, 1869-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS.


d.ys sgo, was eee5 ooo. Six years ago the paper
sold for SO 0su. |
4 wealthy and benevolent citizen Of phlladelphls
has determined to establish there q free bl1htag |
house for the accommodation Of the poor.
AngurtDg fellow computes that the hands OF |
naRazile readers IN this country travel 1880 |
mics scar IN cutting the leaYes. |
\ 3oupR woman hiss been admitted 10 the |
cou1sc Of incd.ca. stndies in the Medical College
Al Salem, Ottgo1.
4 VhlatIelphls paper SAYS that It rain does not
come socu, the Schuylkl nsh xtl be s@,mmIut; |
round With tn cups IN thc!r mouths, begging for
tit:ns-
man whose wife hung herself IN his presence,
On being asked Why be did not prevent the ira |
gedy, replied, II cut her dowu three tines Last
week, md can't be al.cays cutting her down"
3Irs- John S, Jones carried fire In an old-fash. |
toncd footetore, fro, Durham to strAnofu, n IL,
sixty three years ago, and from that day to this
lhnt Ire has never been permitted to 90 out.
Race horses sometimes have queer names.
England has "p!g Prisoner" This country
once had "Ctuti oyste.s;" aud England formerly
contained "Sa!t Fish, " whose owner, when aucs-
,1nri uhy he gave lis horse such = name, replied,
becaust II was good 1o1 a "fast day.
Judge Hoffman, Of the United States District
Court for California, In land case tried the other
day In San Francisco, dectdet that the venerable
names or John Doe anA Richard Roe can only be
Used In complaint alter due and dlseut, Blu: In
c.!rctIal, effort 10 ascertain tlc tue name Of
defendant.
The Macon GAY Telegraph learns that the
stalks, 's,lls aud squares IN the bra Of cot
ton belonging 10 Maior L. f. Johnston. near En-
fauEa+ hare teen counted within the last few days:
aud that h5 close mathematical calculation, The
arre WILL yield 3roin I'VE to .seyen 4sv-pourd
bales OF cotton.
A shocking crime was perpet1ated nea: the d.
sidsrg line Of Tendlctou and Gran, Counties, Ky.,
the n0rnlEQ Of the 18th. Three young men seized
two married ladies' and girl Of Il yearsr and yto-
lated tter persons, ca1siughe death Of the child.
THIS outrage caused g1ear excitement In the
vicinity, an'l parfy, ssh ropes, started In pursuit
OF the crtmlnRs.
4 Ctlnaran recently delivered lecture IN
Troy, IN which he defended the Chinese custom
Of epmpFeaslnG the feet Of women. The feet Of
the Ca.nese ladies' are compressed in much The
same nanner, he supposed, a. the European L.
dies 1educe the size OF their waists, mud he de-
clarvd II his opinion that it Is no more p7,uiD
to compress tue feet than # Is thet1a.st.
Mrs. John Henry Wills arrived nt New YORK on
The ee,h In search Of her n1fsitnful husband She
had followed him from England 10 Australia, frora
| there to ShAnRasl thence to tho Cape Of Good
| uope. and from there TO America Arriving at
| New York she learned thst he had Just LEFT lot
china. ueart-broAen, she applied to the city
authorities Tor help.
! The burglars Of Sew York, who, as a matter ct
business, remain IN the Gift In orucr TO Improve
| the opportunity Of rubbtng tho houses OF thu,p
| who go away to the watering places, male the
great hanl Of the seasop, on the 2s.h. IN carrying
away slo,oooln slver-plate and leTelry, from the
| residence OF Mr. Albert SchancE, at Fort Wush-
1ngton
A yourg man In Ncwbaryport, Mass. prepared
for his wedding, which was to have taken place
on Sunday Lust. by purchasing barrei Of beer for
his f,!euds- The remozseiess sete Constable,
however, seized the beer. and tho yonng man ac-
tua!lJ refused to hare the wedding performed TIL
lcss he conld hare tho llquor. The lady In the
case Is consequently experiencing the pain Of
hope deferred.
