Show CURRENT NOTES THERE is a 5yearold colored girl in Cincinnati who it is said reads anything hat is printed in the English language and yet has never been taught her ABCs A-BCs THE possum crop in i Georgia is god this year fohn Kushin went fox hunting hunt-ing in Macon county the other day and the hounds got off after possums and tilled twentyeight A HART county Ga crank who thinks he is the incarnate spirit of the Prophet Elijah says that the great falling away mentioned in the Bible will occur right after Christmas and that the world will come to an end in 1890 ACIEHK in a mens furnishing store says that the man who buttons the left I sys side of his collar first makes 1 mistake fl he uses his right hand for that and then uses his left for the more difficult task of buttoning it other side He should reverse the i ioceafc TiE Indiana towns of Washington and Vincennes are at loggerheads and a boycott boy-cott is the result At a recent meeting in Washington her clergymen editors merchants farmers lawyers id citizens generally solemnly agreed > t to buy anything of Vincennes or her itizens THE Boston Post takes Editor George William Curtis to task because in the Easy Chair of Harpers Magazine be reproaches re-proaches the city of Providence for not erecting a monument to Roger Williams the fact being that it is hardly ten years since just such a monument was erected in that city HEIIE is still another centenarian I is IEUE sti H Post of Rochester N Y who 100 years old on September 24 Less than a year ago she traveled LtB without incon from Chicago t Rochester venience She hears and sees well converses she did half a verses as intelligently as hal 1 smooth and century ago and her fair but little wrinkled face gives no indica I ton of her great age IN 1884 R JVLurchett killed Albert Anglin near Ashland Ky In the trial that followed there was no defense except that the accused was drunk when he did the killing and he was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for leThe t has affirmed The Court of Appeals just afrmed the judgment holding that drunkenness is n6 excuse for crime and does not les I of the offense scathe degree ofens DR AMES the Democratic candidate for Governor of Minnesota ought to be a popular man i this is a sample of his practice Three children of a laboring man had diphtheria and the Doctor cured them Their mother worn out with watching over them was ill for a month and the Doctor cured her Then I the father fell from a scaffold and broke a leg and the Doctor fixed him up as good as new After the man recovered he borrowed 117 and went to the Doctors Doc-tors office to make at least a part payment pay-ment on his bill What do I owe you bi Doctor said he Oh give me 4 and That said the Doctor call it square cl man will vote for Ames TIE Rev Emory J Haynes preached I a sermon on the subject Shall I join a fraternity seron in Boston I was appropos of the visit of the Odd Fellows to that city and in it he spoke strong words in societies of the secret favor of college soceties right sort I pay a debt of gratitude this day he said Years ago when a lad I came from the State of Vermont and went to college where I had the companionship of some young men who their secret honors and I admitted me to admited pay to them They were my friends and they rebuked me when I did wrong and rejoiced with me when I did well Then they cared for me and bent over and saved my life when I was sick I me Ie respect for these secret societies have a great secre soc cUes I owe as much to the watchfulness I and sympathy of that society as I owe to I the college itself |