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Show QQD TOE MARVELOUS; H pTfclproof that Kcn-jM$G Kcn-jM$G of much tho ffcoloncls. Two ;ie"nt na to John ijfvflfor neaven, de- Wshotguns. The jjSbeen adverso to Jlupheld him got jfyfc in the breast. 'rom Den Moines 5 had returned to ?im of tho night ey had "uuin-Tjil-out. They MWa plntcsettiiig. Uii'St. dying, tho iNi;feportn: "Harry OliX theatrical mana-orc mana-orc feet." So o run. l rales. &iie year opened 3frjhad had carvod .HHfo's tombstone 3el.effect that she ,'iijous treatment; -ollowed, and tho Mjr.'fourteen days. Jmcepcion, admit-.'ififin admit-.'ififin the islands. ;s' tombstone and iftin OwcnsborOj ,,SfQ. Haynes has jtsle on tho back ne which marks i Jg:plaee. mrial memorials ljn. Breslau. A jers had been lout a speculative laying bull, and tlbo called in to id: feeling. Ppvho had prayed Itffuitless years bo-Iresumabl3r bo-Iresumabl3r inter-disgustcd inter-disgustcd at last, lig window. That en the man with Iied his eyes it of the unwilling Jnurse and the U5liis proposal to Menos Ayres, and ' yon, took advaii-itTado advaii-itTado to scud in Rtion neatly en-jRffa en-jRffa set of false JJwere married a ihew use for old 3flcontrnctiug par-.m par-.m satin pillows li their amatory WSalt Lake, jyo'rt have figured twelvemonth, for ghton, Mass., has pear) one written fillwar by his boy, wile another mis-fiitin mis-fiitin 1SSS, never iGranville, X. Y., -JMe.) an honest I0reminiling him or.la dollar. Both t-, having figured .twenty-six years' 1SII3' closed" up. per of the bird lrZoo, took a scr-.ia scr-.ia right thumb, but the original ited the man with ito, bore date of tlie left forcer forc-er Side. iof has discharged Jlmrged with con-ifthat con-ifthat the' wore Cod ouo person - , ian was lound jmuch as he had gasc in a way ong. The jury Stiuctly obtained and the M. D. "pdown at Bloom-iMfhas Bloom-iMfhas sued the iiond for $9000, ero worth that. Before tho death illtold him funny Public opinion any man who !!Mng so long, lis worth what- legal methods E"nJ. Alsace. The faB caught pick-risoner, pick-risoner, and was Reed the champ-PftE champ-PftE Davis, willi Me, was arrested licis C4. Green Manuary 13, the tr 13. At 9:13 Blwas arraigned Flrnn 03 letters Iftd costs totaled of Cleveland. Avitations to 23 Wer twenty-third ;!j6ber 23, at 23 f.&t. An orchestra Ved exactly 23 'M 23 palms, aligits came up foen a Baltimore for stealing 13 jjftfLouis, where a (Wad of heart dis-ifenth dis-ifenth inning of 3game. Sior. IfCity give two it's hard liquor F-three saloon-'00, saloon-'00, to be paid ijwho had died ft other, a cor-31 cor-31 antenced to got j P"r .Tones wns .Jjigo for stealing 6 wherewithal to jtltity sentence, jftporfa a Boone 'Jfce a farmer has iilin a cemented i1jifeRponsible for Al'qf a confirmed JRsychometric lec-yery lec-yery one who 4b of drinking iVisuMects" tifl jja when they at EFolks: ."fVS?18 of Qn age feat of them, ittvcrpool, who, at 90. was wed to n widow of 60. in March, while, a month earlier, Deacon French of Nashua, N H., at 8S married mar-ried a spinster of 76. "The seventies" have even more to tell. In Jnnuary Andrew Lansair of Toledo began cutting another set of teeth; in February a Lo Seur, Minn., mntron painted her entire nouse; in October Frank Bookwaltcr, returning to his boyhood's home in Attica, Ind.. after sixty-five years' absou'ec, had the doorstep lifted that he might find a dime he had lost down tho crack as a boy of 5. He found it. And each of these was just, three score years and ten. The note of pathos, which so often sounds with age, came from Middle-town. Middle-town. N. Y., in April. Matthew Sniedes, aged 70, could no longer resist the call ot the fields. He took to the plough again, and was found dead in the first furrow he had cut; died in harness, as he had wished tc die! Babes and Divorces. The divorce mill seems to havo