, 1870-08-25

citizen OF Lancaster, Pa, recently purchased
9,1G3 shares Of Lancaster and Clarion River Oh
Company stock for S.
The census Of Nashua, n. H., shows the popu-
1atton OF that city to be 10,50o.
"A Syracuse man said that be could eat ffty
1emona. He tt.ed to prove it, and shared the fate
Of Ananias and his unycracious wife.
IA jelly Texan painted and disguised himself
as an Indian. went 10 hls own house, scared his
wife into 1t, set the dogs to howling, and caused
his child to jump into cisIcrn.
Recent experiments BY NAsseiles chemist
in comIounaing hydrogen aud palladium are
thought TO establish the theory that hydrogen
shtultl be Chased as metal
An lrisl etatislLciun estimates that weeds cost
that country nearly ts,o .ooo rear.
The taltst tree get measured is au Australian,
Of The myrtle family, and of the genus Eucalyptus,
II Is iso feet long, or high, hut In diameter hie-
rtor1o the larger Calitornians. =
"A curious freak Of nnturc may be seen in
front Of q house In Norwich, Conn. A willow
tree has ove1g7owu q small elm tree in such a
manner as to lroop entirely over it, producing
ustrral umbrella.
"A Troy nod oarr1er has inherited $50, GOO He
Was half way up lat1tier when lie heard OF It,
aud he lust let go Of the hod and said he'd have
! to be excused.
Sixty pairs Of twins less than ycar old Is
discovery Of the census in one Mississippi county.
"A Java grandee IL coming to this country With
his elgh,y3ne children, and wants to SECURE board
| III some quiet family.
! Another case Of temporary insanity from
nursing laby recently occurred at Louisville,
Ky. A coiored girl In that city, during the ab-
scnce Of hes employers, was SO affected BY the
CRYING OF an tnfaht that she forced quantity Of
concentrated ye down the throat Of the little one.
Death followed in two days.
"A curious and painful ecene was witnessed at
the burning Of q mill. on Battle Island, near Os-
wego. a few days ago. The mill was the home OF
Rresi focks Of pigeons AMI swallows. While the
flames were raging, the tirds would circle above
them in flocks anu then DASH into them In body
hundreds Of them were found dead Oh the ground
alter the l1e. The birds had nests in the mil,
hl!cd with young ones, which they sought to de.
| fenA.
"A calf WIS born III Wood County, West Viz.
g'nis, recently. which is 4 great curiosity. It L
entirely without haar. except bunch on the eut
Of t's tail; has skin like m elephant the heal o
deer, and legs Of a calf. All Its actions closely
resemble tho c OF the deer.
The report that young man at Allegheny
Pa. tlost his speech l,y the explosion Of q dfe
cracker or the Fourth, bothered thr e1n!uen
:1ociors. They all went to writing about the dit
| fetent organs OF speech that must have bee,
Affected By rhe explosion; and now 1t turns on
| thai 1t was written speech that he lost, whlcl
was in his pocket, aud took ure from the tire
cracker.
"A woman who died In Putnam, Conn, an.
having suffered long from IN tncurable chron1
disease, was SO Impressed with the idea that kh
| w6uh be dugup to CRAFTY the doctors By an cz
| animation, that ahe Iuade her husband and SO
| promise that they wund watch her grave ever
| night for tTo weeks, and they dill So.
. "a correspondent travelling In Canada say
that In the vicinity Of Quebec are rows Of shaI
. tics fronting On small farms, and from which tn
city is mostly supplied with vegetables, th
! | women doing the lelu-wotk and cradllng II
grain, while stalwart men stay indoors rocsin
= the laby.c1adle aud smoking pipes !" How thin
, you," he adds, would Mrs. Stanton and Susan !
/ Anthony relish this kind Of woman's r1Rhts9r
o The consumption Of wood IN the Cnlte
!, States is enormous hallway sleepers ulone I,
d quire 10000 acres Of the best timber every yea
The annual expenditure for railway building
repairs and cars Is $aat 500 900. The iocomotiy,
in the United States consume ss5 0to, COO worth
" the article. Wood industry amounts to $500 OK
eco, In which there are 49, 900 artisans.
n Statistics In reference to the SANITARY cond
r Of thc London ncedlcwomen hare been publ!s
= ed, from which 1t appears that the mean age
women generally Is 54.1 years--that OF nccdl
1t women IS only s6.+, Ont Of 1000 ueedlewome
II ass die from consumption, and 1os from fever
st out of 1,GOO shopEeercrs, 1e7 die from cousum
n | uon, and 81 from feyeEs. In 1861, 1t Is stat,
st there were 127,131 females In London engaged
tc various branches OF needle Work, Of whom g q
were under 90 years It age.
n The Colu1lbta {Ga.} Sun says: IA Will
u wonhn, In mans apparel, has occasionally be-
seen on the outskr:s Of the city. near the 1aro
l. bridge, on :he-po.th common, and she mAked
70 flne-look.nE *nlce' young Mau4 She Is atrnn1
n I these parts: carries small Gaze and PTS