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MONDAY MORNING, MAY "a, 1879.


MONDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1879.
News, Gossip and Editorial Notes.
A Texas lawyer has been found, 43 years
old, who never drank drop of ardent spirits
or malt liquors, nor swore an oath nor be-
longed to a church. Next!
Montreal was excited over a ''miracle"
last week, in the form of cross on the
ground. Investigation proved that the crack
was occasioned by leak in the water pipes.
The latest Tichbornia.-'I am yery glad of
it, my dear, and now the poor dear man is
out of prison, 1 think the least we can do is
to show him our gratitude for the way he
has helped us through those awful pauses be-
fore dinner these last six months, by some
pretty little testimonial. Judy.
Husband poisonings and acquittals therefor
have commenced in st. Petersburg, Russia.
Baltimore has just completed and opened
one of the largest hotels on the Continent,
called the Carrollton, after the proprietor Of
Carroll Manor. 1t is on the site of the old
Fountain Hotel, where Lafayette and Wash
ington lodged.
Cato said: 81 would much rather that pos
terity should inquire why no statues were
statues were erected to me, than why they
were"
Queen Victoria has caused an immense
amount of scandal in England by her laxity
OF Sabbath observance of late; not only has
she had grand state banquet at Windsor on
Sunday, but in her recent visit to Germany
she started on Sunday, travelled every Sunday
and arrived at Portsmouth ON Sunday af-
ternoon. How fortunate that no accident
occurred during one of those Sunday trips
An Indiana journal thus notices the rail-
road prospects: "The Akron, Lafayette and
ST. Louis road is still in the dim vista of the
far distant and still receding future"
The Western wool clip is pronounced finer
than for fifteen years before.
OWAh5 W oOiuC COutuSlOu at u 1llcQInOnQ,
Va, wedding the bride first married one of
the groomsmen; but the mistake was then
discovered, and she was joined to the right
man, all in fifteen minutes.
The Congregatioaalist gives timely warn
ing to women, and especially girls, about the
acquaintance they make in cars. Speaking
of the thieves and scoundrels, who seem to
grow ever more numerous and more subtle as
our civilization grows older, it says: ''On the
watch for women as bad as themselves, or for
the young and unsophisticated, of whom a
villain might make victim, it is next to i'm
possible for aoung woman to enter a car un-
attended without their knowledge. She is
fortunate if they make no more or less eau
tious approaches to find out who she is,
where she is going, and whether she will toll
crate the familiarity of stranger So nu-
merous are these men that it is with some
peril that a young woman undertakes a long
journey alone. The peril of those who may
be unfortiied by principles, or unacquainted
with the ways of the world, or susceptible to
batteries from smooth tongue, is great"
With the warm weather, the ravages of the
peripatetic boy who infests railway-cars to
prey upon passengers grow fiercer and more
intolerable. He is no longer content with
dropping undesirable newspapers on your lap,
with demanding that you puchase prize pack
ages, or strenuously insisting that you fall a
victim to his hideuos pies. He now pervades
the train laden with decayed bananas, shrivel-
ed apples, and warm, thickened fluid, call
ed in mockery 'ice-water," which is dispens-
ed in tin cups of forbidding aspect. Ice-wa
ter should be kept in tanks in every car, and
thus the only excuse for the peripatetic boys
existence removed.-N. Y. Times.
John Russell Young, whose departure for
Europe Wa recently noted, takes the position
Of London correspondent of the New York
Herald, at a salary of 5000 year, holding
the same position in London that Mr.. Small
ley of the Tribune holds.
The five ladies with the Japanese embassy,
at the suggestion of their American hostess,
recently consented to be laced up and tied
down, ruffled, paniered, founced, bowed and
trailed in the "style." Then they were pow
dered up from an orange-peel hue to deli
cate lemon, and pronounced perfect, as far as
dress goes. Half an hour later, however,
their dismayei civilizers found them smiling
and happy in their halfpetticoat, halfpanta-
loon dress. ''Too muchee," said the gentle
Japanese.
A conductor of a freight train on tho New
York Central road, last week, was at first
fattered, then amazed and then indignant at
the fact that while passing through Syracuse
everybody made signals to him and pointed to
his train. He finally in his wrath responded
by sundry digital gyrations which ceased
when he discovered that one of the grain
cars was leaking corn at the rate of bushel a
minute.
man named Ayers at Chenoa, Ill, the
other day, playfully took up a loaded revolv-
er, knocked the butt against the breast of
friend, and jokingly remarked 1--WE will set
tie this little difficulty now" The pistol
went off and the playful man was settled, and
has been gathered to his fathers.
''Don Carlos is 25 years of age" He
won't be much older if Amadeus catchas