recorded re-corded a new "Farthest North." A Seattle judge separated an even do7.en couples in 75 miuutos in February, ono formerly fond husband receiving the boon for which ho prayed because his wife had become a Shakeress, and another an-other because his better half had circulated cir-culated a report that ho wan an anarchist. anar-chist. Mrs. Lorenz, on the other hand, received re-ceived a divorce in Cincinnati on the plausible ground that it was difficult to live peacefully with a man who insisted insist-ed on appearing in the parlor with neither shoes nor stockings. Des Moines produced in May, a baby who changed color three times a day. When little Eli Kami awakes he is a proper pink, liy noon he is a dark ginger in hue, and before bedtime is startingly pale. But then ho is the son of a Hindoo father and an Illinois mother. In August the "Hello lad3'" on the lino between Meredith and Wolfboro, N. H,, heard the voice of a two-hour-old subscriber. The news of his arrival in the world came first and then his infantile in-fantile indorsement traveled across Lake Winnipcsaukee. Stranger Than Fiction. That a laborer should discover gold-beariiig gold-beariiig quartz in New York's Broad-way Broad-way (March) that a house out iu Butte while being moved should run away and kill a team of horses (September) (Sep-tember) that a Danbury (Conn.) young ladv should lose a locket while skating only to find it next week in the ice in the family refrigerator these arc odd enough. But odder are two tales which the year has brought from across the Atlantic. In tho one case, an automobile load of four merrymakers, running away in the hills near Lake Coino broke through the parapet on the edge of the road, onh' to land right-side-up in a high tree just below, no ono being worse than frightened, In the other, well, Australia may claim something near the record! At Borne amateur theatricals near Victoria, m January, two people in the stalls, whenever the heroine wns kissed, kisued each other loudly. The man of this couple was husband to the stage heroine, hero-ine, and this was his way of reproving behavior across the footlights, to which ho was distinctly opposed. Weird Wills. When tho late Michael Davitt bequeathed be-queathed to. all his friends "kind thoughts, to mj- oncmies the fullest possible forgiveness, and to Ireland my undying prayer for her absolute freedom," free-dom," he 3'ot did not leave the strangest strang-est will of thetwelve-months' probate. Mrs. Christina Hocli of Brooklyn willed the ashes of her body, when cremated, cre-mated, as fertilizer for a rosebush on her son's grave; Mrs. Isabel Kreamcr, at Westminster (Eng.) left her cork leg to the parish Poor Warden; and a lady of Florence, Italy, bequeathed $3500 to the stnff of a local newspaper, "in gratitude for having been so often entertained bv their writings." Alphonso Strauss, ono of London 's millionaire merchants, dying last. May, disposed of an estate of $1,461,105 in just -13 words nearly $35,000 a word; while January brought sudden wealth to a poor French girl, who attended the sale of a great aunt's effects to bii3' in some trifling momento of her. The 011I3 bidder for a shabby. .book of devotions she found between its leaves a will bestowing upon her the .entire property, valued at .-pS0,000. Life's Little Ironies. If this last was tho brighter side of those little ironies which. Life shows the world each year t he darker side appeared ap-peared to a sleep-talking farmer of Sib-ley, Sib-ley, Iowa. He had committed a murder mur-der two years ago, but had never boon suspected. Contcssiug the crime while asleep, he was arrested, repeated his confession in court, and was dul3' sentenced. sen-tenced. Tn Milwaukee (Februar3-) ono Harr3' Martens, playing ghost to frighten some negroes, fell "down stairs in tho dark and became a ghost! And a fellow named Durcnne, living near Quebec, in the belief that tho rope bv which a suicide sui-cide has hung himself will bring a later owner luck, stole such a rope, only to fall to his death the next minute, through the rotten flooring of the belfry. bel-fry. Was it not ironical, too, that a mere fragment of the handwriting of tho English poet Chattcrton, should have sold (October) for .