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OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Chinese Highbinder Murders a Hoy
in Los Angles.
HORSE THIEVES KILLED IN IDAHO.
German Shoemaker Breaks a Pitcher to
P.eccs and Cuts His Throat With
the Fragments.
Sacramento has voted $100,000, in
Ixmiig (or levee improvements.
During the year lSitl there were 2,110
marriages ami 4'8 divorce In Oregon.
The City ami Q.tixena' Water Com
panies at l.oi Angeles liave combine J.
The Star group ol mines at Hailey,
Idaho, hiive been Bold to Salt Lake cajii
tulifU. The Kr"ln warehouse ol the Pacific
Milling Company, at Tucson, A. T., ha
leen destroyed by tire.
A mountain of carbonate of zinc hai
been discovered near Hillsloro, N. M,
the ore of which in worth about $35 per
ton.
Silver salmon are now very plentiful
at Ynqulna Bay, Or., and are being
caught w th tro.ling lines in great num
bers. Pick Horn, alias "Fox," shot Joe
Lynch in the stomach at Wellington,
Nev. The trouble was over a game of
cards.
The captain of the cllppersealer Agnes
Mac Dinuld at Victoria, U. 0.. has is
sued a challenge for a race to tlie.Sand-
cli Islunds.and back for $3,0J0.
Sontng and Kvans are believed to have
located near Watts Valley, fifteen miles
north of Sampson Flat, where provisions
for the winter have la-en sent into them.
Professor Barnard at the Lick Observ
atory has discovered by the aid of
photography a faint comet. This is the
first discovery of a comet by this means.
The Supreme Court of Idaho hasunan
Imously sustained the constitutionality
of the State test oath law. This will
prevent the Mormons from voting this
year.
Mill owners in Washington andOre
gon, outside of Portland, are organizing
lor mutual benefit and protection.
They claim they are making Hour with
out a proilt,
Chung Yung, the BiippoBed murderer
of the BpaniBh boy, Fernando (Juijada,
at Los Angeles, whose body was lound
in a cesspool, has been captured and
placed in prison.
A. Ruiz, a Mexican rancher at San
Diego, attempted to got possession of
his wile's property by swearing that she
whs insane, hut he lauded in jail on a
charge of perjury.
The advance guard of Chief Engineer
Kennedy's corps has arrived at Palermo,
Cal., and will at once commence the pre
liminary survey for the Ban Francisco
and Great Salt Lake railroad.
About twenty shippers of Seattle have
organized a transportation bureau to pro
tect each othr against unjust discrimi
nation by transportation companies and
for the protection and development of
the shipping interests of the city.
On opening the schoolhouse of the
Gallagher district, in Mason Valley,
Nev., alter the summer vacation it was
discovered the bees had taken possi'ssion
of the children's desks, and about 300
pounds of honey were taken irora them,
It is staled at Boise City, Idaho, that
a posse of citizens exterminated a band
of eight hone thieves in August in
Idaho county, the particulars of which
ar lust becoming known. After the
men were shot, their bodies were hanged
and left for the buzzards to feast upon.
A German shoemaker named Ru
dolph Manz at Phosnlx, A. T., during
the night broke a pitcher to pieces, and
with the lagged fragments cut his throat.
With the blood flowing from him in
streams he walked through the hall to
the porch, and deliberately precpitateu
himself to the ground, sixteen feet be
lnw. In bdUc of the added injuries from
Btriking a stump the man must have
been still conscious and Intent on self
deBtruetion, for he reeled ofl to a ditch,
where he was found, in which he seems
to have intentionally thrust and kept
liis head until unconscioua or aoaa.
PURELY PERSONAL
The Most Prominent Candidate for the
Position of Port Laureate of
Great Brlt.ilti.
Prof. W. G. Sumner of Yale, the well
known political economist, will n t re
turn to New Haven this fall, a I n first
intended, but will remain In Europe
until midwinter.
One of Boston's clubs, the Winter
green, is 'OinMiHed of women all con
fessedly over 30. Mrs. Mary A. Liver
more, who would doubtless own up to a
decade or two more, is one of Its leading
Spirits,
Robert M. McLiine, ex-Minister to
France under President Cleveland, who
went abroad curly in the kummer in fee
ble health caused by an attack of pneu
monia, has returned to Baltimore en
tirely recovered.
