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A STRANGE COUNTRY. THE THINGS THEY DO AND THE THINGS THEY SAY IN FLORIDA. Man Kills His Mother-in-law With a Cat. Advertised a Lynching—Why One Wom an Had a Man In Her House—An Odd Qfedley. Wo hear of many strange things in Florida. They do more queer things in Florida than in any other state, and yet it is a small state as regards population, and not especially opulent in anything but sand. Florida is tiie last place to which we shoujd look for novelties or great achievements of the intellect or imagination. The output of lies about -alligators is voluminous, to be sure, but that is chiefly the work of tourists. Ev ery native knows that alligators do not attack and devour living persons, and not one of them ever had the ingenuity to make up a story to the contrary until the winter sojourner began to flock there and to while away the ennui of his stay in feats of Action. For all that, how ever, Florida leads easily in queer things. Only a few years ago a farmer down there killed his mother-in-law. Os course men kill their mothers-in-law everywhere. There is nothing original in that. But this Florida man killed his mother-in-law with a tomcat, and that certainly is novel. They had some dis agreement as to who should start the kitchen Are one morning, and our “cracker” picked up the tomcat, and, using it as a bludgeon, struck his wife’s mother so hard that he killed her. There was an ax in the corner, and a shotgun hanging on the wall, and several other useful and effective agencies of homi cide lying about conveniently and in great profusion; but, no! this Florida person refused to be conventional. He took the tomcat, and the funeral oc curred the following afternoon. The other day they lynched a negro in that same neighborhood. That again is an old story. They lynch negroes everywhere and whenever the negroes seem to need it. But this lynching was peculiar. The managers of the affair ad vertised it. They did not act with pas sion and precipitation. They met to gether and solemnly announced, after grave deliberation, that the lynching would take place next day exactly at noon. They wanted a crowd, and they got one. No scrap lynching for them. They insisted upon ceremony, eclat and an audience. And now comes the case of a Florida gentleman—a Jacksonville gentleman, to be explicit-—who returned to his home quite unexpectedly on a recent Saturday morning about 4 and found his wife in a compromising situation with a neigh bor. Such things have happened else where, we know, and the same may be said of the prompt killing of the neigh bor by the astonished and indignant hus band. But every one will admit that the wife springs a novelty on us when she claims that she had the neighbor in her room to protect her from burglars and not for any other purpose. Natural ly the husband now regrets his haste, but how could he be expected to think about burglars at such a moment? Is it not, in fact, difficult to get used to the idea'even now? Upon the whole, Florida strikes us as a winner in a certain line of novelties. Apart from its alligators, its sand, its hotel charges, its governorsand its fleas, Florida turns out about as many new thoughts and odd conceits as any half dozen states we can think of at this mo ment. —Washington Post. Found the Missing Word. A hotel clerk told this story: Three men from the country came into the hotel and registered for lodging, and a, few minutes later two of them went out to see the town. “1 will stay hero,” said the third, “and look at things, ” and he took a scat near the door. At 10 o’clock, a half hour later, the man who was left went up to the clerk. “I want to remain,” said he. “All right, sir,” answered the clerk. The man stood and looked at the clerk and Anally went back to his chair near the door. He sat still another hour and returned to the desk. “If you please, I’ll remain,” he said. “That’s all right, sir, ” was the response. “We hope you’ll be with us some time.” The man hesitated and went back to his chair. It was away after midnight when ho went up to the clerk for the third time. “I think I’ll remaijj, sir,” ho said. “We have no objections,” answered the man behind the desk. The guest did not go back to his chair, however, but stood still. Shortly after ward another guest came up and asked the clerk for his key, “and I'll retire”— “Retire! Retire! That’s the word I’ve been trying to think of for three hours. For heaven’s sake let me retire,” inter rupted the man who had so desired to re main, and he was at last happy.