$155, and that in the unfortunate vcrsitver's nativo town of Bristol, where he had died of starvation in his seventeenth 3'car. In Fttrrin' Parts. Europe has had man3' an odd tale to tell since Januar3' was here. Antrim has produced a man beside whom Pooh-Bah Pooh-Bah was a laborer of very single aim. For this bus3 Irishniau is laud steward, pier overseer, port pa3rclerk, gamekeeper, gamekeep-er, mining superintendent, bog-bniHff, auctioneer, real estate agent, supervisor . 1 of shipping, avid tho manager of a private pri-vate business besides. Colored rain, in the slinpc of millions of tin3' red, green and yellow insects, fell at Augers, France, in March; while in .Nantes, a young fellow, Gauticr by name, lias murdered his stepfather that his militaiy scivvicc might be a 3'ear shorter, through his being "the only son of a widow.'" At one of Loudon's West End clubs a match game of billiards was phwod 1)3 two men, one cfcid in full armor, save for his hands, which were encased in the heaviest, woolen gauntlets, and the other dressed as usual hut wearing boxing gloves. Wool mitltens won after a hard fight. Coincidence) and Paradox. To other all-butt-unbclievable trans Atlantic tales tell -of a. New Zealand horse race, which was won ly a. one-C3cd one-C3cd mare, ridden b,y a one-ced jockey, tho two weighing-room clerks also having hav-ing but two eyes btttween them; and, of a Parisian June wealing when the twin brothers Charteon msirricd tho twin sisters sis-ters Voisse, twin consins (male and fe- male) acting as best man and maids of lionor. In .New York, during a Februarv masked ball, there was a panic and many casualties, all because the (cotton (cot-ton ) snowman of the grand march had suddenly caught fire. The Gentler Sex. In Colusa county, California, Miss Florence Barker ran against her father for school trustee and won out, in spite of the fact that he was standing to succeed suc-ceed himself. She did it because she had heard he was going to oust a teacher teach-er who was her girlhood 's intima-td. October saw Mrs. Ma3' Foster of Ko- j komo, Indiana, publicly baptizing her husband, in the creek of Woodlawn schoolhouse; while not many weeks earlier ear-lier word had come out of Bavaria of three mothers-in-Jaw living happily under un-der tho roof of the common son-in-law. More than this, each mother-in-law had her own mother, while the host had his his wife (number three!) and four daughtors twelve of the gentler sex to one more man! Pulpit and Platform. Buttons sewn on a silk ground formed a scrollwork sold at a recent church fair in Montreal Canada. It was the work of the clergyman's wife, who thus converted con-verted into useful cash the buttons contributed con-tributed to her husband's offertorj' baskets. bas-kets. The Hon. Hoke Smith, spenkiug at Atlanta in September, was enthusiastically enthusiasti-cally hugged by Policeman T. .1. Williams. Wil-liams. The latter vas then hauled before be-fore his commissioners for "taking an interest in politics." The Philadelphia "Westminster" re- ports that a New York firm offers to fit out any church with small mirrors set in ' ll the pew backs to enable feminine wor- H shipcrs to sec if their hats arc on H straight during prayer time. M The Kansas cotton crop having shown . H a surplus, agricultural papers of the , H State arc urging that shirts be made an ' 'H inch longer by law. That, they say, -H would increase the demand for cotton H just enough "to make tilings come out WARWICK JAMES PRICE. |