The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-21
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John Brown in its Capitol.
-One county In Georgia has not single ply
sician. They are all married men.
Only one town in Maine celebrated the
semi-centennial anniversary of that State.
"A public school was dismissed in Elkhorn,
Wis, one day last week, that the children might
attend o murder trial.
Whether Boston shall be annexed to Charles
town is to be decided by the votes OF the people
of the two cities.
AT fire at Rutland, VT, recently, young
man threw away pail of water remarlxing
that 1t was too hot to do any good.
h-In Williamsburg, Va, on Thursday, horse
threw two young men, who had mounted him in
q frolic, and killed them both.
-"Conslstency, thou art jewel, and
"Though lost to sight, to memory dear, are two
familiar quotations whose originators no one
has yet been able to discover.
Boston protests against the destruction of
independence Square, and asks what the country
would think and say If she proposed to dig
down Bunker Hill to fill up the flats on Mystic
river or to destroy Faneuil Hall for any pur-
pose of ordinary convenience or emoument.
The Shakers at Alfred, Maine, are negotiat-
ing the sale of their real estate there to Port
their number to the Shenandoah to examine
the country. authorizing them to erect buildings
there for the society, If they think 1t advisable.
Mrs. Stowe writes from Florida "that q
country cannot be laid flat down under war,
burned over with fire, and all its pleasant things
laid waste, and come up again so as to stand
even with the undisturbed civilization of North
ern towns, in one, two, or threeyears." In this,
at least Mrs. Stowe has truth on her side.
The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal COM
plains of the hideous stoves in the street of
that city, and demands their removal on the
ground that passengers are constantly in danger
OF being thrown against them, and that the con-
slant opening and closing of the caEcdoors cause
hot and cold blasts of wind to strike them.
Sake broke his arm the other day. Too
bad We hope it hasn't permanently injured
his hurneruS.-LOaceH Courier.
Thanks for your kind coincidence; I would write
merry rhyme, in answer. II might;
But then-confound the fall-the very stone
That broke my hunerus hurt my funny-bone!
j. G. S.
The Albany Argus relates that when a GER
| tain railroad was first opened, rural member
| came down to the depot closely examined every
| thing, and, after inquiring how much they
| said:-"Well, guess I'll come down tomorrow
and ride bit on your road, but if don't come
| on time you needn't wait"
Consul Shepard writes that while the Oneida
was sinking Lieutenant George K Adams and
Lieutenant Commander William f. Stewart
went below, forced the doors of the magazine,
| got cartridges loaded and fired a gun three
times, and were in the act of loading the fourth
| time when the ship had sunk SO far astern thai
| the rife gun at the bow fell over and killed the
| former.
"A Bloomington boy who found the deac
body of his brother his fellow-soldier ON the
| DaLJle-nelQ OF 0ettySDuTR, ana Durleu IL III I
grave dug with his own hands, was surprised ;
few days ago by the sudden temperance o
that brother, alive and well, at their home
Dead men tell no tales, and so he is bound t.
believe his brother when he assures him he mus
have buried some other boys brother.
Flora Mills, the female burglar, whom Gov
ernor Palmer, of Illinois, has just pardoned i
IL years old, and was for q number of years
captive among the Indians. She was taken from
her eaptors, with a number of others, two year
ago, and left homeless, friendless, and pennies
at Council Bluffs, Iowa. She led an abandone
life until arrested for burglary and sentenced t.
prison. She is to be sent to the Home of tn
Friendless, in Cincinnati.
| "A man in Nevada advertises "the imperia
hair restorative or capillary fertilizer" whic
is warranted to fireplace in the physical syster
the property and power that are devoted b.
nature to build up hair that had become dol
mant or inert, through the waste of age O
through the exhaustive influences incident to
residence in hot and dry climate like this c
the Pacific coast, which causes an uunaturs
evaporation of the secretions of the follicles an
sebaceous glands of the head, and especially c
| the SCALP"