The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-26
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An Indianapolis woman wants a divorce set
aside on the ground that there was no ground.
as her husband. a drummer. kissed her 500
times on the last day he was at homo.
A Pennsylvania coal miner was frozen to
death last week standing up in a .snowdrift
with his dinner pail in his hand.
The pride OF the life OF the late Mrs. Eliza
beth Skeats OF London was that she was the
mother OF Elk policemen.
A Chicago magistrate recently fined a man
S25 for being a liar. He was probably from st.
Louis.
The authorities OF Wellington. Kan. pro-
posed to give the name Of the first prisoner
confined in the new jail to that institution. and
it was called Horton Jail. because Mrs. Horton
was the first. She proved to be innocent and
now che is suing the county for damages on
account OF the jail's name.
An old clock given to a Warren. ILL.,. academy
to be used before the class in physics to DEM
~onstrate the avs OF the pendulum. refusedst
run. and when the teacher got into its works he
found q roll of bills. amounting to $242. clog
AVineland. N. j.. girl was frightfully burned
last week by the explosion Of a coffee pot boil
A pet fox in a West Chester. Pa, bird store
upset a gas stove and asphyxiated a number
Il lot OF Bourbon county. KY. cattle went
into q tobacco barn for shelter during the last
snow and twenty OF them died from eating the
APineyille. KY. barber has this sign dis
played: IF you don't come in and let me
shave you. am going tolcloss my shop and go
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer Is being sued for
s~neezlng so loud on the public highway as to
cause the plaintiffs horse TO run away.
A farmer near Noblesyille. Ind, 52 years Of
age. has never had teeth.:and all four OF his
Three young women In various parts Of the
country had all the hair burned IN their heads
| last week by the accidental ignition Of the eel
luioid combs they wore.
An Indiana man. 80 years old. hanged him
A Michigan legislator proposes to make
iikauo . r drinkers re- 6ay Z license OF 10 Dor year for
'h A New YORK = man adVesrttses that he has the
addresses Of 10000 red. headed women,
sv TTel Wst thousand Is Is s aHfef fso SI f Steam 9po s shlRnsa
Ark. 1t would mean ruin to close the hatch
ways Of that town. go
Whisky wsf $ ey and andt'ifhiifil filing himself iu Beyond ON the limit.
place ,Giied With something that looked like
covered that hundreds OF blackbirds were
Mt. Dageett. member Of the Wisconsin Log
~islature from, Bear Creek, has introduced q
draft law preventing women from tight lac
Ing;
vorce on the ground that his wife never lot
him know she had a glass eye until after they
were married.
mouse threw'a women's.praYer meeting at
Chester, Pa. into wild disorder one evening
In Cumberland county, n, j.. the farmers
are catching crows and selling them to trap
lola, Kan. gave a big dance recently to raise
funds with which TO buy q cork leg for one OF
her INDECENT citizens who was shy a leg.
Nine people were burned and eleven frozen
to death In Kentucky during the recent biz-
gard.
A New England coal miner vas troubled
with a pain in his back and one day last week
he went to a doctor about II. The doctor
looked him over and took four inches Of knife
blade out OF him. He had been stabbed In the
back eight years before and the blade had
broken of.
At a Topeka dining table che day this week
a member of the Kansas House made the re-
mark that a certain member must have been
drunk when he made the, motion to strike out
discussed by the diuers. II examined the en-:
acting clause carefully" he said, and found
that IL did not differ In any respect from the
enacting clAuse OF any other bill" And then
he wondered why the laugh started.