The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-06-24
CHIPS AND sPLINTERS,

Cheap breakfast-a roll on the grass.
The Indians call locomotive Coughing
Hnss.'
There are nine cities in Germany and two |
in Italy which possess Lincoln streets.
Wyss, the author of the Swiss Family
Robinson died recently at Aarau, at an ad- |
vanced age.
What does grocer do with nearly all his
things before be sells themP Gives them a |
weigh.
A New York mocking-bird plays in Ger
man, swears in English and sings pathetical- |
ly in its own language.
They are printing about 500, COO. 900 Of
bonds daily at the printing bureau of the
Treasury at Washington.
Somebody has written a book entitled
What shall my son be p Upon which some
one replies, IF the boy is as bad as the book.
the chances are that he will be hanged
German shoemaker in Milwaukee has
made an elegant pair of wooden shoes, which
he intends sending to Prince Bismark,
Philadelphia has female undertakers.
In Wyoming Territory the bride furnishes
the ring and the parsons fee. and the BRIDE
groom does the iainting.
lady advertises in the London Times for
AN accomplished poodle-nurse; wages 81
per week.
Kentucky is much moved at the prospec-
tive visit OF Henry Ward Beecher, who de-
livers the address at the Agricultural Fair.
Some people are never contented. After
| having all their limbs broken, their heads
smashed, and their brains knocked out. they
will actually 60 to law and try to get further
| damages.
Negro school-children in New Orleans car
| ry their books balanced on their burdens.
| The Springfield Republican has discovered
that the latest swindle in that town SIS to
wrap up an old iron screw in paper, and pass
it for roll Of pennies. 1t works we'll until
the paper breaks
| In addition to potato bugs and Pomeroy's
Democrat. the people of La Crosse are sfflic-
ted with another Egyptian plague, the plum
trees are covered with vermin that DESTROY
both fruit and foliage. The nuisance appears
first in the form of tree lice, which afterward
breaks out into gaily colored but very raven
Gus worms.
A country paper, speaking OF the street.
organ playing OF a soldier without arms, who
| al ri
playing was far above the usual average; he
threw his whole sole into it,
A Ere nch artist haying been asked to draw
an allegorical figure of benevoence, carefully
he, is the true emblem of benevolence it
gives more than any other substance
By mistake in the wording of the order
the people Of Worcester Mass, are ordered
to renumber the houses with Roman num-
erals instead of Arabic, which were of conrse
int nded. The Spy shudderingly expects to
see CCCCXLIV, put over its door, instead OF
simply 444.
| When Indiana found her dogs multiplying
so fast that the luxury of mutton was almost
unattainable, her legislators offered bounty
on dog skins. And now the honest farmers
have quit wool gathering and rear dogs, hich
they shear at a week old. Dogs are far
more profitable crop than cereals.
Hot water, flavor of soft soap, and dog
fennel enough to produce biiterish taste, is
favorlte Triple with potato bugs. The mix
,ure must be allowed to cool, and then sprink-
led with on the plants and bugs it'll q wa
tering pot. The first taste OF it satisfies the
Colorados. They just coil up on the floor, OF
the ground, and the subsequent proceedings
interest them no more.
A gentleman addicted to scientific inquiry
has discovered that 33 days complete the
cycle of the potato bug generation; that zoo
of the critters are the average product o.
one female, from which the family grows il
the second generation to 245 900, and in the
third to 100000. There are not ciphers
enough in any existing type foundry to ex-
press the number in the tenth generation.
Hugh Mcleod, poor unclaimed orphan
who has been brought up in the Detroit Or
phan ASYLUM, and for year or two ap
prenticed to a farmer. has lately found gu
that be has a valuable aunt in California, wht
advertises for his whereabouts, in order t.
leave him a handsome fortune.
The Vicksburg man who set a spring gu.
in his cbkicen- house, and found himself
widower before breakfast in the morning, hat
to promise his second wife before she mar
! - IL + xhox h. La 10.
time be wanted to put guns around in tina
way.
Near Gentryville, in Spencer county, Ind.
lies buried the mother of President Lincoln
The line of the proposed Roskport and Loo
gootee railroad passes near the grave, an
the corps of engineers engaged in the surve
took up a subscription among themselves 70
the purpose of erecting monument over he
grave.
Since Darwin's book came out, the monke
house in the Geological Gardens has had a
immense increase of visitors. And every ur
prejudiced observer who happens in when
party of London swells are around, is con
PEELED to unhesltatingly admit the strikin
resemblance between the cockneys and the
I simian cousins.
1t is said that since the establishment of
= Baptist Church in theira neighborhood, Il
citizens of a Delaware town refuse to eat e,
a taken from a stream in which the CONVEX
are baptized, for fear the evil spirits whit
they suppose to be removed from the ba
tized persons have entered the fish. and til,
will thus become possessed of them.
Comptroller Penny baker, of Tennessee, h
applied to Quartermaster- General Meigs
Washingt ton, for information as to the int
ton of the General Government to refund
70 Ten nessee the amount paid by her for equl
ping troops during the war. She e1pend
- nearly a half million.