The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST

AS a rule, most criminals have
large ears.
One-third of the area Of Russia is
forest land.
DR.. Couden, the blind chaplain of
the United States Senate, shaves
himself.
An electrical device for whipping
convicts has been introduced in some
of the French penitentiaries.
A Baltimore gentleman, advertis.
ing for wife, announces some essen
tial qualifications, and closes with
the declaration that she "must be
fond of dogs"
The grip has no terrors for a GER
tain gentleman in Holton, Kan. He
belongs to fifteen different secret So
ceties, and in them has taken seven
ty two degrees.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has
granted conditional pardons to sew
eral convicts of that State, they
agreeing not to drink intoxicants,
not to gamble, violate any law, or
shirk labor.
Drs. Thebault and Sappetier, two
Partisan physicians, have discovered
an anti>alcohOlic serum. A few
doses of it causes an unconquerable
disgust for all alcoholic stimulants.
David Rankin, the millionaire far
mer of Missouri, says he began life
with Colt revolver and a'dollar bill.
J "For me-" he adds, "there has always
been an eleventh commandment,
Thou shalt not sell corn
John Poverty, a commercial trav,
eler of Wichita, Kan, is second cousin
to both Abraham Lincoln and Jeffer,
son Davis. Mr.. Peverly's grand
father was first cousin to Lincoln's
father, and his grandmother was first
cousin to Davis father.
A poor widow with seven children
advertised in a New York paper for
a temporary loan of $50. She must
have been very deserving old lady,
for she announced her willingness to
permit the mOney-lender to "keep
the children as security"
An atlas of the Upper Yang Use
Kiang, from Ichang westward to the
head of junk navigation, drawn from
the surveys of Father Chevalier, of
the Jesuit Observatory at ST Ka Wei,
is about to be published in sixty>fve
large sheets at Shanghai.
A Buffalo miIkman is in trouble
TO customer he supplied milk which
had earthwOrms in it, and the Gus
toner had him arrested. He has de.
cided to carefully strain the water
hereafter before he dilutes his milk
with it, and use the worms for bait,
The Oldest tree on earth with an
authentic history the great Bhootrce
of Burmah. For twenty centuries it
has been held sacred to Buddha,
and no person is allowed to touch
the trunk, When the leaves fall they
are carried away as relics by pill
grims.
Two passengers were in a cab in
Paris when the discovery was made
that the driver was apparently in
state of insensibility. A gendarme
halted the rapidly moving vehicle
and then learned that the driver was
corpse. He had died of heart
disease.
An artisan in Lyons, France, has
constructed clock with little plat
form and two dOorways just under
the dial. On the stroke of every
hour the figure of a soldier comes
out of one doorway, stands for mo- |
ment between the two doors, gives a
military salute. and then fires min
iature pistol. At the hour of one
there is one report; at the hour of six,
six reports, etc.
The uncommon woes of q married
lady in Damascus, Ohio, have i'm
PEELED her to seek a divorce. To |
prevent her from going to a party |
she declared that her husband threw |
her false teeth in the fire and con-
cealed her switch of false hair. Now
she can't g out until he gives her
money to secure new teeth, aud he |
heartlessly refuses unless she prom
ises to renounce parties for eyermore. |