The daily press, in its min-ate record of events, all unwittingly furnishes many a little item, whose primal reason only the student of history can read. The Syracuse, N. Y., “Daily Standard,” of February 22, 1884, published from its exchanges the following incident:

“An eccentric old man in New Hampshire surprised his neighbors and friends the other day by shouldering his gun and starting for the woods on the morning of his wife’s funeral. On being urged to come back, he refused, saying: “She warn’t no blood relation of mine.”