The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New kind of backgammon--The pan
nier. ... ..-... 81 s--..f
MAzzINI expects to live until the +" Re-
public of the United States Of Europe" is
proclaimed. .
THE Boston Ad0ertiser SAYS philsnthro-
pists generally approve Of the new plan of
dosing with ohlorOform criminals aboutto
be executed.
TUE crowd is so great at DR. John Halls
church in New York, every Sunday, that
pew holders have to hang out tickets
bearing the word Taken" like those at
the theatre.
AT the Rornish Church at Stradbroke,
England, few Sundays ago, an enter
prising youth forbade the publication of
the banns of his mothers second mar
riage on the ground that she was too old.
2 al MEANT to have told you of that
hole, said a gentleman to his friend who
was walking with him in his garden, and
stumbled into pit full of water. "No
natter said the friend, blowing the
mud and water out of his mouth, "TVe
found it." ,.l ........ ..... ..'...f f.
A SOUTH CAROLINA editor, who con-
fesses himself bachelor, congratulates his
brethren of the celibate state on the
close of leap year, and their escape from
the peculiar danger which threatens such
wretches during that period.
ONE of the New Haven pastors lately
received letter through the Post Office,
desiring him to prepare lecture on tenn
perance. Fol" the writer asserted, al
am an excellent extemporaneous speaker
if have my lecture written for me"
GENERAL PRIM's Christmas present
from certain royalist was magnificent
box, with silver key attached Being
opened by his wife during a grand recep-
tion, it WAS found to contain a miniature
gallows, with an eff1gy of the General, re-
markably well executed, pendant
A PHILADELPHIA surgeon, who was on
his way to perform an operation on
patient had his carriage robbed and lost
his surgical instruments while making
temporary stop, whereby" adds the re.
porter ''the operation was prevented and
the patients life saved"
A MAN in East Hartford, Conn, disliked
the order of the authorities to have fine
tree in front Of his premises cut down He
couldn't resist, of course, but he drove
spikes into the trees trunk from the ground
give it up as a bad job. M 4.7
CALIFoRNIANs do not seem to appreciate
Velocipedes. One Of them says: "How
would man who has felt his blood stirred
by q .ten-mile dash in California saddle
feel on finding himself trundling through
the streets like a school boy We would
as soon think Of riding broom handle or
rocking hobby horsen
A Rocky MOUNTAIN paper publishes an
obituary Of JIM Chief OF the Washoe
Indians. It says that he was "good,
though very dirty,re man. He possessed
well-balanced head of hair, and stomach
enough for al he could get to eat. His
regard for the truth was notable-he never
meddled with it. He left no will, and his
estate consisted of pair Of boots
ARCHBISHOP SPAULDING, Of Baltimore,
has issued an order forbidding the indis
criminate attendance Of persons in the
churches to witness marriage ceremonies,
and hereafter no one will attend except
ing by card of invitation from the parties
interested. This is deemed necessary on
account Of the levity and improper con-
duct Of curiosity-seekers on recent occa-
sions. aa
A CANARY bird in Rochester, N. Y, has
been taught to sing yankee Doodle"
Though occasionally interrupted in his
strains by few notes of his native music,
yet he shows his patriotism by falling
back on Yankee Doodle" which he pre-
fers. His performance is SO exact that
one in another room, nearing it, would at
once recognize the tune, and suppose that
some one was Whistling it,
HoRAoE MANN used to tell a story Of
conversation he once had with an inmate
of the lunatic asylum at Worcester,
Mass, whose peculiar mania resulted from
an inordinate development Of the bump Of
selEesteera, "What's the newsS Has
anything unusual happened of late, sir 2"
inquired be, with consequential sir.
MI M. happening TO recollect that furi
GUS storm had occurred few days preyi-
ons, gave him some account Of II, men.
tioning that on the sea,coast II was very
severe, several vessels having been driven
ashore and wrecked, with the loss Otmany
| lives "Can you remember, sir what
night Ia the week all that happened
eagerly inquired tho listener MT. Mann
said he believed 1t was the night Of Tues
day. Ahln said The lunatic, with an air
of solemnity, mingled with til mph, and
! lowering his voice to o whisper, can
account for Il, siEl That y tha nigat
whistled 90. u must be more esFeipi y
the future !"