The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-04-13
Miscellaneous Items.

All Gee is Chinese for John Smith. -"
Brazil will have q big coffee crop this
year. gH. t.f ar.t1i,ii
Fifty thousand freedmen in Texas can
read. ih q"
There arc ninety three candidates out for
the Office OF Sheriff in Polk county, Oregon.
Over forty Washington ladies claim that
they refused to dance with Prince Arthur
"Coffee and fresh laid eggs by Mrs. Har-
ris," reads sign on on Indiana railroad.
Texas is reveling in ripe strawberries four
inches in circumference D" i-i 10
The Philadelphia Typographical Union
has admitted q lady member-doubtless
fair type of the sex. rGt 'r di1r 10.
| Chickens arc taken at the box Office of
Brigham Young's theater, and change is APP
propriately made with eggs. H., ~
A girl iu Wisconsin swallowed forty per-
cussion caps. Her mother RETAINED from
spanking her for fear of an explosion. 80
A Michigan town has been settled over
80 years, and yet it has neither church. ho-
tel, store, post office, grocery, nor mill of
any kind. i'a'' ',et
| San Francisco is excited over crab
brought from Japan, which spreads thirteen
feet and weighs forty pounds. anf-3 b
A burlesquc of the "Boston Peace Jubi.
lee" is the attraction Of one Of the Richmond
theatres. f9Hl't ias'' i'h'
The Canadian exodus for 1870 has begun.
Large numbers Of emigrants are leaving
for the United States rsf ldl} arK
"Hans, where do you live =" ,"Across Len
| river nit ter turnpikes by der school as
you go up NIT your right hand on der oddel
side fly isH W 'fti E3 ''sisH-,, 74
| The New Orleans Pneumatic Propelline
Company have made q successful trial with
their experimental street car. lSi.io Ia
| Notice of an application for Receiver
OF the Union Pacific Railroad has been
given by creditors to the amount of mil
lion of dollars. t'f ana f-st I
| A New-York lady was recently observed
trying to regulate her time-piece by ma
rine compass in the window of nautical
instrument store. t ...,.. -4i afrti
| The women in Bristol, Tennessee, take
their knitting to church and New Haven
ladies show their industry by knitting in
fcntile socks at entertainments.
| Father Hyacinthe stuck the posters adver
Using his own paper on the pillars of thu
various chapels in Paris, privilege accord
ed only to the Emperors speeches and thu
| Bishops pastorals. u /, f.1 isf &
| The County Examiner, says the AshevilI,
Pioneer, is doing all in bis power to organ
ize the free schools IN Buncombe. It is yer,
probably that they will be in operation il
Asheville in very short time. s1.
| The Legislature and the Governor o
California are at loggerheads. The Senat
threatens, unless the Governor signs certail
bills, to refuse to pass the general appropri
alton bill. ea sa - a.
Miss Dix, after tour, of the Soutber,
asylums and prisons, decides that snuff dip
ping is predominating cause of insanit
Z among Southern women.
Miss Alcott is suffering from impaire
health, brought on by excessive labor il
preparing her Old Fashioned Girl for tn
: press. She seeks rest and recuperation in
trip to the Mediterranean. sairlIw '1s
Every American boy has right to lear
| whatever honest trade his own inclination
under his fathers direction, may lead him t.
| And when he has learned it, any man has
| right to offer him employment, and he has
; right to accept it. All combinations ths
} infringe upon these are against the PLANES
interests Of the community.