, 1872-12-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


!, Sage green gloves are said to be poisonous to
"A dog with two tails was seen in Taunton
tho other day. One belonged to an OK, and
was carried IN the mouth Of the canine.
AT q late public meeting in streator H.,
355, GOO was subscribed for a rolling mill and
glass company.
AT the burning of coffee roasting estab-
lshment in Rochester. the other night, 1875
buBhels of peas were consumed.
An Omaha youth fell in love with 1ady'5
picture in specimen showcase, hunted up the
original end married hor.
In Frankfort-ou-the-Main no murder has
been committed for mora than one hundred
years.
The making Of the new dress for the en-:
listed men Of the army is progressing with all
possible despatch at the great clothing and
equipment arsenal at 6chuylkill, but it is not
expected that the troops will get into their
The costs for trying $4,000 Of the French
Communists have been Il, $751; ,02l francs.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin sees no
room for supposing that the Boston boot and
usual, The total shipments since Jan. i, havo
been 1,2l7, 40 cases against 1,176, ,081 for the
corresponding time last year.
The popul1sstion Of the globe is usually esti-
estimate, based on the very latest returns, has
just been published at Gotha by two competent
German Statisticinns, who calculate the present
number Of the earth's Inhabitants at 1877, ,000,-
0D0 OF souls.
Prof Kodzie of the Michigan State Agricul-
tural College, 6aya there is amuch larger amount
Of ozone In the atmosphere this fall than for
many years past. White paper, chemically pre-
pared, turns perfectly blue in si1 hours BY the
action OF the ozone in the atmosphere. This
excess OF oZone is supposed to superinduce
catarrhal disease
--Liberian colonization is not in al cases sue
cessfuL The Norfolk Nirginian mentions tho
arrival there OF twenty-five colored people on
their way back from Liberia to North Carolina
the remains OF a company OF near 200 who went
to Liberia from Carolina about year ago. The
balance died out there, and this email remnant
arc now seeking their way back to the Old North
State.
-The Japancse rapidly become cosmopolitan
in their tastes. The ambassadors now in Eng
land have acquired a liking for beer, They were
lately taken BY Sir Henry Perkes to the brewery
of Messrs. A11sopp, at Burton-on-Trent. The
chief ambassador having announced his prefer
enco for the strongest, he was presented with q
butt Of it..
-"Well we've got her boxed up," was the
pathetic exclamation Of q grief-stricken husband
In Lenox, Mass, lately as he turned array from
his encofiuod wife.
"A circular has been issued to the employees
Of the Louisville Short Line Railroad, which,
among other things, says: 'No man has right
to hold position which brings him in immediate
EOQ[&Ct WILL Gu6 puU44t II hAO uUCd uOt Eu0W 1lOW
to be civil and polite, or is not disposed to make
himself agreeable to those with whom he may
be thrown into business relations"
"A man recently knocked down an elephant.
He was an auctioneer.
An effort is making to unite Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway under one common head.
At the present time the people Of the above
named countries favor the project, and it is also
supported by the King Of Denmark, and the
ruler Of Sweden and Norway: king Oscar; who
vacant by his brother, King Charles XV., has
repeatedly expressed his willingness to waiys
bus right to the crown, if, by such abdication,
the union could be accomplished.
The st. Louis journal Gays: IA young
man came into the Office of this newspaper yes-
terday with manuscript poem. It began with
1The SNOW, the snow, the beautiful snow His
friends may get tho body b. applying ut the
basement and payng f91 IT. the drgeods box 'con
The second blockade at the western end Of
the Winona and st. Peter Railroad has been sue
cessfully raised. Arrangements will at once be
made to push the construction work west Of Mar
ehan.
"A new stratum Of coal has been discovered
eight feet in thickness, about ninety miles from
Louisville, which is the best yet found.
New York people are just now in trouble
about their coffee. 4 chemical analysis has ro~
vealed to their astonished senses, the fact that
the beverage served ct Tho principal hotels and
restaurants Of that city is 8 strong infusion Of
roasted beans, chicory, sweet potato peelings,
With q trace Of burnt tobacco stems TO put bead
on it.
-The Michigan Central Railroad, through it's
Superintendent, A1r.. Sargent, consented to sell
and deliver at Niles 200 cords Of wood. 4 few
Of the Leading citizens there, who had moved in
The undertaking, paid the money, and are re-
selling the wood in lots of not more than one
cord to each individual at time, for $4.25 ut the
railroad, or 94.75 delivered.
The Norfolk Journal Enys Of Washington and
Lee University "The fund Of the Missouri
Chair Of Applied Chemistry amounts to nearly
$50, ,00o; the Kentucky Chair OF History and Po-
ltical Economy, TO $25,ooo; the Louisiana
Chair of Modern Languages, to $27,000; the