| Show PERSONAL MENTION I A 13 declare my engagement to C D spinster of this town to be at an end by reason of her pawning the engagement en-gagement ring is from the personal column col-umn of a German newspaper 4 S To bo fiftytwo years a minister nnd fifty fif-ty t years with one church Is the record of Rev J Seldcn l Spencer rector emerUuB of Christ Episcopal church Tarrytown N Y and the semicentennial has Just been celebrated S 0 a lOr should like a wholj congregation of prize tlgherj t r could do far more with them than with Btuckup conceited people peo-ple said Gmt Booth alluding < ttf the conversion of a professional pugilist during dur-ing his recent American tour e > Tho Emperor Menflek has had a curious curi-ous experience in his efforts to replace barter by a metallic currency In Abyisln ala The Maria Theresa thaler has for generations been current but for want of a smaller coinage salt blocks became the standard of exchange and resisted all efforts oven of the Emperor to replace them by a new currency coined In Paris some years ago rio salt blocks have given way but not to tho new coinage which the people will not touch The new standard of values Islhe ride cartridge car-tridge Six years ago Sllun Fleming a prominent promi-nent member of the Methodist church at Warren In bought n tine bell for the church edifice He was 111 at tho time tho church waa dedicated and made the pro diction that the first l funeral nt which the boll would be tolled would ba his own Strangely enough a Cow weeks nfler the bell was hung Mr Fleming passed away and the bell was tolled for the first time nt his funeral Stranger still Is tho fact that a Cow days ago the beli tolled for the last time at tho funeral of Mr I lemmg widow While It wng being sounded on that occasion It broke ut a flaw In the metal and had to be discarded |
