Show penny PERRY the old colored servant and of senator david davis and nd to whom alor ato r paid ins his last visit on the ad dinst died at wilmington on the 1 night of the perry was born a slave to loan an uncle served until his manumission as body servant ant to mr davis tur UNITED STATES is not the tile only country which is infested with bit tramps ramps beggars and vagabonds vagabond who roam over the country not only seek ng but also finding and devouring many liongs alu that belong to honest industrious citizens the director of a largo large reformatory institution in germany estimates that there are p pro ro tramps and beggars 0 in that country country J i A correspondent of a boston paper has found an old peasant on tho south shore of long island and has got him to tell liow how pleasant life is there but asked this corre correspondent 5 pon delit r slapping lapping his face with his handkerchief A dont you have a great many mosquitoes and sand flies ya as said the man but then we nye kinder like them how can that be waal wa val al you sec see we feel so kinder hinder good when away A MAN MAIN on horseback on a moonlight night near dublin ga felt a tremendous blow struck behind him and liis his horse fell over to die leaving him facing an enormous open jawed alligator ho ire killed the beast by thrusting a fence rail down its throat and then shooting 0 it a dozen times with a revolver but it was subsequently found that its tail had been bio broken kenby by thobal the blow OW which it had bad given the horo dw THE ORIGINAL rafters of W westminster est ini hster hall were 0 of irish oak in early days an ail idea prevailed that irish wood was a it sort of sacred material and proof against all eb reptiles the venerable bede lays it down that timber f from rom ireland hath bath a virtue against poison and after tile earthquake of lisbon the king of portugal specially imported irish Iris hoak oak pr presumably y from some belief in i its ts blessed qualities for a marni magnificent ficen t new newchurch church A CURIOUS collection of books is contained in the library of war st enstein near 0 basselin Oas use selin in germany these books appear at f first sight to be logs of wood but each volume really is a complete history of the treo it represents the back shows the bark in which a small place is is cut to write tho the scientific and the common name as a title one side shows the tree trunk in its natural state and the other is polished and varnished inside are shown t the le leaves fruit fibre fabre and insect parasites parasite to which is added a full description of tho the tree and its products q A connecticut liquor law began with these words every person who shall sell liquor to a minor this law was repealed and a new now one cna enacted acted beginning with the tile words every lic licensed emed person who shall sell liquor to a minor the TIC I 1 result is that bar keepers can sell liquor with impunity bec because ause they are not licensed while the proprietors of saloons esca escape p e punishment nt by denying that they were aware of such sales by their employees to persons under age it is suggested that the word licensed was wa inserted in the new law to render it inoperative A KANSAS liquor seller who was sentenced fay fo r violation of the tile prohibition hibi tion laws to a fine of and costs and thirty days imprisonment shot himself shortly after his release from jail tho tito opponents of the liquor laws say that the man mail was driven to commit suicide b by y persecution and they call him the tile seventh victim whom the temperance crew have upon their conscience the prohibitionists on tile other hall say that the mans suicide is to be attributed to mental derangement arising from excessive consumption of alcohol there is controversy over tile case |