Col. Ell Lilly, President of the Com
mercial Club of Indianapolis, has con
sented to act as Chalrinain of the Gen
eral Committee to prepare for the na
tional encampment of the G. A. K.,
which meets in that city in 181(3.
Th oldest living American actresses
are Clara Fisher Marnier, born in 1811,
and Mrs. John Drew, who is seven years
younger. Mrs. Drew appeared on the
stiig a babe of 0 months, and hsa acted
ever since. Mrs. Maeder was on the
stage from 1S17 to 18W, and then went
Into retirement.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, the most
prominent candidute for the poet laure
ate of Great Britain, was liorn in 1in
don Apr, ,5, 18:17. He Is an acknowledged
master of English rhythm; hut the fact
that his fame is largely based on the
U. Incus with which he has trodden on
forbid. len ground may stand In the way
of his selection for the position.
Mux O'RcIl, who Is lecturing in Aus
tralia, announces his Intention of return
ing home and "settling down " for lile
after this last trip. Asked whether by
" home" he meant Paris, he replied in
the negative. "In Paris everything is
changed. We go there every year to
look around, but when one has formed a
circle of literary, social and artistic
fr ends, as 1 have In London well, that
is home."
While Prof. Huxley was staying at a
seaside' resort in North Wales he was
approached by a Liverpool evangelist.
who thrum a tract Into Ins hand with
Die inquiry, " Have you not your soul
saved?" " I have sulllcient respect for
genuine religion to be revolted by blas
phemous Impertinences." said the sci
entist in relating tho anecdote afterward.
"So I an wered somewhat sternly,
'That is my business," and tore up the
tract."
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Total. Membership at Yale University This
Year Number of Schoolhouses
In the United States.
About 15 new students are registered
at Vassar College this year.
The golden rod has been adopted as
the flower of the Chicago University.
Of the students graduated at Yale Uni
versity since 1701, 7,620 are dead and
7,s2i living.
During the last year Harvard Univer
sity has received in gifts and lieuuests
over 500,000.
The Constitution of Louisiana permits
women to hold any ofllce connected with
public education.
One hundred and two girls were en
rolled at the opening of the Allentown
Female College, Pa.
Baltimore proposes to open a Behool of
pedagogy, with a principal drawing a
salary ot $3,1)0 at its head.
Thirty young women students have
entered Yale this fall. The Yale males
are said to be in quite a Btew about it.
I is expected that 1,000 students will
attend the new Chicago University this
term, fully one-third of them being
women.
The enrollment this year at the Uni
versity of Illinois at Champaign is 023,
compared with 498 on the opening day
last year.
England with ninety-four universities
has 2,723 more professors and SI, 814
more students than the 300 universities
of the United States.
New York city ia to introduce the
kindergarten as a part of the public
school system. The appropriation for
the first year is $ 50,000.
The name of Rutherford B. Hayes
stands at the head of the Chautauqua
class roll for 1890. General Hayes en
ters on the four years' course at the age
( f 70 years.
Prussian education is more thorough
than that of any other country. Every
child is in school from 5 to 14 years of
age. Parents must obey the law, pay a
tine or go to prison.
An electrical laboratory that shall have
no equal in the college world is what Le
high University proposes to build. It
will be 240 feet long bv sixty feet wide,
and will be four stories high, with a
basement, and will cost $200,000.
The total membership a' Yale Univer
sity this year will be about. 1,9)0. Last
year it was 1 ,784. The faculty list num
bers over 150. The increase in the aca
demic freshmen class has necessitated
its separation into ten divisions, instead
of six as heretofore.
Three hundred and fifty-two thousand
two hundred and thirty-oae teachers are
employed in the public schools of the
United States. This would give an av
erage of nearly thirty five pupils to each
teacher. Deducting for County and City
Superintendents, say 50,000, would give
an average of forty pupils for each
teacher. Of these teachers 227,200 are
females, and 125,000 are males. The av
: erage wages are for males $42.43; for
' fomalfi. 134 27 nr mnnt.h.
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Large Amount of Gold Consumed
in Tilling Teeth.
SCRANT0N ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Board of Directors of the Union Theolog
ical Seminary Vote to Stand
by Dr. Brlggs.
Tho Virginia peanut crop is small.
The census of Oklahoma Territory
thows a population of 133,100.
