The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-25

"A crystal ghost-A glass shade.
Ice is four cents a pound in Lynchburg.
Richmond promises to show a popula-
ton Of $1,000. -s,
Brigham Young showed textiles at In
dianapolis..
Musical instruments, closely resembling
the modern flute, have been lately discovered
! in Pompeii ...
BAY County, Michigan, has increased
| from 3, l64 population in 1850 to Il, 9O3.
A Kentucky paper wants two compost
| tors who can "adjulicate grammer."
The newest photographic star in Paris
calls himself Ia Torpille,-or, The Tor
pedo.
-Manistee, Michigan, has plum orchard
| Of forty acres and 5000 trees.
| Railroad excursions for the benefit OF
| churches are now popular in California.
California has beat us on heat-11O' in
the shade, August ,.
The Sononla County, California, wine
crop for this year is estimated at 1000, OOO
| gallons.
Twelve hundred tents were sent to Des
| Moines for the reunion of the Iowa soldiers.
Dear mutton.-A tender line of Lamb
recently sold for thirty seven dollars at an
autograph sale in London.
-Elecirophotomicography means the art
| of photographing objects rs magnifed by
the microscope, by the help of electrical
light. = -. - +
Eighty members OF the present Con-
I gress served in the army Sixty-nine OF
them are Republicans, and eleven Demo
| Gratis.
| Two men, father and son, have held the
office of County Clerk of GraysOn County,
Kentucky, ever since it was organized in
| the year 1916.
Hendricks county, Indiana, has the
I champion heavy weights-a brother and
| sister who weigh together over 200,
| Minnesota tells 4 story of finding a fine
silver eel. The story was coined and the eel
ought TO be.
Hall County, Nebraska, offers 500, 600
| to the Burlington 4 Missouri River Railroad
| Company to make j, the point Of junction
| with the Union Pacific instead of kearney.
The New Orleans Times saws that from
late indications, at least two negroes, Jim
| Harris and Bob Elliott, win be elected men,
bers of the Forty second Congress.
Last year the Democratic papers found
| fault because the President attended horse
races, and this year they sneer at him BE-
| cause he docs not 49,.
Fifty barrels of pickles was one Of the
items of supply for the Iowa soldiers re-
| union at Des Moincs, and of cheese more
| than six tons was ordered.
The hog ordinance has been declared un-
| constitutional in constitutional Kentucky. II
| allowed the police TO impound hogs running
at large in the streets.
| --Beecher, having pitched into tobacco
| smokers and chewers quite savagely, sudden.
| ~ turns with pity on ''the woman who n,ope
| up" and threatens to write an article about
i her.
| An observer saws that ''children are moi
so well-behaved since the mothers have taken
to wearing high-buttoned boots" This il
supposed 10 be Jest on the disuse of slippers
for spanking purposes.
The latest "oldest living Freemason" i
said to be David STYLES, of Prescott, Wiscon.
sin. He is in his 10th year, and was made
| a Mason on the DIST day Of May, 1897, over
seventy-three years ago.
| A young lady from the rural districts
| went TO Des Moines to see an elephant. In
| the street cars the conductor said to her
"Miss, your fare "Well, if l am" she
replied, 81 don't want any more Of youl
impertinence."
| Father Hyacinth has written letter,
dated July 3Oth, to the French papers, in
which he denies that the Council, which pro
fesses to have imposed the pretended dog.
MAJ of the infallibility of the Pope was in
any sense ecumenical.
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