, 1870-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS,

A yonng iadies' boat club has been organized
at Erie. IA.
AT . concert in st. Petersburg recently tht
orchestra Was composed Of GOO trumpets snd
There arc five American conyicts in Ger
man penitentiaries.
.,-hecently, while on berrying excursion
three ladies Of Danbury, Conn, killed tht
largeat Tatt]esnakes, ever seen in that vicinity
Eighteen young men have been fined 8l(
each Tor hnsbituaIly 'sloadng" on the street
An esn,y, Of belligerent heaa rocentl,
At Easton, Del, and put lawyers and witnessei
A., New k,t., York had seventy-ono accidents or
At "A F4of FeSa!e e burglar aged year, is on tEia
They hare been firing cannon in the fields
near Paris, to bring on rain.
1t is eaid that trichinB have been diEcoy.
cred in the flesh OF deer shot in their native
wiIds in Oregon.
The :. sllvar nuisance" has abated &c
much in Montreal that American cpina haTe
almost entirely disappeared.
In the yeatibule Of = church in South
Gardner, Nnes., may DO seen the following
".Sot,ce! Persons chewing tobacco viii
please Epit in their hats"
The Lyman gun, made at Residing, Pa,
for the French Government, and which is to
throw ball ten miles, has been satisfactorily
tested, and will now be taken to England and
tried u.ero,
A case Of feminine daring ia related of a
pice, and defed any man of tho party with
Whom she WAS riding to follow her. Not a
man accepted the challenge, but tantaliziug
youth stood on his head and dared the lady to
do that.
"A Texas editor has had presented to him,
t5v aya anl% 1nr3.
shirt, which presents pictorial history Of tho
State, including the Mexican war. The editor
wears the shirt outside Of his coat, and where
ever he goes be is followed by crowd OF ad-
miring boys studying from the back Of it the
tine arts, and booking themselves in Texas
politics.
The nineteenth meeting OF the American
Association for the Advancement Of Science
will commence on August II, in Troy, n. Y.
The profeesed objects Of tho association arc,
''by periodical and migratory meetings, to
promote intercourse between those who are
cult7atlng science in different parts Of North
America; to give stronger and moro general
Impulse and more systematic direction to
scientific research IN our county, 1nd to pro-
cure for the labors Of scientific men increased
facilities and wider usefulness"
Vienna hasa satitical paper called the Flea,
which the Pope wants Austria to suppress, but
che won't.
In Pittsburgh, on tho Fourth, q fire.
cracker WAS thrown into the mouth Of q boy
aged 10 years, and exploded there. Tho boy
has entirely lost his voice. but il otherwise
The La,0 Rerie,o calls photography on the
question OF handwriting, '*hea1say Of tho
sum-"
The Matrimonial Aescs, of London, prints
more than two hundred announcements Of
candidates for marriage.
a Rochester fN. ~ man, jealons Of his
$fr Il 1N$ -&1-
Tengo on his spouse. He threw her waterfall
and best bonnet out Of the window.
Tho Rondout (N. ~ Freeman ls authori-
ty for the statement TINT citiZon of that
place has been trying to trade his wife aud
two daughters for horse, and the equine
wasn't a very good animal either.
The British Parliament is again to be
asked to sanction the carrying Of a railway
through Greenwich Park, notwithstanding tho
Astronomer-Koyals ott-repeated objection,
that the accuracy OF tho observations made at
the Observatory would Buffer by tho passage
OF ttains.
An English Countess, who made the 40
quaintance Of some American girls on the
Continent, IL Bnid by the Eeool4fi0n to hare
expressed great astonishment at the iueness
and costliness Of their nnderc1othes. She did
not believe that the cambrica, linen, and !aces
Of the Princess Royal exceeded in value those
WON BY onr American girls
The number Of Chinese in tho country at
the end Of 1869 is estimated at 10000, among
whom were but 5000 Women and 1900 chill
dren: Since immigration begs4 in 184s,
138, 600 haze come to the United States, Of
10000 havu died. Or tho number at present
in tho country, about one-half are in Califor-
mis-, 5000 in other Pacific States and Terri
tories, while fully $1,000 havc crossed tho
Rocky Mountains.
A Winsted, CT, lady VAS some timo ago
struck by lightning and lay for hours uncon-
scious, dead to all human appearances. Size
distinctly heard her friends declare she was
unqugstionsbly dead = and she would have
been buried alive had not her brother insisted
(while the bystanders laughed him to scorn)
upon hoping and working aud waiting for re-
etoration, which he at length accomplished.
In various parts OF England the surface Of
tbs country has undergone great changes in
the last hundred yeare. A new county is being
reclaimed from the Sea on the coast Of Norfolk
and Linconlshi1e. One consequence Of driving
away the water is, that the land shrinks: In
Lynn many OF the houses are g settling" the
bridges are weakened, and the Corn Exchange
:" ls sliding away from its front"
A funny man in Alexandria, Va, the
other evening, bade his wife and children good
bye, telling them that he was going to kill him
self He then jumped into the well Of an old
through . dry drain that opened on the side
Of hill near br, and watched with delight the
efforts Of crowd which soon collected to fish
him out OF the water at tho bottom Of the we'll.
"A New Haven man advises people to use
snow hereafter instead Of ice, for refsigsrat-
ing purposes in summer Provide, says he, a
square box, say l2 to 10 inches square, fiji it
with pure hnoW, stamping It together with
smooth block Of convenient form. Have the
box made very little taper, just the slightest
fare toward the open side. On emptylng it
you will havea block Of suov sufficiently solldi-
fed, and ready, after one real cold night, for
packing into your ice box Ho says this will
keep "a long as ice, will, Of course, be
cheaper, and will be cleaner and purer,
On Saturday evening, June Is, the light
ming played curious freak in D1ewsyille,
n. q. The houses Of ". A. LoEel aud aIra.
E. A. Baker, Of that place, stand noar each
other, and between them there are several |
a1ge trees, two Balm Of GiIeads among the
rest Midway between the two last mentioned
trees were two chicken coops, standing five
feet apart. In ono coop there wore oleveu
arge chickens which had been weaned from
he hen, and in the other WAS brood Of smsll
chickens win their mother. The lightning
first struck lie coop containing tho large
chickens, killing nine Of them, and then passed
along the Hurface OF the ground to the other l
:oop, killing tho hen, but not in the least in !
uring Lcr chickens, which wcro then under
Ter Wings. The Hun passed hence to the