| Show it is said that about one fourth of the homesteads in western kan sas are taken up by women mrs general gr grant int is going to t sell her home buy a more mor modest ono ne and give the difference to lo her boys we give it up A lie let loose in the newspapers of this country is as hard to exterminate as the australian rabbit the western union telegraph company ear earned nedas as much money on less than messages in 1772 as it earned on in 1886 7 the ads gds gospel el advocate lies has an editorial on effort versus laziness it ft is a long article and must have been a great effort against laziness aginess if ff the editor wag feeling at all tired many candidate for office has by a scratch the moral of this is that conventions should always nominate men who can come up to the scratch without fear of the result maryland has that punishes wife beating by flogging as other othas states should follow suit and it is i a pity they cannot add wife starving wife freezing and wife neglecting to the list of offe offenses nees mr henry george has never been a great success as a political prophet buthe has cutforth put forth a prediction now which will undoubtedly be verified he says that mr air cleveland will be the next president but then it take much of ro prophet to fortell foretell an I 1 event so ce certain ertain to happen as the reelection election re of president cleveland A wholesale druggist in st louis says gays that st louis annually handles handies worth of chewing gumone gum one fourth of the amount consumed in the united states would you imagine that tho the people of this country every year chew 1000 worth of gum yet it has become such an important factor in trade circles that it is now a staple of every druggist s stock and quoted in price lists in the first ten months of 1887 there were miles of railroad constructed the construction at f september and october surpassing sing the average and rating at nearly 1500 miles a month or fifty miles a day this rate was never equaled exceeding in ten months the total construction of the twelve months of 1886 capitalists have put a month into new railroads and then wonder why money is scarce in the stock market and in trade tom fitch has hag again located permanently this time in san diego california where he be is making himself part and parcel of the southern california and lower cal i fornia booms Recent recently lf he and others purchased the kee be per of the city named and andar hr fitch mounts the tripod as editor in allief As tom fitcha pen is as clever as liis his tongue and his tongue is one of the cleverest on the coast the bee afe should be a sprightly journal until the editor concludes to locate perman permanently enily elsewhere A newspaper in 1111 illinois nois recently brought suit against forty three abree vien inen who would not pay their sub and obtained judgement jud gement in each case for the amount of each claim of these twenty eight made affidavit that they owned no more property than the law allowed them thus preventing attachments then under the decision of the supreme court they were arrested for petty lar larcaly cely and hound bound over ever in the sun sum of each all but six gix gaye bonds bond s while six went to jai jail 1 the new postal law makes it larceny to take a newspaper and refuse to pay for it ex A river is like geme men it seldom egts out of its bed till it is dry the crank who cries fire in a theatre and the financial chaok chaok who cries disaster are on the earne level betel they thay bring the ruin without cause causa |
