White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-12-29
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cais1a. New York. They have . sick ele-
phant there, attended BY I've coetors. Seven
drug stores have been exhausted in eompoun-
ding prescriptions, md his Elephancy is not
dead yet.
u Book canvas.ers may not be aware Of
tise act that Eve cent revenue stamp Is re-
quiree to be attached to every signature in
their TO Ks; the agreement 70 purchase being |
considered contract.
p There are still vacancies for i've more
sons and daughters -in.law in the British royal
family. N. B. No Irish need apply.-Nep
York World
u Mrs Rachel Field. of Kokomo, weight
200 avourdupois, vas thrown from q buggy BY
a runaway horse. struck the wheel on her way
to the ground. and alighted on . stump.
There MAS. fortunately. enough left of the
stump, to repair the Ghcel.
U The quaint poem called "Little Breech
es," which is having such run just nov, was
written BY Col. John Hay, formerly Private
Secretary to President Lincoln, Afterwards
NaoIE AUnWeS ~ iCtisas suu tCSVussy ScC
retary Of Legation al. Madrid. Col. Hay is ia
writer Of very brilliant promise, and although
yet qaite young. has already achieved reputa-
lion of which, be may weT feel proud Gel.
Hay is nov attached to the editorial staff of
tie New York Tribune. bot writes. also. for
the Atlantic and other periodicals. His home
is at Warsaw, in Illinois, where his parents
reside.
p A gentleman taking his morning ~aTk on
the Ficthburg Railroad track, near Boston,
thought hefelt something touch him from be-
hind. The Coroner's inquest decided that it
vas locomotive propeliing train Of freight
cars, that brushed him OF the track.
p vassar College has sll the modern con-
veniences, among Others a college dentist.
p President Grant is not apt to indulge in
humor. but the part Of the closing sentence OF
his last message wherein he declaree "for a
pure and uutrammelled ballot, that every man
entitled to vote may do so just once. at each
election, without fear of molestation or pros
cription on account Of his political faith, nativ-
ity or color" made the whole House Of Repre-
sentatives, when it was read, turn invcluniari-
" to the seats occupied in that body by the rep
resentatires Of Tammany Hall-Philsdelphia
Press.
p A letter from Paris says: "It is strarge
and painful to see groups Of we'll dressed women
booking in the windows Of pork butchers and
trpe shops with the same eager curiosity with
which they used to gaze at ribbons and bonnets- y
p A man in Detroit told his boy. ten years
old. to hold the lines while he went for glas:
of beer. The boy waited about three hours
then drove to hotel ard ordered dinrer. re-
marking, "The old mans on one Of those
drunks Of his'n."
10 The Arlington property was not in Gen
Lees name. The life interest in it belonged
to his wife. Who received it from her father
George W. P. Gusts; and on her death it va.
to 20 to Gusts and Fiizhugh Lee his grandsons
The rebellion broke out, the taxes became de
Irquent, and the government bough, the estate
and holds it, therefore, under tax itlo
! U vesl,hy farmer In Ohio thoaehs te
save q penny or two BY mailing q letter inside
a ne spaper. but he paid sl69 so before he got
out of the U. s. court ,oom. As about hall
the people in Washington never buy any post
age stamps, but chip all their correspondence
in the fianked envelopes Of easy going M. C.'s
how would it do to bring them up to the cap
tain's Office for settlen ent7
~ n.:s ~ D.-..x 5:,J e, N.1raston
Texas. on the 4th, at the age Of SO years. Mr.
Burnet was in early life one Of the leading men
in Texas. In 1896 he vas appointed Provis.
ional President Of Texas, and vas afierward
elected Vice President Of the republic. He
vas a native Of New Jersey. spen: several oi
his ea.ly years in Ohio, and went to Texas in
1878. and subsequently, engaged in mining in
Northern Mexico, where he took part in favor
of Mexican independence and the republic
He soon after settled permanently in Texas
where he has ever been highly esteemed.
D The Galveston (Tcxas) Bulletin thinks
the United States needs Mexico. 1t says:
"Me1ico is mere essential to Us this day than
was Califorria when We accepted that vast
region from the hands Of necessity. Necessity
again calls loadly upon ~, and ~e must hear
her wailing voice. She has q dowry-more
wealth than had the mires Of sncient Golcon
da-and With this We propose to pay of our
national dsbt. The silver mines Of three S,:te:
in Mexico will pay of our debt and leave u:
the richest nation on earth. To her these
mines are valueless. To us they are invalua.
ble."
, u man who was being shaved in a Chi
! cago barber chop noticed that the barber did
not carry very steady hand, but thought il
best not to be alarmed at taihes- When. how
ever. the tensorial artist procured box to
stand upon, with the remark, "ihe snakes
we're all over the floor, and he wanted 10 get
out of the ~ay." the customer concluded to
finish the job himself.
" California ladies erIsy little ivory tip.
ped implement to scratch for feas.
" Black and white iniermariages are ia
some sstes pr hibited BY Law, and soon to be
tested in Tennessee. An tx.Confederste sol.
dier married negro woman in Memphis last
June. and the two we're arrested for cohahiting
when they we're fined S2s. and - they had no
money. we're compelled To work ont tie fine
in the ''chain gang" The man nov brings
suit for $25.0O0.
NU A"toddy time table" is Published, which
includes the bours and names Of eighteen
drinks in twenty four hours.
| p 1t is currently reported that steps will be
taken to prevent . psonikest member-eIeet ol
the legislature from taking his seat, on the
ground Of having accepted bribes and become