The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-28
was stopping. She sent up her card and re-
quested an interview.
The servant soon returned with a card on
which was traced the significant words 5
SCLSSORINGS.
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False dclicacy-Mock turtle.
A Constant Reader-A subeditor.
The Texas election has been postponed.
Sun spots may now be seen through
smoked glass.
Shipments OF Tennessee marble are passing
through Lynchburg to the North.
Encouragement to crime-whcn wife
asks her husband to shook" her dresses.
Memphis maidens indulge in street fights
| as u recreation.
Senator Guthrie left an estate of $1,000
900 to his three daughters.
Miss Ann E. Surratt has been elected
school teacher at Cumberland, Maryland.
The 1912 style of immense brass coat but
tons is being revived. iig
The fees of the Sheriff of New York are far
greater than the salary ofthe President.
The Navy of the Sandwich Islands con-
sists OF two fishing smacks and a raft.
Geo. H. Pendeton is candidate for
Governor of Ohio.
A Norfolk, Va, girl aged 1s years, has
just become mother.
A Shanghai rooster killed small child in
Kentucky the other day.
One of the converts in the revival at Ames,
Iowa, is lady who is over one hundred
years old.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe proposes to
IS A tf,,ra ff,rG rlct,n nt
Aiken, S. c.
Josh Billings says one live man in vii
lage '.iz like Il case ov itch at district
skool-he sets everybody skratchin at onst."
For young gentlemen, white felt Oxford
hats will be the "genteel thing" this sum-
mer.
A hermit who lived near Davenport, Iowa,
in utter seclusion for about thirty years, died
lately aged rs.
Mynheer Drinkhoff makes distinction
thus: "Too much whiskey is too much, but
too much lager beer is shoost right"
The farmers in the section about Danville,
Va, say there are plenty of tobacco plants,
but they are small.
Monsieur Richotte' of Marseilles, with six
laborers is on the way to Louisiana, where
he proposes TO establish a large grove.
Blue Gown has won the biennial stakes
at New Market Blue Skin, winner of last
years Derby, was second. r.,,,.,
Tom Allen and Mike McCool are to fight
two months hence for $1,000 side and ex-
cursion money. 81.
President Grant, unlike his immediate
predecessor. keeps the Executive Mansion
! closed against visitors on the Sabbath.
A number of citizens of Georgia, who left
for Honduras shortly after the war, have re-
| turned to their old homes.
Mr.. Disraeli bas lost favor with his party,
| from the cold and half-hearted manner in
which lie treated the Irish Church bill.
A boy attempted to unite his shoe with
table fork, at Cincinnati, on Sunday, and
succeeded In putting his eye out.
Savannah, Georgia, is going to have
| be young unmarried men. r
| A lady in Putnam, New York, State has
died of having too many teeth extracted at
once. f r3s ~
Segars which are bought for $50 a thou
s0HSt in UuUa, COST o'er $3.50 in Now Or
| leans.
Two slavers containing one hundred and
fifty slaves, have been captured by the Brit
ish ship Penguin, near Madagascar. 81 ,.:
John Stuart Mill. and other woman suf-
frage advocates in England are expected at
the National Convention, to be held in New
York.
The London Review says that Dickens de-
liberately killed Dora because she could not
cook David Copperfed's dinner satisiac-
toriy.
Frank Blair denies that he is fitting out
an expedition to Cuba His late expedi-
tion up Salt river has fully sated his desire
for travel. s--
A young gentleman who has just mar
ried little beauty, says she would have
been taller, but she is made of such rare
material they couldn't get any more of it.
The heart is six inches in length and four
inches in diameter, and beats seventy times
per minute, 400 times per hour, 1OO,S0O
times per day, 37,77O,O 900 pei year., 81.
.
The Mormons are turning their attention
to the manufacture of porcelain, and have
already produced some specimens which
rival those of France or Prussia.
Prussia is concentrating considerable for.
ces on the. Western frontiers, and orders
have been given bidding tile men to join
their regiments two months earlier than
usual. i@~ 5E.
Professor Newburg thinks from personal
observations in New Mexico that there are
indisputabe evidences that race of civil
lied. peaceful, agricultural people Inhabited
those regions at least thousand years ago
A raptured writer inquiries u" What il
there under heaven more humanizng. or, il
we may use the term, more ange1izing, thar
a fine black eye in lovely woman q" Too
black eyes is the only answer thought of al
| present a,e s,.a,..I !. !, ~.
The German astronomer, Maedler, has
measured the height of 1908 mountains il
the moon. Twenty-Five of these are higher
than Mont Blanc, which is within a few
of being three miles high-six are above 19,
900 feet. The highest observed mountain
in the moon is "a, ,944 feet high. asie't
The Colorado Miner of March 25 SAYS that
the largest piece of silver bullion ever pro
duced in the United States, was recently ia
ken off the cupel, at the Brown Company
works. The weight was 532 pounds Troy
currency value, $4,000. The amount Q
ore run was between 20 and 80 tons.
, Reports are current in London that fresl
supplies of war material have been sent re
Gently to Lille Metz and Strasburg, ant
that tho fortifoot;ope ae fhoco tou,,, -.