, 1870-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS


A Shakespeare Grammar is announced by
London publisher.
Tho French prelatcs complain thas they
can get nothing good to cat Ia Rome.
The town clock at Sing Sing. N. Y. struck
twenty-one times At 10 O'Clock On last Monday
night: Ono poor fellow, who had been to see
his friends, counted the strokes, and declared
that he had never been ont 80 late before in
al bis life, and hc did not know what his wife
1e0uH Say.
in boring the now abandoned s.tesian we'll
At St, Louis It Was not found that the tempera-
ture Increased with the increasing depth OF
tho bore. At s,029 feet, Fahrenhei:'s ther-
motneteE registered l07; at 3,s37 feet, los.
Tile belligerency OF the Cubans has boon
recognized By five American Republication,
Chilli. bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico.
a Nashrllian last week conceived the idea
that he could 1y, and climbed \ tree, waved
his arms gEandly, and struck out. Somehow
tha ground sprang up md hit him, and ho
crawled into tho house convinced that flying
was not his foFte
nese women Of the town in San Francisco are
decoyed On board American chips In China
ports bJ their countrymeu, tEugEod, and
brought to California, where they aTo sold at
auction to the keepers OF dens Of infamy.
The British Goyern1nent, when il took
the female operators, and also en- ployea fifty
new oneh.
"A man, named wMpple, fell into the river
at Providence, few days ago, and received i
severe wound on the head from a foadng
from drowning, but he had very Ittls thought
for himself, app:renuy, as his greeting to
those trying to Save his lie was, t'Neyer mind
mo, but get my umbrella; it's d--d good
umbrella, and don't want to lose it. Don't
II you'll 60 for that umbrella" but tho Good
Samaritan hauled him into his boat, and let
hia uinbrells 60 to sea, and he sat thcrp in tho
rai1, and staunchcd the bleeding wound On lis
head, talking at the lost umbrella.
| Tho Atlantis (Ga.) Constitution Of the 18th
racks RA disturbed by the sudden death Of Il
re-enlihtcd soldier, named DeLaron, md his
| wife, By their own act and deed. It il said
that they took Al ounce Of arsenic, and re-
tired to tho woods to die together, but under
the rangs OF tho poison, they returned to the
Canadian, % yeara Of ago. His wife was q
yetta Of age, and il said to be tho daughter OF
John Anderson. miner, near DAIloaega. She
stated, before she died, that her husband per
snaaed her to take the poison because he
could not get employment any other way than
by re-cnlistng in the army"
For generations past gold tasse1s hanging
from tho students caps were the glitteHng in,
sigma that the Tcarcrs were the soas Of noble.
men; but, all at once, Oxford has been startled
ont Of i.s grave and scholarly composuTe b,
| the sudden passing Of an e1ict which abotishoe
these distinctions, and plucks the tinscl gew
gaw from every head. with the exception al
that Of Prince Hassan Of Egypt. tie son Of tht
yiceroy.
"A liverpool gentleman ma]e resy strange
eg1ess from drapers shop, recently One q
! the show.windowe, which was nearly even will
thefloor, happened IN BE- empty Tor the pn1
pose OF rcdressing. and. before the aaio-.4het
statesmen could interfere. tho unlncky yisito
made his way into the street through tho 1arE,
and very thick plate-s1ans window His on1,
injury was slight cut on the Loft cheek.
-1He Hartford Coura,st relates that somo
body recently asked Bristol CONN., gentle
man how many clocks were mAde yearly in thA
pjace. "Lct me- see, let me SEQ; welsh,
said the gentleman slowly. "Oh. give me
rough estimate said the inquirer, " is il
-fftecn--twcuty thousand ?" "Oh
fdllesticks !" replied tho gentleman, 3" I wai
only trying to get within hundred thousand
| We make three minute in this town, and orel
in Waterbury there is ono cStabishsncnt thai
maken one minute" Three minute, ter
l,uurs \ day, three hundred and ten working
dayr-5 SIS. 900 clocks year in Bristol alone.
The Columbus (la-) Sun Of tho 18th safs
teu from the third STORY Of Banks building
Saturday afternoon, was saved BY Bow
strange as It mar Seem The distance faIlet
was some thirty-ire feet The SOW was lying
| uoWn uOQef tGe *1ndoH. 4h6 child, whose age
was only yeaIH, fell On and nearly cruahod
the porene, but both rebonnded. Old 'she
pork as Artcnaa Ward SAYS, passed On auj
left the child terrified, with no bones broken
and on her feet"
M. De LiAnconrt, French gentleman whe
haa given much time to maritime life-e4vine
devices, has invented compact and simple
life rrcserver, whic}, he calls the "Nautiius
Life Belt" The apparatus consists OF long
bag made Of two hyers}of canvas united By
an fndia-rubber solution, with which the out.
side is also coated. The ends are closed By
wooden discs, Of owl form, measuring six in,
ches by three and half inchea across. Tue
interior Of tho belt contains two spiral springs
Of coppere<i iron wire, which arc epldc1c<l
together side by side. These springs serve
to retain the sectional form Of The bell
whom dissended- When closed the belt il com.
pressed into length OF inches, but elongated
Il spAus the body round which il is fastened
In one Of the discs is IN air valve opening in.
wards, 90 that the set Of extending the appa.
rAtus csuses it to be filed with air, Fos
double safety cork is inserted in the valve
hole, which is withdrawn on closing the belt
atter use, the valve being opened BY the insez,
ton Of the finger. ThA valve is Of leather
with \ wha1ebope spring, 60 that moistura can,
not injuliously Affect it. The belt is secured
by book-andsya arrangement, and for adtli
tionA safety frog is also provided