The weekly intelligencer., 1897-10-09
OCTOBER 9 1897
One Thing and Another.

taTey \ HlSlcoIlle Is Salu 10 De rs
big rs small house and harder IL an
railroad sandwich.
If Brown university wants to regain
its lost prestige 1t must have he best F
foot ball team of all the colleges.
At Wilmington, Del, where offend
ers are publicly whipped, crowds of
pretty girls look on and seem To enjoy
the spectacle.
"There are no old maids, " says the
New York Journal Thai may be,
but there are lots of girls who will
never see twice sixteen again.
Pope: s'rhere is nothing wanting
TO make all rational and disinierested
people IN the world of one religion bat
that they should talk together every
day"
A sweet Kansas City Cherry says
that the sisters cannot leave any too
soon to suit her, for she will ihen be
relieved of the daily task of denying
relationship to them.
1t is suspected that the colored
preacher who recently immersed ll5
converts in fifteen minutes had consid-
cradle experience dipping sheep before
he entered the ministry.
While the New York papers have
been discussing why men do not marry,
society woman of that city says that
no woman can be really well dressed
on less than $4,000 yeari
"There wonld be no wives mad. into |
sausage" says Mrs. IIelty Green, '.if
people were a little more careful " hom
they married. That shows how little
IIetiie knows about lotteries
George Meredith: "Cleverness in
women is not uncommon. Intellect is
the pearl. A woman OF intellect is as
good rs a Greek statue; she is divinely
wrought and she is diyinely rare
Even the Japs appreciate the
value of printers ink The mika-
dos government has appropriated
$4,000 to be expended III advertising
throughout the United States the merits
of japanese tea.
The giraffe, which is sald to be un-
able TO express itself by any sound
whatever, defends itself with great
vigor with its heels. In the human
Kingdom hard kickers are usually plen-
lifully endowed with the power of
speech.
Hamburg is a we'll known market
for household pets. A cIvct cat costs
So, tame jackal 81 aud an affection
ate Brazilian snake $40 An alliga-
tor one foot long can he had for 81 80,
but at two feet he is worth 50 and Mt
seven feet S35.
In the tIling of the delivery room Of
Chicago's splendid new public libra
ry The great dramatist's name is spelt
Shakespeare, while in the reference Sec
ton it is spelt Shakespeare. The
library is free. So yon can take your
choice without paying your money.
And now the brute creation is to
share in the benefits of the entrance of
women into the liberal professions. A
considerable number of ambitious
young ladies have entered as students
in the New York Veterinary college.
Success to- the vsterinar iennes, and
happiness for the horsesl
Heard in library: How do you ac-
count tor the fact that certain authors,
women especially, like their fastest and
gloomiest books bestpp asked the man
with new novel in his hand. 1t is
the old story" answered the man with
the pipe. ..Parents always like their
humpoacked children best-motI ers,
anyhow"
An Illinois farmer prayed for two
weeks for rain TO fall upon his parched
fields, but no moisture came. Then,
while gazing upon his blistering crops,
the spirit moved him and he swore
fearfully, and that night it began rain
ing and kept it up for three days. He
saved his crops, but established very
dangerous precedent.
One cannot but wonder what Nag
ner would think of the Bayreulh festi-
val of '97.' During his life he sncceed-
ed in making one festival barely pay
for itself. This summer Fran Wagner
reaps clear profit of at least $780,
900. The total receipts were $3.50, 900.
No new scenery was bought and the
artists received nothing except their
expenses
Chesterfield: '"All cercmanics are
in themselves, very silly things; but yet
| a man of the world should know them.
They are the outworks of manners and
decency, which will be too often bro
ken in upon, ii il were not for hat de-
fense which keeps the enemy ut q
proper distance. II is for that reason
that always treat fools and coxcombs
with ceremony; true good breeding not
being barrier against them.
xxI NJ.