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Show i I MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. I A malicious scoundrel buried a apikc-studded plunk on acylcpath near Milwaukee. About 200 bicyclists passed ' over It and had to walk home. A swinging- sofa is the latest contrivance con-trivance for parlor use. It has all the ,, advantages of the hammock, without ' its perils. Unpaged lovers who use it never "fall out." i Ether was administered to Mrs. ' Mary Whittcn, of Salladsburg, Pa., by a dentist who was about, to extract some of her teeth. iJefore the teeth were pulled the woman was dead. At the marriage of CI. L. Brlghtwell ! and Mrs. S. J. Hodges, both residents , of Platte county, Mo., it son of the i groom acted as best man, and a son of the bride stood up with her. i A lamp-wick which docs not require re-quire trimming has been invented. It is a thick coll of clay, perforated with minute holes, through which the oil ascends by capillary attraction. An alien is not permitted to acquire ac-quire a title to laud In Bcrmudn, cither by purchase or inheritance. If a woman who owns land there marries a foreigner,' for-eigner,' she forfeits her real estate. . ,,,,. A rich Parisian lost all his wealth excopt $20,000, and died of excessive grief. His pauper brother proved 1o be his .heir, and when he heard of his inheritance he died of excessive joy. Here is one of the questions which candidates for appointment as school-jh school-jh teachers in Abilene, Kan., were re- ' quired to answer: "Why does ahorse walk backward while eating grass, and ; n cow walk forward?" A stout gentleman in Holton, Knn., i ' ' who weighs .'$20 pounds, has for the past j six weeks been trying to reduce his I ' avoirdupois by long and frequent rides ; on horseback. Up to date, It Is only the horse that has lost flesh. j Henry Rnsscll, the composer, was once singing in public his song'There' a Good Time Coming," when he was staggered by a gentleman arising in tho audience and gravely asking: "Won't you oblige us with the date?" Some of the milk wagons in Antwerp-are drawn by dogs. There are, as a rule, three dogs to each vehicle, one between, the shafts and one on eaoh .side. Tho driver is usually a woman in wooden shoes, who walks beside the i wagon. f A constable in. ' Shelby villc, Ind., r J who for 20 years has been somewhat ' l ' lame from chronic rheumatism, called fa on a widow to serve a legal writ. She H drenched him with scalding water, and Jj ho fled in terror, forgetting all about hlB rheumatic pains, ffl Some of the convicts in French S ., prisons nre paid for" their labor, and u " earn about 35 cents a day. Half of I this they arc permitted to spend for Jj - extra food, etc. The remainder is saved 0 .nnld given to them on the completion 1 r of their term of imprisonment. |