, 1870-04-30

(which contains less than 400 inhabitsuts, takes
502 weekly and monthly periodicals.
A Chnauan can't get to heaven II his he.d
.4s been cut OF here. =
/ a cynical Observer SAYS that "Eveybody
IN Nice spesks E1slsh, except some ot the
Americans"
| Talbot performs William Tell By shooting,
with pistol, an apple from the head Of his
wife, TIC ball lodging in the. board against
which she stands.
| One question in tha Mcfarland case. On
Monday, as to his insanity, WIS OF about i, coo
worda it's wonder the Witness didn't be-
come jnsane IN listening and seeking to reply
to it,
"A conscientious reporter states in Paris
| paper, "At. the opera ball We noticed that
many Of the ladies' had been Taccinatcd above
the knee" :. .,.
"a gentleman suicided in Naschez, few
days ago, and left note to tho land1ady npo1-
that be s.must hare some place to de-" 4 =
! The Bowdoin College, students zaised
stamps enough to play billiards for month by
blaeEng up their faces and circulating sub
seEipdon papers to "ennble them 10 return 10
! their homes in the South"
Il young Indy in Monso1, Mass, waa re-
Gently offered $500 for her hAir, which LACKS
hut half an inch Of being Six feet long. On
her refusing the offer the would-be purchaser
asked Il II GOO would be any iuuucer1ent, to
which abe replied, "No, nor 8, ,0oo."
The Passage QiTienne, one Of tho most
closed the other evening before the usual
hous, tho tauitor, inatead Of attending to his
usual duties, having been engaged in hanging
himself.
-Parlianacnt is asked to investigate tho
methods Of some OF The French banks to dis
In of% hair Al
During the last si1 1uuhths, for instance,
| tenders have hardly usde any profit, while the
JOINT Stock Bank Of London declares semi
annual dividend Of tx per cent
/ The coal-Bcuttle atyle Of bonnet has gono
wholly out Of fashion among the young Q1ak-
ersssca Of Philadelphia, while the young
| Quakers have shaken the broad-brim hat md
| taken to tie store-pipe. SIad-bel1ied coats are
also getting out Of vogue among the elders,
who manifest decided inclination for the
claH~l1ammeI.
"A citizen Of Kings County, IreIand, &C.
Gently Lad his nose cut on by bnud Of ruf-
| fms, ind naturally thought that he WAS hor-
| ribIy tiHfgu1cd for life. A Dublin surgeon,
however, thought otherwise; and has succeed
ed in forming new nose from the flesh and
skin Of the forehead, which is declared to
look better than tho old one.
~ young man who lives at Middle Village,
Long Island, imagined TINT some men were
| pursuing him, aud took to his heels to have q
tun foE his life Seeing him Eun, 5 couple Of
teamstcH concluded that he must certainly be
pursuit, and pelted Tic fugitive With stones,
bricks, md clubs until he was at tho point OF
death, when They Kindly turned him over to .
doctor.
a. political demonstration OF. a peculiar
character took place recently at Lyoua. 4
qnadril1s was composed to tho music .of tho
q 1larsei1laisc,' tho Cara and other revo-
lutiouary airs, and danced hy an enthusiastic
crowd in one Of tho grand public saloons Of
the city. at least :, 600 persons woro present,
and they joined in the chorus Of each uir
with tremendous enthusiasm.
Tho Russian Official organ contains sorne
Interesting particulars Of tbs last fair st Mimi
'Novgorod. from whichik appearst that the trade
OF thst place, which may be considered as the
Chief emporium Of tho inland traffic OF the
country, has much Increased By the great
facilities OF t1ansit afforded by the opening
and e1tanBion Of the railway system.
year brought to the fair amounted
70 l44,oo0,5oo Of silver roubles, being
1906, 600 more than in the previous year.
while ths tetal saa circulation was ooo
this apparent prosperity, t1la result OF the fair
Is deserved as being by no means brilliant.
The linen manufactures we're sold without
realizing profit, aud the Kiachta tea produc-
cd positye loss.
