Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-07
CURRENT NEWS.

Cincinnati expended, in 1868, for street
cleaning purposes, S184,OOO
Prof Bond a wire-walker, fell off and
broke his neck lately at Charleston, Mass
A married man in Pittsburg lately ran
away with two widows.
Why are elections like~tents? Because
the canvass ends at the polls.
Beautiful extract-A handsome lady Just
helped out of q mud hole
A Eutaw (Ala. editor, takes dogs in
payment for subscriptions.
Horace Greeley is to lecture on poultry
culture. Horace is posted on foul subjects.
An Ohioan has sent Grant a segar six
feet long What Office would he lke?-he
can take his choice
The presiding burgomaster of the free
city of Hamburg was, in his youth, dry
goods clerk in o Philadelphia store
A dog in Portland has learned the human
amusement of sliding down hill, and draws
his own sled up, mounts it and rides alone.
Wendell Phillips is reported as saying
that his lecture on ''Lost Arts " needn'tcon-
Germ the ladies, they not having lost any !!
Mudd having been released from the
Dry Tortugas, can be seen at any time
anywhere along Main street
Washington correspondents note that
Grants father tumbled down stairs while
his son was tUmbling up.
The contract price for the granite required
for thenew Masonic Temple, in Philadelphia
IS S300. 900.
The bridge proposed to unite New York
and Brooklyn, will, If built, have the enor-
nous span of 600 feet
Or. Mudd has returned from the Dry
Tortugas, where lie was sent for setting the
broken leg of sufferer.
In New South Wales horses sell for two
cents apiece. This knocks velocipedes
higher than q kite. .-.
Wood is SO scarce in Francei that they
save their sawdust, mix it with glue and
press it III moulds, making, it is said, very
good limitations of carved wood.
TRAVELLER -''Show me to a room with
good fire, waiter, Tn so duced wet; and
then bring me n glass of ale, for I'm awful
dry"
Forney thinks 'the appointment of
Longstreet is id pretty way to make
treason odious." Forney has not yet got
an office.
The methodist church at st. Jose, Cal
ifornia was burned recently because the
paster taught and attempted to convert
Chinese.
There are two inconsistencies in this world
that are hard to understand. Everybody is
anxious to get to heaven, but no one is in
hurry about it,
young lady in Outagamie county,
Wisconsin, was charged with putting on
''airs" because she refused to go to ball
barefooted.
Josh Billings says one live man in VII
lage, IL like case of itch at a district
school, sets everybody scratching at
once.
An ErieIPa damsel was recently crimp-
ing her front hair with hot fiat iron. 1t
slipped and crimped a strip of cuticle off
the full length of her face,
Mr.. Donn Piatt claims to be Republican,
but Radical paper thinks he had better
take in his sign. That advice will do the
whole Radical party.
There is an old English statue which pro-
hibits people from getting married after q
certain hour in the day, because such a
solemn obligation ought to be entered into
only when the parties are duly sober!
A printers apprentice says that at the
Office they charge him with all the pi they
do find, and at the house they charge him
with all they don't find. He does not un-
derstand that kind of logic.
Nearly fifty bodies have been washed
ashore near the scene of the h1ittie Ste
phens disaster, in Red River, Louisiana
One lady was identified by wedding rings
on her fingers, each bearing her name.
Governor Brownlows pardons last year
number over three hundred. The old rep
rebate will soon need some one to pardon
him, put the keeper into whose hands he
viii fail, never pardons.
A New England publisher has Just issued
the the life of ST. Paul, volume intended
to sell among Christians. That publisher
viii never get his money back unless he
follows it with the life of Fred Douglass.
MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY Married at
Sunbeyry Mass, by the Rev. Mr.. Gran
berry, Mr.. Nehemiah Blackberry, to Miss
Catharine Elderberry, of DanbWy, We
hope the descendants will not prove to be
goose6erTieS.
Mr. Gilpin, O. Colorado, has written q
letter to prove that under the Rocky Noun
tains, ''solid masses of gold of incalculable
magnitude and weight" All that is wanted
is an eligible hole, and gold will soon be a
drug.
% BRIsTIE SPLrrTING.-On the 9th inst, a
prisoner was being tried at Independence,
Mo-, on an indictment for stealing "a pig. "
The Judge decided that ga hog" was not "a
pig" and as the animal stolen was proved
tobe "ahog the Judge ordered the prison
ar to be discharged