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Show ! IXKUXCS. Minnie Wells, the ''Lion Queon," I while performinir with a case of lions . nnd tipers at the Bowory theatre, New York. ' Saturday night week, was at- tacked by one of the lions, that threw her down, fastened its teeth ar,d claws info her throat and shoulder and nearly killed her before she could be released. One of her hands was so mangled that it was beliewd amputation amputa-tion would be ner-essary. There was terrible excitement in the theatre. I James Gibbon, chairman of the Fe- i ! nian executive committee, has "pro- ' claim"d" that the late Canada "inva- - ! hod" was not authorized by the ''bro therhood." That's nearly a3 heavy on ! : O'Neill a his arrest by two constables ; : at the head of his "army." The New York Svn has the follow- ' ins complimentary to the philosopher . i , of the Trillin"-: ''Since Mr. Greeley left the country, the 7 rihunc has be-' be-' come silly." Dana likes Greeley the way the devil is said to like "holy i water." A man in New Hampshire who had i i bought a pair of pups of rare breed, and had "iven them in charge of a ' ' dog fancier in a ricii.'hLorin.2; stale, was i ; astoni.-hed recently upon returning home, after an absence of a few days, v to find his wife in hysterics, occasioned bv the receipt of a telegram worded as I follows: "The little darlings are do- I inc; well, and are lookins quite pretty. - Please send their board money." I A Georgia farmer, who for the last ; j twenty years has annually been in formed through dreams whether the harvest would bo abundant or other-! other-! wise, announces that cotton and corn will turn out badly this year. In con-1 con-1 sequence, he has rented out the greater proportion of his land, and is cultivating cultivat-ing little. He ie endorsed as a responsible respon-sible man and no visionary. .A citizen of Maine owni a balky horse, which recently stopped on the hiphwav, reared and broke the wagon nnd fell to the ground. Securing the animal in his fallen state, the owner sat down on the wreck, pulled a pocket Testament from his pockft and read several chapters, after which, repairing repair-ing damages, he harnessed nn again J and drove on triumphantly. Triumph C'f patience and faith. Mr. A. Knoflach is about to publish pub-lish a German weekly newspaper at Penver, Colorado, and announces in his circular: "Absolutely no advertisements advertise-ments inserted referring to secret diseases, dis-eases, gift enterprises, fortune telling, or the like." We honor Mr. Knoflach Kno-flach for it. His example could be profitably imitated by manv other Western and most Eastern editors. "Brick" Pomeroy has been nominated nomi-nated fir Congress for the 5th Disttict, Nw York Morrissey's. "Honest" """"""J" inn" wiii r,kcVy43eitaiT6fhre to' the privacy of his gnu bling halls and "Brick" . to explode in the halls of Congress. The skeleton of a man was found hanging to a tree a few days ago. by a party of surveyors, near Golden City, Colorado. There was a suit of clothes on it. The name of George Uanchett was in a memorandum book in one of the pockets. He was a teamster and has teen missing two years. New York is excited over "East hide frauds." It needn't be; the novelty of the thing is long worn off. They had a big snake hunt in Ohio lately, and got after the reptiles by . surrounding a twenty-acre prairie lot and setting fire to the long, dry grass. The flames rolled up ten feet high; the snakes tried to clear the blaze but couldn't do it; and when all was over, 13, 9S3 burned snakes were got, one of them nine feet four inches long and seven inches in circumference! It occurred oc-curred on the farm of Alex. Campbell, Big Island townhip, Marion county. That's considerable of a snake story, and might go along side the Bear lake monster. |