The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-04

OF her tIuIe on the Wdtef.
Savannah wants a new opera house.
The Dresiea Art Gallery has 300 paint
ings. ~ t-r7J--r
New Yorkesh be from Buffalo.
~ RaASN6v Yosk, has just heen made a
city. It Is 10 6e hoPed she may start off with
an Economist Coancil.
Steam omnihases in Montreal are suc-
cessful -
The Levanf Tunes says chat the order Of
the Medjidieh bas been conferred ON Mr..
Ball, who came out in cllSFge of cargo of
four tons Of fireworks manufactured by Brock
Of London for the sunaet fetes. -,
Los Angeles, Cal, will make million
gallons Of wine this year.
= There are 100, 900 beer-drinkers in Cincin-
natl according 70 good German authority.
The cu,mcil Of DoaallsyiIle, La. has
voted ITS mayor salary Of 81 = year. rs
.ANevada Eacch Arden played seven-up
with local Philip BAY for the object Of
both their affections, and won by two points.
!. Phoebe City, Utah, has but one spring,
and that dries up every summer, 50 that
water sells for ten cents Il gallon.
Anew!y-discovcred Chinese poem, Il Sac,
written 500 years before Christ, Is Oh to
prove that the existence OF America was
known to the Chinese at that Tue
4 new daily paper has just beea started at
Portland, Oregon, under the title Of the
Oregon Bulletin. 81
y The sponge fishery at the Island Of Rhodes
has been "a grRtly facilitated BY the Use Of
the snphenders or diving machines, Of
which two hundred are now in ,lse on the
coast, that the price Of the article Is very rap
idly falling.
\ French traveller has just dis
covered THAT the middle point Of the dome
Of ST. Peters and that of the portico do not
coi.cide. The difSereace between them is
nearly five fecl, and must he due either TO an
original deie4 in construction Or to the sub
seq,ent inclination Of the axis Of part of the
building.
Jules Janin, the feuilletonist Of the Paris
Journal dcs Debats, has struck for doubling
Of his present salary, 500 week.
Some one SAYS the wheelharrow, for sim
plicity of construction, strength, courage and
ganeral moral excellence, is the superior If
the velocipede, and ousLl, to b. encouraged.
Qaess vrsnria has -gsae hs1 Oborue for
her health.
Mrs. Lincoln is at small watering place
in Bohemia.
Mrs. Symes, wealthy lady Of Montreal,
but now in Rome, has given the Pope
$1,000.
q An old lady who resides in Huntingdon
county, Indiana, has sixty or seventy pet
cats.
Adelina Patti expects to visit this country
i'm 1871, under the management of the
StrakOsches.
In the last election held in Washington
Territory fifteen women voted in Thurston
county.
Miss Kellogg contemplates relaxing her
standing parts in Italian, and asking a few
roles in English opera.
The high Swiss hat has become 80 common
that it produces wearisome uniformity in
the dress Of our ladies.
A fifteen wears old female resident Of New
Albany, Indiana, advertises to teach three
languages and do Homework at the same
time.
A Wall street broker, who has been en-
gagged To = lady about three weeks, has pre-
scented her in that time with ten thousand
dollars worth Of jewelry. Stocks must be up.
The Mortified MIMI Scotsman, of July
ID, has an item: "The regular editor ofthis
PAPER has gone to New York. During his
Absence this paper will he in charge Of Miss
Emma Gaskill.''
4 Lady, seventy y.ars of age, has erected
u monument in Union Hill Cemetery, Spring
field, VT, to the memory of the revolution
AIRY soldiers, and paid for it in knitting with
her own hands.
4 bridegroom intcrfcred with parson at
Ringgold, Ga, who, in accordance with the
usual custom, attempted to kiss the bride;
and assured the preacher that as he had paid
for the ceremony he was not going to have
any Of that fooling.
"Why did You leave your last place."
inquired a young ho,,sekeeler about to en-
gage new servant. "Why, YOU see,
ma'am," replied the applicant, 81 was too
good looking, and when opened the door
folks took me for the miss,is.'
-Ancr Goldsmith:
When lovely women reads IL Fcn,t,
And finds too late her hair is gr-y,
she's apt to feel some melancholy
Aud grieves She out Of fashion, way.
Til. only art Time. flaws to cover,
And hide that shade from every eve,
And gin at length, perhaps lover,
Il rins ami JOB;GTe-is To Sy..'