Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-26

TIE Boston Transcript proposes that the
disappointed oflce-seekers be placed on
/ IGovernacnt reservations aud made to till
t4e soil, since they expect the Government
to provide fr item in some manner
5 VILLAIN put powder il the stove Of
paJl;o school house near Baltimore few
days q. and by the explosion eight schol
ars were injured, two Httle girls being IA
tallg burned
1 AYouNG iady at Springfield, at woman
suffrage meeting, remarked. Mr.. Foster
SAID there wasu' Il waman in the ball who
naan a. macn rlgHt 10 vv nlau
be bad; and I think 50 too r.
THE principal siockholder Of the H.
/ depeadace Beige, the most profitable paper
on the European Continent, is young
/ girl Of seventeen, who. besides, owns M
+ her own right an estate worth one million
francs
TuE Women Rights women say that
Mississippi must be the first State that
shall have the honor to invest woman with
the right Of suffrage and that Wisconsin
will net long withhold the right. We shall
see
y week age, in Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, man worth one hundred thousand
dollars, earned twenty five cents by carrying
home foal for another man. He said he
thought himself lucky to get pay for taking
needed exercise.
TuE grand prize Of the Prussisn lottery,
/ last drawing, was won by man now in jail
at Posen on a charge of forgery, for which
be will be sent to the Penitentiary for at
least three years, so it will be some time be-
fore he viii be able to enjoy his wealth.
/ THE New York Sorosis proposed one good
ald cnsible idea, but has abandoned it-a
college for cooks II was about the best of
all the propositions Of this woman society,
which, caodor compels US to say, announces
It's intention of attempting to do very many
foolish things
/ \ New York newspaper makes the as
tonishing assertion that at the present day
Philadelphia city contains more aud better
accommodations for the Industrious, fruga!
poor than any city Of the Old World, " which
is unquesJionably piece Of news.
THE female party to a divorce suit in
Cincinnati aimed at getting rid of her fourth
husband, who was twenty-one years her
/ junior. One Of her former husbands was
a Bluebeard who made this lady his ninth
wife
President JoHN ADAMS retained four
Of the Cabinet officers Of his predecessor.
John Quincy Adams retained the Secretary
Of the Navy. Postmaster General, and
Attorney General he had served with in the
Cabinet Of President Monroe.
| At the Inauguration ball, there was fe-
male ia the imitation Of masculine costume
She wore green silk coat and pautaloons,
aud she looked like picture of Pocahontas
or ike mermaid, grotesque and hybrid.
Her basque Of foEered green silk fell to her
knees, and her foweged green silk panta-
looms we're rufied around the bottom with
lace her hair streamcd down her back below
her waist.
HERE IS unique reason, given by a New
York paper, why Mr. Beecher ought to re-
fuse his call to Montreal. There is, doubt
less a well written obituary notice Of the dis
tnguished gentlemanin every well regulated
newspaper Office in the country, aud they
all locate him at Plymouth Church 1t is
not likely that be would 60 back on the
press in any such way as this Montreal bust
ness would Indicate
THE Princess AIathilde, Nspoleons fat
and queenly looking cousin, whom he at one
time wished to make his wife, has in her
boudoir an old riding whip which she once
wrested from the hands of the brutal
Russian Prince Demidoff, her husband, af.
ter he had struck her with it in the face.
On that occasion the resolute young lady
is said to have turned the tables on the
Russian, and, after taking the riding whip
from him, marked his face With it,
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Borie, is
fifty years Of age, about five feet six inches
high, and wears short side whiskers, and
moustache ashade darker than bis whiskers.
His hair is iron gray, and his eyes are a dark
hazel, very bright and keen. He is very
courteous and gendemanly ia his manner,
and easily approached.
An individual advertised for a wifi" the
other day, ana requested each applicant for
the situation to enclose her carte dc visite.
One Of his fair correspondents closed her
reply in these terms: Il do not enclose nv
carte, FOR, though thereis some authority
for putting a cart before horse, I know Of
none for putting one before an ass.
The following is Mr. johnson 5 lastrhyme:
Sometimes | tried to give them light,
| made them spectacles day and night.
And they d insult me, left and right,
And called me Andy:
They said / was only whisky tight
They led, twas brandy.
.ig pitcher at the fountaia broke:
Let no one know In what sly nook
My dust Teposes,
Lest he should come, and for the joke,
Say, Here lies Moses.
OLEoGRAPHY. This new art, just an
nounced, consists in process of accurately
representing the figures which certain oils
exhibit when drop is let fall upon water
ami allowed to remain certain length Of
time The figures thus produced are said
to be constant for each kind BY initiating
these patterns they serve as standards cf
comparison, By means of which the relative
purity Of oils can be determined more readily
than in any other way, the evidence being
based not only upon the pattern itself, but
upon the time required for the substance to
assume a particular figure.
/ Washington dispatch Of Saturday says:
The latest Slate" gives the following:
(inrernnr Curtin. Minister 70 Russia: Mr.