Show CURRENT NOTES GLENDO VER EVANS BROWN of Campo bello N B has not only a fine name but a line lot of living ancestors His fathers father and mother and grandfather grand-father and grandmother are alive and so are his mothers father and mother and grandmother and her father and mother IT is i said that notwithstanding Dr Wards advice that he fish and shoot industriously in-dustriously while in the woods in order to reduce his flesh President Cleveland took it easy ate very heartily took a nap every afternoon and thus came out oj the woods ten pounds heavier than when I he went in and has never weighed so much as now THERE are a good many men in New York who would give considerable to be served as was Henry Dumble of Kingston Kings-ton Canada He is 68 ybars old and for years has been perfectly bald but last spring hair began to grow on his head and now he has a fine crop of elegant black hair and his whiskers which have been gray for twenty years are turning black too ENGINEER GEORGE BALLARD of the Pennsylvania Railroadrecently arose in a Jersey City Synagogue and said that he desired to embrace the Jewish faith He said that he had never before professed any religious faith but that he thought the Hebrew religion to be the most charitable char-itable and free from hypocrisy He was permitted to become a member of the congregation MRS DANIEL HURLEY of Bangor Mea Me-a few mornings ago found her cow lying in the stall with her feet tied together The cow was untied and two heavy padlocks pad-locks put on the stable doois A night or two after she was poisoned and in the morning was foud lying dead with her feet tied together Cow owners in Bangor Ban-gor are getting excited IT is related that once when Henry Russell whose singing of his own descriptive I descrip-tive songs The Life Boat The Newfoundland New-foundland Dog and others is remembered remem-bered by many New Yorkers was singing sing-ing the latter song in an English town a man called out Was the child saved man He was assured that the child was saved and at that asked more earnestly Canst thou get me a pup El Cronista de Morelos a paper published pub-lished in Mexico avers that it is customary custom-ary among the Indians of the Jonacate pee district of that country to exchange wives Occasionally these trades are permanent but more often they are for a stipulated length of time at the expiration expira-tion of which each woman returns to her former husband and the event is celebrated cele-brated in each family by a feast at which the pulque flows freely Where the wives cannot be traded even a dog a cat or pig is added on one side to make the barter fair In the district of Te nango atTescaliacac the still more novel custom exists of selling or trading off mothersinlaw A very fair article of motherinlaw can be bought for a lamb or sucking pig |