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Show PERSONAL, ETC. Cheyt nno spent $15,G0S.03 last year school purposes. Turkish reports of great Russian losses are thus accounted for : After each battle the Turkish geueral plies with drink the man appointed to count the Russian corpses, so that ho will see double. "A snlt answer turueth away wrath," yet a man caught by his wife dealing soft answers to a pretty widow next door says he can show scars to prove that the proverb didn't work well in thiscaso. Tha impurity of the London water supply, which is drawn mostly from the rivers Thames and Lea, ia now attracting attention, as these rivers are the common sewers of a very iare tract of country. A bolt of lightning passed through , a hay -mow in a New Hampshire barn last week, making a bole the whole depth of the mow as large as a man's body, and leaving the hay perfectly smooth and not setting it on fire. The miracles at Lonrdra now 1 amount to leu. Six persons whose I names are given are all women, threo i ol them being nuns. One of the ' latter had been givin up by the doc- t tors as in the lust stages of consump- ' tion. The Chicago Tribune cal's for a statesman who will mature a measure providing a Bystom of postoffice savings sav-ings banks and thus confer a blessing upon every industrious, honest and thrifty man, woman and child in the land. During the recent illness of Mr. Carey, telegraph officer at Martinsville, Martins-ville, Miss., the ofhe was managed entirely by Mary Short, who is only 10 years of age. She sent messagos and trains, and received orders for conductors from the train dispatcher's oflice without hesitation or delay. A Chicago correspondent writes: The stafe sovingB bank failed through I the mUmanagnment ol its officers, and 5,000 poor people are suflering to-day for the criminal conduct of Spencer and his associates. They are after the Bcoundre), and if they catch him, lynching to a lamppost will surely be his fate. As oue of our merchan-ts whs going to church with his wife on Sunday morning, she suddenly 'topped and put her hand to her head. "What's the matter 7" he asked, startled by the look on her face. "Oh I I've got on my brown hat." She burst into tearB. "Why, Martha, what's the matter with you?" "Don't you sec what is the matter?" she returned, sobbing, "I've got on my brown hat wiiti my striped Bilk. What will people say ?" Danbnry News. |