—Louis ville Courier-Journal. No Thieves In the Honse. “When I was a member of the general assembly, the Sixty-ninth,” said Major William M. Day, “every funny thing that ever occurred was attributed to John Rooney, the statesman from Cincinnati. You remember the story ho told on him self. Ho had returned from his arduous duties to spend a Sunday at home, and during the night a noise alarmed his wife. ‘Get up, John, ’ she cried, ‘there are thieves in the house.' “‘You are mistaken, my dear,’ said John complacently, rolling over. ‘No thieves in the house. They’re all in the senate.' “When the regular session had been completed and wo wore all really to return to our admiring constituencies, Bill Gear, who was at the head of the railroad com mittee, of which Rooney also had the hon or to be a member, happened to flash a pretty good sized roll in Rooney’s presence. “ ‘Where did you get the dough?’ in quired Rooney/ ' “ ‘Oh, I just sold a carload of hogs,’ re plied Gear carelessly. “John hesitated just a moment. ‘I bet I was one of the hogs,’ ho suddenly retort ed, with some emphasis. If ho was, Gear never told him.' ’—Cincinnati Commercial- Gazette STORIES OF THE DAY. The Man With the Jag Wanted His Cat, but Preferred His Ride. He was irreproachably dressed in a dark gray frock coat aild trousers, white waistcoat and patent leather shoes. A tall white hat and a large but dignifled jag completed his outfit. He boarded an up town Broadway car near Canal street, New York, a few nights ago. The car was not crowded, and nearly every one took a good look at the new passenger. He was a man of 50. His Dundreary whiskers were carefully trimmed, but he wore his hat at a somewhat rakish angle. It was not so much his appear ance as the sociable, pleasant way in which he greeted his fellow passengers that caused him to be the center of at traction. A mangy looking old tramp tabby cat, which he carried fondly in his arms, was what caught the eye of the passengers. In a very few moments after he had raised his hat and said, “ ’Ev’nin, ladies and gen’lemen,” and flopped into a seat, the conductor was alongside. “You can’t carry that animal on this car,” said he of the brass cheek and but tons. “Hie—why?” asked the owner of the cat. “ ’Cause it’s agin the rules. That’s why, ’ ’ was the answer. ‘ ‘ What do I care for the rules ? It’s my cat, and she goes with me. ” “Then you’ll have to get off the car,” said the conductor. An Englishman then volunteered the information that the rules did not apply to cats, but only to dogs. “It applies to all live stock,” insisted the conductor. “How about this?” said a man, pro ducing a small turtle. Then the Englishman settled the dis pute, as he thought, in the way. He said, “Dogs is dogs, and cats is dogs, but turtles is hinsects. ” By this time the car had reached Houston street. The conductor then sig naled to an inspector. The inspector said that the cat would have to be put off tho car. “C:in I ride without the cat?” queried the owner of the animal. “Yes,” was tho ready response. “Well, then, that’s easily settled,” and with that the man who had caused all the trouble flung the offending cat through an open window into the street.—New York Sun. How to Quit Cigarettes. “Did I ever tell you how I managed to cure myself of the cigarette habit?” asked a cholly the other day. I told him he had never explained the mystery to me, and that I had spent many sleepless nights in consequence. “Now, you are joking,” he said, with his neat little lisp, “but really, on the extremely de ceased, I have stopped entirely, and it was the easiest thing in the, world. I used to smoke from four to Ave packages a day and sometimes more. “One day I made up my mind that I would quit. I do not mean that I would quit smoking, but I meant that I would stop buying them. I smoked those of my friends. Finally it became a bore to my friends to have me always asking for cigarettes, and they sometimes said they didn’t have them. Thus my charity smokes gradually became quite seldom. Finally there was not a young fellow who knew me who would give me a cigarette. Ey that time I had about got ten rid of the habit, “Oile day i xeit like 1 would enjoy one, and I bought a package before I thought. I lit one, and it actually tasted so badly