The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-06

BreyitiCS and LeYities.

A farmer recently advertised for n
runaway wife, and called particular at
tention to the meanness of her desertion
just MS the spring work was coming on
after he had had the expense of winter
ing her. .l.. ..
The will of a defunct California doc
tor directs that his body shall be dis
sected, and the skeleton shall be well
wired together" and placed in the med
ical college in case his wife shouldn't
want it as II mantel ornament.
A New Bedford merchant last week
detected n prominent citizen in the act
of stealing from his store. Having
missed a number of articles Of value du-
ring the past year, the merchant thought
it a good chance to get square, and
therefore presented a bill Of $115, which
the respectable citizen" paid rather than
be exposed. - o.! - 20!
The latest novelties are evening shoes
for ladies, which are made with gilt heels
and q very great deal of gold embroid-
cry over the instep and gilt cups to the
toes. aIGJ1 d.EIbj 1T ." .
A down East editor plaintively say
that he has original poetry enough to
shingle Westinghouse but as he has
no Westinghouse to shingle the origi-
poetry is useless. at 81 r.,,r =.
In the Sandwich Islands it is death
for a mans mother-in-law to visit him
without permission. Happy Sandwich
Islanders! .l,a'n.
A girl in Calhoun County, Wis, at
tempted to look into the muzzle of her
brothers shotgun, at the same time pull
ing her dress away from the trigger.
The coroner's jury returned the verdict
OF death from internal carelessness."
The, women Of Cincinnati are talking
of getting up apetition to the city au-
thorities, praying that since prohigate
women must be registered according to
law, that proAigate men must be forced
to make the same public confession of
their habits. ..ff
"A Jefferson county, New York, farmer
laughed when his prudent wife advised
him not to smoke on a load of hay. He
footed it home that night, with his hair
singed, most of his garments a prey to
the devouring element, and the iron
work of the wagon in a potato Sack
and then his wife laughed.
Il say, boy, is there anything to shoot
around here2' inquired a,sportsman of a
boy lie met. "Well,'t replied the boy,
nothing just about here, but our school
master is just over the hill cutting birch
rods, you, might walk up mud pop him
over In NJ, L,a,.,H h.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, good author
iity, says: zone Of the ablest carpet-bag
Judges, having the full confidence Of
the, Radicals of North Carolina, is emf
nently qualified for the, criminal depart
ment, having served four and a half
years in the Ohio State Prison for bur
glary." ~ s,if ~ -,,rp -,.i,
Grants negro barber is q clerk in the
Treasury Department, ON q salary of
$1,000 fga woo
A Michigan woman found a live lizard
in fthe1heart pfla potato with no visible
means OF ingress, and has become insane
in an attempt to decide whether the po-
tatp Matched the lizard from the seed, or
the bel lizard grewthe potatolp s a sort of
o%yercoat. ssgiR 7lirrf Is cdg ..nroU eiaL.
Asyoung lady i'll Indiana was frozen to
death while Safeguarding with o young
man. A man who can't keep q woman
from freezing when he isin,a sleighfa all
alnneto HIMSELF should bepunishedi 10
the full extent. of thelaw. > n s52Gdic :