Curious Things In Life

A sign on the store of a Toccoa (Ga.) merchant reads: "Lamps fixed, razors honed, fresh oysters, Vienna bread and tombstones." A game of poker took place in Helena, M. T., recently, iu which there was $40,000 in one pot. One player lost $10,000 and another $6,000 during the evening. Among the Japanese engravings which are now exhibited in London is one in which is shown a little boy exposing his body to the attacks of musquitoes, so that his parents may be spared the bites. The other day at Fresno, Cal., a ewe gave birth to three lambs, two white and one Dlaen as tüe aco of clubs. When the mother saw this off color offspring she stamped on and butted the poor little fellow until it was dead. J. D. Rattereo, of Chester, Ga., enjoys the unique distinction of being the only man on record whose life was saved by the kick of a mulé. He was recently acquitted of the murder of Jack Reed, a colored man, on the ground of insanity caused by the kick of a mulé in the head.