Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-07-20

VIVA 10 Nv" SJoJ'h6 "'"y
wat," tho contest being about connec-
tiols with the Pacific Railway.
A BoLp boy in Missouri bites Of the
heads of raltlesnskes for the trifing
c%opsideration of u dollar per snake.
A YOUNG woman in Michigan has
applied for a divorce after H pro,racted
welded life Of exactly two weeks.
A SCHOOL Girl under nm examination
in Psalms, on being asked, What is
the pestilence that walketh In dark
ness? p replied, "Bed.bugs, SIR"
For a lady to sweep her carpet with
embroidered undersleeves would be con-
sidered indecently dirty, but to drag the
sidewalks with her skirts seems to be
genteol.
An editor Of a. newspaper in Iowa
says be has got n hat (pluG) which has
been 10 fashion II times since he owned
It, and out again the same number of
times.
THE leader In the Charleston Courier
on the morning Of the 9th inst. was
about "The Day We Used 10 Cello
brate."
INDIANA has decided in Court that n
man having moro white than negro
blood iu bis veins 10 entitled 10 q vote
in that State.
THs New York Times reports that
large number, of boys are now arrested
in that city for thieving, and thinks
that " Satan seems to DO around loose
among the boys"
A NAN in Adair county, Iowa, has 10.
vented n cannon which he claims will
throw a projectile fourteen miles, and
has gone to Washington to get n
patent. He proposes to offer il to the
Government for ST, 1000, 900.
THs manager of n country theatre
looked into the house between the nets,
and turned with the question Of Why,
good gracious, where's the audience?"
"Sir," replied the proprietor, without
moving a muscle, che has just now
gone to get some beer"
A MILD tempered man who had fallen
on an icy sidewalk, picked himself up
with the soliloqny 81 don't cherish
tho leas. i'll will, but for interesting
reading matter recommend to me the
obituary Of the man who owns the side
walk"
A New HAXrsuiRE editor, who has
been keeping a record of big beets, an
uounccs at last that the beet that beat
the other beet, is now beaten by
another beet that beats all the beets,
whether the original beet, or the bee,
that beat the beet, or the beet that beat
the beet that beat the other beet.
DoUeLAs Tracy, Of Griswold, Con.
necticut, 60 years old, is the champion
sheep.shearer of New London County.
At one time he shcared sixty.three
sheep in sixteen hours, and Mt another
twenty.threc sheep in ive hours, and
caught the animals himself, the latter
averaging four and a half pounds of
wool each. Recently he sheared a
sheep 10 ten minutes.
AN Eastern gentleman who has taken
q ride on the U. P. "Keers," clear
through to the coast, thus "poetizes"
the road:
1.-THE mighty work at last 10 done,
So speedily and brisk, o!
And now In six days YOU can run
From here to San Francisco.
AN exchange says "Women arc
gradually working into all the employ
ments heretofore considered the sole
property Of the other sex. A Miss
Hattie Bean has been arrested in Port
land, Maine, for robbing the males"
" Robbing the males" has been for
years the property Of some Of the fair
sex, said an ill.natured bachelor.
THERE are probably not fewer than
one hundred colored men now in Rome
preparing for the Roman Catholic
priesthood. The majority Of them will
become teachers Of the freedmen Of the
South.
MINNESOTA is a fsherman's paradise.
A paper Of that State tells a story Of
two brothers who set q net md ut one
haul captured two hundred fish, the
smallest weighing eight pounds aad the
largest twelve, and tho average over
ten, the most of them being trout.
woxEs are scarce in Sioux City, Iowa,
and q paper Of that place advertises
proposals for 1900 New England girls
Of industrious habits.
IT is said that George Peabody dc.
signs to administer upon his own estate,
and will leave nothing for ksirs or tag
CATERERS to quarrel about.
GENERAL SIBERIAN says the Indians
are generally doing we'll under the new
policy of the administration, and don't
steal more than their share of cattle.
A COUPLE 10 Savannah met for the
first time on Friday last, courtea Satur-
day, were "engaged" Sunday and mar
ried on Monday. Ths groom 70 and the
bride Is.