Show CUKRENT NOTES lnMFn fUT of Uxbridge Mass has a pair of steers which he drives to harness and which have trotted with four in the carriage four miles in half an hour A Ti Eli 1ATENING storm cloud alarmed the worshippers at a colored camp meeting meet-ing at Green Camp Ohio Sunday and in their hurry to get away thirtytwo buggies were totally wrecked WARSAW Mo has suffered greatly from drought this summer On a recent Sunday a beautiful clear day at a camp meeting near the place there were many prayers offered for rain That night there was a copious and refreshing shower A 12yearold boy in Pleasant Valley 0 attempting to draw water from a well fifty feet deep fell in He went to the bottom without hitting the stones on the sides grasped the rope and was drawn out in safety by his mother and sister JUST before Congress adjourned Representative Repre-sentative Herman complained of malar ious symptoms Take kneen said a friend SWel1 I will replied Herman thoughtfully Ive been taking quinine qui-nine but it doesnt seem to do me any good Two SPARROWS attacked a cat in Steator Ill drawing blood from its back with their stout little bills The cat squealed and rolled on its back trying to beat off the bird with its paws But the little feathered bulldogs kept right at puss until I un-til she gave up ran away and hid under a fence A GEORGIA farmer has got a goat that joins gleefully with a hound in hunting rabbits When on the trail he imitates the dogs and runs with his nose to the ground but when the quarry is in view up go head and tail and he dashes after the unfortunate bunny regardless of his companions POLICEMAN HEANEY of Nanticoke Pa was recently arrested on a charge of assault and battery preferred by H Her skoviez a banker of that place He was held in 300 bail which he found it hard to get and was about to be locked up when the plaintiff himself came to his rescue and became his surety YOUNG women of St Paul complain that Librarian Putnam of the Athenaeum looks so contemptuous when they ask for novels that it makes them nervous One admits that she went to the library intending to get one of Ouidas novels and Mr Putnam looked so critical that she asked for one of Miss Wisturs translations trans-lations instead DURING a railroad excursion from Lafayette La-fayette Indiana to Dayton Ohio the other day the train was stopped as it crossed the State line and David Clark alighting stood in Indiana and Mrs Mary Hawkins stood in Ohio and a minister min-ister who was present straddled the line and married them and then the 800 excursionists ex-cursionists formed a circle around the pair and gave them three cheers while the band played u A CITIZEN of Olneyville 111 bragged that ha could get a drink on Sunday and to prove it confidentially asked a doctor for something to brace him up The doctor knew the man and wrote a prescription pre-scription calling for aqua pura the druggist drug-gist saw the joke and put the water in a flat bottle and charged a round price for it The buyers remarks when he tested the dose are not reportable UEIHX A BLANCHARD the daughter of an unsuccessful Portland merchant failed as a boardinghouse keeper in Boston then barely kept body and soul together by running a sewing machine in a Philadelphia Phila-delphia clothing house and then invented in-vented an overseam stitch and a patent sweat band for mens hats and with the money from these successful inventions has bought back the old Maine homestead home-stead where the family lived in the prosperous pros-perous days of the past hENRy DoNNELLVof New Haven heard cries for help coming from Mill River ran quite a distance at full speed reached the water in time to see a small boy sink for the third time plunged in breathless as he was wilhout removing even his shoes failed to get the boy at the first attempt dived again and just managed to bear the apparently lifeless body ashore when his strength gave Out Donnelly was dragged out fainting the boy was resuscitated and so was his mother who had in the meantime arrived ar-rived and fainted IDA GRAXRATII a pretty little 14year old daughter of a St Louis boardinghouse boarding-house keeper fell heels over head in love with big Anton Pierre the Canadian wrestler who boarded at her fathers house The brawny athlete had no idea that he had made such a conquest until he was about to quit St Louis when the girl weeping begged him to take her with him He said that he could not because he had no money so a few days afterward she stole 400 of her fathers money and set out to find Anton Her father caught her at Indianapolis and took her home but she says that she will yet go to the man she loves THE Saratoga walk is said to be the latest fashionable gait for women One who describes it says that the first requisite re-quisite is to throw your shoulders back the chest forward chin up and stomach in andthenwalk wriggling head limbs body and especially bustle Theaim is to secure a series of revolutions which shall be simultaneous but opposite In simple brevity if your head moves right your body must move to the left and before be-fore your foot reaches ground you must describe a circle with the entire limb The gait is practised in a night dress before be-fore the mirror The part of the business most difficult to master is the proper position of the stomach J 1 < > |