The Duenos .aSres correspondent OF the New
Tork Herald, IN Writing Of the war IN Paraguay,
says the women and children who arc met ~ the
allies adYnnce are pttul objects. They arc often
found grouped in hundreds, md even LII thou
sands, without houses or shelter except under the
trees, nearly naked, Yearly starving, and Invaded
! by all the tl!seaseA that cluster around poverty
! anu nHh.
| ~ a rnn~4o.tan Thata Ilo1tA Chi Frater,
nity, held IN New York, IN MaJ as,, It wa. osdtr-
cd tint q periodical should be pabltshel In the
Interest Of college societies. One number has
been issued more as an introduction than ~ a
specimen cor5 Of what it |, proposed to accom-.
|
about s,ttt snb=czlbcts, III tweut5.four colle8cI
and universities, AMI In every profession. The
College Eriet- Ttn be Published monthly. and viii
commence with sixteen pages Of about the size Of
| Ihe Walton.
A New York letter tells the following: "one oi
ctr banks has not been doing yety well. Some Of
our shrcwdest bankers had moro stock IN the con-
cern than they wanted, They adopted shrcwd
scheme 10 raise tho price Of stock aud sell out.
] Thn tp.J1x 1xat fhm pmt1tp 10 inv
I pcslta to the bank, and tho City Chamberlain to
remove the immense funds OF the city from the
Broadway Bank to tho bank in question. With
such q lit the feeble Institution went up With a
bound. Bur Is quarter Of . million Of the stock
WIS transferred 1n one block, II WIZ not dlt1cult
in the public estlnatiou to account for the trans
fer. Financial gentlemen In New York don't
serve their fellow -ncn Tor nauShL''
Passengers from Dresden, Tenn, report that, OF
| Tuesday evening last. negro man wns seen sns
pended from tcce, On the line Of the railroad,
| ucar that place. Under the place Where he Wa
| hanging sst his mother, weeping. Attached Il
the rantaioons Of the swinging boy WAS carl, or
which was written, IN aleefhle hand. words can
ttontng the pasSer.bY from cutting him down, aui
lptImatipg, in strong terM5, that the man who In
. tertc1ed woul! sul.er the Sane ta:e II was IN
dcrstood IN the neIghboshood that tho victim hat
i committed rape on the daughter Q! widow
! dy,lE1ng near, and that he WAS hanged for tat
| crime: tal no one seemed to know anything apou
! thu hanging.
R.ssiau peasant la;ely applied toa St, Peters
I | lur9h book publisher for employment lie snt
| his name was Ivan Pron1n; that he lived Ia tnt
district Of Jaros1ay on the Tolca, some lc5 mile
northeast OF Moscow; that he owned piece 0
ground. which he cultivated with his Own hands
and that he would work as a translator from th
English, Spanish, French, German anil 1tn,la1
i languages. And, 10 the astontshment Of tn
bookseller, the peasant Was found critically "a
; IniIar With ali tntse languages, having 1eafnc<
. them by means o! gt2mtnass and dictionaries, Il
his leisure hours after his day 8 work in tie nei
! | lie was Immediately employed, n1d repTed
! | most efficient and elegant translator.
The London kanc.s, tn speaking Of " the womel
Of the PERIOD whom 1t describes as "a race @
ch1orOstc Efls acting wives, 2nh inefficient no.h
ers," says that "Thc scsofulous, consumpftye
, dys7tpttc, rimpled women, who crowd physlcisns
, whiting reol1s and swallow every advertised rem
, | cuy, from ratr's Pills 10 Pancreatic Emulsion
, would be strong, vigorous and healthy, aud nee.
: no medicine at ail- II they followed feT siuFl
: directions These are: To allow the!r own hal
: 10 bc Just tounh down Al \ natural covering Il
, their heads when out Of doors; to ciothe thel
: bodies scnbhly, without r.nchlnR themselves bid
eo1.st into unnatural shapes; 70 wear we1!-saape
boots. Ia which they might walk comfortably an
taasc the pleasure OF cxcTct1e."
In the hamlet Of Surnes, tn Carlow County, 1rc
: ! land, t*e eufy.swo families, numbering oSer Gu
hundred and twenty persons, old tenants mostly
holding under middle men, aud remarkable 70
tDslustry, eonE!cty and runcsnalty IN the raymcn
Of rent, hare, upon the dcaih Of the person o,
Hhoke lHe ths:r teAke5 depended, been turned NJ
Of house and home. One morning, Two ha!ItGA-
she11 End eight policemen, armed With r,ae4, nm
rcofc' the cabins and tl.uve ous the Inhabitants
take refuge In t,iiches, sheds and under teuporar
| structures Into one old COW. housr. on the inn