The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-06
EmCidemGaIs.

One thousand married couples were divorced
in Ohio last year.
There is great lack of railroad laborers
reported in the State of Minnesota.
-Beloit, Wis, has q wife who has not spoken
to her husband for fifteen years.
John Morrissey is at Saratoga to superin-
tend the opening of his club house.
Congress Hall, at Saratoga Springs, was
opened for the season on Saturday of last week.
The Iowa Normal Academy of Music at
Iowa City proposes to admit two pupils from
each county of the State free of charge.
-Milllous OF grasshoppers have made their
appearance at Corinne, Kansas, where the
grasshopper has indeed become burden.
Denver, Colorado, was built on the banks
of an extinct creek. The creek has now be-
come a constant stream, needing to be crossed
by bridges.
Business in the copper districts of Michigan
Is excessively dull, and dependency prevails.
The franklin and Pewabic mines are about
to b. closed, and it is feared others will soon
follo".
"A claimant appears at Davenport. Iowa. for
one thousand acres of land, most of which is
valuable business property in the centre of the
city. The man claims to have purchased it in
1910, paying $1,000 for it.
There has been some unpleasantness between
the young men and young ladies of Oxford,
Benton county, Iowa, and the ladies now march
round the town accompanied by fife and drum
entirely independent of their masculine friends.
William LIE Barren, "bugmaster-general of
Illinois" recommends Paris green, mixed in the
proportion of one part of the green to six parts
of flour, as preservative of potatoes from the
ravages of the Colorado beetle or potato bug.
Paris green is very deadly poison, and if ap-
pliediwith the hand, glove should invariably be
worn.
"A raftsman on the Wisconsin river lately
met with a singular death. His raft had
stranded on bar, and in endeavoring to get it
off, he had fastened cable to the brace, which,
giving way as raft came in contact, struck
him en- the side of the head, throwing him some
twenty feet into the air, and precipitatlng him
into the water. His body was found some days
afterwards.
They tell in Indiana of a man who the
other day got ''fatigued," p" laid down close to a
molasses barrel, accidently turned the faucet,
and went to sleep with full stream running on
his head. He was discovered after about
eighteen gallons of the sweet had run out over
him. He was fined 50 for disorderly conduct,
and had to pay for the molasses. He said it
was case of linked sweetness long drawn out.
= All Boston is Dragging aboutsa young lady
of that city because, being invited on Saturday
night at ii o'clock TO make tour to Europe
she was ready and sailed at o'clock the follow
ing Monday morning They think that was
really quick work! But Boston must do better.
A New York girl one Saturday received dis
patch by cable from London, dated p. NJ, and
saying 'Come," and at 2 P. NJ. that very day-two
hours before the dispatch was sentl-she was on
her way down the bay in the steamer.
CLARK Thompson's farm, in Wells county,
Wisconsin, in a few years will become one of
the most celebrated in the State. The farm
consists of about ten acres, or the principal part
of sixteen sections. Wells is situated near the
centre of this tract, which, until recently was
but wild prairie. Already there are some forty
five teams engaged in turning over the sod. l
is the intention TO break four thousand acre.
this summer, which in one year from now will
be one vast wheat field.