The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-10-05

1t Is related of member of the Boston
bar, that once meeting in the dog days the
estimable son Of fafher of rather equivocal
population, in an absent-minded moment be
amazed him BY enquirins how The old gen.
tleman stood the heat. The old gentleman
had been dead two months.
The Polish news have the reputation Of
being among the Longest lived:.people in En-.
rope. One of their number died recently,
in Prussian Poland, near Tamotachau, in
his ll7th year. He is said to have two
brothers still living aged respectfully l05 4,
and 109 years.
1t never seems too Late for an American
to change his place of residence. Samuel s.
Marshall stayed in Vermont until he was
one hundred, and believing the climate did
not agree with him he removed to Detroit,
Mich, where, with care and prudence he
hopes to live to ripe old age
This is the style of business notices they
publish in the Vicksburg papers: eff the
contemplate puppy who insulted gentle
man Immediately after partaking Of his hos
pitality will show himself on Washington
street after 9 O'Clock a. NJ, he will be treated
to bullet without any questions. j.
KERN"
Russia has got the monopoly of China
in tea. All the choice crops of Caugou that
are brought to the Hankow market this sea-
son have been bought for the Russian mar
ket, and shipped direct to Odessa. No,
single chop of the finest grade of first crop
tea has been seen in England or America of
the growth of 1871, neither will there Be Of
1872.
A preacher at a Georgia camp-meeting
lectured his hearers on the evils ofintemper-
ance with such effect that large portion of
the congregation brought their whisky bot
ties up to the pulpit and handed them over
to the eloquent exhorter. 1t is unpleasant to
add that when the hour Tor evening service
arrived the preacher was found incapable for
duty.
The Chillicothe Ohio Register contains
a notice to the wives of intemperance men,"
asking them to leave the names of their hus-
bands with the Secretary of the Liquor
Dealers association, and promising that no
liquor shall be sold to those 10 reported.
The dealers take this method to protect
prosecution under the State
law giving damages to the wives of men who
buy liquor.
The patriotic Philadelphians have lately
been mortified by the discovery that a picture
in revered Independence Hall, in that city,
which has for many years been looked on Is
an excellent likeness of Gen. Chas. Lee Of
Revolutionary memory, turns out to be a
portrait Of Gen. Arthur OConnor, an Irish
man, who had nothing whatever to do with
our Revolution, although he was a very
brave man in his own country.
The Tennessee Press Association recently
visited Louisville, and it, members were per-
mitted to pay their own hotel bills. In re-
venge one of them writes thus OF the town:
louisville is an old, dilapidated town, cele-
orated for its riots when it had population
o justify, long ditch to keep the water in
he OHIO from stagnating in trent of the VIII
age, an artesian we'll, skating rink, and
very muchly pressed hospitality. Her
people drink low wines that never paid the |
ak, and feed on dried apples, blackberries,
:atfish, and Cincinnati cracklings, and are
lappy."