The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-24

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The Yosemite Valley has had l ,46l viz
ton this year.
Great Britain consumes four times as
much tea as the United States.
The Ohio river is going into decline.
1t keeps its bed, and is quite low.
A translation of 'Jatsneae novel ap-
pears in magazine published in London.
"A new community, based on the plan Of
the Oneida organization. has been instituted
at BaldWiisville, l. l.
Americans are returning from Europe,
rapidly. Cholera.
A nasty pertater bug bit Massachusetts
woman on the tongue. She didn't gossip for
two days, but plantain juice and muriate Of
ammonia cured her-Of the bite.
Honey bees are sent BY mail in Pennsyl-
vania.
"A hustler stole lUO watches in Pennsyl-
vania. His hair will be cut of.
A delicate Chicago woman partook of
twenty eight dishes 1t one meal.
-Four young ladies have died in Boslon
from over ssudy-but whether from books or
fashion We know not.
The skeleton of moa has been found.
What moa could Pickwickian desire?
The Swiss government has abolished
capital punishment.
A Shanghai murderer cut his execu-
toner into ten thousand pieces. He is not
expected to recover.
Fifty Boston harkeepers we're lately be-
fore one judge for dealing in spirituous
liquors. He fined them because he knew
how il was himself.
-Venezuela has a revolution on hand.
Whether new one Or one of the old lot, We
don't know
"A religious convention in Iowa has been
unable to decide whether or not croque; play
ing is sinful.
The number of Confederate flags in
possession Of the government at Washington
is five hundred and forty-two.
A severe clap of thunder the other night
90 frightened an exotic "help." in an Albany
family, that she took the next steamer for the
Green Isle, where they have no such thunder
Ms that.
A Kentucky man unites the avOcatiOns
of blacksmith and barber. In moments Of
abstraction he uses a mans face a. an anvil
and the razor as q hammer. This treat
ment wears out the anvil rapidly.
A correspondent Of an agricultural pa.
per asks: Where can wool be probably
grown" We are OF opinion that there is
no place where it can more proftably be
grown than on the hack of sheep.
A man named Hunt, a butcher in Sac
ramento, was bitten on the neck by COM
mon fly ON Friday, from the effects of which
he died on Monday night after great suffer
ing.
1t is estimated that within the past hum
dred days not les than ole million dollars
in gold has been expended in Texas, west Of
the Colorado, for beeves, stock cattle and
horses.
The first carriage that ever entered the
Yosemite valley went there July "a, packed
on the backs of mules by livery firm Of
Mariposa. II is intended for the use of tour
lists who do not like horseback riding.
AS an argument in favor Of polygamy,
a Mormon father in Salt Lake City shows a
child six months old weighing forty pounds
and measuring twenty.six inches around the
waist.
A Western editor accuses a contemporary
OF ''dirty meanness," and frankly adds:
''We want him to distinctly add that two
can play at that game"
1t il announced As q seaside item worth
chronicling, that the ladies at Narraganet
Pier are not addicted to slang expressions.
A San Francisco doctor advertised for a
good Office Cat" He has already received
243 felines, with the southern counties yet to
hear from.
The mean depth Of the North Atlantic
ocean, which is stated BY many TO he Sl2,-
500 feet, has been reduced by more elaborate
soundings to $500.
Among the other formal invitations to .
recent New York funeral were the members
in body, Of an association known as the
Jolly Crows"
The negro vote of California, is estima-
ted at two thousand, and will be cast solid
for the Republicans, giving that party very
strong probability of carrying the State.
Utah Territory is nov shipping 5000
tons of ore and 600 tons OF bullion per
month. The former is usually worth $3.50
to $500 per ton, Of which one hall, perhaps,
il profit.