Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-07
.prinkling. Of News.

Sprjnklings Of News.
: A law was recently made and put in fort
Z at St. Louis requiring bakers to regulate I'll
weight and not the size of their loaves {
bread according to the price of -four Flou
| | is now sold for $4,25 per barrel in st. Lou
lis, and the knights of the dough trough NJ
required to sell their bread for ten cents
pound so that you can now purchase on
pound of bread, instead Of small lump 9
blubbers!
The amount expended by American tray
elers in Europe is estimated mt SIC, 100000
annually.
FREsHsrs.-Disastrou freshets occurre
in Maine on the Kennebec River, in New
York, and at other points. The water sub
merged large portion Of Albany, bein,
almost as high as in the great frcshet las
February.
The citizens of Rock Island now buy Goa
at 10 cents bushel, deliverable in any par
Of the city. This is in consequence Of th'
completion of the Rock Island and Peorii
Railroad to the mines in Coal Valley.
! A red frog has been shown to the editor
of the North Bridgewater Gazette, found
twenty-five feet below the surface Of the
I ground bya man digging a well in that town
He jumped as soon as set free.
Morris B. johnson, a printer, died in Lou
isville, from the effects Of chloroform taken
to relieve the toothache.
The New York Herald says that the money
pressure is telling fearfully on the theatres
of that city. Some are reducing salaries,
and others are closing up.
A man was arrested in Brooklyn for play
ing the fiddle on Sunday, thereby viol-ating
the Sabbath.
OLD GRIMES Is DEAD.-Mr. s. D. Grimes
died recently in Georgia, at the great age Of
1l0 years. He was never sick.
The late vote in Kansas will range be-
tween $4,000 and 10000. This indicates
population bordering closely upon 100000
The workmen of Messrs. Chicken ng &
Co., piano forte makers, Boston, held
meeting on Saturday, and voted that they
were able and willing to 60 without their
weekly pay until matters eased up.
Some idea of the extent Of counterfeiting
and the amount of spurious bank bills in
circulation may Le had from the fact that
Major Rawlings, Chief of Police If St Louis
has in his possession upwards Of $40, 700 in
vile, uncurrent, make-believe bank bills, the
greatest part of which has been obtained
from the pockets of the scoundrels who have
been arrested on divers charges.
The son of Henry S. Gum, of Mississip-
pi, ran off two weeks ago with his fathers
second wife. The young ''son of gun"
has not been heard OF since.
The great horse race between a night mare
and clothes horse came off last week. The
man who entered the marc wasn't wide
awake, so the horse took the prize.
ssDon't put too much confidence in lov-
er's vows and sighs," said Mrs. Partington
to her niece sslet him tell you that you have
lips like strawberries and cream, cheeks like
a tarnation, and eyes like an asterisk, but
such things oftener come from tender head
than tender heart"
The Aqua-vicarialm is the title Of new
ornament being introduced into houses of
luxury in the east 1t consists Of glass
box, the bottom covered with earth and wa
ter plants planted therein, and fish put in,
which grow and thrive, the plants absorbing
the carbon that would otherwise Kill the fish
in so small space.
M1ssRLY ADvIoE.-One Of theshackney
fallacies of the times is the Wall street sug-
SeSllOQ community uluheu luto oui e'tiS
from the press, that everybody should re-
solve himself into sort Of "sixpenny
saving institution On the contrary, now
is the time for everybody who has money to
spend it freely In the first place every one
who owes dollar and has the money should
make haste to pay it, and the rich, who
have plenty of cash on hand; should just now
give employment to as much labor as possi
BILE; subscribe for newspapers, and keep the
printers busy buy clothes, and keep the
seamstresses occupied.
Fill your cellars with fuel and provisions,
and if you have vacant lot put a building
on it, while laboris idle and lumber is cheap.
If lots, we should commence digging and
building upon every one of them, and there
by directly or indirectly give employment
to hundreds of men. This cry of economy
is very we'll for the poor but the rich should
be encouraged, even in seeming extrava-
gance. Let them scatter their heaps right
and left, before famine drives men to more
violent agrarianism N. Y. Mirror.