The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-05-17

GLEANlNcs.


yocalist-A Husband.
The magnoliasat Mobile are now IN
magnificent blossom.
A new England man has invented
self- threading needle.
Paris gourmand are eating violets
Tried butter ard sugar.
Princess Alice, daughter % Queen
Victoria, 10 very plain and homeiy.
"My tale is ended" ~ the tadpole
said when he turned into a bull frog.
AIphonso Karr deinss dyspepsia as
the "remorse of a guilty stomach.
A verdant young lady who bad been walz
ing liked 'hugging sst TO music first rate
| A Chicago woman says she has tried both
and being well dressed gives her more peace OF
mind than religion.
Lady Angela, who presidss over the conven
at South Bend, is not daughter of Tom E8-
ing, as has been published.
The Montgomery Gala Mail has vnuH,
| lady for local reporter who Is paid 81 oOo
year for her spicily -written articles.
Mrs. w. G. Wheaton ia working hard in /.
| inos To defeat woman's suffrage. Sac Is guoI
/ speaker and draws large audiences.
Cincinnati sees Chicago's 1000 OPT
um-eaters and goes her 1000 arsenic
| eaters better.
In the watch race at Cowes, England,
on the l1th, the Sappho. an American
| vessel, won the race.
| Preparations are making in Vienna 70
celebrate the hundreth anniversary OF
the birthday of BEErHovxN.
~
Society for the year past we're $40 0Si,
and the balance in the Treasury Is 1919.
Collector KEARNsY, OF Corpus Christi,
teagrap',s that on the 9Th he was robbed
CT ST. SO in gold, by his military escort
A D Richardson's brother and ad
ministrator, publishes . carl saying the
estaie of the deceased amounted to oni
&23 0oO, or perhaps little more.
A new Sabbath school has been or
ganized at Fountain Hill school house,
one and Il half mile east OF town, under
the dlrec ion OF Harman Hill and Frank
Weaver.
The Grand Ehcampment Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic met in Washing
ton on the 11th. Genersi Logan deliv-
cred an address on the subject and aim
of the organization.
Mr. Wake; in the Anthropological
Society. of London, has lately read pa
per suggusfing that the original seat O.
human civilization was probably the is
land of Madagascar.
A Jersey newspaper advertises ~
first-rate milk-and water COW. warrant
ed, with the assistance OF a good pnmp.
70 yield eighteen quarts day, and on
Sundays nineteen
Oae of the genller sex says that the
heaven OF the strong minded woman Is
where buttons grow in their proper
places, and men cesse from bothering
and needles are at rest
Miss Matte johnson, the young lady who
gained considerable notoriety by her escspade
with Rev. Horace Cook. has been married TO a
young New Yorker.
After the firsv Of June, the clerical
force in the War Department is to be
largely reduced. involving u month";
saving of over $4,000. The Medi ,al
Bureau is to be discontinued.
Mr.. Arnell, Of Tenn, has introduced
a measure into the House as All amend
men. to the Pac fc Railroad bill. He
proposes to put the alternate sections OF
land. not given the railroad, into the
hands Of thirteen trustees. to be usei
in giving homes and education to tue
freedmen in the South.
The man who charges his chill 'rer for
their board when they come hundreds Of
miles TO visit him and the old lady is
now valued and enterprising and pros
porous citizen of Muncie. When he dies
says the Muncie Times, our City Council
int. nds to plant him head downwards on
one OF our leading thoroughiares, thus
making a handsome and double geared
hitching post at one lick
A gentleman of New Albany, who has
re, urued from an extended trip through
the coun les OF Clay. Owen, Greene, Sui
livan, Dubois, Knox, Daviess and Pike,
reports tue growing crops in these coun
ties as most promising. Wheat, he says,
stands Lhick on the ground, and is airea-
dy knee high and remar arkabIy healthy and
fue looking Oats are coming on finely.
Early potatoes are up and growing
prom -insl,, an corn planting is being
p,. shed vigo ously. Apples, cherries.
pluns, and small iruit promise large
yield Peaches are failure in most
loc ,iities
ONLY JOKING President Lincoln once
sai mat the best story he ever read In
The papers Of himself was this:
Two Qiakeresses were travelling on
the railroad, aud we're heard DISCUSSING
the pr"hanle termination Of the war. i
think said the first, that Jefferson will
succet why does thee think so p
asked the other. Because Jefferson is
n prayIng man. And 80 is Abraham a
rrning man. objected the second
Yes. but the Lord will think Abraham
is Joking the first replied conclusively.
1t is estimated that it will require ct
least forty thousand troops to carry OH