The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-01-05
ODD HAPPENINGS IN THE YEAR
THAT HAS JUST ENDED

he Otner HOOdOO QlSltS Sdiiie up
twice in April-once when a Baltl-
more darkey was arrested for stealing
10 chickens; again at St. Louis, where
baseball 'fan" fell dead of hearr
disease during the 18th inning of the
ST. Louis-Pittsburg game.
Chicago and Kansas City gave two
of the best of the years hard liquor
yarns. In one case three saloon
keepers were fined $500, to be paid
the orphans of man who had died
of drink, and in the other a certain
SeD5y Jones was sentenced to get
drunk and stay so. Poor Jones was
later arrested in Chicago for stealing.
in order to raise the wherewithal to
carry out the Kansas City sentence.
Kansas also reports Boone coun-
ty cider well, where a faremr has
stored his apple juice in a cemented
pit.
London England is responsible
for this: The armchair Of confirmed
tippler, used at "psyometrlc lee
ture,' made, tipsy everyone who sat
in it. The signs of drinking contin-
ued upon four Subjects" till the chair
was burned, when they at once sober
ed up.
The Old Folks.
The annual bridegrooms of an age
past. expecting just that Of them,
were Isaac Lloyd, of Liverpool, who,
at 90, was wed to widow of 90, IN
March: while month earlier Deacon
French, of Nashua, n. H., at 8S mar
ried spinster of 70.
"The seventies" have even more TO
tell In January Andrew Lansair, OF
Toledo, began cutting another set of
teeth; in February a La Seur (Minn.)
matron painted her entire house; in
October Frank Bookwalter, return
ing to his boyhoods home, in Attica,
Ind, after IS years absence, had the
doorstep lifted that he might find
dime he had lost down the crack
as boy of five He found it. And
each of these was just threescore
years and ten.
The note of pathos, which so often
sounds with age, came from Middle
town. n. y, IN April. Matthew
Smedes. aged 70, could no longer re
sist the call of the fields He took to
the pillow again, and was found dead
in the first furrow he had cut; died
in harness, as he had wished to die!
Babes and Divorces.
The divorce mill seems to have re-
corded new 'farthest north" A
Seattle judge separated an even dozen
couples in Is minutes in February,
one formerly fond husband receiving
the boon for which he prayed because
his wife has become a Shakress, and
another because his better half had
circulated report that he was an
anarchist.
Mrs. Lorenz, on the other hand, re-
ceived a divorce in Cincinnati on the
plausible ground that it was difficult
to live perfectly with man who IN
sisted on appearing in the parlor with
neither shoes nor stockings.
Des Moines produced, in May,
baby who changed color three times
day. When little Eli Ra1ni awakes
he is a proper pink BY noon he IS \
dark ginger in hue, and before bed
time is startlingly pale. But, then,
he is the son of Hindoo father and
Illinois mother.
In August the "hello lady" on the
line between Meredith and Wolfboro,
N. r., heard the voice Of two-hour-
old subscriber The news Of his ar
rival in the world came first, and then
his infantile Endorsement travelled
across Lake Winnipeseogee-
Stranger Than Fiction.
That laborer should discover gold
bearing quartz in New York's Broad
way (March)-that a house out IN
Butte, while being moved, should run
away and kill team of horses (Sep-
tember)-that a Danbury (Ct0 young !
lady should lose locket while skat-
ing. only to find ii the next week in
the ice in the family refrigerator
these are odd enough But odder are |
two tales which the year has brought |
from across the Atlantic /
In one case an automobile load OF |
our 1nerrymakers, running away in .
he hills near Lake Como, broke !!
through the parapet on the edge OF I
he road, only to land, right side up,
n high tree just below, no one be-
ng worse than frightened.
In the other-well. Australia Slay I
lain something near the record. At
ONE amateur theatricals near Vic
oria, IN January. two people IN the
tails. whenever the heroine was kiss
q. kissed each other loudly. The
nan of this couple was husband to
he stage heroine. and this was his
Jay OF feprovil1g behavior across the
ootlights to which he was distinctly ,
pposed. I.