The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-04-10
MISSnurf Notes

Cameron has law which forDlds
splitting in public places.
A ChiIlIco,he newspaper man rec
emily ale fifty scrambled eggs in fifty
minutes, on II wager.
During the past four years the inter
est bearing debt of Green county has
been reduced Sl53,2S4.
The southwest lead and Zlnc district
of the state produced about S92 600
worth of mineral last week.
The next annual tournament of the
| Southwestern Band ASSOCIATION will be
held in Carthage, June I, s and =.
Present prospects are that he apple
and fruit crop in Wright county will be
as large as that of two years ago.
John II. Workizer, of Joplin, will be
one of the siXty-seven young soldiers
who will graduate from West Point
this year
recent legislature was one which de-
clares the exhibition of deformed per-
sons n misdemeanor.
Point Pleasant has been deserted by
many of its residents on account of the
high water, which has done much dam
age there.
The Sedalia Y. NJ. c. A. Is IN debt
to the amount of 81, 100, and it is likely
that it will be put into the hands of a
receiver in the near future.
Prof. Walter Gidinghagen, principal
OF the Concordia schools, has been
elected to a professorship in the Camp
bell university at Holton, Kas.
A Benton county man discovered Il
den of snakes while walking in an
of snake stories will now sprout
A Pettis county young man and a
Dunksburg young woman were married
last week in buggy. 1t is to be hoped
they will have a smooth road to travel.
While digging n hole in an old
mound two Hopkins boys found a
human skeleton, supposed to be that of
an Indian. Near the skeleton was an
ancient piece of crockery.
Laclede has young genius who has
invented a post-hole digger, with which
he claims a l0-year-old child can dig
holes as fast rs four men could, by the
old method.
The Columbia Herald thinks the
defeat of the university endowment bill
was due largely to the opposition OF
the country press and adds that this
| opposition was due To a miSunder-
standing of the proposed law.
A Princeton physician has invented
remedy for the whisky habit, which
| he has named the "Wafer ash cure.
He claims 10 have already succeed in
curing several bad cases in less than
forly-eIght hours.
The Missouri editors, who took trip
through Old Mexico last month with
the National Editorial association,
speak highly of Consul General 'Critten-
den's courtcOusncss 10 them during
their stay in the city of Mexico.
A Dunklin county man has discov-
cred and is IractIcing with great sue
cess a new plan for getting rid of rats.
Calomel is spread on meal or meats in
places frequcnted by rats. They par
take freely of the drug, with the result
that they soon become salivated, and
being unable 10 eat, die of starvation.
The Rev. j. p. Lytton, formerly rec
tor of the West Plains Episcopal church,
who for the last year has been in the
| Hawaiian islands, created decided
sensation in San Francisco the other
LAY 3y hiring carriage, keeping it
three days and meanwhile indulging in
champagne suppers at various places in
the city.
Nevada Mail William Y. Robinson,
who sold his personal effects and
| rented his farm west of town prepara-
tory 10 starting to Halifax, Nova Scotia
is II bright example of what II man of
energy and pluck can accomplis IN this
country. lie came here about sixteen
years ago on foot and without money.
He hired out on the Cogswell farm and
! today he owns that farm, besides other
land, over POO acres in all. His sale
netteG nearly 81 800, and he has large
possessions otherwIse-all of it accum-
ulated right he.e by strict attention to
business. Mr.. Robinson goes To Hall
fax to care for his aged mother.