The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-01-11


its Chicago losses, and will pay the balance
as soon as they can be adjusted. The COM
lay now show cash assets OF over S4OO, 600,
larger sum than it possessed before IN fire.
-Uetern Insurance RerieN.
ITEMS.
Three million Of dollars in letters came
last year 10 the dead letter office.
A brass band composed Of twenty wo-
men is being organized in Cincinnati.
An English pickle maker does BUSH
ness of three millions year, ard no one the
fatter Tor 1t.
In Nebraska courtships are said TO aver
age three hours and half in length.
Georgia papers call Akerman "the
little hyena," and Bullock "the little low
mental"
The population Of Virginia is said to be
declining, on account Of the migration OF
people to more prosperous regions.
The State debt of Vermont has been re-
duced to sum but slightly over $500, 600.
Her population is $50. SOL, Of whom 74,S73
are voters.
The papers inform us that Writ Skies
nup:ial '.tie'' was corn color; FROM which it
would appear that be has acknowledged the
corn after all.
A Connecticut woman's grief for her
husbands death is said TO have been in
creased by the thought that "the parlor cur
tains were in the wash
A rich London musical amateur gives
,,.looI.I of which tho host
professionals perform, but he Invites only
men. He says women's petticoais "absorb
the sound"
A great grandson OF Brant. the famous
Indian chieftain of Wyoming Massacre noto-
rieiy, and his wife, aged respectively ninety
one and eighty years, are living in
Detroit, Mich.
The Socialist Libate. of Brussels, in
reference to the late executions at Versailles,
remarked: "All the blood that flows on NJ.
Thiers' flannel wais'-coa, will not make a
purple mantle of it,"
A temperance lecturer being seen coming
on. ola tavern wiping his mouth, effectually
disarmed criticism by explaining that he mad
4 severe toothache and only went in 'to get
a Glove to put in his tooth"
England is excited On the subject Of
oysters. The price charged for coed ones is
five times as great per bushel in 1871 as it
was in 1861. TIE beds have been dredsed
to death, and cannot re-stock themselves.
A lady had her dress trimmed with
''bugles" bef5re going to ball. Her little
daughter wanted to know if the bugles would
blow when she danced ooh, no." said
mother, 'papa will do tina, when he sees
the bill"
The liberal papers in Holland charge
King William, of the Netherlands, with
having sold most o. the valuable paintings Of
the Royal Gallery at the Hague, and with
having substituted very inferior copies in
their place.
The Menashe Press, Wisconsin paper,
says that recently its editor was astonished
at seeing two young ladies with guns on
their shoulders and pouches by their side,
s,riding off to the woods on general hunt"
Teach us to feel the Boss S woe,
To hide his faults Of greed;
That mercy Judges others show,
That mercy show to Tweed.
jon CLAyEEs.
A Cincinnati child tied Grape on the
door to see If the carriage would come to
take them out riding az it did the family
across the street.
Never give up when you are right A
frown is only muscular contraction, and
can't last long. A laugh of derision is but
the modified barking of cur. If you can
be laughed out of the good or the good out of
YOU. you are weaker in intellect than the fool
whose argument is a gufaw, and whose logic
is a sneer.
A friend Of ours was paying attention TO
a fair damsel not long since, and the mother
desiring that all her daughters good quail
tiles should be known to him, remarked one
day, "My Matte is a very Industrious girl.
She gets up every morning before the others
in the house are awake, and c.eans up all the
rooms and makes all the beds" Query ::
What are the people who are still asleep
doing while the beds are being made up by
this energetic maiden?
THE Resurrection" picture painted
by Sir Benjamin West century ago. was
among the unclaimed goods at the New York
Custom House Withdrawn BY order of the
Secretary of the Treasury.
A little boy ls,eiy become greatly en-
been given him. One night as he was being
"put in his little Bed he handed the
trumpe, to his Grandmother, saying: "Here
gran'ma. you blow while 1 pray"'
A Kentucky girl "don't low no feIlers
round her that hain't rid on the keers."
Why California doe. not grow faster:
Two men own nearly three millions
acres of land in the San joaquin Valley; the
traveller may ride forty-6ve miles in q line
upon il, and may follow a fence around
single pasture for sixty-fve miles; while ono
other man monopolizes three hundred and
fifty thousand acres.
A story is told of man in Connecticut
who fell from the roof Of q ive-story build
ing to the sidewalk; but as he struck on the
thick soles of his rubber shoe, he bounced
back within quarter of an inch Of the roof,
and so continued 70 bounce, the distance only
decreasing quarter Of an inch at each jour
new. He subsisted on hash enclosed in rub
Der balls, which he he managed to catch on
the bound, and at the end Of month was
stopped and restored to his family.
GRACE GREENWOOD differs from Wood
hull. She says that if she had the framing
of the laws only such women would be allow
ed to vote as had sewing machines, and knew
how 10 use them; woman would have vote
who could not read and write; who was not
able to cast up her millinery accounts, and
em item dors; Who could no: make loaf of
bread, pudding, sew on button, wash
dishes, and, on pinch, keep . boarding
house, and support q husband decsn.ly.
WESTERN continent On the Cuban cues.
ton, as uttered by the s.. Louis De~oauf,
earnestly protests against loager permitting
Spain to practice her attrocitie oothe Island.
Iron the darkness Of The dark argues"
saws tina. paper, land from the other aide of
the globe that lettering despotism stretches
its feeble hand to America, aed robs and
murders with neither right nor pity, reck-
lesness Of sex or age or childhood, while
this great nation Of so-ca!ied Christian free
men not only permits bat half ab;ts her
work. How long i this to last?'