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Show IXKLIXUS. London has a home for unemployed ' governesses. Eleven women have been indicted at Lvnchburg, (Va.) for illicit distilling. dis-tilling. Congressman Jones, the richest man in New Hampshire, used to be a tin peddler. Two girls, twins, residing at Smith-ville Smith-ville Flats, N. Y., weigh together 120 pounds. Spotted Tail's daughter is making moccasins with a sewing machine at Spotted Tail Agency. Newspapers wrapped around ice in .. I, alnr C11.,i.T-,ll lu-lrnDnU will help to keep and preserve it. A Stafford, Conn,, man has a sword for which he has refused $1,000, claiming that it camo down from William the Conqueror. Mrs. George- Francis Train's villa, at New York, which formerly brought $4,500 has just been leased for $1,500, and other bouseholdeiB have reduced their prices correspondingly. Joaquin Miller can only complete one verse ot poetry in a day, ol lnaia-ttus lnaia-ttus with nut-brown hands and the 1 kine-chewing clover, and we ought to be able to stand up under tbo pressure. pres-sure. The old superstitious idea that the haud of a dead man is ft talisman against evil, once prevalent among southern negroes, seems not to have died out. A vault in Greenville, Miss., was recontly broken open and a hand cut from a corpse. In a newspaper office in Australia there was at one time a tablet informing in-forming visitors that the editor could only be Bpoken to during business hours by purchasing tickets of admission admis-sion at the door. The price was ten shillings for half an hour'B talk. Mary Rafierty, a handmaiden who serves in Philadelphia, has fallen heir to the sixth part of ft fortune of $500,000 left by a dear old bachelor uncle. Mary is not upset by this good luck, but, if a reporter may be believed, adheres to her "Monday's washing." The last request .of a dying man iu Virginia was, that "he should be buried with hia head eighteon inches higher than his feet ; that his cano and sheepskin should bo placed in the coflin with him, and that the I coffin should bo carelully wrapped up in a blanket." While a priest in one of the Catholic Catho-lic churches at Boston was saying mass recently, a live-year old shaver in one of the pews, beholding the priestly beretta, jumped up and astonished as-tonished his parents, tbecongreation, the priest and the acolytes by yelling out: " Ob, shoot that hat !" The famous French suigeon Ricord, recently bad a corn extracted by an operator in the neighborhood. After the operation the great surgeon drew liom his pocket a 20-franc piece. " Oh, sir," cried the chiropodist with emolion, while declining the money, " there is no charge between proles-sional proles-sional brothers." |