, 1872-11-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


1t least thirty RATS are ice-locked betweeh
Rock Island and the mouth Of the st. Croi1-" :,
!. The saloon keepers Of Indianapolis have
united in an agreement to observe the Sunday
law.
Amherst College los! q, 500 BY the Boston :
fire. it holding that amour; Of stock in insurance.
companies that are bankrupt.
.-lmmense herds Of buffalo, snow-bound on.
the southwsstsn Rans p the tTans OF
"a firm Of wool dealers In Hartford, Ct.,-
bought lot Of foreign Wod just before the Bos~
ten ire, and have sold it since at the Handsome
advance Of 600.
About two hundred LIBERAL voters we're ab-
gent from the ty-of Key West on the day Of
election, "Wrechng" :" the seamer Victor.
1t IS estimated that 235O0O, 900 feet Of pine
logs will be cut and banked.n Muskegon County,
Mich, during the coming winter
Office for patsnt hre-e.tinguisber, designed.
to arrest fire at the point Of its appearance,
end prevent the splaad Of the flames.
The State OF MOTH Caro1ina loses 81 ,oo0, COO
road under forec1osuraqf the first mortgage, or
at AEh7ine.
-phillips Academy, sad a0S Eatez N; H., x receive
s10,60O BY the will Of Jtemiah Kingman, Of
Burlington an aged gentlenn. who is Tery fee
ble and cannot survive long.
South Royalston, Mass, nde Il 900 bushels
Of shoe-pegs Last year, III .a4lition to 10000
trundle-hoops, 5000 mosquito sra1nes, etc. It
can't hope to compete with Ne. Jersey in the
matter Of turning out "mosqutostames, - how
ever.
The Forest Park Commissionersat St. Louis,
have closed purchase Of 243 acres land from
Robert Forsyth, located within the lints Of For
est Park, for the sum Of 00,000, ayable in
Forest Park bonds at par.
The Boston & Albany Railroad havA began
the foundation Of q new elevator at Ea+ :Bos-' T
4o- olf }hn aart
completed the entire capacity Of the Compnyss
elevators st East Boston will be about 3 million
bushels.
"A project j. being "tshed M aR"t s.ngyS o5gSSPise e
by Tie farther dredging out OF Trail Greek.
Charles G. Kelsey, the young man tarred
and feathered On Nov. at Huntington, y. /,
and who disappeared, and WAS supposed TO be
murdered, has been found at the house Of a
relative. Tt lB said he has lost his mind
William II. Craft, OF Keeseville, \. T., has
performed the feat Of walking 120 miles in 100
hours without sleep, which he accomplished at
sEsna 5 M hs as Tssh on s1sz9 sss s:
complaining the task he walked En- extra mile IN
! 8 minutes and Is seconds.
The book-keeper OF the Salt Lake Tribune,
". T.. Bower, recently committed suicide ~
! shooting himself in the head. 4 few weeks ago.
| his wife poisoned. herself, and this so prsyed
upon the mind Of Mr.. Boyer, that, after vain1y
seeking to quiet himself with liquor, he resort
ed to tho revolver.
The London Bookseller calls attention to the
falling off in the accuracy with which the Times
| used to be printed in the days when, as the ira
| lition ran, " there was 8 well-pald official IN
! Printing House Square who forfeited 3 guinea
Tor every typographical error detected after the
| pubEcation.'' :" Not day pssses," says the
bookseller, " without errors in every page OF the
! Times. Nor are these mere clerical er1ots-
They are biunders implying not carelessness,
but Ignorance not rapidity, but stupidity
At length it is proved that man has m..e
vanity than woman- This is the way that it
came to pass: 4 curious Investigator watched
+! while O thousand men passed q looking glass
| used as 4 sign on the sidewalk IN Broad
way. The result Of his observation
| showed that nine hundred and ninety-nine
| men glanced complacently at their image as they
| passed. The other man was blind -Four hun
| drod and ffty-two women passed during the
game hour and half, and none Of them looked
| in the rnirror-au Of them being engaged in-
| tently examining each others appearance and
dress.
"a Detroit man has discovered that pntent
| pistol canes and Newfoundland pups don't Hi1
worth continental. Coming home the othe5 OH
night he placed the cane; heavily loaded, behind
tho door, and started Tor romp with his three
| bright little ones and the Bportive pup. AL had
good time till the pup spied the cane; be
seized it in his teeth and started on prorniscu.
o11s run among chairs and tables, regardless OF
| the fact that the slightest pressure on Little
| spring would discharge the piece The father
had just thrown the last OF the children down
| stairs when the explosion came. The ball only
| broke 3 800 mirror, and the dog received few
scratches In jumping through plate-0lass Tln|