The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-07-01

tits striking fact that most per-
sons want to weigh more than they
no, and measure their health by
their weight, as If . man were q
pig. valuable in proportion TO his
hcaviness. The racer is not fat
"a good pillow horse has but q mod.
crate amount Of flesh Heavy men
are not those which experienced
contractors employ to build rail-
roads and dig bitches. Thin men,
the world over. are the men for en-
durance--are the wiry and hardy.
Thin people live the longest.
1t is useless to sing the siren
songs Of peace while this sort of
thing goes on. Even the hens in
Georgia have gone into the Ku
klux business. One of them, in
Houston county, in utter defiance
Of the amendments, and the civil
rights law. fowlly falls upon every
black chicken she sees and forth
WIFI Kills IL.
Wendell Philips doesn't like
Greeley, but there is nothing
strange about that, for Wendell
never had faith in or respect but
for one man, and that ono's name
is Wendell Phillips. But here is
his first shot at the Tribune phi
losopher: "If the Republicans are
to take new departure from Grant
the real intent and meaning of
the Greedy movement we trus, it
will to some one higher up, not
downward to the lower level Of Mr..
Greely's plstform."
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has only
had seventy-four law suits thus
far. after all; but she is a highly
spirited and vivacious old lady,
and thinks herself good for at least
as many more. And the people
who persist in owning her property
in New Orleans. seem determined
that she shall not lack opportuni-
ties to enjoy them.
The Titusville pa Journal
says: "The bay window fever, the
mansard roof relapse. and the
lightning rod cramp have each at
tackled our citizens, and now that
they have been brought under sub
lection, there appears another cpl
demic in the shape of the striped
awning collie.
Mr.. Edward Morrill,. Of East
Lynne, Mass, had the richest pork
stew on record at dinner on Sun
day. There was a $500 diamond
in it.
A friend of humanity in Detroit
has patented door bell with q six
chamber revolver attachment, for
the special benefit of peddlers and
the Coroner.
The London Food Journal takes
up the cudgel in defense of tobac
co. The soothing cigar it says,
has come to be the natural &C.
queDce to the cruel knife in army
surgery, and it is now notorious
that the Emperor Of the French
derived no small part of his politi
cal safety previous to the war from
the simple circumstance that he
carefully supplied the army with
large allowances of good tobacco
"a privilege that was highly sp.
pIeciated.
Early this Spring. a Massachu :
sets man planted tree in front
OF his house, and named it after
his wife. Soon the tree died, and
the wife lived but day or two
after. Now you would be sur
prised at the number of men that
are planting trees in front Of their
domicils, and naming them after
their respective if not respected
wives and the sickliest looking
trees that can be found, too-trees
that, with the tendercst care, can
not possibly live more than two
weeks. The dodge is too thin.
The women see through it, and
have resolved not to die.
There are in the ULited States
one hundred and fifty three monas.
teries or religious houses for men
leading the monastic life of the
Ron an Cath Ollie Church. and three
hundred and thirty six converts or
cloisters for women.
At Saginaw. Mich, two girls
made wager that they could take
five grains Of morphine. They
both won the bet, and are now
sleeping where the daisies blow.
Their father said he never knew a
year when girls died off so sud
denly.
Refined homes are the end OF
civilization. All the work of the
wor,d-the railroading, naviga-
ting, digging, manufn curing, in
venting. teaching. writing, fighting
ARE done, first of all, to secure
each family in the poss ession of it's
hearth; and secondly, to surround
as many hearts as possible with
grace. culture and beauty. The
work Of all races for five thousand
years is represented in the differ
ence between a wigwam and a la
dy's parlor.