The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-12-07
CHIPS AND SCRAPINQS.

Strawberries-the second crop-have
appeared in North Carolina.
A writer in the London Society as
serts that the we ring Of corsets produ-
ces corpulence.
Wheat has been sold as low as thirty
cents in Iowa this fall-the average
price has been fifty cents.
A citizen Of Norfolk, Virginia, propo
ses to plant the streets of that city in
peanuts to pay off the debt.
A young lady who drew a gentleman's
wrapper at recent gift concert now
wants gentlman to put in it.
It is said that young lady, dancing
ut fashionable ball, will travel about
forty miles during the evening.
Logwood is cheap in Jsmaica. Wine
is cheaper and more abundant in New
York Put this and that together.
There are four hundred and thirty
species of humming birds, and they are
found only in the W stern con en- t.
Not to be outdone by the government,
the washerwomen Of Troy are forming
| a union, which is to be the biggest
wiring in the country.
An exchange praises an egg, laid on
our table by the Rev. DR.. Smith, which
shows that Brother Smith is a layman
| as we'll as a minister.
Two rival candidates for the Iowa
| Legislature had the same number of
votes, and cut the cards for the place.
| The Democrat won, of course.
A colored gentleman in Texas went
into blacksmith shop With his coat
tail pocket full of powder. When he
came out he made hole in the roof
When Mark Twain wrote his first ar
ticle, California publisher told him
that he hadn't brains enough to keep a
mule going straight ahead in q ten acre
lot.
The Boston authorities propose to
close the public schools on stormy days.
A certain number OF strokes on the fire
alarm bell will announce to all school
children that they can stay at home and
play.
Tea has been grown successfully in
North Carolina. Miss Hattie H. Pearce
writes to the Journal of Commerce
from Onslow comfy, that the tea plant
can be profitably cultivated in that
State
Paper seems to be entering into every
thing we use. A Connect icut firm is
making pals, tubs, spittoons, wash
bowls, 'and all that sort of thing, you
know, from it. House have already
beea made from it. What next?
1t is said that artificial marble NAV
be male as follows: Mix Plaster OF
Paris in solution of alum; bake in an
oven, and grind to a powder; it may
then be mixed with water and formed
into any shape. 1t will bear high pol
ish. S
A striking illustration of the saying
that the pith of lady's letter is in the
postscrip was that of young lady who
having gone out to India, and writin Q
home to her friends, concluded with the
following words: p S-You will see
by my signature that l am married.
i In Levenworth county, Missouri, q
few days ago, a jury which could not
agree was locked up for the night, when
the members amused themselves by tel
ling their ages, which added together
made six hundred and ten years-au
average Of nearly fifty-one years for
each juryman.
A young lady, while going to her
wedding in Rondout, New York, on
Sunday, was thrown from the carriage
and broke her leg. It was proposed to
take her to phisician and have the
limb set, but she refused, saying she
was going to be married first. And, a
}, usual, she had her way