The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-02-09

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An exhaustive account-One that
beggars description. ~-a4~vfss,
Never run down your Opponents goods
in public. Let him pay for his own adj
vertising.
Persons who teach the art Of riding
velocipedes are called '.velocipeda-
gogues" in Boston, Y.-rlty !.
In California there is one woman to
three men: in Nevada. one to eight; in
Colorado, one to twenty.
A deceased millionaire in Western
city has inscribed on his tombstone, "He
always paid cash."
A Vermont editor says he had pres
ent on Christmas morning, which ''was
not a piano, but it could yell.
People that advertise only once in three
months forget that most folks cannot re-
member anything longer than about sew
en- days.
The Masons claim L $50 900 members
100000 in Great Britain, 100000 on the
continent, 500, 900 in the United States,
and $4,000 in the rest of the world. The
order in England receives 1900 or
stantly increasing, like country news
papers circulation.
Homer is, sdpposed to have been the
first to notice the Grecian bend in the fol-
lowing lines from the tenth book of the
Had: G GMGL f&H 4 a&a3 AFo ale '-..
"Lo here the wretcbed Agamemnon stands,
The unhappy general of,the Grecias bands,
Whom Jove DEGREES With daily cares to bend.
A cynic observes that mind is most
employed in minding other persons
business. IL Ia
The telegraph is failure in Mexico.
The peenls sfeah tes wires saS fast az
they arc putup.
The Liberal Christian says that the
most successful Lobbyists now, in Wash
ington are women. u si'ia1 IoA@
The Republican, Senators voted Is to
8, against any further combinations Of
Johnson's nomipations. =. rrr q
The vaiue 81 last years 8 crops no 81 in Mas.
sachusetts ID estimated At forty millions
dollars.sEg srA mr4la 80 aaSstt)at
The RevsMr.f Mdrray, a young man
recently settled over the Park street
church Boston, startled bis staid parish
toner's the. other Sunday, by inserting a
petition in his prayer that the Lord wo' d
also bless those middle-aged females in
the congregation whose youthful hopes
had been disappointed.
The attachment of some ladies to their
lap dogs, amounts, in some instances, to
infatuation.s WeahAve heard Of . lap
dog biting piece out of q male visit
or's leg. His mistress thus expressed
her compassion: Poor, dear little crea-
ture I hope it will not make him sick =
A lady, who had refused an awkward
but wealthy sutton, said to friend as
he passed: Look at him! Could you
marry. him even II he hsd q carriage and
horses No, indeed replied the 9th
er, mot if he kept . livery stable
The .Attica, Indiana, Ledger says
that silver We discovered in Fountain
county . few days ago. Iron ore has
also been discovered in the same vicini-
ty, which yields forty eight per cent. OF
iron. .rcesj7qoM y TeFasgfisT
The New York Express says: The
New York Tribune, it Is said, divided
one hundred and eighty thousand dol
lar among it6 sharehoadegs during s18-
SO, and its aggregate profits during the
year are said to have been a quarter Of
. million of dollars.
The. quSi6plof the sale and purchase
Of Cuba may be considered settled; for
we are, now as., positively assured the
Spanish Government would not sell the
Island a. Wa aEsop positively sure the
American Government would not buy
it. Spain cannot Afora st9 make the
sale; and we cannot afford to make the
purchase.
Most people think the true value Of q
Rreenback I1s loud by <AedactAgs1he
premium on gold from 100. This, Of
coursa, u a9erref ftke,tee pxtce OF
gold e the divisor, pr Or 166as che
dividend, and the quotisnt will give the
gold value Of the greenback. For ex.
ample. gold u about 1a3. Now By
dividing thu by loo I'VE fhd tkn DOL
lar ereenback WAS worth about "a cents
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