The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-23

What a year for conventions The
lawyers Of Kentucky and the corn doctors of
New York are the las two gatherings.
AT Petersburg, the other day, a high
minded young man shot 1t q doctor because
be had attended his sick father two months
without curing him.
Tires hundred dollars in gold coin, was
u-ed in gliding the hall on the dome OF the
California capitol.
An Iowa sOman put starch in her hns-
bands beer thinking it was araenic, and was
surprised because it didn't stiffen him.
A Wisconsin justice Of the peace granted
himself divorce.
Good name for q District Attorney !:
Swoope. He lives in Pennsylvania
have caused many rye faces amongst the
Democracy.
Tom C. Fields, the Tammany thief, has
not vet been arrested, although Tom. c.
Fields bad about the pIOPect.
"A woman has elevated BARRIERS sign
in Fort Wayne, Ind, but the bearded mon
sters of the place are a little shy Of trusting
the cOquettish sex at their threats with a
razor.
Miss Parkinson, at one time n patient
in San Francisco hospital, has sued ply
her disease and its treatment in a medical
magazine, and has los, her case.
"A young miss of fourteen summers was
recently sent BY express, through the compa-
ny of Wells, Fargo 4 Co., from Vallejo, Cal,
to Annapolis, Md. She was under the care
of over dozen different agents, and had
nothing 10 do but obey directions. Size ar
rived "a ely, c. .. u.
Wendell Phillips sayr: 81 have given
thirty years Of my life-and rejoice to have
been permitted to give them-tOthe redemp-
ton Of . race. II lam spared another ten
years hope l shall be permitted TO give
them to The redemption o. every man who
works with his banda"
An old lady, Mary jackson, died re-
Gently at DAY ton, Ohio, who, il is stated on
reliable authority, had attained the remarka-
BILE age Of one hundred and nineteen years.
"A remarkable cluster of oranges has
been brought from Dayton, Florida, by DR.,
P. A. Gordon, of Mansfield, Ohio II has
twenty -eighty oranges upon single twig
twelve inches in length.
The japanese make paper cloth which
can be WISHED without injury. Boxes,
trays and even saucepans may be made Of
this cloth and sAucepans thu. manufactured
sustain no injury over a strong charcoal heat.
Bags may be madeof it in which wine may
be put and heated by insertion in boiling
water.
OF ,ko al
that the betr0thal of the Princess Mary
Alexis, of Russia, will ere long be officially
announced. The Grand Duke is p years OF
age; the Princess is the eldest daughter OF
Prince Frederick Charles and the Princess
Mary, OF Anhalt. She was born in 1855.
Jupiter is getting in bad way; an as
trunomer notices the ''rOsy protui,erance"
now visible on his face. Evidently Jupiter
has been "out' too much o'nigh,s.
-Corlelia NJ. Wilson, OF Cincinnati, who
furnishe- the demi monde of the West with
dress goods and luxurie., is about to be forced
into bankruptcy, proving again that the wages
of SIN is death.
The Howard Association, at Charleston,
s. e., has passed resolution giving notice
that the yellow fever has nearly ceased. Ac-
tive operations OF the association will termi-
nate on Wednesday.
The New York board oi health has APP
pointed committee to urge Comptroller
Green to furnish funds to enable the bo,rd
to check the progress OF smallpox, which
within a week has suddenly appeared in all
parts OF the city.
Prominent gentlemen in Washington
attribute the spread Of the small pox IN Phil
ade!phia and other cities te the sale of bnf-
falO robes there, taken from the Biaekieet
and Piegan CAMPS, where the disease pre-
vailed two years ago.
A tough ''feller''-a policeman's club
How The worst of men can make home
hapPy-by keeping away from it,.
Compulsory education Ia one ol the rs-
cent but beneiiceni results Of the annexation
Of Alsace and Lorraine.
Some Of the ST. Louis papers don't like
it because Chicago has won the worlds
for big fires They ask the
suspension of pnblic sentiment until they
get ready to show what they can do.
A writer in Il New York paper says:
"Unfor;un ,tely for the health writers, hui
mainly cannot practically lie cut into parcels
and worked by hygienic machinery Men
and women will not be- forced into dieting
on Graham bread and abjuring tea ard cof-
fee. They stick to their meats and their
sauces, their pastries and their o'clock
dinners, and while the doctors scold the pa
tient laughs Life is not worth having if
dessert is to be limiied to a roasted apple,
and il soups and sllads are to b. banished
from the table"
They have recently had specimen of
Horace Greeley's handwriting in Manches-
ter which puzzled even the philosophical
local Of tine q ion. IL is recently coniectur-
d that il Horace had written hat inscrib-
lion ON the wall in Babylon, Belshazzar
would have been a good deal more scared |
than he was.
Fishing Tor crocodiles on the Nile il n (
,port which would have done Izaak Walton's /
heart good. A bly, b at is equipped with /
WIN lass and a strong line, TO which is add
a a fine goose, with a strong hook under |
zach Pinion. The whole is turned adrit,
md before long crocodile comes up, siezes
he goose, and tows the boat rapidly down
itre.m. After he has wearied himself by
irsgging the boat Tor while, the line is
pulled in, the monsters hea appears on the
nrlace, and bulle, ia adroitly lodged in his
we.
A thoughtful observer on women's
lights comes 10 their defence very effectively
10 follows: Il have seen women 40 delicate
hat they we're afraid to ride for fear OF the
'Orse running away, afraid to walk for fear
he dew might fall, afraid to sail for fear the
'oa, might upset; but / never raw one afraid
o get married, which Is more riskfnl than
III the others put together"
The best proof Of the CORRECTNESS Of
)arwin's theory that man descended from
monkeys, IL afforded by the death of the fel.
ow who killed himself because of Darwin's
tatement.
Some Of the London papers are moving
Dr sleeping cars, or at least cars with seats in
Thich il IN possible to recline, on the ir great
ailway lines. The Ne,es says that now 'the
My chance night traveller has Of sound
leep is TO give the guard half a sovereign to
ring him . board " put across two Of the
rats, and to keep the door of the carriage
,cked as long - possible" What would
hey think Of few Pullman or Wagner
sleepers?"
"A Vermont girl sued her false lover for
,rty dolhn, which she estimated was the
alue Of the time she had spent in his COM
any and the wood burned in keeping the
.llow warm. The Judge granted her suit. i
A rather tough story ia told ofa gentle q
ian who went to market and purchased
pose Of an old woman who had lot of them
II sale. After he had paid for the goose, he !
bserved die woman was crying. my good 8
oman, what is the matter? Hav- l not q
aid you enough" 'Oh, sir, it amt the t
rice, but can't help crying at parting with u