The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-04-11
Su nd ries.


Sea shells and pebbles.
A new style Of artificial flowers IS called
Chicago smoke buds }"
-Tameness in women Is, with most men,
the most objectionable ofense.
Indiana boasts of an inhabitant who was
put into Jail before he was twenty-four hours
old.
the decoration OF ST. Paul's for the
Princes thanksgiving cost $40, 900. What
will Sir Charles Dixie say?
A satin bed-spread is on exhibition in
New York, richly embroidered in gay COLOR,
the price of which is 5000.
Some one SAYS that strong argument
against suicide is, that it is the height of i'm
politeness to go anywhere until you are sent
for.
In consequence Of the rapid consump-
ton OF the forests in Russia, no fuel but coal
is now permitted to be used on the railways.
A minister's daughter, young and pretty,
was arraigned in 4 New York court ON Tues
day.. for stealing two skirts from another
girl.
-Barnum announces that 800 employees
will he embraced in his circus and museum.
Put us down for one-the beautiful Circas.
sian.
The "Dolly Warden" bonnets are said to
be the prettiest and most becoming head
gear that has been worn by women Tor GEN.
turtles. T"
1t is said that the Marquise de Caux
tAdeliDa Patti owns more diamonds and
handsomer iewelry than any lady of the nc
bility in Europe.
A Brahmin prizes. in India, who forgot
his sacred calling and murdered a man in
fit OF passion, has been sent 10 prison for
three years.
The latest fashionable ornaments are Of
amber, and will, in q few months, complete
" supercede the tortoise-shell jewelry, which
has held its own for an unusually long time.
The Norristown PA. Herald says:
London claims 700, 600 cats-which is not q
single cat to many to have in case England
refuses to settle the Alabama Claims. Re.
member Paris.
A number Of French ladies' who have
become reduced by the late war, now earn
their living by teaching French to Americans
who are anxious to acquire the pure Partisan
accent.
A Jean Hosmer is giving costume lee
lures through Iowa. She pretends to be q
niece Of Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, and
| wants 20 make money enough to defray the
expenses OF her uncle'5 defense.
A father and son, who have been living
in the same house al Bradford, Conn, con.
cluded that they had better secure house
keeper, and each, unaware of the others in.
tentiOns, brought home new wife on Fri.
day.
A Second Adventist in New York State
has been fattenibg an OK for the last ten
wears, lor grand feast when Christ shall
appear. He has spent nearly all his prop.
erty in feeding and purchasing food for that
OK.
Rev. Robert Collyer refuses the Indian
Commi-siOnership On the ground that the
Indians might kill him before they found on!
what good fellow he was; and also because
he thinks that there are other men better for
such work.
-S,erne says, in his Sentimental Jour
ney," that as long as he was in love, he found
himself incapable Of mean action. What
pity that some of our rich men could not
be kept under the influence of the gentle
passion for at least one week.
1t is recorded of venison and turtle
fed Alderman of London, that on being i'm
portuned for aims by a starving woman, he
exclaimed: $50 away, my good woman, you
don't know how YOU distress me. I'D give
ten pounds to have your appetite"
A maiden lady who had once been Tilted
wrote her own epitaph as follows:
''IIcre lies the body Of one
Who died of constancy alone.
Stranger, Advance with steps courageous,
For this disease is not contagious"
In some of the interior towns of Vermont
vaccination was almost universal, and now the
people are disguised at having bad their
trouble for nothing. The smallpox never
came near them. H
An Illinois feminine, driven to despera-
ton by her husbands unwillingness to devote
a Whole weeks salary to the purchase of q
"Dolly Warden" for her, cut off the ear of
their only SOW with an axe. Probably she
wanted TO see if she couldn't make up suf-
ficient purse with it.
William Pratt's dog killed William
Wigginton's hog. A consequent law suit
ended TO the dissatisfaction OF both last Sat-
urday. On their way home from Court, both
carrying shot guns, they quarreled. Wig
CLINTON fired first and killed Pratt instantly.
All this in Kentucky, at Mount Wash
ington.
A writer for one of the religious papers,
having said he weuld as soon drink whisky
in saloon as wine at the communion ser
vice, is told by the irreverent Cincinnati
Commercial that "nobody doubts it."
poG,s.l IN rapow the Ms1l;or ,,t,,t
making white paper out Of straw being re-
fused by the Superintendent of Patents, Con-
gIess is to be impor,uned on the subject.
Indianapolis is threatened with the
name Of Skunkville, because Of the number
OF its tanneries wherein are prepared for the
furriers the pelts Of the metphilis putorius.
An unprecedented rush from this
county 10 Europe is expected through the
coming summer. The best births on the
main steamship lines from New York and
Boston are already engaged in advance up to
the end of August.
Intelligent dogs are trained in Hartford,
to howl nocturnslly under the
windows of nervous people until boots are
thrown at them, which they bring home to
their enterprising ownerz.
Having read, that in St. Paul, Mime
sofa, work-house prisoners are made TO clean
the streets. the World wishes that the New
York street contractors could be made to
clean the prisons, A similar wish is often
felt, ifnot expressed in other cities,
Not long ago a woman Of elegant exts-
rior hired in fashionable Brooklyn temple
Of worship pew contiguous to that of we'll |
known wealthy pillar of the church. She |
had tried for year to make his acquaint. |
ance in other ways. and finally bit upon this
bold and ingenius plan. Her ultimate idea |
was black mail, but tie millionaire was too |
smart for her, and she now languishes in |
all.
On 70 Mexico.
sold Mexico" and notably its capital
.ity, il fast rising into new importance as the |,
Directive ofcertain railway campaigns plan.
led in the United States, and having their
tarting point and base Of operations in our
as & Texas Railway, has already, within
he brief space Of two years, attained to the
Of vast and commanding sys-
EN-, with well-built, well-operated and sue.
essiul lines Of several hundred miles in
Missouri and Kansas, uniting in = grand
runk already in operation TO the heart of the
indian Territory, and to be completed by
uly to the Texas border to meet there, on
he banks Of the Red River, a road from
ialveston on to the Gulf Of Mexico. There,
owever, the Missouri, Kansas 4 Texas will
OF stop, bat will push on, by routes
lready secured by franchise and nearly
,rveyed, throwing one arm to the Gulf At
alves,on Bay; and projecting main line
,rv. Thence, by route, which follows