and the man who
works it.
The Partisan, when eating his soup,
uses the point of the spoon; the London
err the side. The round spoons which are
used for bouillon settle this vexed ques-
ton in most satisfactory way and are
an inestimable boon to men with mus
taches and who have not time to keep
up with the new fashions in eating.
pretty story is told about little boy
whose elder sister is much interested in
photography, and gives the family the
benefit of many observations about her
work. This little boy was taken to the
court house to see the end of a certain
trial. He came home and told his mother
about it. THE judge made speech to
the jury" he said land then sent them
into a little dark room to develop"
In Iowa saloons must be at least 800
feet from churches. The Methodists of
Madrid, Boone county, are putting up a
church within 300 feet of B. Aries sa-
on the plea that he was first on the
ground. If saloonists are prohibited from
establishing their plants within 300 feet
from church there is justice in the con-
tention that church people have no right
to build within 300 feet of a saloon.
The cost of living in Mexico is being
discussed by many correspondents. But
1t varies there, as everywhere e1Se ac-
cording to a mans idea of how he should
live. Some of the people want turkey
with truffies and champagne, and others
can get on with beans and tortillas. In
the present height of the tuna season a
Mexican may live on next to nothing
and accumulate enough money to go
north to talk for populists.
A young woman in a Maine town, who
recently played cards for three hours one
evening died the next day, and a local
clergyman took the incident as a text for
a sermon IN which he declared that her
death was judgment sent by God to in
dictate His condemnation of card playing.
But the next week a man dropped dead
while carrying food to a starving family,
and his sudden death was declared to be
an evidence that God approved of his err
rand of mercy and therefore took him
home.
The spectacle of the grandmother 60
ing bicycling with her children and
grandchildren, which is witnessed not in
frequently nowadays, while it involves
no loss of dignity in old age, certainly
emphasizes the fact that there is a great
deal more of heartiness and great
deal less decrepitude among our old peo-
pie than accords with notions current
not many years ago. Our grandparents
are no less venerable or venerated, but a
deal more vigorous than of old. Modern
Improvements in cooking, hygiene and
ways of living are having their natural
result in frightening the period of hui
man activity and making old age enjoy