There has been a big registration all
through the State of New York.
Atlantic City has voted to purchase
the present water works there for $200,
000. Indian Commissioner Morgan favors
compulsory education among the In
dians. (ieneral Miles is worried about the
restlessness of the Indians in his de
partment. There is to be a determined fight to
make Massachusetts railroads provide
mi:eage tickets.
New Jersey has legun proceedings
nvaiiiHt several railroads that have en
tered the coal combine.
The Treasury Dep irlment has shipped
$10,000,000 iii small notes South and
West to aid in moving crops.
Chow Tai and Hip Lung. Chicago Chl
nene merchants, are in the East looking
alter the contest of the registry law.
A large extent of territory in the
Nueces country in Texas has been sub
merged by the severest rains ever known
in that section.
Francis H. Hewitt, City Weigher at
the New York custom house, is charged
witli bribing his assistant to make false
returns on sugar.
Omaha, Neb., is flooded with counter
feit silver dollars dated 1802 and bearing
the New Orleans mint mark. The coina
are light and greasy.
The total Presidential vote In 1S8I was
10, U48.40!, and in 1888, 11,3 8,038. It is
estimated that this year the vote will go
as high as 14,1,00,000.
A certificate of organization has been
filed at Trenton, N. J., incorporating the
Melbourne Rubber Company, with a
capital of $15,000,000.
Millions of grasshoppeis have made
their appearance in Western Missouri,
and the wheat crop threatens to be a to
tal failure in consequence.
The assessed valuation of Dallas, Tex.,
has fallen oil' nearly $4,000,000 in one
year. Dallas is one of the many over
boomed towns of the South.
A big deal has just been consummated
in which the Pennsylvania Southwest
system has absorbed the Terre Haute
and Peoria road and its branches.
A record is kept at Ellis Island of all
the Jewish immigrants who arrive at
the port of New York. Since August
last this record has not been large.
The Postmaster-General has signed
mail contracts with the International
Navigation Company, the terms of which
require the construction of five new ships.
Never before In the history of Chicago
with one exception was building so act
ive as this year. The exception was in
the twelve months succeeding the great
tire.
Oral arguments in the Indiana appor
tionment case have been postponed until
November 17. This decision removes
the cuee as a factor in the coming elec
tion. The President's proclamation opening
the Crow reservation to settlement is
causing a brisk rush. The land can eas
ily be made very productive by irriga
tion. The Michigan insane asylym is bo
badly crowded that it has been found
necessary to refuse to admit any more
patients. Every hall and room is crowd
ed with cots.
Ho Chen Shing, the interpreter of the
Chinese Minister at Washington, is in
disgrace. He has been Belling informa
tion, and will be eummarily dismissed
from his position.
The surface of the ground over the
Central mine at Scranton, Pa., has be
gun to sink, and the $lnO,000 Roman
Catholic Church of St. Patrick ia in dan
ger of being engulfed.
The University of Notre Dame, Ind.,
has just celebrated the fiftieth anniver
sary of its establishment. The founder.
Rev. Edward Soran, still hale and
hearty, though 80 years old, participated
in the ceremonies.
The increaeo in Bilk manufacture since
1880 in the United Sta es is 112.77 per
cent, in value of its products. The cot
ton manufacture ranks second, being
29.51 per cent., aud the wool manufact
ure third, being 26.39 per cent.
In a fight at Wyandotte, Mich., be
tween the Salvationists and a party of
toughs Carrie Lowe, one of the Salva
tion Army Lieutenants, was fatally in
jured and three others of the army in
jured. Two bystanders were hit.
A New York dentist Bays that the fill
ing of teeth with gold has grown to such
proportions that about $4,tA0,000 of gold
is consumed in this way every year, and
t hat thia consumption should enter into
all calculations aa to the supply of the
precious metal.
Almost every operator and station
agent on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe system, has struck. The company had
refused to comply with the demand for
$60 as the monthly minimum pay in
stead of $50, with twelve hours consti
tuting a day's work.
EMI) THE
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
A Statement From the ( Jenral Manager
of the Baltimore and Ohio The
Bo.ird of Ordnance.
The Mexican government has decided
to send delegates to the International
Monetary Conference at Brussels.
