Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-15

~ $500
THERE are said to be $4,000 peach
trees in California.
The country lost over forty million
last year by fire.
TIE Judges chair in a new Court
house in Illinois cost $500.
The New York Sun demands the
suppression Of masked balls.
Or the sixty-six members of the
United States Senate, forty-six are
lawyers.
THE wife's inability to make good
bread Is q ground for divorce among
the Arabs.
A MAX ID New Orleans is so upright
in all his dealings that he wont sit
down to eat his meals.
ELIHU BuRRTrT Is furnishing English
servant girls to families In his old
home, New Britain Conn.
ExrENsIvE mail robberies are report
ed in Colorado, and several money Or
der packages have been stolen.
UTAH intends to make q strenuous
effot at this session of Congress to get
admitted into the Union as a State.
The difference between an oyster
and a chicken il, that one is best just
out of the she'll, and the other isn't.
WHEN the rich Quaker was asked
tho secret Of his success in life, he an
swered: "'Civility, friend, civility."
A RESENTMENT of Chichester, N. H.,
walked half n mile on stills, with a
rooster in his arms, the other day, OH
4 bet.
A KANSAS County Treasurer re-
Gently made a tour Of his county to
collect the taxes. and succeeded In
raising $500.
AT yicksburg the f%requcnters Of
saloons are not asked what beverage
they prefer, but are invited to "nomi-
nate your family disturbance" t,
TnE President of the Chicago Board
of Education, in his annual report,
recommends that the reading Of the
Bible be discontinued in that city.
A JEALOUS husband In Pittsburg.
followed his wife one evening, saw
her meet q man, ran up and thraShed
him, and found out 1t was his father-in-
law.
WHAT we want In natural ability
may generally be made up In industry,
AS dwarf may keeppacc with a giant,
If he will but move his legs q little
faster.
In Waterloo, Iowa, you can buy
turkeys ut ten cents n pound, chickens
ut eight cents. prairie chickens ut 81 30
a dozen-but it is q long way to go to
market.
The wife of Mr.. William Downs OF
New York, presented him with three
daughters rs a New Years present.
William is now the father of eighteen
children.
"HENRY, you ought TO he ashamed
to throw bread away like that. You
may want it some day." swell, mo
ther, should I stand any better chance
of getting it then shonld eat 1t up
nowp"
You flatter yourself that you hold
the rains Of your establishment. Sc
iNOu wv. DuI IL sou "
man, I'll bet'two to one that you hold
them ut the horse-end.
do you seek consolation for sor'
row In drink" asked a pious old lady
Of an Incorporate fellow, who wa,
something Of a wag. "Yes, In Q
horn," was the laconic reply.
DON'T be too anxious to solve a con
mdrum. We know n man who gol
two black eyes in ~endeavoring to tint
out the difference between n man and
n woman fighting in tho street.
I"WHY," said Bob Pitts to viii,
Swipes, when lie caught him drinking
81 thought You had signed the
PLEDGE" $50 | have" said Swipes
but all signs fail in dry weather."
A MATRIMONIAL. advertisement In Q
Paris paper reads: "a single gentle.
man, Protestant, and possessed o.
rents, wishes to marry a Protestant
lady, very distinguished and possessed
of more rents.'