The Placer herald., 1866-03-17
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This is an advance towards womans' rights
that other States have not yet reached.
WHAT THE Moro THINKS An exchange
says During the prevalence of the late an.
nular eclipse, an enthus' site colored ind'
vdua in Norfolk Virginia, became greatly
elated "Bress de Lord!" said be, "niggers
time has come at las'-bes free, and now
we gwine to have black sun. Surely de
master OBJ glory am wild de colored folks"
FAST COUNTRY. are to be three
daily papers established at Summit City, Me-
vada county, as soon rs the snow melts.
Boust, of the Dutch Flat Enquirer, will
print thes sReveille, and the Virginia Union
and the Washoe Times intend TO move their
offices there.
ExpENsIvE.-Mrs Macmillan, Of Mexico,
recently reviewed the Mexican troops in a
carriage that cost forty thousand dollars. 1t
was constructed entirely of glass and silver.
and the inside was lined with satin and gold
lace. She is expensive to somebody.
A little girl in Pennsylvania was lately
reproved for playing out doors with boys.
and informed that being seven years DID, she
was 'too big for that now." But with all
imaginable innocence she replied: "Why,
grandma, the bigger we grow the better We
like 'em." Grandma took time to think.
COMFORTABLE The Paris Omnibus Com
pany has resolved to adopt for their convey
ances the practice of laying down hot water
tubes under the feet of the passengers, as all
ready carried out for first cless railway, cars
during winter.
A letter writer describing the fashionable
customs as he saw them on Chestnut street,
Philadel phia, says: II observed that tho
style of the dress enabled him to make the
observation.
Photographic albums with musical boxes
concealed in the cover, are, at the present, a
novelty in London.
SUPREME Court SEAL.-The Supreme
Court, says the San Mateo Gazette, has OF.
dered a new seal. The design is a figure of
Justice bIindtolded, with scales in one hand
and a sword in the other. Tn is is perhaps
appropriate enough, but we object. This
idea of going it blind by Courts of Justice
has been tried long time and found to be
mighty uncertain.
Bio BEND.-1here is just now quite
rush for the Big Bend mines Of the Colum-
bia River There will soon be a big rush
back again. The Big Bend will be apt to
prove big break to many a poor miner.
Quilp says that when be first married his
wife called him Honey" but since their sill.
yer wedding she addresses him as "Old Bees.
wax"
Unsatisfactory. .-Artemus Wards sue
cess in Il town in Wisconsin was not salts.
factory. His agent took two dollars and
eighty'seven cents at the door, while Artemus
took the measles inside.
The object Of conversation is to entertain
and amuse. To be agreeable you must learn
to be good listener. man who monopo.
Lies conversation is bore, no matter how
great his knowledge.
In pee!ing onions, put large needle in
the mouth, half in half out. The needle
attracts the oily juice of the bulb, and any
number may be peeled without affecting the
eyes,
The FIRsr.-Mr. Jennings, of Salt Lake,
received the first contribution Of merchand.
ise from California, via Colorado, on the 5th
of January.
A clergyman and one of bis elderly par
ishoners were walking home from church
one frosty day lately when the old gentle
man slipped and fell fiat on his back The
minister, looking at him moment, and be.
ing assured that he has not much hurt,
said to him; "Friend sinners stand on slip.
perry places" The old gentleman looked up,
as if to assure himself Of the fact, and said
II see they do, but can't"
A lad came in great haste into drug
store, and, half out of breath, exclaimed,
Mother sent me down to the shotcary pop
to get a thimblefulI of pailagoric. Bulbs as
thick as dickenth-not expected to live from
one end to t'other."
A correspondent of the Shasta Courier,
writing from Montana, says: "There are
two distinct classes of people here. Those
from the Eastern States are called "Tender-
Feet" and those from the western slope are
called 'Yonder. .Siders; and, what is strange
they are strong y opposed to one another"
No LOWER DowN.-Josh Billings says
"When mans dog deserts him on account
Of his poverty, he can't get any lower down
in the word-not by land"
CoTroN-The Visaia Delta remarks that:
"Cotton planting seems about to become a
leading branch of industry in our county"
Referring to Senator Conness, Richardson,
of the N. Y. Tribune, says be ''is one of the
men who never get credit for anything they
do. Arbitrary, overbsaring, making long
speeches which ignores public affairs, aud
are devoted solely to John Conness, be has
genius for wrangling, and can make more
enemies with less effort than any public man
on the Pacific coast"
The population of London is over three
million, and every week two thousand are
born and fifteen hundred die.