The Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Ind.) 18??-1920, 1870-07-07
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There are 2s7 Incorporated colleges
in the United States.
Both London aud Paris are afflicted
with the smallpox.
William bowling died In Delaware
recently, aged 10.
William Gilmore Simms' last words
were "Not long"
Adjutant General Head, OF New
Hampshire, has resigned.
You can get turtle eggs for fifteen
cents dozen in Savannah.
General Wade Hampton has pur-
chased n steam-plow for $4,000.
The new Union Hotel at Saratoga is
To accommodate 1000 guests.
Galveston has $4,000 dogs, the sup
port Of which costs 81, 900 day.
George Francis Trains cottage ut
Newport is near "Spouting Rock"
Rhode Island is 10 have Board OF
Female Inspectors for It's prisons.
Hong Sa Kce, of China, proposes 10
lecture In the South on Coolie labor.
The tobacco trade Is unusually large
In Evansville this year.
a Shelbyville paper says that fishing
on Sunday is very fashionable there.
abouts.
a woman ~ black ~ the ace Of
spades says she was "born 10 blush
unseen"
Our Saxon grandmothcrs called
what are now known as garters, shank
bands!
Frcdrick Grant, the Presidents son,
will bc graduated from West Point
next year.
Ten cents worth Of Chicago whisky
In said 10 make man obiivious 10 all
earthly things.
One Of the tnllest horses In the world,
standing nineteen hands high, IN
owned In ~. John, y. Il.
Somebody advertlses m having
found In Atlanta, Ga, "an accom-.
plIshcd young lndy's silk parasol."
Charles Rcade wants to come 10
America To give readings or lectures,
after the manner of Dickens and
Thackeray.
The History Of the Devil has Just
been published ut Leipsic. Daniel DE
Foe wrote work, with similar title,
In English.
The following sentence Of only
thirty-four letters contains all the let
ters In the alphabet: "John quickly
five two bags"
A tulip tree In full blossom, covering
a space Of q quarter Of nm acre, and
fully one thousand tulips,
is attracting attention at Boston.
The Boston and Albany Railroads
great Fast Boston gram elevator has
been completed. 1t Is ten stories high |
and has capacity for 400, 900 bushels.
Two hundred and eighteen OF the /
students at Harvard are Unitarians,
seven are Roman Catholics, and are
New Churchmen" or Swedenbor-
gians.
The Detroit Tribune says: "Sharles
Chez Leland, der man vot write der /
pallads, veil. lie ish not |
into ldaly some more again. He hash /
gone to London. YAH"
Rev. DR.. Rush has secured S92, 500 /
for Central College, at Fayette, Mo-,
Of which amount $50, 900 was raised in
ST. Louis, and only 1900 remain to
be guaranteed to insure the endow-
ment.
The Public Ledger is the oldest daily
paper i'm London. 1t has very limit
ell circulation, but is still the medium
Of commercial advertisers who have
auctions "by inch OF candle" 1t has !
neither editor nor reporters.
Bayard Taylor, now in California,
has been presented with n gold ring
made from the last spike which was
driven at Promontory Point by Gov
ernor Stanford on the completion Of
the Pacific Railroad.
DR.. A. ID. Taylor, of Medoc. Mo-, so
beat and cut his wife the other day
that she will proba oly die. The neigh
bors, believing that the crime was
caused by DR.. Tayior's neck being too
short, heightened il about an inch by
hanging him TO tree.
One Of the Beecher girls used to say
that she had three rules To guide her
IN copying her fathers MSS; If
letter was dotted il was not an !; II a
letter was crossed it wasn't I; and If
word began with n capital letter it
iidn't begin sentence.
The centennial of the settlement Of
VT, occurr Il Wednesday.
The first settler and his family arrived
Dn snow shoes ia March, 100, from
Pomfret, Conn. Among them was
laughter of Gen. Israel Putnam,
" hose descendants still live in the
own.
Fourteen thousand laborers are at
work on the Alabama rail- Dads. Work