White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-02-07
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h A Richmond. Va, paper says that col
lectors collect debts In that city, pistol in
hand.
rA Saxon lady insured her life and then
committed suicide. % that her husband eonld
get the money.
u A neatly dressed old lady, with white
cap on, in Paris, blacks boots for penny.
" A dinner was given near Paris the 9th
er day, of which the principal dishes were
shark, horse, dog and rat.
p A sharp merchant in Maine, was lktely
sold in the purchase of lot of Shanghai roos-
ters for turkeys.
p A man in Ohio has effected insurance
upon his life to the amount Of $500 900. to
the great satisfaction of his relatives.
p At Pitssfeld, Mass, one day last week,
a funeral party we're compelled to abandon
the corpse in q snow storm, and it remained
for several hours in huge snow drift,
pA lady visited Petersburg last week,
for the purpose of purchasing her wedding
trousseau, and while there also purchased a
tombstone to be placed over the grave Of her
late husband. The old and new love.
p The Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye
mentions the case ofa young man. an employee
in the express Office in that city, who after his
fathers death, married his step p-mother. Suah
cases are rare.
p A whselright in AuiRAy, Francs. recently
hanged himself because his wife refused him
cup Of coffee on his coming home fatigued
from work. She cut him down. however. in
time to save his life.
O 1t is humorously reckoned that the heirs
Of Aneke JAMS number two million. Thus,
provided Trinity Church was made to dis
gorge, each heir would have four dollars. II
is obviously better to own a share in the Opera
House rafae.
T The Richmond Enquirer cons iders ga
general amnesty an imperative duty" 1t il
something to be willing TO be forgiven.
U Helen Western was the first to INTRODUCES
the fashion now 50 universal among the ladies
Of wearing . solitary long curl swung over the
left shoulder.
pMrs. Surratt's house at Washington hal
been occupied BY sc eral families since that
lady's death by hanging, but none OF then
stay long, and there is blood-curdling story
that Mrs. S. is ghostly visitant there almost
every night.
u. The voters of Fairfield, Conn, know
ing P. T. Barnum's fondness for a practica
joke, have paid him OF in his own coin, b.
electirg him to an office known in New Eng
land as H,g Haspard. the business of whiel
is to drive stray hogs to pound, and to keel
them out Of the road.
U' The death of an old scout, Jim Beck
worth, is announced on the Laramie plains
His history is said TO have been a most ex
citing and eventtul ole, and he was held il
high respect by the pioneers and frontersmel
Of the Western Territories.
u London publisher announces 9TH,
Lovers Dictionary Poetical Treasure o.
Lovers Thoughts, Fancies, Addresses ant
Dilemmas, indexed for reference as dictiou
sry Of compliments. and guide to the study o.
the tender science."
T At Hebrew Ball. recently held in
Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, q
connoisseur estimated the value of diamonds
at ten millions of dollars, whilst the array oil
female beauty suggested the days of Israeliti
prosperity Of old when the daughters Of Judah
we're the most beautiful women of the world
p A French court has decided that when
railroad fails to transport passengers to q
given point in given time, By the breaking
down Of an engine or any other accident, the
company is bound to pay the expense Of pass
engers who may adopt other measures to reach
their destination.
T A new mechanical excitant of vital &C.
tion is called the "iron treatment" 1t con.
sists in incasing the legs in iron "tights," to
vi ich one or two thousand oscillations per
minute arc communicated by machinery. The
operation sends the blood to the extremities
with almsst intolerable force and heat, and
must be very easily overdone. Governor Nor
ton, Of Indiana, is said to be trying the expert
ment with apparent benefit.
u Some statistical wiseacre, at Lowell,
Mass. expresses fears that the Yankees are
being run out in New England, and quotes q
lot of figures to show that the deaths of na tive
born citizens exceed the births Should the
race ever become extinct, the traditional Yam.
kee will be canonized and worshipped.
u The grand finale of the Mercer expedi.
ton to Oregon. in which several New England
you1g ladies vent out into the wilderness, is
reported by Pacific correspondent to have
been the finding Of . "lodse" by mest of them,
With man in It.
u The Tere Haute Journal SAYS that q
crazy man In the vicinity of that city escaped
from his keepers one vsry cold day last week,
stripped himself Of all his clothes except his
boots, and took run Of nine miles before he
was captured.
UA French court hasjuust decided that the
epithet "female" applied 70 woman eonsti tutes
an insult.
u Aberdeen, Scotland. Is one Of the great
est envelop manufacturing cities in the world.
The extent Of the Aberdeen paper trade may
be gathered from the fact that there are are
Eve paper mills within fifteen miles of the city,
wherest NO fewer than $500 perso M and EN-
ployment-
u It 10 mistake 10 suppose that evsey-