A statement has been received at the
War Department from General Manager
Odell of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
way, which shows that In case ot an in
vasion of tho United States four trunk
lines leading to New York from the west
could land 300,000 troops within thirty
hours, with horses and all necessary
equipment, and at the same time move
enough commercial supplies to meet the
current needs of tha country.
The chief of the revenue marine serv
ice in his annual report enumerates the
services rendered by the revenue cutters
Corwin, Rush and Bear and Fish Com
mission steamer Albatross, temporarily
detached, in patroling Behring Sea and
inforcing the modui vhendi. To Septem
ber 30 the Bear had cruised more than
10,000 miles in Alaskan waters, and with
the United States steamer Adams will
remain as a guard in the vicinity of the
seal islands until December 1 next. The
entire revenue marine service has cost
during the yearly $1,000,000.
The Board of Ordnance, which has had
the duty of adjusting the smaller caliber
rifle sights and other details of the new
magazine gun for the army, has banded
in an interesting report. The new
weapon, which Is a modification of the
Krug-Jorgensen gun, will be made at
Springfield, Mass., at the national ar
mory for the army and marine corps.
The navy will also change its rifle to
correspond. It is hoped to have some
of the new weapons ready by January 1.
The caliber of the army rifle will be re
duced to thirty, the weight of the bullet
will be 220 grains, and the charge will
be from thfrty-Bix to forty grains of
smokeless powder, or such Icbs weight as
will give the above bullet a muzzle ve
locity of about 2,000 feet per second.
Domestic violence in some States has
rendered necessary the use of military
in support of the civil authorities, Bays
General Schofield in his report. Idaho's
military organization had not reached
the strength necessary to cope with a
formidable insurrection involving de
struction of life and property, as in the
Cceur d'Alene mining region. Wyoming
also had to employ national troops to
prevent a conflict between armed parties
of citizens. Other special services ren
dered by troops in various parts of the
country are involving much labor, ex
posure and hardship. Regarding small
arms and field artillery he says when
troops are furnished with magazine
small arms they will be as well equipped
as any troops in the world, and urged
that no time be lost in supplying such
arms. The General speaks in approving
terms of the beginning made in fortify
ing our coasts, and. recommends an ar
tillery reserve and other matters.
A dispatch reciting the troubles expe
rienced by American merchants on the
Gilbert Islands was shown to Secretary
Foster the other day. The United States
commercial agent in the islands has made
no such representations to the Depart
ment of State. The Secretary says that
early in the present year the department
received a communication from King
Tebu Rein 3 of the Gilbert Islands pray
ing that the United States establish a
protectorate over them. The depart
ment did not act upon the application
for the reason that it was the established
policy of the United States to decline to
extend its protection by such means.
Certain aspects of the case resembled
the Samoan controversy, and, although
the Department of State felt obliged to
decline the request for a protectorate, it
may be assumed that all legitimate
American interests in the islands will be
fully protected.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Marsh il Field Invests a Large Amount of
Money in World's Fair Bonds
Other Items of Interest.
A hotel that will cover ten acres and
have 6,124 rooms is to be built near the
World's Fair.
The last of the $300,000 appropriated
by Caliiornia for the World's Fair ex
hibit has been drawn from the Treasury.
Marshal Field has subscribed for $500,
000 of World's Fair bonds. The Chi
cago banks have taken $1,500,000 worth,
and the entire $4,000,000 has been dis
posed of.
The World's Fair buildings are prob
ably the best-watched structures in the
United States. There are 300 men on
duty there continuously, day and night,
under the command of Colonel Rice, an
army officer, who has two other army
officers under him.
Companies G and G and Troop B of
the First Regiment, N. G. W., have
been drilling of late to prepare them
selves for the Washington encampment
at the World's Fair in Chicago. The
start will be made in August next year.
Captains I. M. Howell, O. W. Billings
and J. M. Ash ton are very anxious to
carry away the honors for the State at
the fair, and are leaving nothing undone
to accomplish their aim.
The Louisville Times, in view of the
complications as to the World's Fair ap
propriation and the fact that the hostile
attitude of the Chicago press forced
Congressman Breckinridge to give up
his position as orator of the day at the
dedication ceremonies, suggests that
Kentucky make no exhibit at tne
World's Fair, and also calls on Ken
tucky members of the National Commis
sion to resign aa a protest.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Disgust in Germany and Austria
Over the Military Ride.
0LIYE CROP IN SPAIN DAMAGED.
