Show dam no 26 which had just been completed in the ohio river near gilla polls polis 0 by the federal government at a cost of was washed away avay when the concrete foundation let go as si a insult of nigh high water the other day ay A I 1 granite shaft erected by popular subscription will mark the grave of dr joseph dawson of wauconda conda III the doctor hada bad a wide practice and never asked a lie fee though those who wished to pay him did so ile he had the most friends ot of any man in the count country ry it is wd said deputy sheriff sansbury of forest ville md alone undertook to stop a gang of masked men whom he saw holding up a train near washington he emptied his revolvers into them but luckily his bis aim was bad for it turned out that it was a moving pichura company making films of A train holdup hold up in the west aogi haie hae been known in a number of bases cases to save people iro lrea tl fires by giving the alarm but at new brighton pa a huge st bernard set the house afire by upsetting a lamp and chite three children were burned up even 00 th cn the dog did his best to save the oldren children and was himself burned to d death eith i the terrible whipping of a awhile woman in georgia miss essie carter of dawson by a vigilance committee hat has incensed those who beb lieve in law and order T the girl was stripped and d mincile mercilessly flogged because it was chii charged jid she had infatuated a young man inan ao whose se family disapproved of the alliance the committee committe e as usual iq ip such cases were among the most highly esteemed people of the corn com according to the dispatch dispatches he s I 1 the th new jersey branch of the Lii lutheran theran conference july 16 14 adapted 16 apted a resolution that for the protection of the innocent theS the state before cje issuing a marriage licen license sep should demand ti and a satisfactory medical certificate from both the contracting parties to the marr marriage age the resolution was pro prompted apted by the fact that of ald children in the united stites states lost their sight in consequence of disease li in n the parents at a recent wedding in philadelphia thi the bribes brides father gave gaire what is probably the most extraordinary extra widding wedding gift eyer ever presented on such an occasion occasion it ie was a bridal cake weighing pounds buds standing six feet high and artistically ti ally decorated the father and two sons who are confectionery confectioners ers put I 1 in this monument of culinary skill pounds of raisins pounds of currants 60 eggs 75 pounds of 01 sugar ind and 20 pounds of butter its construction st st occupied two weeks and it is saia said that 1 it t will last a quarter of a centhy without crumbling during dating the first week of august one of the most remarkable conventions that the world has ever seen took place ii in pans pails france several thousand deaf mutes representing almost every boun country tryon on earth were gathered together lo 10 consider ways and means for the advancement of the interests of those similarly afflicted throughout the afie world speeches were delivered in the sign languages of all ail the countries represented and discussions were carried 0 m which led to the inauguration of a movement for the creation of a universal sign language such strange scenes aa a hindmo a turk and englishman add a ru russian 1 asian each in distinctive drew carrying on oa an excited sad and car ear pest discussion wit without holit a single sound 1 k 1 y i were not at all uncommon emoi I 1 I 1 A na x I 1 r sv i i t fresh tomatoes aud and cu cucumbers C umbers for aasc bowen borsoi 3 n t 4 4 w ft k mrs mary person ot of southampton va was warned by her husband on his deathbed that if she ever dared to to marry again something terrible would happen to hy her notwithstanding this I 1 threat shea she accepted K R bishop and aad the ceremony was about to be performed when she fellia fell h a faint this was construed by both as a warning and the match was called oil off and aalthe the license canceled prof duff adrams is professor of applied and theoretical mechanics at the university of illinois he applied some of his theoretical mechanics to the construction of an automatic spanking sr ank machine for the discipline of child childre childr rn sn but when he wanted to test it on his own child his wife protested A quarrel and separation resulted the wife took the child with her while ahe professor had to pay 1250 costs all worlds records lor for shorthand speed were broken when nathan bt be bring official stenographer of the new york supreme court wrote an average e of words a minute for five consecutive minutes the previous record was was words a minute |