The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-07
BREVITlES.

Mrs. Fair having ''got religion" de.
clares that she will never shoot to kill again
if they will only let her go.
1t is said that square-toed Shoes are com.
ing in fashion again, and that ladies' shoes
are to be made with what ia known as box.
toes.
Mrs Myra Clark Gaines has sold he,
Sl25. 900 claim against the city of New Or
leans, at auction, and realized S39, 900.
This will be great relief to the public.
To Miss Dix, tie philanthropist, be-
longs a large share of the honor of bringing
into existance the magnificent asylum for
the insane at Washington.
The wife of Sir Walter Scott did not ap-
preciste his literary attainments. She called
his novels ''nonsense books"
Indiana has a bridegroom who paid the
minister 81 for marrying him and stabling
his horse all day besides.
The prediction Is made that oysters will
be abundant and of superior quality next
season.
A boy in Iowa claims to be the cham
pion kite flyer, his kite having drawn out
$500 feet of string, somewhat more than a
mile.
JEFF. Davis still says it's lie.
-Scufiletown is its name, and it's in Ar
kansas, and it's right lively place
An African eight feet high Is on his
way to America. He proposes to make a
feeting side-show OF himself
A Philadelphia reporter describing a
desperate character, says che sweas Ii ke an
alIigator"-which ia trifle vague.
-Biers,adt is Juggling his paint pot along
the Pacific slope, rs the highly inartistic way
in which western journaldoes personal"
Man, wife and seven children walk
twenty-five miles TO visit circus in Kansas
The love ofthe beautiful is strongly developed
in the West.
The relatives, friends and acquaintance
of Memphis lady. are much mortified at
her unstylish suicide. She stopped to bed.
bng poison.
STRIPPED snakes eat potato bugs, which
in turn poison the snakes, and the people of
Van Buren, County, Iowa, are in high glee
at the mutual benefit society.
A refreshmeut keeper at Zouave pic
mic in New Haven became utterly dis
oouraged. Why shouldn't he whsn-among
other thing--he was killed by roughs,
John Van Buren, used to say that it re-
CURED more tact and Judgment to cross Broad
way, in New York, than to be justice of the
peace in the country. Only country Justice
would venture 10 dispute the truth of this
statement
-Betsey and are no longer out, " but
on the contrary, We are very lovingly Gin"
again. This il official. Will Carleton says
70, and he knows. On the new leaf that the
couple have turned over, this among other
lhings is written:
And she .a +. in .s.rd' to heaven we'd try and
By ssarfis' braseA establishment, and runnin' in
here on earth.
The San Francisco Call publishes List
# the "wealthy men" men of that city.
Tifty-one are millionaires, with fortunes run
ling from 81, 900, 900 to slO, OOO, 900; ten are
vorth $50, 900, and sixty-one have $500,
100 and upward.
The highest farm in the world Is said
o be situated four miles from Sherman Sta |
ion, on the Union Pacific Railroad. 1t has |
IN elevation eight thousand feet above the |
ea-level. Vegetables and gr,in thrive we'll
m this farm, and two hundred young apple
rees have been ret out rs an experiment.
They have /. severe attack of the rail.
Dad fever At Puget Sound. One of the pa
'en closes long article With: Then blow
e winds! put your shoulder to the vbeels,
e steam gods! and hasten On the time for
'hich We are looking. longing, dying!
The Dubuque HeraId thinks it known
{ The champion harvest-vorking woman.
he drove he rsapss I'll through the har-
'ex, helped her Old nan all she eoqld, and
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