June 19, 1889
A flock of goats were browsing and looking for stray oyster cans, sardine boxes and the like in North Dallas, when all at once there was a commotion among the foremost ones, which beat a hasty retreat. An old billy who had been fetching up the rear with the solemnity of a deacon walked to the front, paused and began to strike the ground right hard in an odd sort of way with his fore feet and at the same time to shake his head as if going through some sort of superstitions cantation.
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June 18, 1889
New trials granted two murderers under life and death sentences.
Ottawa, Ill., june 17- Opinions have been rendered in the Supreme court in two cases of special interest. The case of Bolzer, the Hungarian, who in 1877 killed a man named Haw at Streator, was reversed and remanded to the lower court. Bolzer had two trials. In first he was found guilty of murder in the first degree.
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June 18, 1889
A fire fiend at Ionia, Michigan Comes very near being lynched.
Ionia, Mich., June 17.- Incendiary fires have been of frequent occurrence in this city of late. Early Sunday morning a fire-fiend was caught in the act of setting fire to a residence. The occupants were nearly suffocated before they were aroused and were rescued with difficulty. Public feeling ran very high when it was known that the fire-bug was in the hands of the officer. An attempt was made to lynch the man, last prompt action by the police saved him.
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May 2, 1889
Chicago, May 2.—The noted Kentucky trotting mare Fugue, with a record of 2:19 ¼, died here of pneumonia. She was valued at $15,000.
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May 2, 1889
La Monde de la Science describes a factory which is said to be flourishing at St. Denis, France. Within its walls skeletons are “made” in the following manner: The largest room in the building is filled with enormous kettles, in which the bones of the corpses are boiled till the flesh is separated from them. The skulls are prepared separately and in the most careful manner. One way of preparing children and young people is to fill the hollow where the brains were situated with peas and then let the latter swell in water, which causes the most delicately jointed bones to separate without being injured. After all the bones have been carefully washed they are bleached either by choral or by exposure to the sun, and are joined in another department of the factory and made flexible by means of brass wires. Most of the corpses whose bones are utilized are said to be brought from hospitals, prisons and dissecting-rooms.
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May 1, 1889
Be sure to pay your first month’s rent in advance. It will put you on good terms with the landlord, and after that you need be in hurry to settle.
It is well to engage your truckman about ten weeks in advance, and if necessary guarantee the payment of your bill by giving a lien on you furniture.
If your landlord says that the house has all the modern improvements, you must not look for a phonograph in each room. The landlord didn’t mean that.
Examine your gas meter in moving in a new house. The previous occupant may have left his score unsettled, and the gas man will add it on your first month’s bill.
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