The weekly standard., 1870-07-13
Miscellaneous Items.

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Dtaths by sunstroke in New York last
week 3S.
Philadelphia had forty insignificant fires
on the Fourth.
1t is said there is danger of the total tx
tinction of elephants, the hunters are killing
ing them off so fast
The woman qucstion-"What did she
have on 2"
Twenty steamboats, are now building ut
Cincinnati.
The century plant is again blooming
in Louisiana. 1t docs it about twice a
year.
Between three and four thousand Ameri-
can boys arc. studying in European schools
and colleges. az
The Cuban planters, at meeting in Ha-
yana, have approved of the abolition of
slavery by the Spanish Cortes.
Ihe Cincinnati Chronicle believes it likely
that constitution similar to that adopted
by Illinois will be adopted next year.
1t is stated that an American has offered
w puithehot btC iCSiuCiCc vi luz IutC uT.
Dickcns,u ut GadshilI. for ESQ, 900.
The wheat harvest in Southern Illinois is
about completed, and it is pronounced the
best crop for many years. Corn lo,ks prom
Using.
A woman broken out with small ppx,
and warning passers-by to give her wide
berth, was one OF the walking sensations of
Halifax few days since
Hon. VIM. Smythe, the present rcprcsen-
tative in Congress from the Fifth Iowa dis
trlct was nominated for re election by ac-
camatiOn.
A resident of New Orleans has recently
swallowed six false teeth, and now bolts his
food and takes the risk of the teeth doing
the chewing.
A Pennsylvania larmer says he cured his
daughter of the Grecian bend by pouring
hot water on her and holding her out in the
sun until she warped back again.
A jug of twenty cent whiskey buried in
Kentucky in 1912, has lately been rcsurrec-
ted. aud found to have improved $49,80
worth in the lopinion of goud judges.
A noble red man named John, recently
settled in New London, Conn, stands six
feet two inches in his mocassins, and his
Amerlcanized descendants proudly inquire,
g. How is that for High Lo Jack ,"
Persons who arc fond of stale bread can
have their taste gratiied by sending to Pom
peii, where they have loaves which were
baked over eighteen hundred years ago.
The London Spectator alluding 10 the wisl,
Of Mr.. DicGells to lie buried i'll Rochester
Cathedral says; " No mans right of prop
e:ty in his b ,tly can well lie deemed to last
beyond the moment at which he parts with
1t. ~
Milwaukee SAYS she wants to exchange
lager bier for rain. 1t has been the general
impression abroad that lager-bicr always
rcigned there.
A citizen Of Georgia having lived eighty
years, and seeing no prospect of Il natural
death, has with great ingenuity accomplish
ed suicide by hanging himself in corn
crib with pair of trace chains
Thurlow Weed, ]. Gordon Bennett and
Horace Greely, three of the oldest AMI best
known journalists in the United States. are
all, by singular coincidence, danger usly
ill at about the same time.
A correspap pdcnt writing from Ireland re-
counts visit to an Irish school in the Black
Valley. An address was made TO the chill
drcn and at its CONCLUSION they were asked
what they expected fu do when they he,
came men and women, when. with one in
-i,i ih. f..ri ills, ri.-i-.n.i'.i .sla
| TO America"
Here is DR.. Mary Walker in her summer
dress: "A pair of number 2 boots. tight
pants, u blue swallow tailed coat, bcspan-
gled with brass buttnns, Il 'shoo fly cravat
of the latest and most approved style, her
hair worn loose and c0m.cd b1ck of her
ears"
The eldest son of the late Charles Dickens,
| makes the announcement in -1H the Year
Round that iE accordance with his fathers
wish, cxpresscd in writing only II wc k l'c
| fore his death. he will assume the entire
management of that Journal.
About the clrcck,e-t Thing yet done was
by Il passenger on a. Mississippi steamboat,
who tried To yet "a free passage up the river,
| lied 10 the bar keeper for free whiskey,
| and died frrIh the effects of t beforv murn
ing-giving the boat people the trouble of
clucking him overheard
A kentucky paper has come to the de,
| fence and championship ol amIalilty as a
manly virtue. 1t contends that ''snftness Of
manners, patience of disposition, kindness
OF heart, sl0wncss tO anger-thesc are the
characteristics Of amiability, and all Of them
are consistent with strength, resolution and
undauntcd courage"