The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-11-18
FRTDAY. NOVEMBER Is, 1870
ODDS AND ENDS.

CRINoLINEs are still worn on the
street, but they are banished forever
from indoor dresses.
UNDREssED kids will be very fashion
able for street wear this winter. We
car imagine why.
SCRIPT letters are taking the place of
the "Old English" text on visiting
and wedding cards.
FAwN colored sacks and fringed tu-
MICS over velvet petticoats are the
latest things In costumes.
WHEN you receive a kindness, re-
member it; but when you bestow one,
forget it.
SOME European oracle says: 1T is
all over with Roman Catholicism and
the supremacy Of Paris fashions"
The annual reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland will be held at Cleve-
land, Ohio. on the 24th and 10Th inst.
THE latest breaking-out place Of
the monogram fever is on the front of
a ladies bottines and slippers. Where
next
VISITING cards are made so large
this Winter that new impetus has
been given to the manufacture OF
pastebOard.
a. CHICAGO boot-blaek was forty
FIVE days in making the trip to Cali
fornia. He was put of ct almost ev-
cry station on the road.
A lutte one, after undergoing the
unpleasant operation OF vaccination,
exclaimed: Nov won't have to be
baptized, will II
AUBURN New York, employs three
hundred mechanics II one shop, but,
unfortunately, it has a wall around II,
and mush for supper.
THE moment a man commits a sin
he commits himself tG the downward
law. We grow in sin by giving temp.
tation entrance.
TEE wording is like the hinder
wheels Of a carriage, ever following
after the front wheel OF happiness, but
never overtakiug it.
THE hair ia to DO worn very low
this Winter, In long nets. Fashion
in this regard takes for her motto
nursery ryhme, First we 60 up, up,
up" etc.
Fools caught with lighted cigars
in their mouths will be shot, is an
inscription frequently seen on sign.
boards around wells and works in the
oil regions.
THERE is a city out West with
streets 70 filthy that the Street Com
missioner is compelled TO wear a
clothes pin on his nose when going
his rounds.
JOSH BILLINGS says that one ov
the hardest things for emmy man to do
is teW fall down on the ice when it is
wet, and then git up aud praze the
the Lord"
In 1923 there were three miles Of
railway in the United States, and now
there are 4S,S00 miles, and the in
erase cannot be less than thirty miles
per day.
CALLS Of evenings are allowed much
later than of old. This will allow
sort of thing in one evening than
formerly, which is an improvement.
The Cinnamon are to be prevented
from trout fishing in California. The
net used by them is so perfect that
when they cease fishing in a stream
there is no fish in it.
WITHIN a period of three years
three men and three horses have been
killed on the same day Of tie month,
at the same hour, aud Oh the same
section Of the Cleveland and Pitts
burg Railroad.
"YoU had better ask for manners
than money" said a finely dressed
gentleman to a beggsr, who was ask
Ing for aims. Il asked for what
thought you had the most Of, wa
the cutting reply.
To OBTAIN a good nights sleep
sponge the entire length Of the spine
in hot water for ten or fifteen minutes
this will reduce the circulation, quiet
the nervous system, and induce sleeI
better than any drug.
ENGLISH papers complain that thu
half-p penny postal cards, which have
recently been introduced, are devel
oping a good deal of latent black
guardism, the opportunity of sending
messages of an insinuating character
through the postoffice being appar
emily Irresistible.
AT the Palermo, o., Methods
Conference, the other day, Mar
Stinebaugh, one of the ministers
preached, and descending from th
pulpit was married to another Of th
ministers, the Rev. Henry Bradford
Now, what if the Conference shout;
locate them 4 hundred and fifty mile
apart.
A SOUTHERN Judge refused to &C
ceps the plea of newly appointed ju
ror that he was not free holder, Of
the ground that he lad kept bachC
lor's hall six mo1ths, and mo ma
could keep q bachelors hall tina
length of time who had not dill
enough in his room to make him
freebooter"
DR. HOLLAND, editor Of ,ScribRer
Monthly, holds that women ought
be paid q smaller price than men ar
paid for doing the same work, an
doing it Just as we'll Whereat
Workingwoman" inquiries through
New York paper if DR.. Holland ful
nishes his magazine on easier tern
to women than to menl
The Atlantic Monthly is to have
new department, elmmencing wit
the January number. 1t is to be en-
titled Our Whispering Gallery" an
will include "reminiscences Of Dis
tinguished Authors. American an
Foreign, by James I. Fields 1t ca
not fail to be most attractive fea
ture.
a FOREIGN correspondent thus ep
tOmizss the present condition
France: Constant drill-no trad
No army for want of an orOapigar.