The Revised Edition of the Koran in
Turkey Socialists to Hold a
Big Demonstration.
A crisis is pending in Germany over
the military bill.
The Vienna Musical Exhibition 'has
closed with a deficit of $50,000.
The London Timet has an article pre
dicting a return of the cholera in the
spring.
Hamburg is to have new sanitary laws
and regulations, due to the visitation of
cholera.
Some titled English women are to start
a movement for the salvation of the bar
maids' souls.
The olive crop in Spain has been much
damaged th s year by the great heat and
severe storms.
The Sultan of Turkey has just issued
a revised edition of the Koran adapted
to his own views.
Queen Victoria has advised the Duke
of Cumberland to release his claim to
the Brunswick succession.
The first merchant steamer ever built
in Spain was recently launched at Cadiz.
It is called the Joaquin Pielago.
The Aaron Meyer Bank at Backeburg,
Lippe, founded 107 years ago, has failed
with liabilities of 1,500,000 marks.
Only citizens who are able to read and
write have the power to vote in Bolivia
and several other South American Re
publics. The Socialists propose to hold a grand
demonstration in Trafalgar Square, Lon
don, November 13 in spite of all prohibi
tion by the government.
Emin Pasha is now perfectly destitute
according to the latest news. He is liv
ing with an Arab at Tabora, and cannot
leave until he receives help.
While new cases of cholera are still
occurring in a number of European cit
ies, the epidemic is not considered to be
any longer of a grave nature.
The sole act of Tennyson's legislative
career was to vote for ballot reform. But
he did better than make the laws for his
people. He made their songs.
Thirty milea of underground electric
railway, eimilar to the C ty and South
London line, have been proposed for Ber
lin at an estimated cost of $10,000,000.
The King of the Belgians is said to
have granted a concession to an influen
tial English company to grow tobacco in
the Cob go and to trade in that article.
Reviving an old project, a French
company proposes that lightships con
nected by telegraph be stationed at in
tervals of 200 miles across the Atlantic.
A French company has been formed to
work the beds of lignite recently discov
ered on the Strait of Magellan. There
are two seams, only the upper one being
workable.
The German Minister of Education
has sent to the Geographical Society of
Berlin copies of two letters written by
Columbus, which were found recently in
an old convent in Guatemala.
The German Emperor's money mat
ters have steadily grown harassing. He
is said to be so deeply involved with
money lenders that the court officials
have difficulty in getting their salaries.
French statisticians have elicited the
fact that of 1,000 children born of wom
en working in factories 195 die before at
taining 6 years of age, while of 1,000
born of women working at home only
152 die.
Notwithstanding that every year from
5,000 to 6,000 ships go up and down the
river Seine, carrying 2,500,000 tons of
goods, the English Consul at Rouen says
there is no map of this important
French stream in existence.
There ia an open rupture between
President Pena and General Roca in Ar
gentine, and the dissatisfaction among
the higher army officers ia much in
creased, owing to the elevation of Gen
eral Mitre to the chief command of the
army.
Tne enthusiasm over the military ride
between Vienna and Berlin has given
way to a feeling of moral disgust in Ger
many and Austria. About half the
horses used are dead, and those that
survived the cruel treatment are dis
abled. At Montevideo a law has been passed
providing for the coinage of $3,000,000
of silver. It is feared that this exceeds
the needs of the country and may de
range business affairs. There is little
probability that a French loan will be
perfected.
Gold has been found nearFranken
berg, Hesse, Prussia, and it has been re
solved to make experiments with a view
of working the old gold mines in the vi
cinity, if metal can be found in paying
quantities. These mines were in opera
tion 1,000 yeara ago.
The Greek Minister and all other
Greek diplomates and Consuls are re
called from Roumania because of the
Roumanian government's seizures of the
enormous fortune left by a Greek mer
chant for the promotion of husbandry
and manufacture in Greece.
Hamburg is almost herself again. The
refugees have returned, the streets are
once more alive with traffic, and the
theaters and schools are reopened. The
great Death has left terrible suffering as
well as grief in his track, but Hamburg
is one of the wealthiest towns in the
world.
Appearances Are Deceptive.
The popcorn man who does businesa
at the corner of Clark and Center street
met with a ludicrous mishap Sunday
evening, just at the hour when the
streets were crowded with those who
had spent the afternoon In the park.
