Show miscellaneous ITEMS during a smallpox scare in johannesburg nes burc ica an enterprising fellow declared that he was w a doctor and with A can of condensed milk and a needle vaccinated vaccina vaccinated vaccina ted about 1500 people charging each of them five shillings for his services z zer services vices lightning played queer pranks in in the residence of paul Simin onson at montague mich it passed down the i chimney rent the stovepipe burned holes in a tablecloth and cut some picture wires six persons were in the house but they were not injured A man arrested in london on a charge of attempting to commit suicide said he had no intention of killing himself but had had a dream arn in which lie he thought he was cutting his throat ant and woke up to find that he was really hacking backing his neck with a carving knife A telephone wire in springfield mo was unintentionally connected with the fire alarm wires and when the telephone was tested the fire department t was aroused ky by a long iong continued false alarm which for several minutes kept the firemen on an exasperating hunt bunt Surl surplus lus words an ordinary man can say everything that any occasion calls for with a vocabulary of lan words of these he only uses or using the remainder when an idea out ou of the usual line of thought occurs to him most of us being only ordinary men seldom draw upon the surplus words soap has been in use for years and is twice mentioned in the bible A few years ago a soap boilers shop was waa discovered in pompeii having been buried beneath the terrible rain of ashes that fell upon that city 70 A D the soap found in the shop had not lost all its efficacy although it had been buried 1800 years A cats timely warning A remarkable instance of feline sagacity i is s reported from bristol where two brota brothers owed their lives to the warning of their house cat one of them was asleep in the front room when the an animal i came to the door and mewed piteously the man convinced that something was wrong opened the door a and n d then found the staircase in names lie I 1 le and his brother rushed to the window and gave an ail alarm ladders daddea i were brought and they and the cat were rescued |