The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS,


The reading room of the British Museum
is cooled by steam.
Deer are numerous in counties adjacent
to Petersburg, Va.
Hotel Pelham weighing 5000 tons, is trot-
ting around Boston
Camp meetings are all the rage just now
throughout the States
San Francisco suppresses Chinese bands
by law, the noise is so barbarous.
The popular pets of the Partisan ladies
now are monkeys. That is not the only
place.
The British American provinces are being
annexed by rapid emigration to the United
States.
1t is claimed that warm water, injected
into veins of patients, will cure the Asiatic
cholera.
September is the best month for Virginia
watering places, the scenery being enchant-
niger than in dog days.
Philadelphia has no water and Boston
has too much af it. Both seem to think
they are seriously situated.
Fifty thousand dollars month has been
saved to the government by the reduction
of the working force in the Treasury Depart
IN ent.
James NJ Cavanagh, delegate in Congress
from Montana Territory, has arrived in
Washington to ask for troops to protect his
country from Indian hosti!ities next winter.
Within ten miles of Ithaca, N Y. there
are over $50 waterfalls, nine of which are
over 100 feet high. These are situated in
thirty superb ravines, in the midst of the
grandest rock scenery.
The American champion drinker is Mrs.
Mulligan, who recently testified in New
| York police court that she "wud drink wish
| ky agin lager wild any man and carry him
| to the stashun house as sober as policeman
so she wud."
Nineteen million dollars is the sum to
which young milliner of Fort Edward, N.
| Y, is reported to have fallen heir. She can
afford to hold the ribbons" gracefully over
| the choicest of lords and masters, with this
| clever windfall in her possession.
The Quakers are success among the
Indians of Kansas, according to the Law
renee journal. The great secret, before they
arc Christianized, is to feed them well.
"Texas beef and bacon, sugar and coffee,
and a generous supply of tobacco, are great
civilizersn
Judge Nathan Sargent, Commissioner OF
Customs, writes an opinion that Congress
has no legal power to change the location Of
the National Capt. !, the District of Colum.
bia having been coded to the United States
[" for the permanent scat of government
and the land having been sid to the gov.
ernment on condition that it should be the
the permanent seat of government.
r. The following advertisement is from a re-
cent New York paper: "If you want really
pure, unsophisticated family pill buy DR.
Rs livcr-cncouraging, kidney pursua-
ding, silent perambulator-twen in
box. This pill is as mild as pet lamb
and as searching as smal-tooth comb. II
don't go fooling about, but attends strictly
to business, and is as certain as an alarm
clockn
A reporter of the Chicago Rep u5lican in
tcrviewed the Chinese merchants on theil
return after their visit to New York, and as
certalned that they had been astonished al
the greatness and splendor of that city
With all their expectation of seeing II won
derful city, they were not at all prepared fol
such sight as they witnessed. They wert
chiefly impressed with the immense bushes.
blocks, and the energy and enterprise dis
played by the business men.