, 1870-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

A venerable gentleman in Lewiston, Me-,
always giyes the preacher fifty cents when lo
attends church. which IL often.
AT Font Washington, Md, is soldier,
now in the ssd year Of his age, who has seen
army and proposes re-enlisting.
In demolishing the old Episcopal Church
in NGwtoWn, Conn.,, Inst week, q petrifed cat
wns found under the pulpit, whose body lad
probably been there hundred yenrs.
tives in Lancashire, England, waited on the
Committee OF Cotton Manufacturers ut Black
burn and asked for an increase of wages.
They were assured that il the prices obtained
for goods after the harvest WIS over should
warrant it, their wages should be raised por
cent
They have queer way Of amusing thcm-
selves in Auburn. party catch toad, then
a couple OF dozen Of dse-Iies or "ightuiug-
Lugs." Thoy make the toad swallow the bugs
and afterward put him under glass dish The
little Aies keep up = flashing inside for some
minutee. and illuminate the toad Ill over. The
toad Likes it, too.
The fence Of graveyard in Ponnsylvania
bears an inscription in large white letters,
''uHe Jones' bottled alo if sou would keep out
OF here" .-.
Paper clothing is tho latest English w1ir-
kle. ..... .
The Philadelphia Medical Gazette, which
has hitherto been bitterly opposed to tho
Women's Medical College, has been converted
by the singular ability displayed by an nnony-
nous correspondent who contributed series
Of clinical reports, and WHO turns out to be DR..
Mary Webster.
-blr. Steiger, in recent number Of his lit
crdrische1 M0ndtsberichl made an offer Of
$500 for the best historical sketch Of the in
tcllectual vigor and progress Of the German
population in North Amcrica, moro particu-
larry exhibiting The influence OF the GeSman-
A. ~ Avn
cau institutions. to occupy fifty pages Of that
journal, and to be sent in By May l, 1871.
Tho Detroit Tribune says Of that story Of
the circus musicians being eaten By lions in
Missouri that "The lions treated the musi-
clans with distinguished consideration. aud
without taking go much as single juicy steak
from them. The musicians didn't tumble into
the den Of lions at all, but went on blowing
their horns with melodious composure. The
lions were not at all hungry; and couldn't d.
gest tle musicians. il they had swallowed
tho circus. There wasn't any circus. Tho
musicians tumblcd into den of 1iars-not
lions.@
Am Arkansas paper says: "We had two
great shocks in AfkadelrMa last week, one Of
Which was the impannaling. for tho first time,
of negro jury, and tho other an earthquake
The earthquake Won"
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company re-
port that the Panama business is not paying,
and that four OF their splendid steamers have
already been transferred to the China trade.
Tho company owns twenty-four frst-clnss
steamers. valued at nearly 912, ,000, 900, and az
fast as new paying routes arc developed they
| will be put upon them. The New York Times
believes that in duo time the travel and traffic
between New York and San Francisco will be
absorbed By the great trans-continentaI rail
road lines, and that tho lsthmus route will be
CT comparatively abandoned, at least until water
| communication is established by means OF q
Darien Canal,
Manchester, England, has latoly had CO.
operative congress. at which the following
statistics were furnished by gentleman NAM
| ed huttek: In 1860 there werc 100 co-opera-
| ttve societies in England in 1862 it had in
creased to $50; and at present the number is
about 900. In 1864 the number Of members
did hot exceed 100, 600 it now numbers about
210, 600. The annual trade nov done amounts
to about E10. .o00, 600 He stated that the
business with tho Manchester and County
Bank amounting to .e1, 900, 900, and the gocie-
lies with which they transacted business did q
trade amounting to about "a, ,G0O, 600.
"A Florence nobleman recently received q
letter, in which lie Was threatened with death
J unless he laid $1,000 forins the next
| t1ay in ono of the city fountains Tho noble
man at once took the letter to the police au-
,1,or;ties. and ,lon laid The demanded money
in the appointed fountain. The ncxt day d
| fInejy-dressed Young man cautiously ap-
| uroachcd the fountain, and was taking the
nockace of money from it, when suddenly he
| found himself in lie hands Of the police, who
! had been watching for him. Tic prcttiest