The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-04-21
Gleanings.

DAINTY. 1t Is baked rat.
Flowers are in bloom in the Capitol
Grounds at Washington.
1t is noticed that all the severe storms,
this year, have come on Sundays.
New York has 5000 vagrant children
who never attend school.
The Atlanta Consultation sings to Bull
lock, who is at Washington. "Come
Home, Father, Come Home"
A burglarious elephant in Alabama has
tipped over a grist-mill and eaten up all
the grain.
A rat-terrier dog in Chicago killed for
ty full grown rats in nine and one-half
minutes last week. ~
The total receipts of internal revofSao
during the present year have been SlB,-
795,l27, an increase over 1869 Of $lS,SOl,-
G26.
A prisoner in Dubuque spoiled a three
dollar necktie in hanging himself, when
there was plenty of rope in his bedstead.
Horace Greedy has joined Forney in
lighting the war over again. He thinks
General Thomas made a slight blunder at
Nashville, and gives two columns to gun
powder, gore and glory.
An Ohio paper, after crOnicling the
death Of a boy from the kick of Il horse,
furiously asks: "Where are the police 2"
a Texas marriage notice closes with the
gratifying announcement that the lady's
first husband was shot for stealing stock.
There are eight million horses owned in
the United States, and their estimated val
lie amounts to something more than the ma
tional debt.
y Troy merchant has placed on the
door of lis safe a card, saying to burglars;
Don't waste your powder; the key is in
the drawer"
There are now living in Maine, in good
health, five brothers, named Lambert, aged
n~inoty-six, %ninety-two, eighty-seyen, eigh.
ty-one and ~seyenty-nine years.
1t is said that farmers in Minnesota can
now make more money at raising beats at
SO per ton for sugar-making, than they
can in raising wheat or any other kind ii
grain.
) An Iowa Clergyman has observed a e.
+, markable coincidence whenever the COW
tribution box begins its round an alarm q
fire is heard outside, and the church il
emptied at once.
"Keop it, my good fellow" was WHAT
the Prince Of Wales said to a railway pol.
ter who told him he had left his watch oil
the seat Of the carriage. He thought 1t
was April |.
In a dime novel recently published, the
hero is made to climb one hundred and
fifty feet up q tree. elbow is that fol
high 7"
A citizen in Camden advertises "a small
house to rent-privilege on the sidewalk
5 for a hog. A fine frog pond in the from.
cellar"
The city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, ha:
a hen that recently Matched seventeen
f chickens from fifteen eggs.
f Virginia papers call the fact of a maj
marrying his own daughter a tragedy. W.
never knew it by that name.
A Chicago lady has written a long let
ter to the Journal of that city, eloquent,
I advocating the use of face powder. Sh,
says she would as soon think of bein,
= ashamed of her toothbrush as other pow
: der box.
: Commissioner Delano has decided tina
: when a partner has lost the right to de
mand the earnings of a minor child, sucI
amount is not to be included in the taxa
t BILE income of the former.
) a Richmond paper says; "Our Legis
lature is an uncOmmonly sober body, an,
y never drink except when the rigors of tn
T., weather render it necessary"
1t is announced that a spot on the syn
so large as to be seen by the unas,i5e,
n eye, is now visible. A piece of smoke,
glass is necessary to shield the eye Of til
e observer.
A Cincinnati lady created an excite
ment the other morning, by claiming t
G have been robbed of $4,000 by two me-
who came up to her room in a balloon
: She proved to be slightly balloonatic.
In several counties of California tn
=, clerks refuse to muster the cOlOred me
as voters until the opinion ofthe Attorne
General of the State is received. Owe
h fifty Democratic members of the Legisla
: ture advise this action.
u Before the ink of the Fifteenth Amend
= ment proclamation was dry, General Gran
} received note from a member of the pres
= asking for the pen with which he sighe,
). it. 1t was sent Immediately, and befor
" he left the ante-room he was offered So
for it.
This is called a Colorado romance: Sew
en- miners, exploring the mountains, foun
an enormous chunk ofgold. They Tough