Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-01-20
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his predecessor, Seymour, three times for the sane
Office of Governor
German translation of Bulwers works has
been issued at Stuttgart, in hundred and ten vol
umes.
reform school for girls is to be established
in Chicago. 1t is needed, if half the stories from
that quarter be true.
Another egg of the Moa-the gigantic bird of
New Zealand--has been discovered. It is about ten
inches long and FIVE in diameter.
A growing desire to be buried without religions
rites is manifested by large class in France, who
have formed themselves into club with the de-
nomination Of 'Solidaires.
4 priest Of Noto, in Sicily, Of the name Of Giar-
dino, has just been arrested at Naples, on charge
of having in 1860 stabbed monk to death at the
moment he was descending from the altar after
saying mass.
The inhnman King Of Dahomey, SO famous for
bloody human sacrifices, has lately been defeated IN
one of his raids upon rival African city. He was
utterly routed with loss of four thousand men.
The DRAFT.--It is entirely misrepresentation TO
suppose that the United States conscription law
provides for the drafting of men between eighteen
and twenty years. Twenty is the lowest age.
A Greek Poet implies that the height of bliss is
the sudden relief Of pain; there is nobler bliss
still-the rapture of the conscience at the sudden
relief from a guilty thought.
tI WISH had your head said lady one day to
agentleman who had solved knotty point. HAnd
wish had your heart, was his reply. ''Well,'
said she, since your head and my heart agree,
don't see why they should not go into partnership
A You've LADY was heard to declare that she
couldn't 20 to fight for the country, but she was
willing to allow the young to do so, and die
old maid, which she thought was great sacrifice
as any body could be called upon to make.
There is at St. Ehenna, in France, young lady,
eighteen years of age affected with rare though
not unparalleled infrmity She is unable to see
while the sun is above the horizon, but sees per
fectly well at nightin complete darkness.
AN EXPENSIVE PRIScE.-English papers say that
the story is current that the Prince Of Wales finds
his present State allowance 100000 ($200000) in
sufficient to MAINTAIN the dignity of his position, and
that the Government intends to ask Parliament for
considerable increase of the vote.
An elderly maiden lady writes to a friend: "a
widower, with ten children, has proposed, and |
have acceptedhim. This saboutthe number should
have been entitled to- if had been married at the
proper time, instead of being cheated into mere
nonenity."
A marine railway is proposed around Niagara
Falls, on the American side. The project is to take
vessels from the water pass them the railway,
and commit them to the deep again. The surveys
have been made, and the Board of Trade at Detroit
have been invited to examine these plans.
In Maine hay press has been used for the pres
sing Of pine shavings for kindling wood. They
make very neat packages and can be sawed into
$ blocks ike timber. About hundred bushels of sha
wings be put into the space of an ordinary hogs
head, and when pressed the spring is all taken
out of them.
SUrFERINGs OF REFUGEEs.- Says the New Albany
Ledger:
Many refugee families in this vicinity are pas
sing the cold weather now upon in miserable
hovels built by placing boards against fences so as
to afford temporary shelters. Their suferings may
be imagined when it is known that they are thinly
and poorly clad, and most of them dependent upon
charity for the TODD which keeps them alive.
Johnny, ayoungster of some eleven years, was
one day discussing probabilities with his little bro
ther, a six-year-old ''When am grown up" said
Johnny, IT shall be married, and my children win
call you Uncle Seneca And you'll say, come
here my dear, and see what Uncle Seneca's got for
you. "Humphn calculated the little one, II
guess shall have all can do to take care of my
ocR young onesP'
THE new drtesidn well at Chicago is said to dis
charge greater quantity of water than any other
well in the world, throwing out 576 600 gallons per
day, the celebrated well at Grenelle, near Paris
dischargng only 100000 gallons per day. The idea
has been suggested of supplying the city from this
source, but the Journal shows that the well would
be totally inadequate to that end as the amount of
water now supplied daily and consumed in the city
is 0,O00 gallons.
STERLING MoEEE.-The following extract from
Camden will explain the origin and of the word
'tsterhng tin the time of King Richard l.,
monte coined in the east parts of Germania began
to be of especial request in England for the puritie
thereof and called EdStertinq monte, all the
inhabitants of those parts were called EaSterings
and shortly after some of that countries, skill in
mint matters and aloies, sent for into the
realms to bring the coins to perfection. which since
that time were called of them sterling, for Easter
ling
Among the leaders in the Chinese rebellion was
the Tieng Wang, the Brother of God," who went
up to heaven in some mysterious way, so they could
not catch him, bat the lesser "Brother of God, -
Chang Wang, ard a small luminary Hung Ien-ta
were ignominiously taken while in the guise of
begging rice, and the Pekin Gazette of August 10Th
says that the two above not to be con-
Quoted to Pekn but their sentence, of being cut to
pieces, carried out at Nankng, and their heads to
Be sent round the districts formerly in possession of
the rebels
A ALADY's AGR.--A lady who still prides herself on
her youth and besuty had to appear at a Paris po
hce-court last week She had differences with her
son, who is old enough at least to be examined on
oath. They both had to state their age in court
Of Justice. NYour age, madam 2'i asks the courte-
GUS justice. Twenty ive,n says audacious moth
er. A little later the son is in The box. ''Your
ious youth, 81 find to my astonishment, that am a
year older than my mother"
Not long after Washington Irving had attained ce-
lebry by his writings, lady and her daughter were
passing along some gallery of Italy, and paused be-
fore bust Of Washington After gazing at it for a
few moments, the daughter turned to her mother
with the question.
Mother, who was Washington;
1'Why my dear, dom you knowY'' was the as
founding reply AHe wrote the Sketch Book"
Those folks were probably near relations to the
boy who, on being asked by his Sabbath school
teacher 'who wrote the Aets of the Apostles' ~ re-
Piled why, yes +; know; Mr.. Barnes wrote 'em. 2
EARLY DESCRIPTION OF On SPRINGs.--The fol-
lowing passage copied from the Massachusetts, Mag
azine for July 1892, may interest those who have
struck, or are expecting to strike Gle"
In the northern parts of Pennsylvania there is
creek called oil creek which emptes itself into the
Allegheny river, issuing from a spring, on the top
Of which floats an oil similar to what Is called Bar
BADGES tar, and from which may be collected by one
man several gallons in daY. The American troons