Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-01-27
CURRENT NEWS.

Of France
A Missouri Judge has fined LAWYER $40
for whispering in court.
The New York restaurants, We are told,
are reducing their prices,
Old maids are described as ''embers from
which the sparks have fed,
They have blind man in New York who
can detect counterfeit money.
Not a single member of the Minnesota
Legislature was born in that State.
California figs are driving the Smyrna ar
ticle out of the Pacific market
The Boston Post says, the five leading
bellies at the French Court wear false teeth.
Forty guest were poisoned in Brooklyn
last week, by eating colored candy at party.
Tin ore, rare article in this county, it is
said has been found recently at Winslow,
Maine.
Spain is said to have as many candidates
for king as Gen. Grant has for MS Cabinet
The telegraph is failure in Mexico The
people steal the wires as fast as they are
put up.
The population OF Baltimore is 352, 1876,
Of whom 49, 900 have houses.
The Illinois Legislature is discussing
bill regulating the railroad fare for adults at
three cents per mile.
An acute observer has discovered that the
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in Strengthened circumstances.
Not Guilty, said an Omaha, jury but il
the prisoner is smart he will leave the Ter
ritory before night" He left
A New York girl is said to have refused
an offer of marriage, because her suitor had
the habit of sneezing in his sleep.
''There now, said little girl while rum
aging drawer in a bureau, grandpa has
gone TO Heaven without his spectacle
A Republican paper, to be called the
Daily Commercial, will soon be starts3h
Louisville, Kentucky. with a capitap Of
100000.
A religious paper speaks of church
which pays its choir $4,000 year, while its
A man in New York was recently fined
x25 and cost for building a fire under q
halky horse He didn't make the horse
start.
''Shingle Weddings" have been started in
Iowa to be given by newly married couples
ii they lived together happily for year.
Anthony Trollope says that the capitol
buildings at Harrisburg, Pa, ''are the ug-
hest and most incOnvenient buildings in the
country"
4 single manufactory in Providence is
now turning out eyelets at the rate of 500,
600 day, and the export for year has
amounted to S3,O0O,000 worth.
An Indiana youth put his Christmas can
dy and some torpedoes in the same pocket,
and blew out all his teeth when he tried to
masticate one of the latter
The Newport (R. l. Ne,rs saws there is
n family in that city in which the father is
seventeen years of age, the mother sixteen
and the baby three weeks old.
The congratulations subsequent to we'd
ding ceremony at Rochester the other day
were interrupted by the entrance of depu-
ty sheriff and the arrest of the bridegroom
for breach of promise of marriage.
A Pickpocket in New Orleans stole port
monnie containing few dollars, from q Ia
dy's pocket and by accident dropped in its
place a valuable diamond ring.
Fifteen years ago gentleman sold piece
of land in Des Moines, Iowa for $4,000. A
week ago he bought the same lot from the
person to whome he sold it, at the slightly
advanced price of S27, 900.
The Mongrels of ChiIcothe, Ohio, have
pleasant sensation-a negro deserted his
wife to elope with white girl II lis consid-
cred sign of negro equality.
The girl who wanted to kiss him for his
mother concluded after she got taste that
she'd 60 in on her own account hereafter.
A farmer and his WIFE in Webster, Mas.
have kept house twenty-eight years ana
have never used cooking stove, or any
other kind of stoves. They have adhered
to the noble old fire-places.
1t is singular fact that ladies know
how to preserve their tempers Yet it may
easily be done on the self-sealing principle
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tightly closed
A terrible fire at Philadelphia, on the
morning of 14th inst, destroyed three beau
tiful marble stores on Chestnut Street, in
volving loss of about 81, 1,0O0,O 900. Two
young men (clerks) who were asleep in one
of the stores, perished in the flames.
In London alone $1,000, ,OOO-let us say
S35, 900, 900 gold-are spent in the relief of
distress every year.
Since the death of the Prince Consort of
England, several years ago, Queen Victoria's
private band have had full pay and scarcely
any work; but their holiday is over, as the
Queen now consents to listen to music again.
Boys should be allowed to amuse them
selves-but when it omesto running down
ladies and old gentlemen on the pavement
with sleds, it is rather too much of good
thing
The new rolling mill, abont being erect
ed in Bethlehem, Pa, will employ one thou
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