The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-14


the children Of common people"
We fail to recognize in the Ob~~roal A.
ticles the usual we'll rounded periods of the
accomplished editor Of that paper, and isar
he has assumed The authorship of IN article
in which the errors, mistatements and evil
dent party interest manifested, is charseable
to another.
Ladies are beginning to wear Panama
hats.
-Ex-Admiral Ralph Semmes is lecsurine
in Alabama
Iowa has tremendous number of reaper
accidents daily.
The New York Standard calls aloud for
metallic life-boats On ferry boats.
"A doctors motto is supposed to be
''patients and long suffering"
"A colored Atlanta auc4ioneer disiocated
his jaw-bone in rhetorical fight
-Parlicment and the Crown have passed
an act abolishing days of grace in the case of
bills of exchange and prommisory notes
payable on sight or presentation.
The Express Company's iron chest,
containing s75. 900, stolen in Mississippi BY
the Copeland gang, is said to have been
found in hollow tree.
One Of the lamp-lighters of Milwaukee,
Wis, is little girl Of ten years, who attends
to her duties promptly and in all kinds Of
weather.
Ladies at Des Moines, Iowa, amuse
themselves BY going to the arsenal with Ad-
jutant General Baker, and firing 12-pound
cannon.
John Morrissey is about to build house
of worship at Saratoga with his winnings on
HelmbOld.
The Prince of Wales, who was recently
made knight Templar, has had an invi-
tation to attend the convocation of the order
at Baltimore next month.
The Louisville Courie-Journal suggests,
as the best plan for preventing the explosion
of boilers, TO ill them with ice-water and get
them in cool place.
One of Barnum's clowns committed sui
eide at Troy, N. Y, the other day. Re
morse at the number of humbugs he had par
ticipated in was supposed to be the cause.
Mrs. Patience Opedoick, Of Grace Lake,
is 100 years of age and a Revolutionary
pensiOner. She eats without the use of
spectaclea, and can bake bread in four Ian
guages.-C1icago Times.
Indiana life is conducted on the combi-
nation plan, and the indianapolis papers
often insert for the city fathers announce
ments like this: Lovers of scientific exhibi-
tons of pugilism and stout breeches, are
invited to a little ''tare," at the County
Clerks office, this afternoon, at halfpast 5
O'Clock.
"A young lady at the Ohio camp meeting
asked the prayers of the assembly because
zee could not set her eyes on I certain young
man in her neighborhood without feeling as
though she must hug him to death.
Gov. English, of Connecticut, has given
1000 toward building new school house
"A singular attempt to reduce the majorities
Of his party.
Seven feet of feminine loveliness, all in
one individual, daily excites admiration by
strolling con the beach at Long Branch"
AT recent "bake" at Rocky Point, the
excursionists devoured a hundred and five
bushels of clans.
A Cincinnati drug cleSk put himself to
sleep with chloral, and has not walked up
yet.
The track of the Hudson River Rail-
road is now laid with steel rails.
Henry Ward Beecher calls Boston "the
end Of trouble, the beginning of bliss"
"A Massachusetts, paper asserts that the |
Goldfish catch this year is unusually small.
The Presbyterian Banner, in advising
people how to receive pastors visit, says:
Don't lcok upon him as a stranger, or as
some superior being over whom you must
make fuss. Receive him as friend whom
you can safely trust, if indeed you deem him
worthy; and If you do not, the less you
have to do with him the better"
The Opinion Rationale newspaper, of
Paris, announces the death, from the effects
Of pistol shot wound, of Mr.. Fisk, "the
American nabob, worth S45, 10000 He
- killed, We learn, while witnessing, IN
I IA, the Orange demonstration. His
Heath is an immense loss for the progress OF
musical art ir the United States, for he was
he impressario Of Miss Nilsson, whom he
to America by blank contract,
which the diua filled up, she demanding and
$500, 600 in gold for one hundred
representations. II
Two sons of John Smith, who, in this
reside in Switzerland County, Indi-
na, went out cunning few days since.
falling to find squirrels they resorted, for
port, to the firing of wadding from their '
uns at each other, which pleasing diversion |
esulted in one of them having half news
'aper hard-rammed, propelled with velocity
ONE four inches into the foundation of him. Q
The doctor extracted il, and advised the /
Dung man to hereafter take his literature in e
he regular way.
The Boston Transcripts is publishing a ,
ew king Of enigmas, called comparative con- '
ndrums. For instance: Fist-My posi- a
We is 6gurative tale, my comparative is a b
curve; my supurlative is newly
,arried couple. Arswer-Parable, Para d
ola, Pair o bleTt. Second-My positive is ii
sudden storm at sea; my comparative is !,
beet poverty; my superlative is catalogue :
female Indians. Answer-Squall, Squalor, a
quav-list. The Bostonians must have n
bloated quantity Of time hanging heavily O
q their hands.
Making Fun II Mig Appesaaes.
One of George Alfred Townsend's letter
the Chicago Tribune contains this: D
A frst-class civil war can be contrived in r
any day in the year BY setting o,
lck the State House clock an hour. Puncf- N
lily 1t twelve the Philadelphia artisan will 2,
Ok 1t his stomach and compare it with the Al
ock. In FIVE minutes he will be transform III
into a raging cannibal. At q quarter d,
vt twelve he will assemble At the Mayors ID