The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-10-12


81: PauPs fur trade has amounted
10 half a million dollars within the PAST
year. Sixteen thousand m uskrat skins
were one item.
There have been sixteen cases Of sui
eide in Lowell, Mess within s months,
mostly OF young girls.
The Medical Faculty of Pats have
recently conferred the degree Of doctor
Of medicine upon three ladies', aFrench
woman, a Russian and an American.
Boston people live to a good old age
In his address at the Springfield Jubi-
lee on Wednesday, the Hon C r Ladd
said that the recollections OF the Boston
festival would be cherished for humid
reds of years by all who participated
The old men of Portland, Me, whose
age ranged from G5 to9 90, had an ex
cursion and clam~bake recently They
amused themselves and created an APP
petite by leap-frog and such amuse-
ments, and after dinner they organized
themselves into an Aged Brotherhood
Boston estimates the capital employ
cd in the hide and leather business in
Massachusetts at $4,000, 900. The
amount of sales last year reached $685.
600 900, and during the same period
about 10000 foreign hides were i'm
port ed into Boston.
A Western paper thus does up q re
cent incident in immortal verse, and
the Hartford Courant reproduces it: 4
told you story about Mr. Borie, and
then my story begun. how his beautiful
daughter saved Reeves from the water,
and now my story's undone-for Borie
hasn't any daughter s~
Two hundred negroes are said TO be
studying for the priesthood in Rome.
That is sign that if the Pope is
shrcwd propaganda, he is certainly
not bad humanitarian. These colored
men are intended for their brethren in
the South. to whom Rome's first argu-
mert Is that il has educated two hund-
red of their kind.
"Ah, Jenny" said sympathizing
friend to q man who was just too late
for the train, "you did not run fast E.
nough." Eyes, did, replied Jem-
my; "but didn't start soon enough"
"Dr. Parr," said young student to
the old linguist, ''let's you and l write a
book" '.very WE'LL replied the Doc
tor, .'put in all that know, and all that
you don't know, and well make a big
ouc.'
Alearned lady, the other evening, as
tonished the company by asking for the
sloan of diminutive argentine trunca-
tive cone, and convex on its summit;
and semiperforated with symmetrical
indentations." She wanted = thimblc.
Coon ApvICs.-In walking always
turn your toes and thoughts outward
The former will prevent you from fall
ling into cellers. and the latter will pre-
ven. you from falling into iniquity.
AN EPIrArH
Here lies man who loved the simple truth
Az upright man has fallen low torsooth!
HIS virtues-hold! what ca his friends say mores
Here lies at length who never lied before.
Senator Sherman, in recent speech
in Ohio. said that when q law student he
took Tom Corwin in a buggy from
Mansfield to Bucyrus, and that he was
then full of enthusiasm for him and his
speeches, and the Wing party. But Mr..
Corwin said to him: My young friend,
attend to your law, keep out of politics
and above all doat make any stump
speeches. What say is written upon
the sand
An intoxicated New Yorker was
knocked down by the cowca.cher Of an
engine in Hartford, Conn.,, on Monday,
and the engine and tender passed over
MIN. The train was stopped, and the
conductor fastened back to pick up the
dead body, but the drunken fellow was
found 10 be very lively and outside the
track, having by some means been
thrown out between the tender and bag
gage car, and the first words he spoke |
we're, I'm make you pay for scratching |
ny ankle in this way, darn you
StAat is that Q man does not want, |
80 ses0Gsaes against having as long as |
pc4ole, p1t which, when he once gets
~ - vog5 not part with for all the /
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