This haa been terrible spring. for ocean
travel between Europe md America. The
gales have been unprecedented in severity,
and those vessels that have escaped the sad
fate of tho City Of Boston 1nve not come of
unscathed. The Bremen steamslip, De1tsch-
lam, on her recent passage to Southampton,
y, vas 81, thirteen days IN makns the tip, and
Her passengers report that head winds began
10 blow Immediately ont Of New YORK, and did
not ccaEe for nine days. For the greater part OF
this time tho decks were swept BY
heavy Hees, aud there WAS serious
60 to the bottom. Indeed, had ahe not beon !
one Of tho stauncAnst vessels aioat aho must
have been lost. A it was, sho reached port
with all her machinery intact, and will need
only to he recau1ked TO be thoroughly sea-wor-
thy again. Captain Neynafer, OF the Dcutsch-
land, says be has never made 30 stormy pas
sage in his twcnty-nine years Of sea-felins
life. The Deutschland carried out eighty cabin
and abont one hundred storage passengers,
s10o, 600 in eilver bullion, and tho largest mail
thAt has ever boon carried By a sing1e Eu-
1opean Steamship.
wns robbed on the 2Gth, between the hours Of
u aud / o'clock, Of s3l 900 in gzeenbacks
Three persons, strangers in town, we're en-
gagged in the transaction. Two vent in at the
front door and engaged the only two bank Off
ciala in attendance at the time, one Of the rob-
other maklng arrangements to make deposit
OF funds belonging to seme crphans.& While |
they were thus occupying the attention of tho |
two bank officials, third robber entered at !
the bank window, which was open, and going |
into the vault, seized the package Of money
bery was not discovered until o'clock in the |
afternoon. Tho officers Of the bank hnre offer
ed reward Of $1,000 for tho arrest Of the
criminals. The surplus Of the bank IL sufficient |
to protect i against eaabar.ass1nents:
benjamin Canady, engineer OF the tow-boat
Mary Alice, and at one time tho partner Of
1Ir. Peuy Powers in tbs livery stable business
in this city, wag attacked by: two negro deck
hands, l1Bt Monday night, stabbed and thrown
fair, as detailed to u, are as folloHs During
the last hip Of tho Mary Alice The Two deck
hands referred TO entered tho engine-room. i
Ctnady ordered them out. Angry words weEe !
paeeed, coupled with threats, it IS said. from
both parties. About . o'clock On Monday
twenty miles below Memphis, Candy appear
ed IN tho dte-roon, before the furnace aaozs,
and being obse1ved by the two negroes, was
attacked, and disposed Of as
above stated. He ctied for Aolp, but disap-
peared beneath tlln water before he had dost.
Of the boat ut Memphis the negroes were
handed OYER to ths authoIitiea." l.
>. "a correspondent sends to the Mo1,ntoit
Democrat the following account OF s'water-
spout ron French Creek, EIdofado County, CAL:
" On the cd Of March one OF those strange
but sublime spectab1ee known az the vnter4,I
spout Was presented to the astonfshod view Of
the inhabitants in the vicinity of Thomas L8m-
berts, on French Creek, Lambert says that.
on tue hboro mentioned day, at about noon, be
observed two small, dark clonds ono moving
eastward and the other northwa1d, when they
appeared to merge themselves into ons g-and
column Of vater, apparently many thousand
feet inbeight, accompanied with Toaring Boise
Ike the teycIbcrauon Of hundred steamers
all blowing of steam ut once, accompanied
with rain and hail. Altar tho storm had sub-
sided, Lambert and many others visited the
scene. whero they found huge oaks torn up
from the roots and carried from one to three
hundred yards; stout pines were broken or
twisted or at the ground md carried up into
The nir hundreds Of feet; great cavities wcro
formed in the oarth, and many other eridcaccB
Of The i1esiHibla power OF tho tornado. For
lunately, no houses were in the trnck, other
tsiee Ne should hare had some fatal result.
One miner was in his claim, but believed hizn-
self under bank Of earth A small reset- !
soir, which he was usinB st tho tinne, and
ElicA was nearly full Of water, was completely
sucked up in tho vortex and carried, no man
snoHeth whittier"
Personal
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