The sun., 1897-08-17
SUNBEAM MS.

"A peach 13es inches In circumference was raised
in McMinn county. Tenn this season.
Jefferson CITY, Mo. has come to the front in season
with Court House Watermelon Club
-snakehunting about lockwood, Tenn. VIII Tod.
der killed in ono day old snake and thrty.ons
young ones.
Until Aug . Grand Sole. La. had had but tive
showers since April II. Wells had gone dry and vcs.
citation withering.
His wife having drunk thirty gallons OF wine which
he had stored in the cellar for himself, Abilene
Kan man brought suit for divorce.
One of wchita's leading physicians is liable TO b
called TO active service in the German Army in
OF emergency. he s life furloush from the
army.
One of the visitors to the Tennessee Centennial
Rutherford county man. 81 years old. who,
until his trip to the Nashville Iposition had never
been q railroad train.
The Santa Fe Railroad has selected n full. .boodet
Indian station agent at wilmore. Kan He is c. r.
Bookout who once worked q section hand on the
road but learned telegraphy and educated himself in
English
Children of Now Orleans are having great time,
shooting improvised chutes made OF boards. down
which they slide in wooden boxes, nrst grcasng ths
chute well with lard tallow candles These chute,
arc put up in the back yards.
A Wichita man has invented appliance which
he says 10 be attached brooms used in hospitals.
1t is tank to hold disinfectants and arranged :,
that tho stroke of the broom feeds the liquid the
straws distributing regularly the broom drawa
over the floor.
Great numbers of red oak trees in the region c.
Long Be ach. Miss. have been mysteriously wtheray
in day and apparently dying. The only guess mada
to tho is that IN this stage Of the rap
the trees are unable to Withstand the drought which
has marked the season there.
Some young men at Tanger Island. prohibition
desert in the Chesapeake Bay sent Baltimore for
quantity OF bottled beer which they ordered be put
up in flour barrel Methodist preacher heard OF g.
and when the barrel arrived he went to the wharf
with an axe and broke tho barrel and all the bottles
On Aug. 8 tho village Of Buffalo Centre. Mimi.
celebrated its third anniversary. and thought that 10
had right to celebrate view of the fact that with
in three years OF the time field of grain occupied
the site Of the village the people had put up sl2.
900 hotel and o. 900 schoolhouse and the popula
ton numbered 1000.
Services had but Just begun Sunday morning
in q church at wa.hena in Doniphan county Kansas
when the skies began to dArken. AT the conclusion
OF the first hymn the pastor prepared to read the
Bible lesson. but paused to look the window. Es
closed the book and said: "Brcthren, believe IN
worshpping God. but a heavy rain Is coming up ard
Seighbor Reppelyes wheat is in danger. We viii
close the service and help him II" All hands.
pastor included. went TO work and finished the job
before heavy downpour.
"A New Orleans man. who wanted TO be police
man and made preparation for the civil service
animation. found that he had studied along ths
wrong lines He determined to make OF lis
newly acquired knowledge. however when he cans
to q question that struck him absurd The ques-
tion was: 81 q bullet is dropped in wei! and 10
takes ve seconds for II to strike the water how far
is It from the top of the well to the surface Of tho
water 2" The candidate answered. Heather
mythology says that when Jupiter kicked Vulcan
out OF heaven took him forty days and nights
to fall. II 30. how far is heaven from Eosciusko,
Miss P"