The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-14
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

A Washington paper gets off the follow
ing Why Is crazy oil speculator like
the Secretary Of the Navy He Is giddy on
wells.
Josh Billings says: 'God save the phools,
and don't let 'em run out for If 1t warn't
for them wise men couldn't get a liv-
ing"
The cultivation of hops is extending very
much IN Michigan, Wisconsin and other
Northwestern States. Hop growers have
realized large profits from the sales Of last
years crop.
The negroes who are asking for negro
suffrage ought to be ashamed of them
selves till they convert the kingdom of Lii
IBERIA to white suffrage. which is now de-
nicd.
That must have been high old dance
in New Orleans, where a young woman's
dress was set ON fire from chandelier over
her head.
The story of ghost who brought pile
of golden eagles to his wife in Indiana, in
dicates that specie payment has not been
suspended in the spirit land.
The Treasurer of the United States now
holds rs securities for the circulation of
National Banks, $3l9, ,50SS0O.
Weathersiield. Conn, Is staunchly patri-
otic. Her people say 1.-The Onion must and
shall be preserved
There are in the United States $1,000
churches, being one for every GAG of the en-
tire population. The total value of church
property is $S7,000000. There are 1900
clergymen, and accommodations in the
church editlces for 14,000,000 of hearers. ..
Bulwer the novelist, In letter to gem
tleman of Boston, said II have closed my
career rs a writer of fiction. L am gloomy
and unhappy. have exhausted the pow
ers of life, chasing pleasure where it Is not
to be found.n
From fifty 10 seventy-five beggars and
vagrants have been arrested every day by
the Fifteenth and Twenty-ninth precinct
police, in pursuance of recent orders The
order is being obeyed by the entire police
with great promptness.
A box-car of a freight train from Indi-
annapolis to Jacksonville, took fire one
night last week, and six good horses were
burned to death. o
In the gallery of the theater in Crow
street, Dublin, one night coal porter
made himself disagreeable. There was a
yell of Throw him over" followed by the
exquisitely droll idea, Don't waste him /;
XIII 1uhler Win him.'
A disease. called the chicken cholera. is
raging in the vicinity of Huntsville, Ala
bama, and there is said to be scarcely bit
of poultry left in Madison county. 5al
: A fellow namedJ G.. Royalty "(Loyaity,
ehP) who is in the Iowa Penitentiary, for
having three wives has been discovered to
have two more in Springfield, Missouri.
! The steamer Sylvan Short lately came in
contact, off the Florida coast, with % small
boat in which were DIR. Amber, one OF
Florida's Oldest and most respected citi-
zens, Mr.. Sheldon, citizen of New York,
and several eolored men. The boat was
stove to pieces, and all save one colored
man were drowned.
| Conductor Laughland, on the Canada
Grand Trunk Railroad, for climbing out on
| the cow-catcher, while his train was run
ing at full speed, grabbing drunkard who
was lying II cross the rails and dragging
him safely off, had tsoo days extra pay given
him by the company Bravery aud human
| ity are sure of a Tel1drdi
1t is singular, but true, that Eve was ere
ated for Adams Express Company-at least
1t is so recorded. .f
''Is the Rump Congress T'-Nesoark IN.
7 J.) Herald
If 1t is n ramp it deserves TO be kickedi
An Eight Hour bill has passed the Cali
fornia Senate, after being amended with a
pIoviso that it shall not go into effect until
the States of Massachusetts and New York
have put similar law into operation.
Massachusetts, is not likely to legalize
''eight hours" as days work, while her
cotton lords are compelling poor girls and
boys to work from twelve to sixteen!