| Show FROM FOUR WIN DS in a murder trial reached a verdict by drawing straws water is so scarce around rocky hill conn that the babies are bathed I 1 in hard cider in the primary schools at Stuck tou cal the boys in the two lower classes are obliged to learn needle needlework A georgia man who runs a galm mill can emill cottongin cotton gin and rice ace cleaner gives to each of his hia customers a string of nan fisli and a drink of cane juice apples are so plenty in norwich b conn that a barrel flimel with them is worth no more than an empty one the fruit s allowed to rot under under the trees i two golden galden bugs with garnet wings and diamond necks ng titia a duel onil on a branch ot of gold with mil lature swords of silver is a grotesque design for a brooch A castile N Y woman picked a cabbage in her garden the ther other o day and when sh she e r cut ait it open found in the very center of the head which was sound a birds birda egg three months imprisonment was the sentence given an englishman who attempted but tailed to asteal IL a hot plum pudding tug but found it too hot to carry and dropped it anthe floor A rockford Boc kford policeman was seen sleeping while on duty i the matter was reported to th mayor who went and wole woke up the drowsy officer ahw larr and then discharged him from tie the force the very latest addition to the already large line of unique and costly cosily um umbrella rella handles is one of solid exo dazed silver shaped like the handle of a sword and beautifully decorated in rep ousse work the gamblers gambler of Ewt tried to present a silver tea service to a police 0 ice sergeant the officer refused me the g gift if t and has since been raiding the gamblers to set himself right with the public A lady in massachusetts who is arranging a cook book to be sold at a fair took a novel way of advertising the book by sending around to all her friends specimens of doughnuts made from one odthe receipts james A foster faster a government engineer employed during daring the last su summer m on the jetty of yaquina bay is at portland oregon almost totally blind from exposure to the constant glare of the sun upon the water ot of the bay A flock of seagulls sea gulls was seen recent ir on the schuylkill river near ham burg b arg pa oni one of the birds was shot it is supposed that the dense fogs and storms on the atlantic coast miles from hamburg Ham burt drove them lilland inland in boone county west virginia forest fires have caused such anch an unnatural heat in the atmosphere that the trees are budding and putting out new leaves and blossoms ja in places where the fires have been raging the thermometer has marked 93 degrees on ballow bal loween elen the students in a pennsylvania college connected tin thi horns with the steam radiators in their rooms and at a given signal turned tamed 90 the steam all the region was in despair ii agair until it occurred to the janitor to s shutoff atoff the steam in the basement fred douglas delivered a lecture in washington the other night la ia which be took occasion to say that bat the chinese will in the near fuex futures take the place of the negro and furnish the la bor or in the south aud and that they will wil I 1 bo be used in the east as instruments against strikers I 1 at a recent funeral in maine t the hemin minister referred in his prayer to the various relatives of strayer the e deceased but failed to mention the wife who was present the aggrieved woman thereupon arose and stated in forcible language her ber objections to being utterly ignored in that way david foster an old man who was pardoned from a life sentence ten years ago and who returned to the michigan states prison recently with the request that bathe be be allowed to spend spead abe abere re mallaer bainder oi of his days there anere is now tern tem pora rily housed but there is no authority for keeping keepin g him william wilkins while pil plowing dwing on his farm near milford Mil tord del recently opened a cave in which were secreted countless stone arrow heads beads used by indians they are ae of a peculiar stone none of which is found in the statland state and this gives rise to the supposition that they were used by an in invading viding tribe shiell marched arched in down dowa from the north to battle with the peninsular aborigines queen victorias fancy for the highland dress has brought it into the highest fashion As soon as she goes agoes up to balmoral every servant is at 0 once n c e out ut in kilts As for the royal ri g ls they are extremely fond of the ighland highland costume and even that round faced tenton prince henry of battenberg Batte oberg comes out as a bare les leg sed ged highlander they all wear the te tartan during several years past bund hundreds reds of couples have been married in a house on the western borders of warren county pennsylvania under the imar impression assion that they had got into ohio and might thus avoid the license law the county commissioners declare that the house is in pennsylvania and that the couples must mast be married over a again gaan if they wish to 0 be united in the bonds of matrimony A no gro at ly y got a I 1 jug ug of whisky out of the express office and after sam sampling ling the contents put the stopper baat back walked into a grocery store and asked for a little molasses which he be smeared all over the mouth and the sides of the jug when asked why he did that he be remarked boss ef de biggers ter terse see edat dat jug ridout any lasses on it I 1 have a drap of dat licker when I 1 got home levi lev campbell campball of kingsbury me I 1 caught P a big bear in his trap last werk week the animal was chased some distance and aad finally being caught by a log bog campbell Oam came u up p and dealt 1 hiim I 1 im a goow with gitil an ex ax this made the bear mad and he be started for campbell chewed up campbells leg and had bad he not been attacked by a dog would have made short work af the hunter banter As soon as the bear raised himself campbell was pulled away very narrowly es escaping esping death |