White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-02-09
: Gbinsampjiss.

ur A gentleman travelling BY rail irom Pill
,de'phia to Ne. Yosk accepted cigar from .
stranger, and discovered. jast in seaso, TO save
himself. that is vas drussed. This is new
dodge 10 aid in robbery in the cars.
u A farmcrAt Scipio, N. Y. has turkey
that has laid one hundred day.. never missing
a day on account Of sickness. or circus in town,
or anything.
u A recent ehrcnicler Of great mems names
exclaims: There is little difference in the
style Of Philadeiphia's three great nen-Penn,
Fsanklin and HeImbo!d. OF how m ch are
these three names significant! Peace, Light
uing and Bnchu''
II A peculiar feature in each OF the SO new
locomotives built at the Rhode Island works
for the Gre,t Western, Of Canada, ia the pi.-
cling Of the bell in iI0nt OF the engine with
gearing to the driving wheel SO that every rev
oIution rings il.
u The N. Y. Express thinks "the army of
lecturers is increasing so rapidly and to so
great an extent. that pretty aoon there will be
no audiences for them 10 address. The adult
population will be absorbed into the lecture
ranks, aad only the babies and urchins will be
left to patronize the lecturers. Unless. per-
haps. they agree to turn aobnt and support each
other, when oHduty. b. sections or 10 brisades. Z"
II In Sonora. Indian scaips are quoted at
$4,000.
G- Forty. five counties in Iowa have already
voted s. 473 500 aid to railroads.
p correspondent ofa California papers
says there are ore lodges in the newly discover
ed silver mines of New Mexico which stands
up like row ol Broadway stores.
TA Government, exc!usivel. Of Indians,
republican in principle and ultimately to be-
come one Of the Union, is forming IN the Indian
Territory.
u In the First National bank Of Utah, East
Temple street may be seen eleven bars Of Utah
siivc bullion, weighing soout half ton, and
reaching over $4,000 in value.
p At Council Bluffs the conductors get the
names of all passengers to California, which ara
telegraphed to the Pacific coast and published
six days before the people arrive.
u Colorado and Lincoln. two new States
the l,ttes carved out OF New Mexico, are ap
plicants for admission to the Union. Congress
is said to favor both. and upon their admission
the Union will number SO States.
u At funeral in Dea Moins. after the fu
neral sermon. the preacher gave permission 70
any friend Of the deceased to make few re
marks. A chap got up and called the attention
of the mourners te an article ofhair invisorator
Which he had the agency of for the State o
Iowa. aud which the deceased used before hi
death.
TIn California, when the diggings we're pay
ing we'll, Signor Bli,z visited n gulch, and, be
fore large audience, exhibited his leger
demain. During the performance. he took ou
his handkerchief, threw i: into the air, caugll
it again, when he took twenty dollar piec
out Of it, asking the boys If they could do that
Old Pete, "forty- MINER" who had neve
changed his mining shirt since he came int
the diggings, Immediately went upon the plat
form. took OF his shirt. dipped the tail Of it i
bucket Of water. held it up, and wruus ou
S39 so in gold dust. including fifteen pounds O
subsoil. Ritz took the next mule train.
IL The Kentuckey Supreme Court has set
tied the Tact that dog roaming on a neighbor'
| ho L; tt,.l ,sI
shot gun, il more conv venient.
u Migruder has followed the example o
the rest Of the ex.rebel generals, AID joined al
insurance company.
u A Shetland pony thirty inches in hight
lately arrived at Galveston, by the Engi.l
bark Cremona.
u An Atlanta. (Ga.) paper Of last weel
says: "A lady in this city tied her hubby
haEds and feet, the other day, just for fun, an,
then went through his pockets for certai'
billet doux. and found it His physician tell
him that his :ace won't be badly SCARED, thougl
he my remain permanently bald"
II From the New York Fire Marshal's re
port we learn that one hundred and sixteen fire
were caused during the past year by kerosene
C In city ousi in illinois, q young lady wa
approached the other. evening in one of tn
churches BY sympathizins friend, who asked
"Do yon not wish to get religion7" EYES,
she replied, "but not until the 81 Of January
I want to 20 to the grand New Years ball first
U A cubic inch of gold is worth $2I0, an
an ounce $ls GO. Itis estimated that ther
are So, ,000. 900 900. in gold in use. This gol
would make solid block Of 26 feet long, a
many wide and as many high.
D The Paris Figaro endeavou to max
game" of carrier pigeons. 1t solemnly aver
that one Of them, which was shot while goin
into Paris with important dispatches, swallowe
the came while rolling its eyes IT, its death az
onies-faithful and Flcuehy to the last.
p Mr.. Hollis, Of Indiana, thought it n
harm to kiss pretty girl b-t changed bis min
when her big brother got after him.
u An English menagerie keeper got h
license in . town xhcr he was at first refuse
BY threatning to turn his "hanimals hout loose.
u How to get the exact weight Of . FISH,
weigh him 10 his own scales.
u One half the slate pencils used in th
world are made in Vermont
p The E-quimaux are the best nature
people in the world.
il U A physician being asked by patient
he thought little spirit nov and then "oul
hnrt him much. replied. IL do not know that
little occasionally would hurt you much; but
you don't take any it won't hsrt you at ALL"
q Can't ewaIlow the stoeyof Wisconsin
~sman grinding up her child in cider mill
If she did it, she must have been be-cider her
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