Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-187?, 1870-07-22
FACTS AND iLHURENs

THERE are $3.50 beer saloons in St.
Louis.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, claims popula-
ton of 10000.
INDIA has ladies newspaper, edited by
woman,
Russia Furnishes her drunkards by
making them sweep the streets.
A GRAND HAVEN hen recently hatChCd
50 chickens at one setting.
VroLINs were invented in 1477, and in
trOduCcd into England by Charles l.
A PRACTICAL man wants tc make
lager beer vault of the Mammoth Gave.
IN the last election in Washington
Territory, fifteen women voted in Thurs
Ton county.
The census is to cost about six cents a
head Tor ali the persons enrolled, or $685.
900 for the whole.
PRESIDENT FULLERTON, of the Bellows
Falls, Vermont, National Bank, is 96 years
of age, yet he rides seventeen miles each
day to the bank
THERE is d girl near st. Paul, MINI,
who, although only twenty years of age,
supports, by working a farm, her aged
father ami mother and an idiot brother.
THE average daily consumption Of Co
Chltuatc water IN boston lhe last year
WAS 15O7O,4OO gallons, beng an IN,
rr"asc over the previous year Oh 3OI,E'9
gallons.
A CABBAGE which branches ont every
year and bears "a great number OF small
/ ,abbages, cach Dut aus big as an orange,
! IS one OF ''e a'JAc~oDs at Los AnSeloS'
Cal.
ONE o. me l.HI nefS oi FarlS cir
cu!aIes @4"O0' ny manly a1o"S
, iltcNmen' a0r 'ldITtS an" ia!lN' i..iu.
T. 'r9 ~ &' 3..''s.
a. IN deH" 0'.' "Ia Episcopal
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NAHh IL: WALhoN} VINO recently COM
Ih'UlcM SUICIDE III "oo1"Wn celne, cry
near hoS'on' !C'I Il hotc ucGi trlhB tna' as
'ne SHlocil hc iaiI ouC hlU otch ucVaSI,
aIeu ny tl9 chi'kGhS I:r "i MS son. he hau
become urea oi nue. ana was gong 10
lueC' HIS oelo'Gu WIG
THOMAS " THOMAS newspaper ard
ana costS the other day Tor rcJ'ct'd and
destroyed manuscripts lho supreme
court ruIns 'naI 'he manuscripts were
the properly OF me auIhor un'!I Ihc pun
lshers PAID ior thcn' anu th4I IN neglect
ing TO return thcm 10 'he auIhor Ihcy
became llaole Tor thcIr value.
The official returns recently received
AZ the bureau OF STATISTICS snow that lhe
Total value OF condensed mix exported
rom the port OF New YORK IN lne year
1867, was wy or which $2l,Sn went
TO England, Sl49UO to Australia, T"tu4 10
the United States OF Columbia, TJ,lth to
China, rs, to Brazil, S3,OS7 to Cuba,
$3 O03 to the British West Indies, and
$l,767 to the Danish West Indies.
In New England the average amount
of milk required to make one pound of
cured cheese is lO pounds; the product OF
cheese per COW from April to November
IS 4OO pounds the average cost per pound
Tor manufacture, including interest on
capital, commission, etc, is - cents, and
the net income the past summer has been
10 cents per pound.
A PARIS journal explains the origin of
the phrase, to make a fasc0 A German
Professor, touring in glass factory,
imagines that glass blowing is the easiest
thing in the world. Putting the pipe to
his lips, he attempts a practical illustra.
ton of the ease with which various forms
NAV be produced, but only succeeds in
celebrating flask-that is, a fasc0-fail-
ing wholly in anything more complete.
TIE Puno0lo, of Naples, mentions q
strange suicide committed at Goeta. A
sergeant named ComolIi voung man of
excellent conduct. went to the building
where the artillery is kept, and lightinga a
fuse of loaded cannon, placed himself
in front. He was blown literally to
atoms, his head and feet alone being al
terwards found. The cause assigned was,
as stated in two letters, one to his father
and the other to his captain, extreme dis
like of military life.
Accopn1Ne to the JamcstOwn IN w
1,,,rnm there lives in the town of Har
nonv I'hantannna comfy a husband and
wifc who have not excb6nged words for
twenty. one wears In 1840 the husband
contr6dicted his better half harshly before
comnany, and she threatened that in
default of better behavior she would never
sneak to himagain The husband replied
that he wished nothing better, and the
wife took him at his word They have
continued to live together in this taciturn
fashion ever since, and during the long
silence have had several children. Their
intercourse is conducted in an indirect
manner through one of the children, as,