Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-01-17
ol,pS AND ENDS.

It sight? "a sG~HaN'r sttu
The Morberly moot Legislature has
appropriated $5oO, 900 to send to tho
Mute Asylum.
Hon. VIM. o. Maupin, of Saline, has
recovered from q dangerous illnoss
md occupies his scat in the Legisla.
ture.
Germany, il Is said, has not . sim
gle retail book store which sells ~
much as $2J,0O worth Of books .
year. ..
A local paper Mt Alexandria, Min
nessuta, records the fact Of old an man
being ..scvcrely frozen to death" at
that place.
a -pawntroker having joiued 8
society, II Was remarked
that there need be no fear Of his mot
keeping the pledgv.
Gen. Frank Blair delivered an
address in Jefferson City OH the 4th
inst, in which he strongly advocated
the Missouri Policy.
Washington made but very few ep-
iSrammatic speeches. Hero is one 4:
ITO be prepared for war is the most
cflectual means Of preserving peace"
Patrick O'Flaherty said that his
wife was very ungrsteful, for "wtzin
| married her she hain't rag to hcr
back, but now she's covered with
them"
The best yet. A Michigan woman,
the wife ofan invalid, and mother Of
twenty children, picked cranberries
enough last fall to pay of mortgage
OH her farm.
Rev. Robert J. Brecsinrldge, the
eminent Presbyterian ''vine, died at
Danvillc, KY, OH the eth ult. He
was the uncle of the Hon. JOHN e.
Breckinridge.
"Rick" observes that the only rem
cdy he ever took, upon the homco-
pathic principle, was when he mar
ricd his second wife to euro the Ill Of.
fccts of the first.
An old bachelor, w hen teased about
his lonely state, serencly replied, at
is better to be laughed at for not be-
/ ing married than TO be unable to
laugh because we are"
| The prospective wife Of Alexis, is
Princess Thyra, of Denmark. She 10
u bright girl. and can answer her fd-
ture husband il. two more languages
! than lac can understand.
The South Carolina Legislative In.
vestigating Committe reports the
State debt at SIS, 9,OOO, 900, a large part
of which was fraudulently contract
ed by corrupt officials.
Since Chicago has received SO
many rich presents from every Sec
ton of the country, 1t is said that
Grant wceps constantly that he can't
get up confagration ofhis own.
a lady, wife of one of New York's
! prominent citizens, appeared recently
ut n ball with a necklace, earrings
and bracelets, composed of twenty
dollar gold pieces fresh from the
mint.
a rural poet inditsd sonnet to
his sweetheart entitled, 81 kissed
her s"brOsa." The compositor knew
better than that and set. it up in
printers latin-"I kissed her snub
mOsa."
Cincinnati demands both national
covcntions, this year, on the ground
of her hotel capacities, which foot up
l,660 rooms that will accommodate
5000 people, while St. Louis has but
1880 rooms.
A southern California. paper adver-
tised for ga young freckel-faced man
that won't back down, with q pair Of
saddle-bags, pistol and bowie knife,
to collect for this Office. A large SAL
AIRY will be paid"
1t is reported that Tammany leaders
Intend disseminating Tammany % .
political organization and disposing
ofits property valued at 81 500, 900.
Tweed is said to have mortgage Of
$5oo,0 900 on the property.
The character of Xantippe is new
defended on the ground that the
income of Socrates, her husband, was
only fourteen dollars a year, and he
had habit of bringing somebody
home to dinner every day.
A negro woman was relating her
experience to a gaping congregation
of color. and among other things she
said she had been in Heaven. One of
the ladies asker her: ":Sistcr, did you
see any blacks in heaven? "Oh, git
out you s'pose go in de kitchen
when l was dar!"
An old market woman accosted
two gentlemen in the Quincy Mar
kct, Boston, one day, with the fol-
ing negative inquiry: "You han't
none of you seen nothing of no snu6-
box nowhere round here no time to-
day with no snuff in it, han't ye?"
| Vim. Henry Stevens, a Wall street
broker, broke aud run away with
. another mans wife, and twenty-five
thousand dollars of his uncle's money
one day last week. Tho forsaken
| broker is broken-hearted, and tho
uncle is almost broke by the abscond-
/ ing broker. A great excitement has
! broken out about the affair, in Jer.
scy City, where all the brokers re-
side.
An invalid once complained to his
neighbor Of Shanghai which the lat
ter kept. The bird was terrible
nuisance. and gave him ho peace day
or night. "But," said tho skeptical
owner, "my cock only crows four or
five times q day. don't see how
that can snnow you much" "Be-
cause" replied the sufferer, ''you
don't take into account all the times
when am expecting him to crow"
A lady recently dressing for ball,
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