New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-04-04
NEWS CLIPPINGS.


Elizabeth Mallet, in February, 1902.
1t turns out that McDevitt, the billiard
champion, was not burned at Chicago, but is
now alive and well at Boise City, Montana.
An Atlanta man wants the thief who
stole his well-bucket and rope to come back
and get the well, as il is of no present use to
him.
Edwin Forrest met with unprecedented
success in his recent Southern tour. In
Texas he drew immense audiences at SIS Il
ticket.
~ Those who buy tOmbstones of us look
with pride and satisfaction upon the graves of
their friends" is the advertisement of an
Eastern stone-cutter.
There is portentous rumor that Andrew
johnson will be present at the Cincinnati con-
vention with the constitution in a fine state
OF preservation, and an assortment of flags.
I The first book ever printed was the book
of Psalms, by Faust and Scheffer, A. ID. 1857.
1t was printed on one side only of the leaves
after which they were in the binding pasted
back to back
An honest country parsOn, who, in the
time of great drought was desired to pray for
rain, answered "rll willingly do it to oblge
you, but it is to no purpose while the wind is
in this quarter
So many congratulatory addresses, ap-
proving Prince Bsmarck's course the
schools inspection BILL have been sent to that
parsonage that, despairing of being able to an
swer them all, he has published a polite re-
ply applicable to all.
They have shut up Brigham Young at
Camp Douglass, and deprived him of the So
ciety of the last dozen or twenty of his amia-
BILE consorts, because he would be in the
fashion and give balls and champagne suppers
in his suite of apartments at Salt Lake City,
just as the merry Stokes does in his at New
York.
From late dispatches we CLEAN that the
famine in Persia shows no signs of abatement.
Men and women are dying in the streets
corpses of children strew the roadside. The
sickening odor of the decayed dead taints
the air, breeds pestilence and hastens the
work of starvation, The extinction of the
nation seems imminent, for they cannot be
reached.
Throwing ones boots at a noisy and
intrusive dog may be a very effective way of
getting rid of the visitor, but 1t is not always
economical. An irascible deacon up in Con-
necticut tried it the other day and the dog
seized the expensive missiles and disappeared.
The deacon thinks it was ''put-up job"
obtain boots by just that process.
"A worthy Scotch couple when asked how
their son had broken down so early in life,
gave the following explanation When we
begun life together we worked hard and lived
upon porridge and such like, gradully adding
to our comforts as our means improved, until
we were able to dine Off bit of roast meat
and sometimes a bolt chicke, (chicken;)
but Jack, our son. he worked backward, and
began with the chckie first"
The remains of a mastodon have recently
been discovered in a swamp near Otsville,
Orange county, New York. Nearly all the
bones have been dug out and the skeleton,
when put together, will be fourteen feet high
and twenty-five feet long. The contents of
the stomach were also discovered, and found
to consist of very large leaves and long blades
of strange grass, from one inch to three inches
wide.
Horace Greeley says that rutabagas are
not indigenous to Western farms. A Durham
pig can root baga in about two minutes.
They grow best ON a sandy loan, especially
the red-haired ruta, which is accustomed to
seaweed and intense cold. In mountainous
countries they grow fast, and are principally
used to fatten peafowls and domestic quadru-
mana. In planting, Singer sewing-machne
is as good as any, though an iron-tOOthed
rake will be found serviceable. Plant in rows,
and prume once a month with broad-ax.
BE careful that you don't make mistake and
get turnip seed.
Most, if not all who read on railroads,
are sensible of weight and WEAKNESS about
the eyes. This sensation is accounted for on
high medical authority by the fact that the
exact distance between the eyes and paper
cannot be maintained. The conclusion and
oscillations of the train disturb the power of
vision, and variation, however slight, is met
by an effort at accommodation on the part of
the eyes The constant exercise Of so deli
cate an organ produces fatigue, and if the
practice of railroad reading is persisted in
must result iii permanent injury. Added to
this difficulty is bad or shifting light. The
safe and prudent mode is to read little if any.
The deliberate finishing of volumes in railway
cars is highly detrimental.
-"Sur," said an Irish philolOgist to an
anxious inquirer, there is no slang in the
collokial expressions ofmy comtrymen. livery
word, sur, deservedly has an honorable
pedigree, bedad! But corruption is attn into
language, and contraction payn' the divil
wild the words of it. Luck, if you Place, at
that bastely aims > that was once word OF
five syllables, and is now a beggar wild wan.
Thin luck at 'shanty,' properly shed handy
; and again, at shindy,' that some whelp, too
|
cal English, has abbreviated from shindigla-
dation'-a most beautiful and expressive term,
} bedad significant of the manly sport that
lint so much glory and renOwn to the sons OF
ould Ireland. It's sorrow and a shame !
it is-and the world is suilerin' from it the
day, bedad!"
In Polynesia, Tahiti, the young ladies
have what may be mildly designated as rather
jocund manners. The most bashful and coy
never will pass you without a greeting,
glance of the eyes; or else, perhaps, she will
come up coquettishly, and ask you for the loan
: of your cigar; take a few pulls at it, and hand
it back again gracefully to the rather aston
ished owner; and then, with parting conf
, pliment, which you most likely don't under
, stand, let you go your way in peace-or not.
The proper way to walk in Tahiti is as fol-
lows You put your arm around her neck,
and she hers around your waist, and hangs
) on your breast in a linpy, affectionate man.
ner. 1t is as much scion les regtes as walking
arIn-in arm, and much prettier to look at. 50
writes a correspondent, whose yeracity is OF
the usual newspaper standard-eXcellent.