that I threw it and the package away. Since then I have never smoked. Ido not use tobacco in any form. You may give this recipe to your friends if you desire. It cured me, and did the job quickly and effectively. ’ ’ —Louisville Commercial. Eager to Marry at Seventy-eight. Seventy-eight years old and as impa tient to get married as a youth of 20 is the remarkable record of Charles Song ster, a veteran inmate of the Naval home on Gray’s Ferry road. His wife, who had lived with him for 40 years, died two years ago, and about a month ago the old man began an active search for a new partner. Through some friends he heard of the Widow Robinson, child less and 68 years old. He called on her at 130 McClellan street a week ago, and in a 15 minutes’ talk both agreed that marriage was the only proper thing for them. When the ardent lover stated his age to Marriage License Clerk Bird yester day, that official hesitated and decided it best to see the other of the contract ing parties. Sangster was disappointed, but insisted on paying the 50 cents in advance and promised to return with his wife to be next week. Sangster was born in London in Octobdf, 1816, and enlisted in the United States navy early in the forties, serving through both the Mexican war and the rebellion. Ho has lived at the Naval home since 1808.— Philadelphia Record. Tliis Fa/mer Plows In the Shade. Mr. George D. Orr of Cincinnati said recently: “Though it’s said there is nothing new under the sun, it seems that in my rounds over the country I am continually meeting with something new. Last Saturday I was coming down from Cleveland over the Big Four, and while glancing out of the window I saw a plow that was certainly a curiosity to me. Originally it had been a common plow, but tho fertile genius of some farmer had been at work upon it. He had attached an upright frame to the plow beam and had covered the top of this with a fancy colored cloth. Tho cov ering extended far enough back to allow him to walk under it and be completely protected from the rays of the sun. ’’ — Louisville Courier-JournaL >x ■■■— . . Farmhands Scarce In Massachusetts. Here’s the secretary of the state board of agriculture reporting farm help scarce and hard to get. Small wonder that the eleemosynary potato patches are not flourishing when farmhands can’t be had for good wages.—Boston Herald. THE HOME TRIBUNE. FRIDAY. JUNE 21. 1895. New Dances Will Be Dignified. With the passing of the twelfth an nual convention of the National Associ ation of Dancing Masters there is a feel ing left among tho local devotees of Terpsichore that the apotheosis iff danc ing is at hand. The three new dances adopted, and which* will bo seen at the assemblies and balls of the coming win ter, are suggestive of the days of Charles 11. They are full of statuesque poses, and the gyrations are of the slow’, dig nifled character of the “minuet a Poi tou, ” or its progenitor, the “Pavane. ” They aro thb ‘ ' Agathe, ” the “ Lorraine, ’ ’ and the “Ellsworth,” and they are en tirely new’in every respect.—Philadel phia Press. This Boy Was Safe. As the last boat drew away from the old iron pier at Coney Island a woman’s shrieks rang out from the main deck aft. The pa*,eugers jumped to their feet, and the deckhands sprang to the boats, anticipating the cry of “Man over board!” “Oh, me child!” shrieked the woman. “Me bqy ! Me darling boy! Where is he?” There was an agonizing suspense of a few seconds, then a tough, angry voice from tho middle of a coil of hawser pierced the still air. “Aw, shet yer face! See! Here I am. See! Close yer trap!”—New’ York World. Illinois’ a.« uw.siurs Calledfto Meet. Chicago, June 18.—Governor Altgeld has issued a call for a special session of the assembly. The assembly will meet next Tuesday. Twenty Years Proof. Tutt’s Liver Pills keep the bow els in natural motion and cleanse the system of all impurities An absolute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, con stipation and kindred diseases. “Can’t do without them” R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va. writes I don’t know how I could do without them. I have had Liver disease for over twenty years. Am now entirely cured. Tutt’s Liver Pills Good for nothing did you say? Yes, that describes how I feel. I have no energy left, nothing inter ests me. My strength has left me and I have no inclination to work. 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