White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-02-14
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~ Some of the French newspapers speak
of the American Minister in Paris as ''0ens-
raj Dixie"
u Gen. Phil. Sheridan denies that he is
aboutso get married or run for the Presidency.
uAs Southern paper calls Congress a"grsnd
phan.asmas sori. of giastacssuses."
ruu. Admiral Dahlhreu has just present
ed her Iiegs lord with brace Of Dshlgrens-
Ell ght Founders.
NJ Count Bismark recently said: "The
longer am engaged in politics, the less be-
comes my confidence in human calculations"
SIxrr. .MrnprD.-Am man rejoicing in the
name of Simple has just patented an invention
in England for obtaining perpetual motion.
MA Xenia man thinks he has discovered
perpetual motion, and has packed up his ma
chine to take it to the Paris fair.
" Artemus Ward is out of health. He
tainted away while delivering one of bis recent
lectures in London. He has discontinued his
papers in Punch.
r Wise wants to he buried in q gray over
coat. He will not need much extra clothing
where be is going.
u Beard, the celebrated animal painter.
has just begun = painting illustrasive of the
saying, "It rains cats and dogs"
u The bells Of the $40 churches in Mos-
COW were all rung together on the day of the
Czarowitch's Wedding. The clangor was ter
rife.
&c An exchange says five negroes ave just
been sentenced to the New Hampshire peui-
tenti.ry, and two to the Massachusetts Leg
islature.
u An exchange says the late Gen. Cass'
cradle was second handed ssgsr trough.
and asks aspiring young men to think Of it.
Al. Comstock, Esq, of Brown county, lost
one hundred sheep on last Friday night week,
In ths terrible snow storm of that day and
night.
u The Siamese Twins have concluded to
settle down again, and have Instructed their
agents to secure them suitable farm in Kan.
sas or Missouri.
u Onward Opposition TO- Presby byterinnism
Hutchinson is the name of son of Hard
shell Bpatist preacher, in West Ely, Marion
County. Mis- ouri.
u The distinguished sauan. Professor Ag
assiz, was born at ,Motiers. Switzerland, and
was intended for the church. He is now Fifty
nine, and has been in this country twenty one
years.
u The members of the Maine Legislature
have voted themselves a copy each Of Web
ster's unabridged, Lippincott's Gazetteer and
the Bible, and $40 worth Of postage stamps
for each member.
u Some eccentric genius broke into the
Treasurer's Office at Wabash, Indiana, the
other night, unlocked the safe and deposited
twenty five dollars in the cash drawer leaving
everything else undisturbed.
T Nathaniel w. Morse, Of Norridgewalk
Me-, has recovered one cent damages from
thirteen citizens of the town of Sko~hegan
who was forced by them to cheer the Ameri
can flag after he said he was glad of the assss
sination of President Lincoln.
DGeneral Colston is lecturing on S.onewal
Jackson, in Norfolk, Va, but the houses are
so small that the newspapers, from which we
, take the notice, "blush for the people Of the
, city"
T A New Bedford lady recently wrote to
Boston publishing house for a copy Of "Ge
lert; or, Trust in God" and received for reply
"There is no Trust in God in Boston"
q The magnitude of newspaper business
may be inferred fom the fact that the receipts
of the New York Tribune, week before last
for subscriptions, sales, and advertising,
amounted to Sc, 800.
| u man died last week in Shrewsbury
Mass, who had become so advanced in his
second childh ood that for some months he had
persisted in carrying to bed with him each
night rag-don which belonged to one Of bis
grand children.
| 70 A Russian telegraph line is growing in
length, passing through the pathless wastes
and deserts, through vast regions where the
human voice was never heard before, TO bring
the civilized ends of the earth together.
P The lake reservoir water at Cleveland,
says the Herald, is again tinctured by petrole-
um. The taste ID not As emphatic as it has
heretofore been, but it is sufficiently distinct
to spoil the water for drinking purposes.
T Responding to the suggestions sthat An
dy Johnson would probably be John Morris
sey's "bottle-holder" when the latter gets into
Congress. the Eaton Register objects that
John is too smart to trust AEdy With his
bottle.
q A western man speaking of the Pacific
railroad. says 1t Is one Of the funniest coin
cidences in the world, that almost every alter
nate section Of land, on either side Of the road.
belongs to some menber-of Congress"
i r Elder Joseph Higgins. 90 years old, 10
living on farm at Thorndike, Me-, where he
felled the first tree over 20 years ago, and
where he has lived with his present wife s.
years. There has never been death in his
house. and seven Of the eight children in the
family have grown to adult years. s
4 u Hippophagy is making rapid progress in
Paris. The number Of establishments fer the
sale of horse flesh In ra n;div ;nc,eas;ng .sr.