The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-23
VARIETIES.

Georgia grows the tallest men in the
United States; New York averages the shortest
IA ballet is preparing at St. Petersburg IN
which the stage represents pianoforte Key
board upon which the danseuse goes through
her steps.
An indianapolis financier proposes to ex-
tinguish the public debt by substituting Treas
ury notes for bonds, and keeping them IN
circulation till they wear out
Brigham Youngs theatre has produced
s:Grihith Gaunt" The moral, of course, IS
that Griffith should have emigrated to Utah
and enjoyed both wives in peace.
"A circus proprietor, whose show was
seized for debt in Cincinnati. claimed his per-
forming mules as his homestead. hut the Judge
did not regard them in that light.
A man in Illinois has invented a spring to
be attached to the feet by which person Is
relieved of the labor of walking to great ex-
tent He claims that his invention will enable
q man to walk ten miles an hour with ease.
--sProfessor," said student in pursuit OF
knowledge concerning the habits OF animals,
sswhy does cat, while eating, turn her head
first one way and then the other?" For the
reason" replied the Professor, "that she can
not turn it both ways at once"
"A materialist surgeon OF Paris lately show
ed to one of his friends one Of his instruments
the handle of which was carved in bone. "Do
YOU know" he asked, ''of what this handle Is
made ?. 'Of ivory, suppose" ''No," said
the doctor, while tears almost choked his
voice. sit is the thigh-bone Of my poor aunt"
The authoress OF EAST Lynne, tMrs.
Henry wood) speaks in her last novel, "Ro-
land Yorke," of ''the neutrality-suspicious.
concealed caren Of Roland's face, which brings
to mind Miss Barney's remarks on 'the-sud-
den-at-the-moment-thou from-lingering-iu-
ness-often-previously- death Of Mr..
Barney's wife.
in the Supreme Court Of the District Of Co.
lumbla, objecnon was made to an interlinea-
ton in an indictment, the instrument having
been written in black ink, and the Interpolation
in blue ink. Judge Carter said: snow. in
this period of the abolition of all distinction on
account of color. it appears to me that this
criticism is hypercritical."
The Sun, describing new hotel in Filth
avenue, New York, says: "The walters are OF
ineffable elegance, and or an intellectual cast
of counte eaance. They look like graduates OF
Harvard. They wear two clean shirts and
two white chokers day, and change their
aprons three times an hour. A spot on a
bosom or crease in tic involves instant dis
missal.
"A Chicago paper tells story Of election
night. which Il thinks shows the enterprise OF
Young Chicago "A party Of boys were seen
getting together the materials for bonfire.
When they were asked what was the news,
they replied that they had none. 1--WE don't
dabble in politics. We built the fire so that
when the news comes we can sell it out to the
side that beatsr.
A short time ago a close-fsted farmer on
the Sandy River, in Maine, died, after devising
one dollar to his only son. The old gentle
man was duly buried in the venerable church.
ward. which suffered terrible washing away
by the late flood, and short time ago his
body was found opposite the sons place, haV-
gbeen brought down the river long dis
tance. When the tender-hearted son was in
formed of the fact, nc made the touching re-
mark: ssProbably come back after that dol
lar"
One Of the simplest and best cures for
stammering is to beat time with the thumb
upon the. forefnger before commencing to
speak, and while speaking. One is then
almost obliged to speak rythmically and dis
tinctly. Another so-called. certain cure con-
slsts merely in the frequent and rapid pronun-
citation, with due emphasis, of the following
gibberish: Hobbs meats Snobbs and Nobbs;
Hobbs mods to Snobbs, and robs Nobbs fobs;
that, says Hobbs, is the worse fc.' NobbS' fobs,
and Snobbs sobs
-SSAiss Laura Keenes company, atthe Chest
nutstreet Theatre, in Philadelphia, is playing
q drama entitled Bogus" which is highly
successful, in spite Of the critics, who say that
there is not particle Of merit in it. But as it
il announced to run for some time, it is sug-
gested that little variety might be made by
giving all the women's parts to men, and the
mems parts to women, for few nights, and
then to give fresh impetus to the play by
varying tile order Of the aots, beginning some
times at one end, sometimes at the other, and
then, In the middls-all of which they think
can be done without injury to the consecutive
sense Of the play.
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