Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-07-02
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large.
SAILOR collars are the new fashion for la
dies.
Americans are orOwdiug Jerusalem this
season.
THERE is but one licensed hotel in Tioga
county.
In Atlanta there is woman who weighs
728 pounds.
Mr.. Peabody has expended in gifts seven
million dollars.
A New York hotel is being erected at a
cost Of s., 900, 600
One-eighth of the whole population Of the
globe is military.
THERE are S642 languages spoken and
1000 different religions in the world.
Twenty four persons have disappeared
nysteriously from New York in the last
two weeks.
Kansas City has young lady somnam-
bulist who takes midnight drives in her
night clothes.
In Salt Lake persons are fined ten dol
lars for being drunk, and twenty dollars for
profanity, Good
A gentleman died in Chicago last week
leaving life insurance policies to the amount
ofsl5O,oOO.
Gen. Hamilton, in his canvass for the
GoveFnorship of Texas, declares that if elect
ed he will never pardon fairly convicted
criminal.
QUEEN CHRISTINA having returned to
Paris, the happy family of Spanish Bour-
bons is at present in full feather at the
French capital Christina is rich enough
to buy out all the planters of Cuba, but she
displays a remarkable energy in retaining
the mony which she took away from Spain
THE ENGLISH PAPERS are making fun
of Bull Run Russell letters descriptive
of the Prince Of Wales tour in Egypt. In
one of them he says: 'As there we're no
other asses to be found, the Duke Of South
erland, Colonel Truesdale, Colonel Mar
shall and myself were obliged to trudge on
foot"
THE VICE President having telegraphed
to San Francisco that she, the said San
Francisco, was nov united to the East by
ties that.can never be destroyed. A California
paper begs leave to correct. 1t assures
Schuyler that green cottonwood ties are
quite destructble. Tally one for the
Pacific slope.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON thinks that if
woman is to vote, she must have a decent
place to deposit her vote 1.-THE State, " he
says, must build houses instead of dirty
rooms and corner shops; the State must
build palaces and halls in which women
can deposite their votes in the presence of
their sons, and brothers, and fathers. The
effect Of that reform upon the general
voting Of the State all can feel I"
4 NARROW EsCAPE.-At New Haven,
last week, as little girl three years old was
looking out of window of third story
house she lost her balance and fell Quite
number of persons saw her fall and expect
ed that she would be dashed in pieces on
the pavement below But, very fortunate
ly, the loop Of the child's shoe string caught
upon the blind fastener, and she hung in
that position until a man who saw her
frighdul condition could run from the street
upstairs and take her in 1t was very
narrow escape from instant death
BoUGHr SOME Real EsTATE.-The smallest
lot on record, and the most extravagant one,
was sold in New York city lately The i'm
provements on Portland street were to cut
through a corner lot, perhaps half its depth,
and the man who owned the next lot thought
it would be fair chance to widen his own by
buying the remainder He asked the owner
what he would sell the margin for, whatever
it might be when the street was carried
through. One hundred dollars was asked
and paid, and the purchaser was delighted
with the thought of his bargain. When the
improvements were finished, the lot was ex-
acty three inches wide and thirty long.
AT the late meeting of the Presbytery,
when the subject of Scripture was under
discussion, Brother w. said early in his
ministry be and another brother were CON
Quoting meeting in which .here was much
religious interest. An old man gave ex
preston to his joy by shouting, and contin-
ued it until it began to interrupt the scr
vices Brother H. said to Brother W,
go stop that old man noise He went
to him and spoke a few words, and the
shouting man at once became quiet Broth
er w. asked Brother H., ''What did you
say to the old man that quieted him so
promptly ?" Brother II. replied, Iasted
him for a dollar for foreign na,sdioas.
ANNA DICKINSON, in her spread on
Nothing Unreasonable, :" says that politics
to-day means an indecent scramble for Office,
where every man is for himself and the
devil takes the hindmost As for the fore
most, they are already safe in his hands.
All this would imply a virtuous disinclina-
ton to Office on the part Of the disfranchised
Anna, did she not assure us in the very
next breath that she herself expects to be
member of Congress in ten years. Gentle
Annie seems very desirous, if any 'inde-
cent sorambles are going on, to take part
in them. She should remember that if she
is "hindmost" in the scramble the devil
will take her, and if she is fitted to be fore
most therein, then she is already safe in
his hands"
A NEW ORLEANS paper describes a per
son who, during the day, wanders aimlessy
about the streets of that city and has done
so for many years. No one knew what bis
business was or how he lived The writer
of the article which speaks of him says that
the other morning he happened to go out
quite early and found that this man earned