The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-11-07
MrscELr.ANEors ITEAIs.
New York has 900 liitery shops.
Hi9h honaes ara ulasily empty ii

HiEh bOnses are uHSHs fNfPtS ~
M upper st9rNa
Rcversibis dresses are the latcst
! novelty f9r ipdies,
4 Apples keep perfectly when pack
ed with dried leaves.
Abyssinia IL to send gymnasts to
New Iork.
Russia has the finest hot honses In
the world.
The French wine crop will be /.
5S4 900 gallons
Horses sell for ten cents apiec,' III
some parts Of Australia.
Programmes Of the music are dis
tributed In some London churches.
ChicaRo's shoe manufacturing bus
mess Il growing In Importance.
Not ono literary man ID fifty en-
Toys good health In this country; but
1t Is quite the reverse In Great Brit
ain.
| A frlRhtful thunderstorm bufsi
over party in the White Mountains
one day last week, and one lady per-
lshed from exposure, exhaustion, and
fright,
An insane woman in philadelphia
threw her infant grandohild from
Iseeond-story window, and IL was ia-
tally injured by the fall.
New York Journals advise rustic
youths to remain OF home, Il they
can possibly live there, and not rll
CRATE to the metropolis to starve.
An undertaken in Utica had to bu
nv one Of his debtors. He got him
snugly into the grave, but refused h.
| fill III the earth until the weeping
| family settled the claim, which they
ibid.
| An indignant orator at recent p9-
litlcal meeting, in rcfutiug an oppo-
nent, thundered. Mr.. Chairman, /
scorn the allegation, nd'dsfy the al
llgator.n
/ A largelynx was killed In Bucnan
an county, Icwa, few days ago. hy
q girl 10 years old, who dispatched
4 tbs animal with q corn cutter When
it had nearly conquered two dogs.
Alta Vermont agricultural fair they
have baby team,n consisting OF
three calves yOked to a small cart,
driven by a little boy six years old,
and bearing three little girls. They
are said to go around the race-traolc
in fine style.
Among the convicts In the Iowa
State Prison are nine graduates Of
colleges, one Of them an ex-elergy.
man, and some Of them excellent
scl-ola Among the books furnish
ed them foR reading we noticed Lat
in, Greek and Hebrew, whlOlp they
read iuently.
Last week some workmen IN the
repair-shops of the Louisville and
Nashville Railrosd, at Louisville.
were engaged in repairing the end OF
an old box or freight car, when one
of them discovered rats nesl y In
the lining Of the car. Upon stirring
up the nest, he discovered and poek
eted five 500 bills, three Of which
were interest-bearing notes.
A German philosopher announces
} that as the globe cont nues to cool
of, by subsidence of internal fires,
1t shrinks, and shrinks, aud w,ll
ultimately become so very small that
only few millions Of people will be
able to live on it, So that billion
or 50 Of us will have to be wiped out.
OF course, hoop-skirts will not be TOD
Grated ia those days.
Kit Burns won'tallow the mission
aries to use his rat-pit longer than
! the hour for which It is hired. Phe
other day the brethren ling sred lit
tie too long, when he entered the
!, place and said, Now you praying
fellows, / want you to clear out, anu
,, il any persons would like to see how
! we kill rats they can stay on paving
Z twenty-five eenfs.n
: In celebrating Franklin's birthday
! at Buffalo, the printers had "a good
i time,p and among others the follow.
! ing toast was drank: Printersl
! wives-May they always havea plen-
, ty of SMALL CAPS for the heads of
i their title original drticles.n
q Alta recent tableau party, the scene
/. of Bluebeard's dead room was shown
s --siX pretty heads all bloody. sus-
: pended along the wall, the bodies, OF
n course, being behind the canvas. Az
e the curtain descended, one Of the
+ heads was observed to smile. Ii was
: afterward ascertalned that some one
e had stolen behind the scenes and
o kissed the hand Of one Of the wives.
: A young woman In Alexandra,
= Va, whose parents had refused lley
I, permission to attend the ball Of 4
! Friendship Fire Company last week,
as the frant-door of her house was
locked, jumped from the seeond-story
window, and repairing to q neigh.
!. boris, where she had before sent hel
4 ball-dress, attired herself, and partic
: ipated in the forbidden festivitr 2
A youngster, In Peoria recently, IL
exploring his sisters things, cam,
a. across q package Of letters duly ties
4 up and laid away, being a correspon
4. denee which she was carrying on witt
q a hice young man. He carried then
IL down on the street, and @eanding oi
o. q corner, gave them away Singly [,
"a the passers-by. The young lad,
didn't find it out until mutRa
a friend, also a nice young man. .brongh
4 her one that her brother had thu
!" given him.
D There is agood story told Of Frenc
to auditor of accounts, who, besides b,
OF AuS = Aieftb pfhCblcdA IOtAeE dll MS III
played trick after he had lost III
i'd power Of enjoying it. He left fot
2, large candles to be carried at his +,
ed neral, and they had not been burnin
fifteen minutes before they went D
mt as fireworks.
DIS A maiden lady Of New York hl
ad made will in which she bequeatl
all her property to a religious corB
ng ration, to build church. She fu
re thermore directs her executor,
ne due process Of time, to use her du
ne and entire remains to make mort
~ with which to lay the cornerstone.
NJ. A married woman ia Minneso
~ ran away with d particular friend
era her husband, the latter pursued al
ara overlook the pair at Waseca, ii
lsis bloodshed was expected; but Il
husband only wanted his watch al
en- $3.50 in money which his wife h
Ia carried of. He got the watch al
re- half Of the money, and then wishii
the runaways good luck, went ha
On home TO institute proceedings for