The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-04-08
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Rev. DIR. Deems tells young New
Workers thar they can support wife
and baby on $1,000
A Brooklyn wife committed sui
jcide, leaving note saying tina. she
was tired Of washing dishes.
Rhode Island last year had one
hundredap and sixty two divorces, or
one 70 every fourteen marriages.
Lady at Schenectady advertises
her fugitive husband, and declares
she vii! pay no more OF his debts
Is the Smith family running out?
In Memphis, Tennessee, the Millcrs
are largely ahead in the dir ectory
Oat Of six million owners OF
real estate in the United, States,
more than two thirds are farmers
1 Gladstone is pecuri rily hard
up, and has enob,igec to sell most
Of his private property TO pay his
hills. s~ssssss Is 1880 - ssR
The Girard College, in Philadel-
phia, is said to be the lest specia
men Of @ reciat,-architectare in The
world. - I'll 77s s's9 So sss ssas
A reduction in the price OF ice
is bound to come this summer
Every ice house ia the country is
Overlooking ssasH
The New York Star advertises
people to die now, 40 the uDdertak-
ers are advertising 20 whole fun.
eral for $685."
Early vegetables are coming in
to market at the South this season
several weeks sooner than they
did last year. ss4 -,sN cee Is
| Leander P. Richardson, son of
the late Albert ID. Richardson is
preparing q serial for one OF the
New York weeklies.
"The prisoner has o very smooth
countenace." Yes, he was ironed
! just before he was brought in.
That accounts for it,
A New York Judge has decided
that an agreement made on Sun
day ia not void if no act 10 to be
performed on that day. t
| Defiance, O., has family con-
tanning Eve doctors, q father and
j his four sons, each OF the five being
over six feet in height.
i Edward King writes from Paris
that Gambetta 10 the scape-goat OF
of France. Every failure is laid
on his shoulders by the dlsappoint
ed. -
The stud of late English Lord,
consisting of forty nine hanters
and six hacks, was lately sold in
London, aud realized over fl0,-
900.
I A German engineer has invented
a curious machine by which the
exact velocity of railroad train
9 can be ascer' aimed at any mo-
ment. @
Pearl and ivory, elegantly carved
are favorites for fans. Besides
being very per.ty, they are essily
broken, which is very good for tie
trade. s8 issssE &fse aai.
}, The Forty. first Congress will
I always be remembered with salts
faction as the one that brought
the land grabbers and subsidy
schsmreS to grief.
A pceticaI genius, inspired by .
festal gathering Of Cincinnati beau.
ties, does not hesitate to speak oil
their lips as the glowing gateways
Of pork and potatoes .soi
A little girl at Patterson, New
Jersey, last Friday, was choked
to death by accidentally swallow
ing an India rubber wind bag sucf
, as children play vita.
) The latest notable victim o
. conscience il Mr.. w. A. Black, o
Detroit, who killed q burgla
. twenty -four years ago, and ha
t recently become insane.
!, Over forty thousand canar,
birds are brought to this countr,
every year, and probably tan thou
!. sand more are raised in this coun
try for the purpose Of sale.
Il Charles Reade, in his new story
d tells about a SPAWN on the fore lie,
: of horse. and is snapped up b
9 those who have less learning. bu
3 more horse-sense than Charle
A Reade.
J, A proposition to do away wit
q the present steamboat system O.
G the Mississippi, designs the sub
: stitution ofpowerful tugs for steal
It boats, the passenger boats sbein
towed by them. y -
= A Boston lover of tobacco ex
hibits 10 shis friends Q ball of tin
: foil, weighing 1s4 pounds. whic
!, he sage he has saved" in tw
: yearss from the papers Of Tobacco
he has chewed.-4 &
n A correspondent writes frol
n London that Robert Browning hs
e never made more than %. O00 frcr
p all his poems, and that but for
, pri. ate fortune he would have I
y staIve TO death. ,,2.s -