Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-04-06
CURRENT EVENTS.

After fighting at Waterloo, Victor
Ballot was discharged from the
French army at the age of %, because
the doctors said he was consumptive
He survived the doctors over half a
century, and has just died at La Roche,
aged los years.
To break up the gum-chewing habit
among her pupils, a schoolteacher in
Pleasanton, Kansas, forced all who had
gum in their mouths to disgorge. Then
she sprinkled each wad with quinine,
and made them resume their guilds.
A floral emblem, embracing the mag
ic figures 4-11-44, was reverently placed
on the coffin of Henry Redd, who re-
Gently died in Chicago. Mr.. Redd was
noted as policy player, and the floral
tribute was from some policy-playing
admirers.
A notable wedding took place recent
ly in Smith county, Miss. The bride
and groom were Mr.. ]. r. Ishee and
Mrs. M. j. Hastings. His age is So, and
hers is 20. Among the witnesses were
several great-grandchildren of the con-
tracing parties.
The finest looking people of Europe
are the Tziganes, or gypsies of Hun
gary. Physically they are splendid
specimens of men and women, and are
rarely i'll. So pure is their blood that
their wounds quickly heel without the
applications of indictments.
A sudden tug at her dress frightened
a lady in Pittsburg street car. She
screamed "Pickpocket" and pointed
out the man beside her. He was inno-
cent, however, but it was his lobster,
resting in a basket on the seat, that
had been plucking at the lady's dress.
Two painters were giving brilliant
coat of red to Lawyers Volts house.
in Middletown, N. Y, Volts next door
neighbor, Henry r. Horton, objected to
such glazing hue, but his objections
were unheeded. Then he turned the
hose on the painters, and now he is de-
PENDANT in suit for $4,000.
A boarding house was opened in
Green Bay, Wis, by Mrs. Kittie Spot
ford, and she was heard to express a
wish that all she needed now was a
COW. A few days later her bell was
rung, and on going to the door the end
of rope was placed in her hand. At
the other end of the rope was cow, a
present from her friends.
A pawnbroker in France is spoken of
as my aunt" in England, as my UNI
cle." The drivers of vehicles in France
take the right side of the road; in Eng
land, the left. A Frenchman eats an
oyster out of the hollow half of the
SHE'LL the Englishman out of the fiat
half. The French soldier wears red
trousers; the English soldier red coat
What might have been a tragic rail-
road disaster was prevented by loco
motive engineer at Halle, Saxony.
While out for stroll, he discovered a
broken rail- and exerted himself to stop
an approaching train. The railroad di-
rectors thought the man should be re-
warded, and they generously voted him
two marks, sum equal to fifty cents.
Professor J. B. Smith, the entomolo-
gist of New Brunswick, N. j., has been
experimenting with the pupae of in
sects, and has produced several curiosi-
denominations of insects of two
distinct species in one body. Some of
these have two heads and no tails, 9TH
ers two tails and no head. He thinks
it is possible to combine a mosquito
with a FREELY, so that the mosquito can
wander around with his lantern and Sc
lect his victim with the aid of light