This vender of corn has occupied this
place for years, and knows ia which
direction every car will turn aa well
as the switchman who turns the
Lincoln avenue cars up Centre street.
Those who have watched a street car a.
It rounds a curve have noticed how the
front platform runs ahead, as though
the car was going to continue In th
same direction, and then gives a euddett
lurch and whirls around the curve.
At the corner of Center and Clark the
appearance to those who do not happen
to know the cars is that all north bound
trains continue up Clark street. As the
cars near the corner it is the custom of
this popcorn man to board aU the trains
in the endeavor to dispose of his but
tered grain. Sunday evening as the
north bound grip came thundering up
Clark street Mr. Popcorn man placed
himself, with his arms full of merchan
dise, right in the center of the Clark
street track. As the train came nearer
and nearer he never moved. On it came,
and a stranger in the crowd which
thronged the entrance of the park be
came desperate.
Dashing in front of the grip car he
wildly seized the astonished popcorn man
by the neck and twirled him to what he,
thought a place of safety. The popcorn
flew like a million grasshoppers, and the
old man swore like a trooper. Anybody
who has heard the heartless laugh of a
street crowd can get an idea of the roar
of merriment that went up as the situa
tion dawned upon the bystanders. But
the most amusing thing of the whole af
fair was the look of blank amazement of
that weU meaning gentleman as he be
held the front car, with its two trailers,
turn up Lincoln avenue. Chicago News.
An Unfinished Share.
This reminds the writer of an experi
ence in the Arran LLui Js, on the west
coast of Ireland. He had three weeks'
growth of beard on his face, and he
hunted over the three islands for a bar
ber, at last finding one who was willing
to undertake the job. The Arran barber
had never shaved a Yankee, and was
overjoyed at the chance. He was 20
years old, and had been engaged all his
life at building stone walls. He sharp
ened his razor on a piece of smooth flag
stone and seated hia victim in a kitchen
chair. One man held the patient's head
and a dozen interested spectators looked
on, for it was an altogether unprece
dented event in the islands. The lath
ering was done with a piece of hard
brown soap, which was rubbed over the
face. Grabbing a handful of hair on
top of the patient's head the stone wall
builder flourished tho razor in the air
and exclaimed:
"Are ye aU ready, sir?"
"All right," was the trembling reply.
Down came the razor with a sweep like
that of a scythe. The implement was
evidently as full of teeth as a buzzsaw.
It tore the hair out by the roots. It
raised the victim bolt upright as if a
cannon cracker had exploded. Tears
gathered in his eyes. His hands clinched
convulsively, and a rivulet of blood ran
down his chesk. The butcher went to
the window to wipe his weapon clean.
While standing there he looked up and
exclaimed sympatheticaUy:
"Shure, sir, ye have a face as tindher
as a little babyl"
The shave was concluded three weeks
later in the city of Galway. New York
Sun.
Dust to Dust.
A thousand years hence so says a
member of the Academy of Sciences
nearly all the stone buildings now stand
ing in Europe will have crumbled to
dust. So perishable is the material of
which they are constructed that the
process of decay is already evident in
many conspicuous edifices. The same
thing i3 going on in this country. Neither
marble nor our favorite brown stone can
withstand the action of the elements.
Even the Capitol at Washington is un
dergoing disintegration.
It may not be important that an ordi
nary dwelling house should last a thou
sand years. For sanitary reasons It is,
perhaps, just as weU that people should
have to build their houses over again
once every two or three centuries. But
it is not agreeable to think that the Cap
itol and aU the great churches in the
country will have disappeared by the
year of grace 2890. New York Ledger.
Objected to the IJcker.
Apropos of the present necessity for
the separation of families by the often
continued absence of the husband on
the road, I know a little anecdote of a
youngster who had seen so little of his
father that he did not know him, and
when, one Sunday morning, this same '
little fellow, being obstreperous, was
severely reprimanded by his impatient
father, he went howling to his mother
with the wail, "I ain't goin'to git licked
by that old duffer who spends Sunday
here." Toledo Journal.
She Dun Forgot.
It was a Michigan woman who brought
home some strychnine pills and left
them on the stand where the 2-year-old
baby could get at them and swallow a
couple. She meant to have put them up
on the clock shelf, but she dun forgot to.
Detroit Free Press.