The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-04
One Thing and Another.

oeneca: NV nat Is more IhiseIupie
than to see an old man only just enter
ing on the practice of virtueP"
A vagrant streak of lightning STRIP
ped all of the clothes off a section
hand in Minnesota, but let it go at
that.
In Virgins before 1865 there were
about sixty insane negroes in the asy
luns of that state, and now there are
over 900.
The theory of noted physician that
talking is conducive to longevity is
verified by the circumstance that
women live longer than men.
Joseph Jefferson recently expressed
his firm belief that in twenty years
science will have proved beyond doubt
the Immortality of the human soul.
The people of Chipley, Ga, want TO
tear down their court house because
there is a bottle of liquor in the corner
stone, which was land fifty years ago.
Russell Sage recently gave the child
rem of New York village free ride
over one of his railways. The cause
of the rash act has never been ex-
planned.
The statue of liberty in New York
is to undergo thorough scrubbing
vvitI, coan ard vatar afte. ,,,b;oh it
will continue to enlighten the world at
the old stand.
Massachusetts convicts are getting
fastidious. Not content with Boston
baked beans for breakfast every day.
they have just sent in petition for
custard pie every Sunday.
An Oklahoma editor has placed a
new Interpretation upon the constilu-
ton. He says it vouchsafes the right
to every man to worship God accord
ing to the dictates of his own preju-
dices.
Lord Chesterfield: s.Compliments of
congratulations are always kindly
taken, and cost one nothing but pen,
ink and paper. consider them as
drafts upon good breeding, where the
exchange is always greatly in favor OF
the drawer.
A monument has been raised in
South Carolina over the grave of
Lucinda Horn, who went all through
the civil war with her husband. Il is
said that this is the only battle monu-
mens on any woman's grave except
that of Joan of Arc.
The Ohio penitentiary authorities
and state officials are seriously plan
ming a scheme to have criminals car
ried by express companies in steel wire
cases as express matter, thus doing
away with the extra expense attached
in sending deputies and the annoyance
connected with it.
The proportionate use of letters in
the printing of newspaper is as fol-
lows; e, 1000: t, 40; a, 72s; i,
7O4; S, $50; o, 672; n, GO; h, $40;
r, 52s; d, S92; |, $50; u, 296; c,
2sO; m, 272; +. s36; W, 100; y. 1874;
p and g, 16s; b, 1853; v, 100; k, SO;
j, 30; q. SO; x, 46; z, %.
A young exhorter who stole 80 from
the contribution box of a rescue ms
sion, says: s.The devil tempted me &"
II that was accepted by the courts as
an excuse for crime the number of
believers in the existence of devil
would be doubled, and the population
of the penitentiaries reduced to
nothing.
A Chicago boys ingenuity has
brought to light the fact that an ordi-
nary chair serves for convenient
bicycle rack. In cleaning a wheel
most people find it difficult to keep the
machine steady, and at such times
rack is badly needed. This little chap
has discovered that to turn the chair
over, hook the handle of his bicycle on
the rear legs and rest the saddle on tie
back, he has access to all the working
parts, and can manipulate it at will.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant says she has
three times been so near death as 10
catch glimpses of the great beyond.
Twice this experience came IN drown
ing; once in severe illness In all
three instances the sensations were
pleasing. The last moment of con-
sciousness was full of ecsIatic emo
tIons, although she felt she was dying.
Memories of the past came thronging
to the mind and she heard the Ginning
of the bells and the murmur of the
river of her childhood's home. The
sounds were like strains of far-away
music, and gave her feeling of deep,
silent rapture. At the moment when
hsr family stood weeping around her,
and her spirit seemed just ready TO
take its flight, she saw a misty gate
opening, and beyond it lay the fair
land to which she was going joyously
and without fear.
That Eastern Trip.