The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-23

attachment OF the little ulysses 10
horses. He must have had a mare for
a wet nurse.
A wet weather joke from New Hamp-
shire: "Robert Batchelder, of Sails
bury, has flock Of twenty eight sheep, |
which during the winter were housed IN
a place where their wool became filed |
with hay seed. They have been out to
pasture for several weeks past, and the
excessive wet weather has caused the
seed to sprout, and they are now bearing
about with them crop of grass two
inches in length"
The way in which Democratic papers
propose to treat Gen. Grant, the great
American soldier, may be inferred From
the following, which We copy from the
New York World:
This man has been nominated for
President by the Chicago Convention.
Pleasant, Ohio, April q, 1922, entered
West Point in 1887, graduated in 1s43,
Second Lieutenant, and resigned in
1852, Captain. In 1854 was applicant
for clerkship to the Prothonotary OF
St. Louis; the application was rejected
''for the want of capacity" He then
went to Galena, and became a tanner.
In August, 1861, he entered the Federal
army as a captain, was transferred to
the regular service, where he still re-
mains.
| Schuyler Colfax comes of good rev
olutionary stock His grandfather, Gen
ing officer of General Washington's life
guards throughout the struggle for ma
tional existence. His grandmother was
Hester Schuyler, a cousin of General
Phillip Schuyler.
1 A monster cannon, presented by the
Sultan to Queen Victoria has been re-
ceived at Woolwich arsenal The balls
| accompanying it are of granite, and
! weigh $50 pounds each. They are sim
lar to those described in Gibbons Rise
| and Fall of the Roman Empire as be-
ing used by Mahomet II, at the sieg ge of
| Adrianople, in 1853.
One of the young members of the
French legation at Washington, hard
pushed for compliment to fair young
lady whose face was marred by an un-
deniably fiat nose, remarked: MADAM.
you are an angel fallen from heaven,
but you fell on your nose.'
The seventeen year Locusts are max
ing considerable noise in this vicinity.
The usual w is seen on their wings,
said by the superstitious to mean war"
Some of the colored people say they
have w on one wing and N on the 9TH
er, which they interpret to mean ''war
on the nigg err" and they are somewhat
exercised in their minds in consequence
w ash Star
PIcK Up THE BRAIN.-An Eastern ex-
change says a good joke is told of
young man who recently attended
social circle. The conversation turned
on California and getting rich. Tom
--remarked that if he was in Cali
/ fornia, he would, instead of working in
the mines. waylay some rich miner who
had a bag full of gold, knock out his
brains, gather up the gold and skedad
die, One of the young ladies quietly
replied that he had better pick up the
brains, as he evidently stood in more
need of that article than of gold. Tom
subsidized.
Rynders says Hancock was the Mar
shal Ney of the Northern army. Let
him be nominated for President by the
Democracy. then. The people will go
Nay, every time.
Brick Pomeroy says that none of the
employees of his office, numbering be
tween fifty and one hundred, use intoxi-
eating drinks as a beverage. and hut
! few SO far forget themselves aud the de
pertinent of gentleman as to use pro-
fame or vulgar language Brick prefers
to do all the drinking, swearing, and
vulgarity Of the concern himself
BEER VERSUS BREAD.-The amount of
, nutriment contained in beer is generally
greatly over estimated. Liebig asserts
that in one thousand four hundred and
sixty quarts of the best Bavarian beer
there is exactly the nourishment Of an
ordinary two and half pound loaf Of
bread. This beer is about on par with
our best American beer. Instead of be.
ing a condensation of nutriment con-
tanned in the grain. in just so far as the
liquid has undergone fermentation, the
nourishment has disappeared.--Journa
The Kentucky statesmen are divided
/ on the Presidency McCreery and Da